Calzaghe: "Americans are ignorant"

I think there is some truth in what he is saying, although he seems pretty bitter about not getting enough credit from the US. I remember a while back there was a lot of talk about Euro stiffs and protected Euro bums and how the Klitschkos were quitters who´d never win real heavyweight titles.

While it is true that some of the Euro fighters did indeed fight soft opposition and/or get gift decisions (Sven Ottke anyone?), this was very tiring to listen to. These comments were indeed ignorant because people making them were just assuming Euro fighters sucked and were no good. Then when Euro fighters started winning important fights, a lot of these types would take that as proof of how deteriorated their weight division was or how washed up the fighters were they had beaten. They just couln´t handle the possibility of Euro fighters actually just being pretty damn good.

Now there are plenty of good Euro fighters like Calzaghe, Hatton, the Klitschkos, Sturm, Abraham, Kessler, Chagaev, Valuev etc. who are winning big fights and becoming popular. The European scene has simply improved vastly over the last few years. Get used to it.

 

Can we get the source for the original post?

If he said this, Calzaghe's reputation as a sportsman deserves yet another big hit.

This guy is losing respect by the minute, just by running his mouth.

 

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1) There are lots of other Euro fighters who have been doing well recently. In Europe we have had non-heavyweights like Calzaghe, Kessler, Hatton, Abraham, Sturm etc. who have been doing really well.

2) Boxing in the US seems to be going downwards. There don´t seem to be any great heavyweights on the rise from the US and there don´t seem to be that many boxers to replace the truly great US boxers like Mayweather, Hopkins and Jones.

3) As for the hw division, not only do the Klitschkos rule there, most of the contenders are also non-Americans, especially Slavic-Europeans like Chagaev, Ibragimov, Valuev, Virchis, Povetkin, Dimitrenko etc.

What I´m basically saying with the "becoming true" comment is that Euro boxing is on the rise and US boxing on the slide. I do not mean to diminish the greatness of past or present great US boxers.

 

He may be thick, but he is talking some sense.

 

Point proven.

 

99.9% of americans are like this guy FACT

 

Comments like this only prove your ignorance.

 

ffs firstly you put bush in the driver seat, as if it wasnt enough, you re-elected the ****er..

lets say 80 percent of the population voted, that means atleast 40 have **** for brains, now whether they are boxing fans or not, i do not know, but ill bet some of the ****ers are here on esb

 

what ya gonna do,rap us til death

 

Brilliant stuff... :good