If Calzaghe were American...

Haha, you ****!

A few months ago the 'Calzaghe could have fought Toney' meme was repeated quite often by the less informed American trolls around here, before they got tired of being repeatedly ridiculed for their ignorance.

You obviously didn't get the memo.

So please tell us, Mr Rand, specifically in what year and at what weight could a Calzaghe/Toney fight have happened?

If you also want to address how Calzaghe 'could have' fought Hopkins, when Hopkins stayed at MW the whole time and wouldn't move up to fight Calzaghe even when Calzaghe had agreed a fight with him in America in 2002, then feel free, though I fear you've got your hands full answering the Toney question.

 

:rofl He's not even the greatest active fighter.:nut

 

If Calzaghe was American he would almost certainly have fought Jones or Hopkins when they were at they peak years ago and he would no longer be unbeaten.

 

Pathetic thread.

Ricardo Lopez retired undefeated after 52 fights. He, like Calzaghe, has a weak resume and resume is the main and most important reason to consider when evaluating a fighter's greatness. If you change their nationality but not their resume, then that isn't going to affect their greatness at all.

Grow up.

 

wow. pathetic thread aside, i can't believe there are still people out there that think toney-calzaghe was ever a realistic option.

 

If Calzaghe was an American he would almost certainly never have fought outside his home country. A real stay at home Yankee Joe!!

 

No 'almost' about it, this is absolutely certain.

The only difference would be that Americans would consider all the people he hadn't fought to have ducked him, rather than vice versa.

 

Highly unlikely seeing as both Jones and Hopkins didn't want to fight Calzaghe years ago. It's common knowledge that Jones asked Eubank his opinion of him fighting Joe, and Eubank told him to leave Joe 'well alone'. Hopkins pulled out of an agreed Calzaghe fight by asking for his purse to be doubled after he'd already verablly agreed to the fight for a specified sum

 

Unfortunately most of them are ignorant of boxing. I wouldn't worry about it

 

He would have had to fight names like Jones, Toney, Hopkins, Wright in their prime and would have gotten beat.

 

Oh look, another one!

How would Calzaghe being American allow him to fight Toney in his prime, do you guys have time machines over there now?!

Wright never even stepped up one weight division to fight a prime Hopkins, why on earth would he step up two to fight a prime American Calzaghe :nut

 

LOL, because we don't protect our fighters. There is one exception and that is Chavez JR, who by the way gets shitted on this forum constantly.

 

Bingo. American fighters usually fight the best, Brits build up a resume of nobodies, fight one or two good americans (over the hill ones in Slappys case) then get unwarranted high praises. We are not biased just to the Brits in that reguard, Mayweather caught more **** for doing that than anyone, and he is american. You brits are such whiners

 

Great point, and Im not American, Im Cuban

 

:good
Americans are equal oppurtunity haters! We hate on what someone does, not where he is from. Its the Brits with their supersensitive egos who always thing its something against their country