Bob Foster vs Joe Calzaghe At LHW

this is one of the biggest problems of the last 25 years... SO _UCKEN WHAT.

it's Who you fought, WHEN you fought (and fought them), how MANY Fights you fought and so on.

the more of all of the above the MORE GREAT Losses your going to have, Great Losses because your opponents were Great and Excellent fighters!!!

 

I don't think there is any reason at all to disrespect either fight here - and some disrespectful things have been said. I happen to like Calzaghe, I admire his skill, his technique, his courage - he had fast hands and the Jeff Lacy fight was a master class in many ways.

Even as a fan of Calzaghe, I have to accept that he chose his fights carefully to maintain that record, and he was guilty of cherry picking towards the end.

Calzaghe was not a knock out merchant, and particularly at the heavier weight, he didn't carry that power.

If Bob Foster had a fighter in a mess like Jeff Lacy, he'd finish the job.

So I look at what's on offer here, and either Calzaghe fights a canny game, really carefully, to a points victory, or Bob Foster takes the bout by a knock out, or TKO.

What I've seen of Bob Foster make me suspect that he would be too much for Calzaghe. I just can't see Joe Calzaghe winning this one... I'm like 4/5 sure that Foster would take his, and there is that 1/5 chance that Joe might do something.

 

Having most fighters have to fight Foster is unfair. Foster would knock out Calzaghe, or Jones Virgil Hill. Maybe Michael Spinks could give him a good fight. A great fight would have been Qawi vs. Foster. The high difference would be something like 9 inches. It is no insult on Calzaghe he lose to Foster. Most guys would.. Just such a big tall leveraged guy.

 

I like Calzaghe but Foster annihalates him. Sorry.

 

Calzaghe, even with his engine and jazzy awkwardness, would get timed and laid out. He'd do well to do as well as Finnegan IMO.

 

Yea he lost some fights, to Ali and Frazier.

 

^And those other ones too.

 

Calzaghe will struggle to outbox the much taller and rangier Foster so I see him being forced to fight more aggressively, moving forward and trying to get close enough to land, which I think he is good enough to to.

Calzaghe's speed, agility and workrate will give Foster problems. But Calzaghe had a tendency to stay in the pocket for too long and against a puncher of Fosters caliber, that's suicide.

I wouldn't pick many boxers to able to KO Calzaghe but Foster would be one of them. I think Calzaghe will be up on the score cards but at some point he'll leave himself open as he was never a defensive wizard and will get caught and stopped.

 

Okay, "garbage" was a harsh term, but someone accused me of being a troll. Dick Tiger was good. Other than that, he had a limited resume and I'm well aware of who Mike Quarry was.

 

He might have a limited record if we compare him to Charles or Moore, but this is Joe ****in calzaghe we're talking about.

Robin Reid was one of his best wins.That says it all.

 

This guy is a comedian.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=[yt]qbD0g3b3VDc[/yt]

 

I don't see Calzaghe handling Foster's length and power very well. And when it went to the inside Foster's right uppercut/left hook combo would end him.

 

What I'd like to know is why you continually engage in intellectual dishonesty. You want to put a past prime Calzaghe with bad hands against prime Foster on the basis of nothing at all. Calzaghe's ring weight at 168 is about the same as Foster's at 175. Calzaghe definitely isn't smaller than a guy like Finnegan, who went 14 rounds with Foster.

When people hype up Foster's power, they tend to ignore the fact that most of his LHW opponents would be SMWs today. Modern LWHs are bigger. They also ignore the spectacular amount of bums that Foster fought, thus inflating his KO ratio.

 

He's doing nothing of the kind...Calzaghe was a fine fighter..extremely underrated, but match him up at his very best, as orriray59 has already allowed, and he still loses by ko.
The mere fact that you try to underplay Foster's well documented power shows you to be a troll's troll. You obviously don't know what the **** you're babbling on about.

 

I said recently that you have to seperate Calzaghe from his senses to beat him. Foster is one of the prime candidates to do just that. Calzaghe with his workrate, willingness to let his hands go and good chin will give Foster opportunities to land. And, uhm, the man hit like a freakin' freight train.