Calzaghe's WBO "title reign" vs the fighters in "The Ring" top 10

Calzaghe isn't as bad as a lot of people claim

He was a very very hard fighter to beat.

But I never buy he was in Jones league, or guys like that

Roy would have schooled everyone on his resume, including him

 

good post. the calzaghe ut huggers have nothing else to do but to dramatize about a fighter who was good but never great.

 

He can't help what era he was in but I do give him props for beating Kessler, Lacy, and even Bika because he was a tough fighter. The thing is he fought them past his physical prime still giving top performances. He never would've beaten Jones or Hopkins prime for prime but beating a young,under 40 Dawson instead of a shot Jones would've been a better way to go out. He was very good but not tested enough to truly be an ATG. Even Jones had better tests yet his resume is still questionable although better with good names besides Hopkins & Toney(Mccallum if you want to include him at his old stage lol, Hill, Griffin, Gonzalez, Harding who was a decent fighter undefeated at that time and won title eliminator against a lazy Tarver, Malinga while Jones was the first to stop him after Eubank & Benn failed, Ruiz who hadn't been beaten clearly since fighting Tua 7 years ago and Tarver when Jones was at his best for the series though still faded)

 

true. you can tell the desperation of them by how badly they exaggerate over him.

 

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joe calzaghe is The only one in history to become Undisputed super middleweight champion he has had 24 championship fights has 3 ATGs on his resume
Roy Jones Jr
Chris Eubank
Bernard Hopkins

Beat 4 Undefeated Fighters
Mark Delaney 21-0
mikkel kessler 40-0
Mario Veit 30-0
jeff lacy 21-0

joe calzaghe beat 9 world champions

Chris Eubank, was a 2 weight champion and had 24 world tltle fights

Richie Woodhall was a 2 weight champion and had 6 world tltle fights

Roy Jones Jr was a 4 weight champion and had 25 world tltle fights

Charles Brewer had 7 world tltle fights

Bernard Hopkins, the best middleweight of all time he has 25 world tltle fights

Mikkel Kessler, has 11 world tltle fights and is the reigning wbc champion

Robin Reid had 8 world tltle fights

Byron Mitchell had 8 world tltle fights

Jeff Lacy had 7 world tltle fights



if you add all these world champions title fight up it adds up to 121 world championship title fight


joe calzaghe fought world class Former world title challengers


Sakio Bika

Tocker Pudwill (ward fought his little brother

Omar Sheika

David Starie

Rick Thornberry

Evans Ashira

Juan Carlos Gimenez Ferreyra


a lot of fighters joe calzaghe fought had a minimum of 20 wins with 1 lost


and joe calzaghe has beat people that beat people that beat

graciano rocchigiani
james toney
Kelly Pavlik
Dariusz Michalczewski
Glen Johnson
Steve Collins
Andre Dirrell
Carl Froch
Nigel Benn
Antonio Tarver
Arthur Abraham
Gerald McClellan
Julian Jackson
Frankie Liles
Chad Dawson
Jean Pascal and the list goes on and on

joe calzaghe beat a 31yr old guy with over 20 championship fights to become champion remember that:think

calzaghe beat 3 guy with over 24 championship fights:think

 

Completely agree! Calzaghe is a great fighter IMO but he was not in Jones league. But then who was?? The Hopkins version who beat Trinidad would have beat him as well IMO.

 

That is the dumbest **** I have ever seen:yep

 

Roy Jones Jr - Shot, dropped him.
Chris Eubank - Shot
Bernard Hopkins - 44 and dropped him. Deserves props for it though.

 

joe calzaghe beat everybody in his era from the 90s-20

The 3 biggest names from 160-174

Chris Eubank was 31yr old 45-2,..20 world championship fights. Calzaghe was 25yr old 22-0 and never been over 8 rounds when they fought

Bernard Hopkins was 48-4 the longest reigning middlewight champion in history had 24 world title fights and was the best light heavyweight in the world when calzaghe beat him

Roy Jones Jr has NO legacy at 160,,168,,175 or over 200 pounds because he never fought the elite fighters at any weight division he boxed in.

roy jones jr won a vacant middleweight title and made 1 defence he never fought the best at 160 at that time
John David Jackson
Chris Pyatt and he Ducked the two elite fighters of the division Julian Jackson and Gerald McClellan

A list of the elite fighters at 168 that roy jones was Ducking when he was in that division
Graciano Rocchigiani
Steve Collins 2 weight champion at the time
Nigel Benn 2 weight champion at the time
Michael Nunn 2 weight champion at the time
chris eubank 2 weight champion at the time
Charles Brewer
Frankie Liles
Robin Reid

BEST at 175 was Dariusz Michalczewsk
roy jones won the vacant wbc title vacanted by Fabrice Tiozzo.
Fabrice Tiozzo lost his wba title to Virgil Hill then came back and beat Mike McCallum for the WBC light heavyweight title.

Dariusz Michalczewski beat Virgil Hill for the undisputed light heavyweight championship and holds the record for the most consecutive successful title defenses at light heavyweight 23 defenses. He was champ for 9 years an had a incredible 48 and 0 winning run

roy jones ducked prime Dariusz Michalczewski for 8 years and did not fight him even when he was shot

why did jones fight 35yo taver instead of Michalczewski?...........:scaredas:

why did jones fight ruiz instead of lennox lewis?.......... :scaredas:


Too the people that hype on about prime jones jr take off the rose tinted glasses he lost too a bunch of old guys anyway
Antonio Tarver was 35
Glen Johnson 35
Danny Green 35
Bernard Hopkins 45 and joe calzaghe was 36 and at the very end of his career

joe calzaghe gave roy jones jr the ass whoopin when jones wanted it:think:think

joe calzaghe is the longest-reigning world champion of the modern era 11 years. Second longest reign in boxing history, He had the Ring Magazine Light-Heavyweight Championship, as well as the WBO, WBA, WBC, IBF,IBO and Ring Magazine super middleweight belts. The only one in history to become Undisputed super middleweight champion he has had 24 championship fights has 3 ATGs on his resume
Roy Jones Jr
Chris Eubank
Bernard Hopkins

 

By the way, people saying that Hopkins was "old" when he fought Calzaghe, Hopkins went to beat an undefeated Pavlik (when everyone thought he would be brutally KOed) and Pascal (light heavyweight champ)