If Calzaghe retires after a dominating UD...

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  1. Clearly Cool

    Clearly Cool Active Member Full Member

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    ...where do you rate him.

    Great, Elite, P4P, ATG, HoF or something else???????
     
  2. stonerose

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    we had this a week ago , its too vague . he's gonna be in the hall of fame for sure. i'd put him up with the likes of say ..... mcallum, trinidad, julian jackson, winky wright, that sort of level .not an ATG but the rung below .it would also move him into the top 5 british fighters .
     
  3. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Top 100 all time great.
     
  4. stonerose

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    yeah thats fair .
     
  5. OBCboxer

    OBCboxer Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hard to say, he might squeak into the top 100 all time.
     
  6. I've had enough of this! I can take clear concise arguments but I CANNOT abide ignorance!

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  7. catasyou

    catasyou Lucian Bute Full Member

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    He was one of the best p4p fighters in the past few months,year.
     
  8. The Phenom

    The Phenom Pretty Handsome Full Member

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    Top 80 all-time Great.He is already a sure-shot hall of famer.
     
  9. Vantage_West

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

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    it only depends on what happens to the fighters he beat. do they become champs or good contenders ect.


    the hopkins win has given alot of credience due to how hopkins dominated pavlik.
    bika was seen as a bum fight but it has emerged that bika is a damn good fighter and really becomeing a force.


    hall of famer and a legend of brit boxing.
     
  10. zarman

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    ATG 4 sure. if kessler dominates which i think he will he will look even better
     
  11. phierl

    phierl Active Member Full Member

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    This is irelevant cause calzaghe is supposed to win against the past prime version of rjj, so if he wins it's because Roy Jones is past it, and if he lose because he really wasn't that good all along. Calzaghe can only lose in this fight
     
  12. Dorfmeister

    Dorfmeister Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Michael Buffer already announced him as a future HOF in his last fight and that regardless of the Hopkins' fight outcome so I guess it applies directly to this present time and for the period after the Jones' fight. Michael Buffer should be speaking not only his mind but what people want him to say... You cannot turn back what has been said - JC as a HOF - he's obviously elite, P4P, ATG a Great and so on, regardless of even being knocked out in 1 now ( remember Michael Spinks?) ... GOAT is really abusive even if he knocks out Roy in 1 and even in the most fanatic Calzaghe fan's mind. He's the best fighter coming from Europe since Marcel Cerdan in my mind.
     
  13. sitiyzal

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    g.o.a.t.
     
  14. Ted Stickles

    Ted Stickles Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Without a doubt he will be an ATG.......
     
  15. I'll ask again..........

    Name me 99 better boxers than Calzaghe!