Greatest Boxing Clinic in recent memory

Calzaghe v Lacy.

Although last night is a close second for me. Hopkins was great and did what Calzaghe and Jones would both do to Pavlik IMO.

 

Hopkins vs. Tito is still up there... But Hopkins vs. Pavlik and Calzaghe vs. Lacy are close behind. But there's a pretty overlooked fight: Montiel vs. Castillo... that was stunning. IMO PBF never owned Hatton. I gave 2 rounds to Hatton and he put up great pressure just Mayweather was better. No way it was owning in the Winky-Tito way.

 

For me it is Calzaghe exposing the last great american hypejob. Very entertaining, and i was there.

 

Still Calzaghe vs Lacy.

Lacy was the complete favorite, had momentum on his side and had beaten what were considered at the time, very good wins for someone at his level - and he just got completely beaten, pillar to post over and over again, round after round.

 

My favouite schooling in recent years would actually be mayweather v corralles, much better than his showing against hatton, all the other included in the poll though where great exhibitions of boxing, out of that list calzaghe v lacy would be number 1 i think

 

B-Hop Kelly a close 2nd. Calzaghe beat Lacy at everything, constantly, for the whole fight, and didn't need to hold on to catch a breath. And to think, Lacy was COMPLETELY favoured in that fight, Calzaghe was not even given the sorta chance we've been giving B-Hop.

Another good one is Mijares vs. Arce.

 

Vitali schooling Samuel Peter - still love Hopkins - Trinidad and JC - Lacy...

 

Calzaghe was like plus 150...Hopkins was 3-1.

 

For me it is still Hopkins v Trinidad.

I see Trinidad at that time as a more superior operator to the rest of the opponents mentioned. Trinidad threw the kitchen sink at Hopkins that night, and went out on his shield like a true warrior. Similar to last night Hopkins was punch perfect, but Trinidad brought more to the table than Pavlik (who looked extremely flat and, not making excuses, but completely out of sorts - a large part of this was obviously down to Hopkins' style and tactics, but I suspect there may be some truth in the injured elbow/over-trained theory - he looked too shite).

 

Kessler-Andrade and Calzaghe-Lacy. Forever ending the euro-trash myth.

 

Hopkins owning Tito, no doubt. The Tito that Hopkins fought was a far better opponent than anyone else on that list, and Hopkins stopped him. Simple.

 

calzaghe-lacy

 

Was Mayweather v Hatton really a clinic?

 

It has to be Hopkins-Tito imo. You can't really beat Hopkins performance in taking the P4P number 2 to school.