Calzaghe The Greatest Fighter Of The Last 25 Years!

Trinidad = midget. That is ****ing ludicrous.

I'll copy in some info from another thread to help your boxing education:

- Felix Trinidad is 5'11" tall (Hopkins 6'1")
- Felix Trinidad has a 72 1/2" reach (Hopkins 75")
- Felix Trinidad weighed in at 158 1/2lbs (1 1/2lb heavier than Hopkins)

2 inches in height, and 2 1/2 inches in reach is a perfectly standard, normal disparity at any weight division. This is only a slight difference, many guys fight others in their natural weight division with far greater size disadvantages (Cotto v Margarito, anyone v Paul Williams, Pavlik v Lockett - and that's just very recent examples, plenty more in boxing history).

And Trinidad was fighting at his third weight at world championship level. Not really a huge rise in weight overall. Mayweather, Pacquiao, De La Hoya, Jones Jr all jumped more weight divisions at world title level (again that's just recent examples, plenty more in boxing history).
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And I refer you back to some facts you haven't yet accepted:

Hopkins...
stopped Glen Johnson. No mean feat. Calzaghe **** out of the fight with the guy, and that's a fact even Calzaghe fans don't deny.

Hopkins...
became the 1st man to beat Felix Trinidad (40-0). DLH did not cope well at middleweight, Trinidad could and did.

Hopkins...
jumped 2 weight divisions at age 40+ and dominated the linear LHW champion Antonio Tarver- another underrated achievement. Superb.

Hopkins...
became the 1st man in 8 years to defeat the "best defence in boxing" and fellow top 5 P4Per Winky Wright



Give me four wins from Calzaghe's resume to match those four then, and please note how many of them have been in the top 5 p4p and have been under 40 ****ing years old (Hopkins has two- Trinidad and Wright, and linear LHW champion Tarver was in or around p4p top 10 when they fought).

 

Trinidad was a friggin welterweight who even got decked by Kevin Leushing!! :rofl

 

Brilliant work, just brilliant. That reply was even more feeble than a Calzaghe slap!

 

Ha ha, quality! The guy has put forth the most ludicrous thread in history and had his ass roundly spanked by about 300 posters! The guy is a punchbag, verging on laughing stock for this non-sensical piece of **** thread!!

 

He`s slapped his way to 45-0 (32). How you`d love him to come from your country. Some have the honesty to speak the truth. Hence :-

In round 10 of Calzaghe-Kessler boxing analyst Max Kellerman said regrding Calzaghe "you are looking at a special fighter"

Emanuel Steward commented "I think Kesslers fighting a very good fight he`s just in with a phenomenal fighting machine"

Jim Lampley said "If you look at his amateur and professional career Joe Calzaghe hasn`t lost a fight in 17 years.There are a lot of people who denegrated his opposition but when you look at that record theres a reason and he`s showing it tonight."

:happy

 

a special fighter - YES, I agree.

a phenomenal fighting machine - YES, I agree.

BUT, that does NOT equate to being the greatest fighter of the past 25 years. Whitaker, Jones Jr etc were MORE special and MORE phenomenal, that's all.


theres a reason - Yep. Weak resume. That's the reason.

 

Weak resume = See Bernard Hopkins

 

I think i`ve hit a nerve.