Calzaghe vs Reid 2

deal with what - your opinion that no one who may well beat him?
Why should I deal with your opinion, you are entitled to it.


Or deal with my opinion that I think joe would have won the rematch? I am entitled to my opinion -and is this the view of a hater? fool..

 

Ask yourself this. How could you not score rounds 2, 3, 4,7, 8 (

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), 12 to Calzaghe? Remember Reid had a point deducted also.

I thought like 2 judges that Calzaghe was a clear winner and except for McCrory who scored a draw when ringside in a pro Reid crowd, all of the other studio guest scored wide for Calzaghe including Mcguigan and Eubank. I also think damaged handed (damaged his hand in round 4) Calzaghe won and felt he won rounds 1, 9 (Reid did land the punch of the night in round 9 though) & 11.

Good away win for Calzaghe

I agree with many other parts of your post

How was he lucky when Hopkins was holding to survive and being outlanded? He was unlucky it was a SD, because it wasnt that close. Maybe Hopkins shouldnt have backed out of fighting him years ago

Good post.
Reid was difficult to work out. He just didnt do anything against Malinga, but before that against Wharton and Pretaurious, looked impressive at times. Against Cherifi he seemed to switch off, but I think he was unwell in that fight. After Calzaghe, he seemed to never fight with such aggression again and never seemed the same fighter.
Against Magee, I felt he could have scored a stoppage at any time, but seemed lazy at times and could have let a fight where scored several KDs slip through his fingers.
When he was on form he was very good and was good when fighting angry, but so difficult to work out what Reid would turn up.

Dont know if you remember but did you watch D Williams/M Sprott 3, where Williams just didnt seem to do too much. It reminded me of Reid at that time

 

I liked Reid because of his attitude, he came round when their wasnt really depth of class, Nardiello wasnt great, he lost to Malinga which is embarrasing as every other decent fighter beat him, benn lost the rematch but was a shell.

Reid had a good chin but even that deserted him by the time he fought Lacy, although the first knockdown came while Reid was turned away from Lacy and talking to the ref, after the ref shouted stop!! Lacy should have been disqualified.

Reid managed to drop Ottke on his ass and yet again his workrate let him down, he was treated unfairly in that fight, getting warnings for bugger all but still could have been busier in the last third of the fight, he could have gone on to be the only man to beat Ottke, as out of all the contraversial fights Ottke had this was the worste

I was gutted he fought Froch and gave him a name on his record, he could have had a decent warm up fight with Glenn Catley a few months before but Glenn pulled out of the eliminator so Robin got a staright shot, he needed some rounds, he just had nothing in that fight, Froch isnt that big a puncher at all

Years ago, I thought Calzaghe lost more than Reid wan and mostly because I couldnt stand Calzaghe and how much of a spoilt, arrogant ***** he sounded but even Calzaghe wan me round by how after all those years after starting to look stale he totally pissed all over Lacy, Kessler, Hopkins and Jones, ok the last Two were past their best but their still having success after Joe beat em, so can be counted as good wins, dont forget, Joe wasnt young either or the fighter that could bang when he was younger.

Reid was a very likeable fighter and he was a decent scrapper but just didnt work hard enough in fights and I think he would have been up their amongst the best supermiddles but behind them, id have Calzaghe top then Eubank, Watson, Benn, Collins, Reid, thats all at their best