Can a fighter afford to give up 2 rounds to a prime Jones or Hopkins, and come back?

no one could have taken off 2 rounds against a prime roy jones or bhop especially when jones was at 160 and 168 but i doubt calzaghe would have been stupid enough to take a round or 2 off against either of them if those fights were 10 yrs ago i also think that if jones or bhop knocked him down in their primes its possible the fight may have been over shortly after that

 

Are we talking a prime Calzaghe or the Calzaghe that fought Hopkins and Jones?

 

Hell no! Anyone who believe otherwise is simply lying to themselves.

 

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So can a 35+ year old Calzaghe give up 2 rounds to a prime Hopkins or RJJ?

 

When was his prime?

 

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Hell, I'm going to **** off these Brits: at LT. Heavy I doubt Calslappy could even get past a prime Lou De Valle.

 

I understood the point you were making from the first post you made but I'm just asking if we are talking prime vs prime here? What the 3 fighters did at certain ages isn't really the issue when you are saying Hopkins and Jones are in their prime when these mythical fights happen but Calzaghe isn't?

 

I don't think so.