McCallum is easily one of the Greatest Fighters Ever for me. He beat a Who's Who of the top men outside of the big money glam names who all avoided him. McCallum fought and beat all the other guys who were avoided too for being too good themselves! Kalule, McCrory, Jackson, Curry, Graham, Collins, Watson, Kalambayx2, Toneyx2 (won both) = Insane
When u see that sort resume jesus Plus way others speak they all rated him not much bad to say not jealous ether
Fair play to Woodhall. He fought Calzaghe with a stress fracture of the spine and still went ten. Richie is a mate and I asked him without the stress fracture, and fully fit how did he see it going, he said a very wide UD loss.
McCallum was before my time as a big fan of boxing. We only got to see our fighters live on the box. He obviously beat Watson, how would Benn and Eubank have fared. As well as Golovkin in the modern era.
One of my all time favourite fighters, I believe McCallum is one of the most underrated and unappreciated fighters in living memory. For example on these boards you will see threads like "Prime RJJ Vs ....." "Prime Toney Vs ....." "Prime Hagler Vs ...." but you never really see Mike McCallums name mentioned as a yardstick.
Benn just doesn't fare well with McCallum, he really doesn't. He's not cute enough, he punches off-balance, his head is right down there for a cheeky left uppercut, a duck from haymaker and return hook before a switch to body. McCallum just brilliant if you stood with him. Can only see Benn being stopped really. Eubank on the otherhand had the lateral foot movement to trouble McCallum, as well as the speed and reflexes. McCallum struggled with movement (Kalambay, Graham, Jones) or speed (Curry, Graham, Jones) and was quite one-paced; Eubank would change the pace and direction of his ring movement and leap in at speed from out of range with the flexibility and reflexes to get his chin back out of harms way. He was also massive, huge and very young as a middleweight, and if he flurried would back Mike up. The worry for Eubank would be missing sloppily after six rounds and being countered to the body and showing the pain and discomfort of the body shots, then outworked down the stretch, and possibly stopped on body shots late. It was hard to jab Eubank, so he'd pick up the early rounds.
McCallum stops Benn late and wins virtually every round before that, Eubank gives him a bit more trouble but Mike wins an 8-4 type decision.
