Calzaghe Is The Biggest Clown In Boxing History

reminder for all you cretins, bernard hopkins ducked joe calzaghe in the summer of 2002. :deal

 

so hopkins being past it, what does that say about pavlik who everyone was screaming for him to fight and prove himself against? pavlik was the supposed measuring stick of greatness for calzaghe and he just got his ****ing arse kicked against a guy coming off a loss to, oh who was it again, oh yeah, calzaghe.

which very good prime fighters are out there for joe to fight? i think it comes solely down to dawson. if joe fought and beat him would you just downgrade him to good/hypejob like everyone did with kessler and lacy who were supposed monsters going into their respective bouts with calzaghe?

 

you're wasting your breath mate. i'm going back to my policy of not commenting on caslzaghe threads as you just cant have a sensible conversation about him on here. its a shame.

 

Calzaghe fought a Mitchell who was 29 years old and had taken Sven Ottke to a SD in Germany that a lot of people thought he won a couple of months earlier.

Because the '43 middleweight' is a much better fighter and a much better win than any of the 'young bucks'. Who are these young bucks who you rank higher than Hopkins in P4P terms?

 

Straight from a bitter Yankee Doodle Dandy. There is a new world order in boxing and you guys can`t accept it. It pretty pathetic. You really should grow up. :verysad

 

Let's hope that Calzaghe - Jones is a classic and they both retire on a high :smoke

 

That explains why Joe's voice sounded so high after the fight. Did anyone else notice that? When he said ''Thank you so much everyone'' he sounded like a 6 year old boy at a birthday party

 

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Bernard's defense is based a great deal on his control of distance; thus, whenever his opponent moves forward, he must also move back a certain amount. If you don't understand this, you should watch Bernard's most recent fight, which was a textbook lesson on control of distance and angles.

(Joe's power is probably underrated, and it's a pity his hands are brittle: obviously he managed to hurt Kessler to the body, and it's pretty telling that it's primarily to the body he seems willing to commit.)

(http://www.hbo.com/boxing/events/2008/0419_calzaghe_hopkins/columns/compubox_post.html;my emphasis.)


Landing four to six jabs in every of the final six rounds can hardly be called "backing Hopkins up with good, powerful jabs." That said, Calzaghe does have a good jab: it's got great speed and it's thrown with conviction, but it wasn't doing much for him that night.

Now as for that nonsense of walking through Calzaghe's offense: regardless of whether a punch is pitter-patter, or thrown with conviction, it's a bad idea to walk into punches, because it will lose you points. Unless you've got both great stamina and power, and you lack the boxing skills to win by anything but knockout, walking through punches is a bad idea.

Calzaghe is obviously a special fighter: although his punching isn't always honest, he's got amazing speed of hand and foot, his reflexes are top notch, especially considering his age, and he's got a good chin; however, he won the fight against Hopkins by coming forward and utilizing that speed, thus outworking Bernard in the clinches, and by flurrying with those hooks of his, but not with any straight punch.

 

guy who wrote this thread is obviously a clown, guarenteed he's american and sounds like he dosnt actually know much about boxing.