Billy Conn versus Joe Calzaghe

calzaghe would wait until conn was in his 40s to fight him and win a decision.

 

:d

 

No amateur career, learning on the job ,overmatched as a youngster.
Someone needs to tell me how he beat 8 world champions, none of whom were 40 years old. Conn was a great lightheavyweight champion, Calzaghe was not.

 

More speed? I don't think so.

 

Lol.. Billy was just flat out better

 

I think Calzaghe is getting overrated based on everyone thinking he's underrated.

 

Hard to say, because we don´t have a good amount of footage of Conn at his best.....
Contrary to the common opinion I think Calzaghe is a force H2H.....well, at least against some opponents, I think he wouldn´t be an easy night for anyone, Conn and other greats included.

 

Of hands ? I think he had....foot speed belongs to Conn, definitely IMO.

 

Calzaghe beat 2 lhvy's ,one was near 40, he had won 3 of his last 6, the other was 43, he had won 2 of his last 4.Both floored him.

 

Prime Conn takes a UD...

 

Agreed, he doesn't get kudos on the Classic because like Mayweather he cherry picked, didn't take that many risks and had a fear of losing. But like Mayweather he was very dominant, bar a couple of close fights. Dominance and performances like he'd give show he was 1 of the elites in history from 168-175 in my view. I think most boxers recognise that he was very very good. Stamina wise maybe 1 of the best ever.

BTW Calzaghe also had pretty fast feet when younger and even past prime.

 

Yes, I know that....he beat Jones clearly but IMO Hopkins won the fight to be fair, but I think that wasn´t the best version of Calzaghe either...

 

I have to agree 100%.

As for Calzaghe-Conn, can you explain why you think Conn's performance, even in loss against Louis, was overrated? It seems like a career-defining performance to me in that he went up in weight to face one of the top 5 all-time heavyweights, and frankly, outboxed him for most of the fight. This was prime Louis too.