how was BHOP the lineal champion please explain that to me I would be very interested to know the answer to thatatsch]\ froch just beat kessler for his title he beat bute for his title and he wants to fight he best straight out the gate He also beat taylor who beat a younger version of Bhop twice but taylot doesnt even get so much credit for that, so why do u credit Joe ?
no he has beaten 2 world champs. :good a former champ isn't a world champ, nor is a guy who wins a title years later.
Somebody like Pacquaio or De la Hoya has actually beaten 10 or close to 10 actual current world champions Please dont compare Joes watered down resume to sound like theirs. Dont do that. Ever.
That pitiful dwarf fight with Manfredo aside, Calzaghe went the distance with something like his last 10 opponents. He went the distance with Evans Ashira, Lacy who was out on his feet and number of others whom were terrible. I always recall how Enzo said they were "putting Hopkins on a horse, and Joe was slapping that horse's backside into the sun" and how Joe bragged how he could easily "fight on into my 40's" etc. Next thing, he gets his ass served up - he wins by the skin of his teeth, runs like a maniac from the "best promoter in the world" to avoid a done-deal on Kelly Pavlik, to then fight a man he absolutely ridiculed in his autobiography, in Roy Jones Junior. He has lived off a win over an injured Kessler in his back yard on a weekly basis. Joe was decent, he was awkward, he threw a lot of punches - but he was also ragged, easy to hit and avoided more fights than he participated in. Peter Manfredo - hahaha !