Calzaghe tells Hopkins to "Get in line"

As a boxing fan I find it almost impossible not to be a fan of Bhop. The man has given us great fights - I mean hes a clever fighter, dirty fighter, technical fighter and hes a ****in warrior. And now hes old but still doing amazing!!

 

I honestly can't wait till Joe Calzaghe is KTFO. He beat Jeff Lacy... it was a good win. Joe Calzaghe is not a p4p top 5.

Before the Lacy fight, nobody outside of Wales give two shits about this guy.. now all you damn Brits claim you were on his bandwagon the whole time.. I'm crying bull**** on all you.. don't deny it.

 

Calzaghe, on the other hand, looked spectacular against Manfredo. His inside glove slaps were of world quality.

 

Calzaghe should fight the winner of Taylor-Pavlik, if he beats Taylor or Pavlik he can say conversely he beat the man that beat the man. Plus he gets credit because both fighters are young.

 

I think that was a pretty solid post by VIP...I'm a Calzaghe fan and I don't think Joe's going to be fighting in 8 years mainly because of his hands. I think he'll have another 2 years or so at the top, and then he'll retire. Also, Calzaghe hasn't taken a ton of punishment over the course of his career. I don't think he's going to risk having a Roy Jones-esque fall from grace (especially by health standards) by fighting for too long after he's past it.

I like to play devil's advocate with Hopkins because his fans are so die-hard, but I can't question his longevity. For the fight, though, I don't think that'd help him against a guy with Calzaghe's workrate and defense. You're going to have to throw combos to score on Joe, and I don't think Hopkins will/can let his hands go like that anymore for a 12 round fight.

 

:huh Not sure how you could come to that end. Joe says this is his last fight at supermiddle, so were is he going to go??? Middleweight??? NOT likely. Cruiserweight?? even more unlikely. UMMM whats left??? Oh yeah Lt heavyweight. WHo is the king of the ring at lt Heavy??? Thats right Mr hopkins, which means that Joe isnt in a position to call the shots:good

 

Oh how true. There were some, but mostly they rode hatton.

 

In a nutshell.

 

That's how I feel about Calzagne vs. Kessler. :-(

 

But who can? Hopkins has great wins very late in his career. Maybe Holyfield....................

 

Mundine is a 168pd fake version of floyd..he tries the quick on his feet with gloves low method counter punch style..but he dont have defense...

 

Your wish almost came true

 

arguably joes best win is a split decision against a gassing 40something.

it is a truly unique claim in boxing history.

 

but its laughable that someone who only just unified his least important title in a lesser division is telling a the long term undisputed former mw champ who is his senior, to get in line... now that joe has FINALLY got the ***** together to fight topamericans ONLY when they/are turn/ing 40something.

 

Joe was at least as past it as Hopkins. And he went to Hopkins back yard to do it.