Calzaghe!

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  1. socrates

    socrates THE ORIGINAL... Full Member

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    with bandages dipped in treacle and pushed into a bowl of crushed glass with tong po as guest referree,who has been bunged 500,000 dollars to do a joe corteez impersonation,if it goes to a clinch joe must offer the ear!
     
  2. Rock0052

    Rock0052 Loyal Member Full Member

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    This is what I don't get- both Pavlik and Dawson are 10 years younger than Calzaghe; Pavlik's fighting Hopkins coming up next, and Dawson's last two fights were against Glen Johnson and Antonio Tarver, who are both old fighters as well. I personally don't have a problem with the fights because I wanted to see them, but there's a pretty big double standard going on when people care that much more about an older fighter fighting other old fighters more than prime fighters fighting older ones. It's also convenient to ignore that two of Joe's biggest wins, Kessler and Lacy, came when he was fighting younger fighters (7 and 5 years, respectively).

    So, why does Joe get singled out here? Most of the fights in his career were against people around his age or younger, with the exception of Hopkins and Eubank. Eubank was 6 years older than Calzaghe, and Hopkins was 7 years older. If you combine them, you get the difference between Dawson and Glen Johnson and it's not even close to the difference between Pavlik and Hopkins.

    I would love to see him go out against Pavlik or Dawson, though :thumbsup
     
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  4. Arran

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    you americans had your choice of opponents with Lacy and Kessler, he does both easily and now you hate on him for chaseing paydays. Pavlik is an over-rated Ameribum. I hope he loses on Saturday and then the Pavlik hype-train will well and truly be de-railed, losing to a 43 year old.
     
  5. Tyga

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    Why does Cal get so much hate on here?
     
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    Because hes British and because he whooped the great ''mini-Mike Tyson'' jeff Lacy after every american on here predicted he would win within four rounds.
     
  7. FROST

    FROST Boxing Addict Full Member

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    All that wouldn't mean ****, he has to beat Toney to get my respect hehe...
     
  8. smiffy

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    i have no idea. jealousy maybe. i stopped bothering about it now, it annoyed me at first cios they obviously dont appreciate a talent when it slaps ( pun intended ) in the face.
    now i just laugh at them, safe in the knowledge that i'm sure calzaghe really doesnt give a ****.
     
  9. socrates

    socrates THE ORIGINAL... Full Member

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    well said.
     
  10. TanstA

    TanstA Legendary Full Member

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    that makes sense.
     
  11. IrnBruMan

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    Good post man :good
     
  12. Drexl

    Drexl Your Hero Full Member

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    That won't work.

    If he beats them everyone would be all "I always said they were overrated".

    If he loses to the Klitschkos eveyone would be all "RJJ stepped up from MIDDLEWEIGHT to beat the HW Champ, Calslappy couldn't even do it from SUPER middleweight... he's a bum!"

    :roll:
     
  13. Dorfmeister

    Dorfmeister Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Calzaghe is a great, great fighter cause he is smart, cool and he has the true heart of a Dragon. But his fight with Jones is gonna be risky since it's going to be technical and strategical and I really do not know for sure whether Joe is smarter or technically sound enough to beat Roy. Furthermore, I know Roy can take the physicality since Prince Badi Ajamu was an impressive physical specimen and Roy spent 12 rounds driving him off. Even Tito was strong at 170 so let's see what happens. Joe has unbelievable pressure on him and I do respect that.
     
  14. toffeejack

    toffeejack Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Take your pick from these:

    1. He's British.
    2. He's white. (some closet racists on this forum no doubt)
    3. Jealousy.
    4. He's undefeated.
    5. His fighting style.
    6. His demolition of Jeff Lacy (the new Mike Tyson who was going to destroy Joe :lol:)
    7. His resume, even though they ignore many other top fighters resumes who are not much better if at all.
    8. His reluctance to travel to the states sooner.
     
  15. DINAMITA

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    Nah, he should just have fought better fighters in his career so his resume wasn't so weak. Peace :good