how formidable a finisher was joe calaghe

A lot of the stoppages can be disputed as to how much he actually hurt his opponent, quite a few stoppages occured because he simply overwhelmed his opponent and threw a series of unanswered punches.

As a finisher, late in his career? Not really - otherwise he'd have put Lacy and Roy Jones Jr into comas the amount of times he hit them.

Earlier in his career, legitimate one hit KO power.

 

The hand problems struck later in his career. Early on in his career he was a very solid puncher (no a KO machine but a solid puncher) later in his career, when the hand issues started, he'd overwhelm opponents and get...dodgy stoppages (Manfredo being a noteable one)

 

Many uncalled for stoppages have bumped that number from about 45 to 70

 

Name 5 uncalled for stoppages.

Manfredo, yes, granted.

Beyond that? (I know of two more that are questionable)

 

He was almost impossible to beat. No one really came close. Not only was he undefeated for all his pro career, but was also undefeated in the last three years of his amateur career, which means the last fight he lost was when he was 15 years old.

 

Always fun to post the classics.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACgTJhEdj5M[/ame]

 

joke "stoppages"
fat ref flaying their arms everywhere for no reason

 

Ah yes, that video clip.

Notice how it doesn't show the work leading up to it where the majority of those fighters had been dropped in the round the fight was stopped?

 

Get's me everytime. Who added the speech bubbles though, nearly ruins it.

 

Well if hr fought prime Roy he would lose, and he did not fight prime Eubank(most overrated win ever) he beat pretty good version of Hopkins, Kessler prime, Lacy the hype prime. I hate people focusing on fighter 0, best fighters ever have losses its nothing if you came back stronger, over hyping 0 leads to ****ing ducking fighters fall in love in 0 and start to duck!!!

 

2:10 stoppage LOL!!! 90% of this is disgrace!!

 

As one example to the above

Mario Veit shown in that clip as a crap stoppage

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35KqYUKUazg[/ame]

Knocked down twice, on ***** street and being beaten to a pulp.
Hardly a bad stoppage, right?

 

And another stoppage shown in that clip, Sobot.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tahH7GuBADo&feature=related[/ame]

Again, knocked down in the round, hurt badly and while if you take the final second before the stoppage into account it looks bad, the entire stoppage itself, not so much.

Manfredo and one other fight were stopped without the fighter hitting the canvas, I'll let you guess who.