Calzaghe: 15 year anniversary in Boxing

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  1. DINAMITA

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    I don't discount it completely though. It was a decent win, perhaps a good one. But it was not great, not very good. I think Byron Mitchell was a better win all things considered.
     
  2. TFFP

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    Bb you are doing some good thinking my friend

    We are 66% there
     
  3. DINAMITA

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    They were good? Well done, but then your point is wholly irrelevant, as the chap in question says 15 "great" wins. Cheers for proving my point though :good
     
  4. bladerunner

    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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    Veit :patsch :patsch :patsch :patsch
     
  5. catasyou

    catasyou Lucian Bute Full Member

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    ''We are 66% there'':patsch -man aI gotta ask:Are you ****ing kidding?:blood
     
  6. TFFP

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    I think its safe to say we could scrape together another 5 if need be. It might be a bit desperate looking though
     
  7. DINAMITA

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    I agree with you here, more or less.
     
  8. Boro chris

    Boro chris Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Joe has no 'great' wins, just a lot of good wins, some okish and a few that were meaningless.
     
  9. Beatboxer

    Beatboxer Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I could probably take apart anyones resume when you pick at it like that...

    Cleveland Williams? Who gives a **** about the performance, he had bullets in him FFS!

    Floyd Patterson? Pfffftttt the guy got knocked out by fatty Johannson and an old man in Liston in one round TWICE!

    Ali barely beat Doug Jones....was losing to Patterson till the stoppage in the 7th....lost the biggest fight of his career versus a pre Foreman Frazier....lost to Ken Norton twice in reality....lost to Jimmy Young imo....

    Nit pick? Yes we can!
     
  10. DINAMITA

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    So you were talking bollocks, again. What a surprise.
     
  11. TFFP

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    We got to 10 comfortably. I over-estimated his resume a tad - so what
     
  12. Beatboxer

    Beatboxer Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Veit was a young, undefeated, giant of a SMW who many believed was the real deal....Calzaghe stopped him in one.

    The nature of the performance was really something...if Hopkins gets credit for beating Joe Lipsey then Calzaghe should for Veit :hey
     
  13. Beatboxer

    Beatboxer Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Of course we did, you could probably add in Brewer too.

    If Bernard Hopkins is considered a 'legend', then Calzaghe with his superior resume should be rated that bit higher.

    I even got Dan B to concede that whoever won the fight between Calzaghe and Hopkins took the lead legacy wise :happy
     
  14. DINAMITA

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    What an awful post. Truly a failure of the epic variety. Your desperate attempts to defend your Joe in the face of some reasonable and objective criticism is as strange as it is sad.

    "Nit-pick" wins over Liston, Foreman, Frazier (twice), Norton (twice), Shavers, Lyle, Foster, Quarry, Chuvalo, Mathis, Cooper all you like, try, but you will only look utterly ridiculous in doing so. Nothing you say can diminish the quality of that particular resume.

    Be my guest.

    :patsch
     
  15. slip&counter

    slip&counter Gimme some X's and O's Full Member

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    didn't calzaghe fight a lot of former world champions, big risk little reward fights, which means there were a lot of bigger fighters ducking him