How would Calzaghe do against these fighters?

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There's been an awful lot of revisionism (by the haters) about Calzaghe. And a hell of a lot of twisting and distorting of the truth in an effort to discredit him. They're still doing it at an alarming rate today, almost five years after he's retired.


This is what Freddie Roach said before Joe fought Lacy:

''Lacy is too strong for Calzaghe. It will not go the distance.

I see Lacy ending it in the later rounds, possibly by the 10th.''

But a few years later he then said this:

"I like Jeff Lacy [who Calzaghe defeated in 2006], I trained him for a little while, but he was a young fighter and what did he bring to the table apart from a big punch? Nothing much.

"Everyone pumped him up so high because he was knocking everyone out, but who did he knock out?''

Lacy was demoted to the worst fighter in the history of the sport after Joe beat him but the general consensus on the forums befoehand was that he was a wrecking machine beast and that he was going knock Calzaghe to kingdom come. But of course it's not like any of the haters were picking Lacy beforehand or anything. They all knew he was crap because they ''saw him struggle against Sheika'' lol

This what the poster John Garfield, who is one of the very best and most respected posters on here, had to say about his time spent around Lacy in the gym (said in defence of Lacy to those accusing him of being a complete bum).

Roach actually rated it as his best one prior to the Hopkins fight.

"Joe's best win is against Chris Eubank [who Calzaghe beat in 1997 to win the WBO super-middleweight crown], who was a much better fighter than people gave him credit for. That was a great win, but that was a long time ago.''

 

I'll come back to this at a later date Loudon.

 

I'd completely forgotten that Roach worked with Stretch.

lol.

 

Interesting. How do you think Stretch would've done against those two in a real fight?

And do you think James Toney should've been cast as Stretch's character Sonny in Dead Man's Shoes instead of him? lol

 

Fantastic scene this. Pure cinematic gold dust.

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Yeah, I can vaguely recollect him being plastered across covers of glossy magazines back then too. He was a decent fighter, and although it's been a long time since I watched the Eubank fight, I seem to recall him doing pretty well against him, so he must've had some talent. I think he was too small for Eubank though, despite being tall for the weight. Nice finish by Eubank.

I thought Stretch might have fought in the ABAs, but maybe I'm imaging that.

I was joking about Toney and Nunn though. They would've smashed him. lol