I saw the "Super" 6 for what it was

Ward has lost a bit of steam due to his inactivity,

if hed continued that sucess from the super 6, no one would even remember Calzaghe.

 

He already erased him and exposed him as a joke who only partially stepped up after 40 fights and 40 washed up fighters or straight up bums with what he did in the super six. One thing's for sure, if the Super Six happened when Calzaghe was around, he would say he's air sick.

 

You are ******, it was made so best fight best and it happened, and gave a chance to Bute to shine outside of it, and we have seen what fighter with 2 losses in super six did to him.

 

Bute chickened out and was then exposed.

If Pavlik and Bute also took part, it would have been much better.

It was an amazing idea, shame some of the guys pulled out.

But the reason it was so easy to pull together was because none of the guys were well known, there were no 'divas' as such, every man was young and hungry and looking for an opportunity.

Well apart from Taylor.

 

The super six in Calzaghes days?

Calzaghe, Brewer, Lacy, Manfredo, Ashira and Pudwill, would have set the world alight

Ward was on his way to greatness but this has stalled, hes going to develop a lot of ring rust and its a shame, because he was the one to take the mantlepiece from Mayweather. Ring rust has never benefitted anyone. I hope hes still training though.

If/when Ward comes back, hell need to beat Golovkin and people will forget the crap hes been through for the past couple of years. A move to LHW would look great too and theres a number of names up there for him.

Id love to see Ward/Degale myself.

 

troll

 

Dirrell is a mental freak, but skill wise no question there. Don't forget to mention Kessler who gave us the best fight in the tournament. The S6 was a success even without Bute, boxing has become more popular. Specially in Denmark

 

Didn't it take Joe like 10 yrs to unify ..

 

Only because Lacy like a true champ stepped up and called Calzaghe out.

If Lacy hadnt called Calzaghe out,

Calzaghe would still be beating up welsh miners and dustbin men.

(and Lacy would have a career)

 

Careers of super six fighters post tournament -

Andre Ward - Defeated WBC 175 champ Chad Dawson (by dragging him down to 168) and defeated contender Edwin Rodriguez. Stripped of his belts due to inactivity / promotional issues

Carl Froch - Defeated IBF champion Lucien Bute, unified with WBA Champion Mikkel Kessler and sold out Wembley with his 2 fights against George Groves

Arthur Abraham - Won, lost and regained the WBO strap against Robert Stielglitz before fighting a game Paul Smith

Jermain Taylor - Reignited his career recently with a big win over IBF champion Sam Soliman at 160

Andre Dirrell - Whilst Dirrell is on a slow as snail comeback trail his brother oddly enough picked up the WBC title against Sakio Bika in back to back fights

Mikkel Kessler - beat fellow super six Anthony Green in a KO of the year candidate, Picked up the vacant WBA before losing a rematch to Carl Froch in a unification fight, on the comeback trail but no fight signed yet

Sakio Bika - Picked up the vacant WBC before losing a rematch to Anthony Dirrell

Glen Johnson - Sadly retired after losing efforts to Froch, Bute, Fonfara and Groves (or at least hopefully retired) at his advanced age has given everything he can to the sport

Allan Green - Became the first man to Knock Mikkel Kessler on the canvas before being stopped. Stopped Renan St Juste before losing to Blake Caparello who went onto challenge Sergey Kovalev dropping him in the 1st round.

So all in all really all of the super six fighters (with the exception of the replacements) are still at the top of the sport today along with a fresh crop of up and comers on the way. 168 is hardly a dead division with the likes of Groves, Degale, Dirrell etc.

 

wasnt all that interested in it as well when it was happening, it was meh for me

 

Super Middle has, for the most part, always been a shoddy division.

But at least the super 6 was entertaining and it did push guys like Ward and Froch to the top of the sport.

I'd be happy enough to see similar tournaments in other divisions.

Why not?

 

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