He just might be overated, but at this point on his carreer, he will defeat BHop and RJJ and who ever will choose to cross path with him south of 175lbs
Why not Bute instead of Hopkins ? For the money ? I'm sure Calzaghe is already millionaire and a bit timid...
Almost everyone I've spoken to agree that Calzaghe as a whole is not greater than RJ. Then again, who is? So I don't quite get your point. It's exactly because RJ was so good and so recognised that people wanted him to seek out challenges. JC had it a little tougher since he had less star power and couldn't make many matches, but he could have been more agressive in getting recognised in the States. Still, at the end of the day, anyone but Stevie Wonder can see they're both tremendous boxers.
This is nonsense. Joe Calzaghe is masterclass plain and simple. He deserves a higher ranking P4P than he usually gets. All any fighter can do is defeat the men in front of him and Calzaghe has defeated everyone in his division for many years at the highest level available to him. Some fighters can't even make it through training for year after year - much less continually defend a championship belt for a record number of occassions. Calzaghe is due for greatness. There are still plenty of fighters available to give him the opportunities to cement his legacy.
When Joe loses you can call him overated. Until then expect to see picture perfect pugulism from the best there ever was or will be.
At best, Joe is still slightly underrated. Getting recognition of course, but most boxing fans don't realise how good he really is. He's clearly the most versatile fighter of this era.
Kessler is mediocre.... But Hatton at 147 is a supernatural elite? Trinidad at 160 the same?:yep Hilarious enough, Hopkins was competitive with a prime Jones and then carved through the MW brackets like a hot knife through butter and it took beating an overrated former Welter for him to get his recognition as one of the best around from the idiot boxing establishment. Jones left the division, Hopkins stayed, Hopkins couldn't beat the best because he was the best and cutting through most of the division's comp barely dropping a round proved that, much like Calzaghe has done.
It's unfortunate, Amsterdam, that most people will not be able to understand this post. To these most, Joe Calzaghe's career started when he fought Jeff Lacy. The most can only call a fighter a bum or an exceptional talent. The most pidgeon hole boxers in two categories: under-rated or over-rated.
Wholly agree here although you did leave out the fact Joe is simply superior to Hopkins let us not forget this fact.
Exactly I don't think people give him enough credit for his wins over other very solid fighters. I'm not going to say he fought truly great competition, but he fought good competition.
Funnily enough, Lacy was less competetive than all these so called "Euro bums" The American hype machine...bullshiters the lot of ya