how good is calzaghe?

You might be a kangaroo by birth but you better defend those ****ing pastries like a true Viking now.

I'd get you on the next boat back if I was at the immigration office in København.

What posessed you to leave the sunshine and hot chicks for high tax?

 

Because all guys with a hot piece of ass in their avatar are compensating for being gay and small dicked.

 

i never said i was born a kangaroo :hat

 

Are you a real viking? :happy

 

See Realspitts! It has begun.

We are not able to help ourselves.

Our Motto: The slow and the stupid will be eaten first!

 

Jesus -- I hope not! If you were, I'd have serious questions about your mother!

 

were you born a yank?

 

I yank it ever-day brudda!

 

Leave Iceland alone. The blow up Calzaghe doll does not make him gay!!!

 

Are you watching me -- that's ****ing scaryatsch

 

Or fought Kelly Pavlik to end his career. You can push this both ways.

 

he is ranked numb 2 in most peoples p4p lists but is he really actually as good as people think?
his best achievments
1. beating cris eubank
2. beating robin reid closley via split decison
3. beating jeff lacy
4. outboxing kessler
5. scaping past hopkins

in some peoples opinions how evr people say he has beaten an unproven dane, an overhyped american and overaged hopkins?
wat do u think?


I agree, and I'm British. I'll give him the Kessler win, that was a great victory, but other than that, the guy has been a world champion since 1997 and has bothered to achieve absolutely **** all else. Lacey was a good win, but I dunno if it could be called great, that guy has done very little in his career to be thought of as a top opponent. And hey, even if you think Lacey was an amazing win, that still only amounts to 2 wins over quality opponents in over a decade (guys like Brewer and Mitchell put up a bit of a fight, but they were always going to lose, that's the sort of defence real champions make every few months, not career stand-out performances in any way). Calzaghe was poor v Hopkins, he only won coz the judges valued workrate and quantity of punches over skill and quality, he never once had Hopkins in any sort of trouble whatsoever, he was very very lucky- and I think everyone in the Calzaghe camp knew that on the night.

Even if you are a Calzaghe fan, look at his record then look at those around him in the P4P rankings- Pacquiao, Marquez, even Cotto. Look how many many more dangerous fights they have taken and won, and how many more good names are on their resumes, and how they done this in far less time. This cannot be denied.

And Calzaghe's decision to fight RJJ (who was getting KO'd by no better than decent LHWs 4 ****ing years ago- see Tarver v Hopkins for evidence of how good Tarver really is- and has had those 4 years to age and deteriorate even further since then, during which time he has beaten 2 absolute nobodies- Hanshaw who Jones beat on points got KO'd in 5 last month- and then couldn't even stop a 35-yr-old blown-up welterweight who hadn't won a fight in years) is ****ing pathetic. Joe is once again going for the easy option when he could've took a risk v a young hungry quality top 10 P4P guy like Kelly Pavlik, and tried to prove he deserves his current ranking, but instead he'd rather beat up a faded legend and retire.

So no, I don't think he is as good as most people seem to think. He has shown himself to be a good fighter, not a great one, and definitely not a #2 P4P. I'd rank him around #6.