Does Calzaghe Pass the Eye Test?

I get the point you're trying to make, but Joe often concentrated more on volume than he did on accuracy. Many of his punches were cuffs, and many of them missed.

Although he was a great fighter, he could be very scr*ppy at times.

I'm sure you remember this:

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c217/natas206/accuracy.gif

 

I never want to see the Hopkins fight again, but to me it was quality vs quantity.

I scored it a draw at the time.

 

Move this to the classic forum please.

 

corrected 4 u.

 

Do you know that a 43 year old Bernard Hopkins cut Calzaghes work rate? If yo don't believe me check their copybox number. No one is as special in reducing an oppositions work rate better than Mayweather. That's not my opinion, that's what statistics says, look it up.

Funny you brought up old Jones. You need to look up the meaning of demolish before applying it to Jones-Calzaghe. Let me remind you that Tarver and Johnson KO'd Jones, something Calzaghe failed to do.

 

I counted 22 unanswered punches. He must have had a bit of stink or Manfredo would have taken a few shots on Joe while he was unguarded, and not just covered up the whole time.

 

I smell ****...

 

Yeah, there was no point in letting it continue. But the point was to highlight that Joe's punch output wasn't as great as the what the numbers showed. Again, many of his punches weren't actual punches, and many of them missed. I don't want to criticise him, but again, that's the point I was trying to make. If you looked at the compubox stats and then the actual fights, those numbers were very misleading. I had the Hopkins fight a draw. Because of all the punches that Joe threw, only a small percentage of them were effective. I think it was quality vs quantity. I think Hopkins landed the cleaner shots.

 

:good

 

Like for fun? Or just poor hygiene?