Hatton's whipping by PBF

Roy's been a light heavyweight from 1997-present, except for ONE heavyweight fight in 2003. "Moving up and down in weight doing his own thing for years" is incorrect.

Kessler is not Roy Jones, Kessler has never been a p4p fighter, let alone #1 p4p for years. Not comparable.

 

Yes I do but I do acknowledge that Hatton is not without hope. Witter is of course somewhat lazy in the ring and there is little doubt that Hatton could exploit this.

Agree with the 2nd part of your post. Ive went into some depth in the past about the cirumstances surrounding Calzaghes failure to fight Hopkins, Jones, Ottke and DM. Ive been balanced about it too and backed it up, but old sleaze nation here just can't accept any points what so ever in this respect, twisting and spinning everything to suit his agenda.

According to him, because Ottke frequently pretended not to know of Calzaghe existence, JC should have went to Germany fought any contender knocked on his door called him out and made concessions to fight in Germany :rofl

The guy is a nonsensical hater. He ought to be ignored.

 

Getting a fight with Ottke and beating him would have been an impressive win due to the adversity it would have taken to achieve it. But Calzaghe wants everything and everyone to come to him, I know.

 

:rofl

Have you ever heard of coming and going? Jesus ****ing Christ it was plain as day that Ottke wanted no part of JC but just do suit your hate filled agenda you spew some of the most biased nonsensical bull**** ever heard.

JC went to America actually beat the reigning LHW champion in his own back yard - deal with it.

 

So you believe Calzaghe should have gone up to LH years ago?

Indeed Kessler is not Roy Jones but he is a big dangerous mutha****a who many predicted had the beating of Calzaghe.

Ottke was a wanker who lost to Reid. After that debacle he deserves to fade into obscurity.

 

I just wanted to see him fight a great fighter at some point for the last 10 years. If you're happy with a 43 year old version of Bernard Hopkins, then you're happy so shut up.

I'm not. So I'm talking about it.

 

The spinsters would have said had Calzaghe gone up when he said he was in 2004 that he was doing it because Jones had recently been defeated and he was fleeing the division due to the twin threats of the up coming Lacy and Kessler.

Hell thats what they were saying on here back then. You just can't win with these guys, they refuse to give JC any credit.

This individual is the worst however.

 

I believe he should have fought at light hevyweight, at least once. There was ZERO percent chance of Roy Jones at his peak defending his light heavyweight titles against a super middleweight who didn't have a name in America. He NEVER defended against anyone who had never fought at the weight.

Just make the fight a possibility, that's not too hard is it.

 

I think you're being slightly unreasonable on this one. The fact remains they tried to get Nard and failed by no fault of Calzaghe or Warren.

True they didn't drop everything and go to America to fight on undercards in the vain hope Roy Jones might grant them their wish.

 

Hopkins was middleweight champion, for that fight to be made he would have had to leave his own division and fight a guy in Britain who had no name in America.
This was at a time when Calzaghe wasn't even the super middleweight champion, him and Ottke were belt holders with no recognised #1.
And Warren offered 1 million, I don't see how a fighter who had the reputation of Bernard would ever have accepted a fight like that, with nothing to gain.

Anyway, I've said mine, I don't want to go-on about it in another thread. Most of you are happy with what he did, I'm not. :good

 

Otis Grant operrated at MIDDLEWEIGHT. Good argument up until then.

 

:deal Good spot, 1 out of 14 then.

 

Quite a significant one though Sleaze, Otis wasn't really held in particually high regard and was a non-puncher. Strange match to make really. IMO Calzaghe was happy making WBO defences against average fighters and Jones was happy collecting belts of mediocre champions and defending against mediocre fighters. Both were at fault for the fight not happening, but the sport was very different back then. A lot of it has to do with De La Hoya and Arum chasing the best fighters in each division to make millions on PPV. Before Oscar started beating everyone, champions were quite happy to sit on the titles defending against randoms- while never pursuing the best guys. Look at the welterweights circa 2000. Trinidad 32-0 (26ko's), Quartey 33-0 (28ko's) and Whitiker 38-1-1 (16ko's) all in the same division, all in the top ten p4p and all avoiding each other defending against the likes of Oba Carr. Boxing has changed a lot- thank god... Thank Oscar and UFC for that.

 

Good post Jeff, although I obviously don't fully agree with the assertion that all Calzaghe did was beat WBO bums. To me, his career only really stagnated from 2003 to 2005 where he had a whole host of problems relating to hand injuries divorce etc. Now this does not fully excuse the poor choice of opponent during this time span, but nonsensical haters that refuse to take into account the fact that he has beaten solid competition in the early years, the fact that he has taken on and beaten good competition from 2006 and the fact that the big fights that eluded from 2001 to 2006, that this wasn't totally his fault now they annoy me.

 

Once again your probably right- He did beat some good fighters but never any elite guys but as you say that may have been through no fault of his own.