H2H: Peak James Toney v Peak Joe Calzaghe

OK, I think Toney's peak was from:

JANUARY 1991 when he took Merqui Sosa's unbeaten record
til
JULY 1994 when stopped Prince Charles Williams

In this period, Toney also beat...

Michael Nunn (36-0), Reggie Johnson, HOFer Mike McCallum, Doug DeWitt, Iran Barkley, Tim Littles

He didn't lose a fight, won the IBF middleweight title, the IBF super-middleweight title, and The Ring Fighter Of The Year 1991.

In July 1994, he was pound-for-pound no.2 behind Pernell Whitaker.

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And I think Calzaghe's peak was from:

JUNE 2003 when he stopped Byron Mitchell
til
NOVEMBER 2007 when he outpointed Mikkel Kessler
(*sorry but I did not think Joe performed well against Hopkins)

In this period Calzaghe also beat...

Jeff Lacy, Sakio Bika, Mario Veit, Kabary Salem, Mger Mkrtchian, Evans Ashira

He didn't lose a fight, and won the IBF, WBC and WBA supermiddleweight titles.

In November 2007, he was pound-for-pound no.3 behind Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.

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SO... how do you think a fight between these two greats would have gone? Please vote as well.

 

Calzaghe UD..

 

Young Toney was awesome, I have the feeling he finishes off Calzaghe by a perfect right hand. Calzaghe has weaknesses that were exploited by ancient Hopkins who simply didn't have a workrate enough to clinch the win.

 

I was going to write a lengthy explanation of why I think Toney would win, but the basic two points I want to make are already here:

Young Toney was awesome

and

Calzaghe has weaknesses that were exploited by ancient Hopkins who simply didn't have a workrate enough to clinch the win


Perfect analysis in half the time and space it would have taken me :good :happy

 

Calzaghe is no where near fast enough and doesn't have the reflexes to pull a Roy Jones.