Calzaghe-Kessler most significatn fight of the century...

Because both wants exposure, and HBO acknowledges that a vast majority don't really know these guys. If you think its because it isn't important or a top rank fight, then you are simply wrong.

I think all that views this fight, will come back and say - this was the fight of the century.

 

This fight is not the fight of the century, you do understand that a century is a 100 years right? This is a good fight Im looking foward to seeing, but honestly, I dont even consider this fights the most significant fight of the year. That title would go to Mayweather/Hatton, I think thats the fight people are really looking foward to.

 

...and let's watch Gatti-Ward IV for the world championship!

 

Nom that's just how it is to you. To the rest of the world, it's a very good fight. But it's doesn't have more meaning then even DLH - Mayweather or even Taylor - Hopkins. Both of those had deeper meaning in terms of out with the old, in with the new. Shane vs. Winky gave us the first unified JrMW champ in what, almost 30 years?

I understand you're psyched, and that's all good. But it's closer to just a potentially great fight then the most sigcificant one of the past 7 years. Anyway, I don't want to rain on your parade, that's kinda dickish of me, so I'll STFU.

But I am, excited for this. :thumbsup

 

I wouldn't say that...jones had a bad chin, and Kessler/Joe hit pretty hard.. jones was great, but it only takes one good shot to take someone out even if you are losing. I recall many on here saying Joe had no chance against Lacy. they that said that were just as certain about that as you are saying RJJ beats anyone today. No one makes accurate predictions everytime.

 

There was no evidence of a bad chin while he fought @ 168. Anf not really ever till he moved to HW and went back down to `75, at 36YO (or however old he was). He was also had faster hands anf feet then either Joe C or Kessler and a damn hard hitter at 168. You'd have to take some serious punishment to get in close to Jones, and even then he was very elusive.

 

You mean like Patterson was scared to fight Johansson out of the USA? Or Louis was scared to fight Max in germany??
Ali, i give credit to, he went anywhere...but the rest of the USA champs back then didn't leave USA to go fight, so Joe and Kessler are no worse than they were...

 

Unfortunately, you are right. I lean on some posters and make some off the wall comments, just to play at their level

 

Lets not get carried away here. Calzaghe - Kessler may not even be the most significan fight this year. If Hatton beats Mayweather then I will give that more significance. You can not realy talk about the significance of a fight before it happened. Maybe not until years after can you meassure its significance. But it definitely has the potential of being significant.

This fight is definitely the biggest fight in Europe for a very long time. This is the fight I look forward to the most, but for other boxing fans that may not be very interested in the SMW division it might not even get into the top 10.

I think many posters feel like me, eagerly looking forward to this fight, want to talk about it, but everything has been repeated endlessly so what is there to say. But I feel it in fact hurts the fight more than it helps it to show this senseless worshipping of the fighters and the fight.

If they are as great as we think they will show their class.

 

I dunno...I have seen many posts on RJJ chin being worse than Wlads...you are the first one I've seen to deny it...:conf

 

It is blasphemy or witchcraft to indicate that RJJ would have any risk of loosing to anyone in his prime. It is the biggest taboo on ESB.

 

I know that century means hundred - but you do realize that each of them starts anew every hundred years - this is the 20th. So fight of the century mean fight of 20th century.

Well, Mayweather/Hatton is a top match, but its not even close - Hatton is not fighting in his best weight class. Mayweather is no longer in his best either. But to each his own. You go by popularity - I go by what matters the most, and having a fight at SMW to unify all belts means more to me.

 

I do understand what your saying but Calzaghe at 35 isnt exactly in his prime and Kessler might be I guess, but Im really not sure how you determine this as a fight of the century. I look at a fight of the century as a fight everybody wants to see and that 2 fighters our in there primes fighting each other, I think Mayweather/Hatton is closer to both men being in there prime, while being more of an exciting fight to not just americans but to most fight fans as a whole.