How does Calzaghe compare to "the Hawk" Pryor?

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  1. Glenn Gould

    Glenn Gould New Member Full Member

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    I've never seen Joe fight, but will be watching the fight with Hopkins (biggest name Calzaghe's ever fought in my opinion). Everybody seems to equate Calzaghe with "high workrate". How does he compare to the king of workrate, Aaron Pryor?
     
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  2. Vantage_West

    Vantage_West ヒップホップ·プロデューサー Full Member

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    not really where as aaron used to duck and weave and throw awkward shots and rely on reflexes and chin to slip and take the punches.

    calzaghe is more concervative he has a high gaurd and originally was a puncher. but as he had brittle hands he has now perfected a very awkward boxer swarmer style.

    they havbe goen in different directions. one was a boxer who had a high workrate the other had a high workrate that learnt to box
     
    Vantage_West, Apr 19, 2008
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  3. ddcl

    ddcl Guest

    he doesnt
     
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  4. Streets_Of_Gold

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    Calzaghe isnt near as good as Pryor.

    Pryor was so good, he beat Hearns and was ducked by Sugar Ray Leonard.
     
    Streets_Of_Gold, Apr 19, 2008
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  5. Olander

    Olander Active Member Full Member

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    Yeah, SRL didn't want to have anything to do with The Hawk. It's too bad that drugs prevented him from being even greater than he was.
     
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  6. stevebhoy87

    stevebhoy87 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Ah the old SRL ducked Pryor rubbish, he was happy to fight the far better and more dangerous hearns but ducked the Hawk :rofl
     
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  7. Club Fighter

    Club Fighter Boxing Addict banned

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    You took the words right out of my mouth. The only other thing you needed to have the perfect comment was "Thread Closed."

    Kudos, cuz you got that on your first post.
     
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  8. Streets_Of_Gold

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    39-1-0 (35 Ko)
     
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  9. drvooh

    drvooh Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It's all opinion, like joe didn't compare to Lacy..I watched AAron vs hearns, hopkions and Joe beat him
     
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  10. Carlos Primera

    Carlos Primera Boxing Addict Full Member

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    both are guys are awkward, unorthodox and have high punch outputs. aside from that, different styles altogether.
     
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  11. drvooh

    drvooh Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Very good PERNT ( point ) Cooke
     
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  12. Rebel-INS

    Rebel-INS Mighty Healthy Full Member

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    Amateurs don't mean ****.
     
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  13. GazOC

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    Thats an old myth. SRL was the welterweight champion and Pryor fought at 140 and didn't fight at 147 while Leonard was active. If Pryor was serious about fighting Leonard he should have taken on a couple of welterweight contenders first.
     
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  14. Arriba

    Arriba Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Other than workrate and tremendous chins...they really have nothing in common.

    Sides Calzaghe doesn't have his own chant.
     
    Arriba, Apr 19, 2008
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  15. Streets_Of_Gold

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    That was a great fight. :good

    It's HAWK time!
     
    Streets_Of_Gold, Apr 19, 2008
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