Is Joe Calzaghe's Punching Sytle The Ugliest In History?

thats one case..when he does his little tid tad tid tad (see joe c-manfredo) is what im talking about:deal

 

Only on ESB as Bailey, which Pwns you again, because it works against you .
I also didnt enter your poll

 

It's not a rumour if its the truth. Joe's hand problems have been well documented over the years. He made adjustments and carried on with his boxing career and retired undefeated.

 

How is it not 100% for this option:
Yes, he's Ugly but has the excuse of brittle hands

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Anything else in either direction is ignorance.

The hand troubles are a documented fact. He's also clearly horribly ugly at least in part because of them.

 

True but could it be the opposite too? that his hands problem are due to his style and not the other way around?

 

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Joe has always had poor punch technique. But if anything his success is even more amazing.

 

I quite like his style. It's more exiting than Andre Ward's all day long.

 

Hmmmm. Well no offense but you're opening salvo is a crock. Somebody posts a 4 minute clip from you tube and you discern from that Joe Calzaghes punch selection career? Are you serious?

 

Nah.

Carlos Maussa and Vitali Klitschko, to name a couple, have uglier punching styles.

 

So did Jack Johnson.

 

Funny. That fight actually resembles Hopkins/Calzaghe.

 

The TS should have used the term "punching technique." I don't completely disagree with you.

 

Well, the viewable evidence of his earlier career (90's) supports that it isn't.

His punches always had something of a slapping quality, which he never shed from his amateur days. They were, however - in the 90's at least - properly turned over for the most part and clearly delivered without hesitation about landing flush with the flats of his knuckles - the results of which are readily apparent in his then-formidable KO ratio (82% prior to the turn of the millenium, compared to 47% since...or perhaps more tellingly, 88% prior to the Reid fight and less than 43% since) as well as the more empirically convincing statistic of quality opponents knocked down (since "stoppages" alone can be misleading, and often occur with a man on his feet and barely hurt...see Manfredo).

Delaney - undefeated at the time, down several times.
Eubank - no longer his best but still not someone who goes down easy (and never yet stopped) - down twice. These may have been the first "real" knockdowns Eubank suffered as a pro...Watson (2nd match) and Collins (1st match) had both scored mere flash knockdowns on him.
Sobot - rated contender, down hard and never recovered.

That's to say nothing of the lesser competition he handled as he was supposed to - blowing most of them out early.

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He was also a pretty nice infighter in those days.