Calzaghe Only Faced Bums In His WBO Title Reign? THE PROPER BREAKDOWN.

No offense dude, but I expect more out of my boxers than that. He held on to his title so long because he was fighting 2nd rate guys. Alot of fighters could amass double digit defenses and years long reigns if they fight inferior competition for years on end.

The fact that Jeff Lacy is career defining fight speaks volumes. Lacy may have been dangerous, but not to a fighter of Calzaghe's calibre, or any one good like that.

And to be honest, until he fought Lacy he only had held the wbo belt. Which was not/ is not considered on par with the others(although I think all the alphabet belts suck). he had fought only wbo ranked fighters who were not considered among the division's elite. He fought 5 Ring top 10 fighters during his wbo reign.

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Why did it take so long? Because everyone else didn't want to fight him? Why is it that that is always the answer........

Why wasn't his competition any good? Nobody wanted to fight him.

Why didn't he unify? Nobody wanted to fight him.

I would contend that if nobody wanted to fight him it was because he didn't have much to offer. Not because they feared losing to him, especially not based on his competition. I mean who even knew of him? Having to travel to the UK to fight an obscure champ in a less than prestigious weight class to fight for the wbo belt of all things?

 

skills. nice comparison. and hopkins is faded. he's just good enough to be faded, and still kick ass. but he's far from his best

 

joe was down after the punch, he hooks hopkins arm while he's falling. otherwise, hopkins hits him again before he finishes falling. get your **** right. and anybody who scores it 116 to 111 is a complete idiot. but i'm sure you fit that description to.

 

You must have felt happier with the 115-112 card for Calzaghe.
Your post shows how full of hate you are. Hopkins scored a flash KD, where Calzaghe got up and pressed on. Calzaghe beat Hopkins because Calzaghes left landed more than Hopkins right.
Hopkins got put down twice by Pascal, so did Hopkins lose that fight to you? I bet not, so lets not get carried away, Calzaghe used ring generalship to clearly beat Hopkins

 

Actually, it has been my contention that he should have ditched the weaker smw division altogether and move up to lhw where the stiffer competition awaited. He should have done that in 01 or 02 when it was apparent that there was very little worthwhile at smw, especially fighting wbo contenders.

If he had to stay at smw, he could have taken on any of the top 10 ring guys, other than the 5 he did fight. These are the annual rankings.

1998
Title Vacant

Frankie Liles
Joe Calzaghe
Richie Woodhall
Sven Ottke
Charles Brewer
Robin Reid
Thomas Tate
Vincenzo Nardiello
Andrej Shkalikov
Vinny Pazienza

1999
Title Vacant

Sven Ottke
Joe Calzaghe
Byron Mitchell
Markus Beyer
Charles Brewer
Thomas Tate
Frankie Liles
Richie Woodhall

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Glenn Catley

2000
Title Vacant

Sven Ottke
Joe Calzaghe
Bruno Girard
Charles Brewer
Thomas Tate
Dave Hilton Jr.
Dingaan Thobela
Glenn Catley
Byron Mitchell
James Butler

2001
Title Vacant
Sven Ottke
Joe Calzaghe
Byron Mitchell
Antwun Echols
Charles Brewer
Thomas Tate
Eric Lucas
Mads Larsen
Manny Siaca
Markus Beyer

2002
Title Vacant
Joe Calzaghe
Sven Ottke
Antwun Echols
Eric Lucas
Byron Mitchell

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Mads Larsen
Manny Siaca
Anthony Mundine
Markus Beyer

2003
Title Vacant
Joe Calzaghe
Sven Ottke
Anthony Mundine
Antwun Echols
Danny Green

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Markus Beyer
Charles Brewer
Mads Larsen
Robin Reid

2004
Title Vacant
Joe Calzaghe
Mikkel Kessler
Anthony Mundine
Antwun Echols
Danny Green
Jeff Lacy
Mads Larsen
Robin Reid
Markus Beyer
Manny Siaca

2005
Title Vacant
Joe Calzaghe
Mikkel Kessler
Jeff Lacy
Markus Beyer
Anthony Mundine
Danny Green
Manny Siaca
Otis Grant
Robin Reid
Librado Andrade

2006
Joe Calzaghe, Champion
Mikkel Kessler
Anthony Mundine
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Markus Beyer
Librado Andrade
Lucian Bute
Carl Froch
Allan Green
Denis Inkin
Peter Manfredo Jr.

2007
Joe Calzaghe, Champion

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Anthony Mundine
Lucian Bute
Jeff Lacy
Librado Andrade
Carl Froch
Allan Green
Sakio Bika
Denis Inkin
Jean Pascal

 

He didn't land any punches, do you want to explain to me how he won all the while missing everything he threw?

He could have rematched but he chose not to, we all know why. Honestly i'm gratefull that he bitched out, watching him throw slaps at thin air for another twelve rounds would have been to much to bear.

 

I know. I can't seem to find the monthly rankings. If someone could post them I'd be grateful.

But as you can see, there are a lot of fighters ranked in the top 10 that JC never fought. Far more than he did fight.


Can we show a source for Veit?

 

Why are we still having these threads?
Simple fact is that 3 years after retiring people are still talking about the great Joe.

that in itself confirms that he was truly one of the best.
No matter how much ppl try to spin ****.
46-0 baby.
numbers dont lie.

 

Man refused to make the most of his talent. He has an enviable record but he will not be a fighter that is talked of in legendary terms. You look at Hatton leaving FW to make it in the states and infact making the KT fight in the first place. Look at Khan already headlining in Vegas, despite having suffered an embarrassing 1st round KO. Now you can't tell me that Calzaghe could of went to Warren earlier and demanded more challenging/meaningful fights. Hell, even go so far as to fight in America against the likes of Mitchell, Brewer, Sheika etc just to get his name thrown in the mix in American circles.

 

Calzaghe fans reappeared after Hopkins got robbed vs Pascal, and still tried to argue Calzaghe ranks higher than BHops

So this thread got bumped and is still going on since then.

 

Calzaghe was almost as lucky as Ottke was with some of those wins.