How do the resumes of Benn and Calzaghe now compare given recent events?

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  1. JonOli

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    Their top 5 best wins:

    Benn------------------------Calzaghe

    1 McClellan --------------- 1 Kessler

    2 Dewitt - ------------------2 Hopkins

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    -------------3 Jeff Lacy

    4 Eubank (prime, draw/win) - 4 Eubank (unranked, past prime, semi retired, weight drained).

    5 Malinga ------------------5 Reid

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    beat Hearns twice (ok perhaps not the best version - but it's one who went on to draw against Sugar Ray Leonard).
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    picked up the WBC middleweight title, the IBF super-middleweight title, and the WBA light-heavyweight title in his time. Thats a tad better then what Lacy, or pushing it, even Kessler ever did so far.


    A lot depends on how much credit you give Joe for his WBO (for a part of it, at the time, an unregonised title) - largely domestic fought - unbeaten run and how much credit you give to Benn for going stateside early and fighting there. Benn went to the USA early, and took on the top men in their own backyard - a destructive early KO win over a prime
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    (defeater of Hitman Hearns twice) is a memorable one.


    Many people thought Benn beat a younger Eubank (ranked only behind only Toney and Nunn at the time), and believed the fight shouldn't have been called a draw. The Eubank Benn faced was a totally different Kettle of fish from the one Joe faced.


    I think Hopkins may now be Joe's best win, and I'm not sure how that stacks up against the McClellan win of Benn's.