Favourite Calzaghe Masterclass?

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  1. HoldMyBeer

    HoldMyBeer Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    how can the jones fight be a "masterclass" when he was getting sparked left, right and centre?
    hell, didn't danny green spark jones in 1???
     
  2. iceman71

    iceman71 WBC SILVER Champion Full Member

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    beating 40 year old shot roy jones. yawnnnnnnnnnnnn
     
  3. Beouche

    Beouche Juan Manuel Marquez Full Member

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    Great post. Need to see you posting more often my man

    ps. pleeas unban Head if he's been banned. This place aint a patch on what it once was, but at least we still got Headbanger (funniest poster since Anglo for a few of us regulars)
     
  4. HoldMyBeer

    HoldMyBeer Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    calzaghe was an excellent boxer, and even though his Hopkins win was one of his best, he still waited until both jones and Hopkins were dethroned and in their 40s before fighting them

    a man, no matter how talented, who only beat one proven world class fighter in his prime, is not "great"

    jermain taylor's "moment of greatness" (as you rightly put it), is there because he was the man who dethroned Bernard Hopkins.

    calzaghe had many, many years to try it himself
     
  5. Beouche

    Beouche Juan Manuel Marquez Full Member

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    Calzaghe is an Enigma. He rarely stepped up to the plate, yet when he did, he delivered

    His wins over Hopkins (who was very much at his brilliant best regardless of age) and Kessler (who was an absolute monster) show just what he was capable of when tested


    Along with Lewis, the Best British boxer we'll see for many a year.
     
  6. Kush

    Kush Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Lacey got feather dusted and lost his soul.
     
  7. Beouche

    Beouche Juan Manuel Marquez Full Member

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    Dylanesque :thumbsup
     
  8. HoldMyBeer

    HoldMyBeer Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I don't think he was an enigma, but he certainly was better than he 'dared to be'..and also better than how he will be remembered

    nobody at over 40 years of age is at their "brilliant best" though - nobody

    Kessler was a puncher, but not a 'monster'. there have been no monsters at SMW that I can remember if you mean KO power
     
  9. Beouche

    Beouche Juan Manuel Marquez Full Member

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    Then you've basically dismissed Joe's two best wins

    How noble of you
     
  10. MAJR

    MAJR Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I've told you before on different threads, Calzaghe did not do rematches unless he was forced to, and the whole bloody world knew it. The only rematch he'd ever had in his entire pro career was one the WBO forced him to have against a mandatory opponent.

    So the explanation is: of course there was no rematch! It wasn't Calzaghe's style to give rematches! And you'd know that if knew anything at all about his career!

    It is not a middle finger to Calzaghe's fans because his fan knew him well enough to know that there would not be a bloody rematch, and nobody was expecting there to be a bloody rematch.

    The fact that Hopkins wanted one after losing and that you cannot accept reality that Calzaghe wasn't voluntarilly going to give him one does not make his decision not to have one an insult to his fans.
     
  11. elgoadie

    elgoadie Active Member Full Member

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    It's certainly not his appearance on Celebrity Masterchef, that's for sure.
     
  12. Big Left

    Big Left Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Lacy, Calzaghe dominated him when everyone thought Lacy was some sort of unstoppable beast.

    In retrospect Hopkins/Kessler were better wins but the Hopkins fight was messy and the Kessler fight was close for the first half.
     
  13. Beouche

    Beouche Juan Manuel Marquez Full Member

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    :lol: got a link for that?
     
  14. MAJR

    MAJR Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I came on here today actually expecting someone to make some joke about how Calzaghe had to pull out of a Masterchef challenge with a hand injury.
     
  15. MAJR

    MAJR Boxing Addict Full Member

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