Calzaghe SMW reighn vs. Hopkins MW reighn

So did others. I'm not saying they were necessarily better fighters, but they may have been able to nab belts at mw, and if they had they would have been champs or former champs. Point is the act in and of itself does not make them a higher quality fighter.

 

This . . . and it was still better than the SMW that was newly created. so bhop handsdown

 

Another highly original thread from Icefaggot.


Oh wait, sorry, I thought it was 2008.

Revision:

Another pointless, dated piece of shite from Icefaggot designed to further his own agenda.

Hopkins defended all four belts numerous times, so he was a true reigning unified champion of the division, Calzaghe never was. Hopkins's win over Trinidad is light years ahead of anything Calzaghe ever did. Hopkins's performances in the fights against Trinidad, Glen Johnson, Keith Holmes, William Joppy and the second one with Antwun Echols demonstrated levels of skill, technique and quality that Calzaghe never, ever came close to matching, seeing as he was a workrate-based volume puncher with horrendous punching technique.

 

yeah I am not sure why this is being debated. both of them are a bit weakish in places, but Joe C's is a lot weaker, single title reign, if slightly longer.

Hopkins get the definite lead surely. Its not a BIG difference, but its substantial enough to be unanimous surely. Its not a SD against a fortysomething lol.

 

It should not be overlooked on this POS thread that even though Hopkins has the lower-weight resume...

Keith Holmes stopped Richie Woodhall,
Howard Eastman beat Evans Ashira,
Antwun Echols stopped Charles Brewer in 3,
and Antwun Echols beat Kabary Salem.

Also, Hopkins clearly deserved the decision in one if not two of the Taylor fights despite being considerably past his physical prime.

 

^ and the decision in the Calzaghe fight :hey

 

Well that much is obvious, but doesn't factor into a discussion of their mw/smw reigns since it was at lhw.

 

only on boxing ability, not on the whole fight performance.

 

Wow

QFT

Popkins cannot be refuted.

 

Holy Nelly.

QFT

Truest words, apart from Hopkins propensity to make me money, spoken in here.

/thread

 

Calzaghes record is actually good for someone holding just the baby title in SMW (which is what the WBO title was when he got it). He was a big fish in a small pool


Hopkins record is weak for a unified undisputed champ that he was. You'd expect a few more big fights from an ATG. He was a shark swimming with other sharks.

 

NOt even close. Hopkins and Calzaghe can not even be compared no matter how bad that Europe wants to have a ATG.:dead

 

Only Europeons think that he can. JC was good fighter who KOs where mostly jokes by the ref. Kessler was his best win. Then Ward beat the breaks off him. Lets be serious here:-(

 

hey BerolPee, your a pretty interesting poster :smoke

your entire posting history on esb is to slate joe calzaghe, also the only thread you ever started was a calzaghe bashing thread :yep

now let me have a good think here . . . . . .where have we seen this before? . . . . . . . . . . . :think

what kind of alter ego would committ his entire existance to trolling calzaghe threads :think

who is that fragile in their own opinion that they need a back up alter ego to roll off :think

who could possible be as pissy as this atsch

 

Have to give it to Hopkins but not by much ...Too many premature stoppages for Joe to give him that edge ..Both great reigns though ..They almost mirror each other ..