Lets see how Mikkel stands up to these current and future Hall of famers: Mikkel Kessler vs Marvin Hagler - k01 Tommy Hearns - k01 Sugar Ray Leonard - UD Bernard Hopkins - UD Roy Jones Jr - k01 Joe Calzaghe - UD James Toney - k01 Nigel Benn - k01 Chris Eubank - UD Lennox Lewis - k01 Evander Holyfield - k01 Mike Tyson - k01 Muhammed Ali - k01 Nikolai Valuev - k01 So there you have it. If you put Kessler into these 14 fights suggested, he would be 0 - 14.
If you want my serious opinion though on these fights against Kessler peak/peak at 168, I will give them - Marvin Hagler - Kessler UD Thomas Hearns - Kessler by KO Ray Leonard - Kessler by KO Bernard Hopkins - People won't like this, but Kessler close UD. Awful style for Hopkins. Roy Jones Jr - Roy Jones by stoppage Joe Calzaghe - Calzaghe by stoppage James Toney - Kessler has a great style against Toney, but Toney would get him late. Toney by stoppage. Nigel Benn - Kessler wide decision. Chris Eubank - I'm torn. Eubank could get a stoppage, but Kessler could also win a brutally contested decision. He had a great style for Eubank. Kessler is CLASS!:good
True, but one can always hope(dream) if he keeps this up. Not that it would matter, because seemingly bans don't include ip bans..
The only people that defeat Kessler are those who can control the pace and dictate the fight. Toney, Hagler, Hopkins, Benn and Eubank are going to be greatly troubled, where as speed demons like Jones and Calzaghe have a clear stylistic edge in being able to bully him inside and out with speed and fight their fight. Benn especially just gets wiped out from Kessler's commanding offense behind the jab, that would be a massive brutal beatdown. Kessler's jab is a dictatorship for a guy like Hopkins and Toney, but Toney I feel would pull it out late with his punching power, where as Hopkins would be too tentative when it came to pulling this out. Hopkins is too romanticised at the moment, a guy like Kessler is massive trouble for him.