Has Anybody Else In Boxing Lost Respect As Quickly As Enzo Calzaghe?

His house was built on sand anyway, ie solely on his sons talent.

 

When he handed the walking stick to BHop and then mumbled a bit of crap I was cringing.

 

He was always unhinged, would come out with bizarre rants in the local press against various fighters but not Joe's opponents so no-one noticed. As more of his fighters have done reasonably well he's become more high-profile and as a consequence more attention is paid to what he says. This has culminated in him becoming boxing's answer to Prince Phillip.

But yes, wrong forum. What does this have to do with tits, Euro 2008 or Big Brother?

 

Those of us in the know realised this was always going to happen.

Joe Calzaghe has a freakish ability for boxing, which would shine through whether his father trains him, or Manny Steward, Buddy McGirt, Billy Graham or the local sad case from the boozer.

Enzo just had a lot of fortune in that the BBC wouldn't know boxing from Adam - they would probably go on record and say that Floyd Mayweather is crap because he never won a WBO belt, if Frank Warren told them to do so.

He doesn't seem able to train fighters according to their strengths, and has them all doing the Joe routine - switching tactics constantly as opposed to working on both strengths and weaknesses suitably.

David Haye summed up Enzo correctly - by referring to an early Tyson opponent who was KTFO in 1, asking Enzo if this guy (whose name escapes me) would have won had the fight gone 12 rounds - which Calzaghe said would have happened to Haye!

He also added that Maccarinelli was a decent fighter, who could go on to become a very good one.

With a different coach.

 

I heard he sits when he pee's.

 

I do that if I have had a few

 

:barf :yep

 

His only claim to fame was his son, don't expect much after that.

 

I think some critiscm is warrented, but to be fair I think Enzo is givin as good as he gets. After all Jack Loew did call his son a 'Slap Happy Welshman'.
And we all know Italians can tend to be emotional from time to time.
Personally I love Enzo, hes says what he thinks, though I dont always agree with him

 

Fair enough fella, but I didnt say you had to listen to Enzo, its just I enjoy his rants. As I said I dont always agree with him, and its more of a case of laughing at him, but I find it entertaining none the less.
I consider myself smart enough realise that every human as emotions, I was just pointing out that Italian passion sometimes takes over when common sense should kick in, but I do think his passion should be admired, theres plenty of coaches out there who see it as nothing but a day job.
Nothing against you fella, I was just pointing out my opinion, and not tryna make and arguement for the sake of it :good