At this point!! History will will not shine very bright on Joe Calzaghe's career!!

Calzaghe's resume looked **** before the kessler vs ward

now it looks like Bull****

 

I can see why you needed to start yet another thread about this.

Well done, now go and have a cookie.

 

All Joe could do is beat the people in front of him - what they did after doesn't change what happened.

 

hehe - Calzaghe beat Hopkins by a mile - and Ward is nothing but a Hopkins clone - a prime Calzaghe would smash Ward without any problems - but well at least Calzaghe managed to beat Kessler without using headbuts and elbows...

 

Beat Hopkins by a mile? You seriously think Calzaghe won that fight?

 

yes Calzaghe won get over it

 

Lets cut the double standard bullshitee. If Calzaghe had lost to Kessler, then todays result would make him look bad, but he didn't, he won 9 rounds to 3.

You could say Hopkins is the most overrated boxer on the planet after losing to chump Taylor twice, (who then gets KO'd in 3 of his next 4 fights). Or being dropped twice and drawing against bum Mercado. That, according to this post makes Hopkins resume look crap.

 

Well wait a few years and let's see what's happened to Ward and Kessler then... Calzaghe was a great fighter who for some reason didn't fight the best when he was supposed to, but you can still rate high b/c he showed good stuff against those that he did fight. History won't love Calzaghe (except the Welsh history books), but he will be noted for that which he did do beating good fighter and retiring with the 0, which in the commen eye is highly regarded. He was also the white guy who fought Hopkins with succes.

Disregard all that babling above, I think Calzaghe is a bit overrated and an akward fighter, who will be remembered best for his punching with the inside glove (some call it slapping), and his many years defending a not so important WBO belt at smw.

 

:good Joe should have fought Pavlik (Who was unbeaten at the time) and not took the **** out of Roy Jones!! Joe WAS a very good champion (Obviously, he beat everyone he fought!!) and he had the skills to cement his place as a true legend but, will he ever be considered an all-time great (Which is what he craves)? NO! He wanted to retire undefeated, which meant the rematch with Hopkins and fights with Pavlik and Dawson (All of which I wish he had took. And I would have fancied him to beat them all) were rejected. People say he was unlucky in that he wasn't around during the golden era of Hagler, Hearns, Leonard (Even Duran!) I say if he had been around in their day he would have fought at heavyweight or featherweight!!!

 

:rofl I love it !!!!

 

certainly not by a mile, he outworked him toward the end but Hopkins managed to force his fight/style on Calzag for much of the fight. I had it pretty even, it certainly warranted a rematch