How can people hate on Calzaghe?

He ducked Roy Jones jr when he wasn't completely shot

 

Eubank was in his prime at the time of defeat to my knowledge.

 

atsch Jesus Christ

 

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Eubank practicality went out in his prime jackass.

 

you pointed out 3 victories out of a 46 fight career. and exaggerated on the eubank one, considering he had just been beat 2 times by collins. the lacy win is ten times better than the eubank win

 

Calzaghe has two actual knockouts on his resume. The rest are ref stoppages. Several of them quite dubious.

Calzaghe was a talented boxer, with an effective style. I think most peoples beef with him is that he faught nobody of note when it mattered, yet he had enough time to fight plenty of stiffs and pastry cooks on the Euro circuit. He avoided fighting Glen Johnson two or three times, and when Johnson moved on, the allegedly injured Calzaghe immediately lined up a fight. He didn't fight Hopkins or Jones until they were old. Fans are fairly split as to whether Calzaghe deserved the nod over Hopkins or not, which says a lot considering Hopkins gassed half way through.

I think it was mostly his protected European career.

 

your knowledge = poop

 

A lot of people were annoyed by his style and his personality, that's all. It's perfectly reasonable. Factor in the little-risk career path he took and it should be easy to understand. It's not like everyone hates him anyway. He's got plenty of fans.

 

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People hate him because he had more hand speed than Jones.

 

Eubank was still tough enough to give most fighters hell at that point of his career (Even Roy Jones jr at LHW) however after the Watson rematch he didnt seem to want to go in for the kill like he used to be able to and you cant really fault him for that.

Kessler was at his absolute peak when he fought Calzaghe and is probably the best win on his record, Mikkel Kessler is a very under rated fighter.

Hopkins went onto dominate Pavlik and Pascal and didnt lose til 4 years after Calzaghe so theres the old man excuse out the window

Also good wins such as :

Robin Reid - close win over former world champion
Richie Woodhall - TKO win over former world champion
Byron Mitchel - Should have been a WBO/WBA/IBF unification
Charles Brewer - WBO/IBF unification
David Starie - Another Ottke robbery victim
Jeff Lacy - WBO/IBF unifcation. Lacy was favourite in this fight
Mario Veit 2x - Holds wins over Juergen Braehmer and Charles Brewer
Omar Sheika - coming off a win over Glen Johnson
Sakio Bika - Still one of the toughest 168 fighters today

Not saying his record couldnt have been better but with Ottke too afraid to fight him and robbing everyone who did fight him blind along with Hopkins pricing himself out of a fight before they eventually met theres not much of a case you can make against Calzaghe. Jones Jr was a light heavyweight and became a heavyweight by the time Joe was ready to fight and for some reason a fight with Clinton woods fell through.

Pretty good 46-0 record