*****Its On!!!! Kessler Vs Calzaghe Is Done!!!!!!!!!! HOOOLLLYYY SHIITTTT******

Agreed all around. Whoever wins this fight beat a hell of a fighter. You can't knock either guy here, there both excellent fighters, this is the fight that needed to be made and they did it. This is so ****ing exciting.

 

JC will win decisively. And I can already hear the excuses rolling in trying to discredit his victory. "B-b-b-but Kessler, Kessler was green, an-and, and Joe never fights away from home, uhuhuhuh and, he's ducking the Peter Manfredo rematch!"

 

Nice one.
:happy :rofl

 

I doubt it. And I hope not. This fight is NOTHING like the Lacy fight, which is what I gathered you were getting at. For one, Kessler is not American. Secondly, he's not a come-forward blast you out power puncher like Lacy was, who lets face it, relies way too much on his power to NOT be called one-dimensional. Kessler, on the other hand, is a big, tall boxer-puncher with very good all-round technique.

Completely different styles, completely different fight. And that's what makes it so intriguing!

Just a quick question before I leave: Should Lennox Lewis get more respect for beating Mike Tyson in 2002 when half the population where saying Mike would win by KO, despite the fact that Tyson wouldn't have been top 10 and was quite awful at the time?

I say no. Mike was ****, and Lennox was just getting the name. Just because people THOUGHT (or should i say hoped) Mike would win, doesn't make Lennox's accomplishments greater?

So why do Calzaghe fans argue that case with Jeff Lacy? Just cause some people may have thought he was better than he was or not one-dimnesional, doesn't mean he was.

 

:happy

Calzaghe by UD, although SD wouldn't surprise me also, thereby setting up a rematch.

 

Tyson was how far/how many years out of his prime?

Lacy was in his prime/on the rise, and Calzaghe was deemed to be old and on the slide.

And Lacy is still a contender at 168 - he's not just a KO artist, he has skills, but fell in love with his power because it was working for him in every fight up until he met Calzaghe. A loss to Calzaghe is nothing to be ashamed of.

He'll be back.

 

This is great for boxing! I've seen a lot more of Calzaghe, but I've seen enough of Kessler to think he'll win. The winner is a lock for being one of the top 10 fighters in the world if not better. Kessler by late stoppage.

 

cool. november's so far away though. both guys could've squeezed in a meantime fight. :twisted:

 

I said earlier Calzaghe would win by close decision, but I watched Kessler today and the more and more I watch him, the more and more I start to see what you are saying. I don't know if he will dominate Kessler, but I definitely see a clear cut victory for JC if he is on his game. He is excellent indeed, but his style is that of a European standup fighter. Kessler is accurate and strong, but he lacks the offensive variety of Calzaghe. I see Calzaghe slipping the jab, moving in and out, feinting, timing him perfectly, throwing quick combinations and moving around him en route to a 116-112 victory. I know that is closer than you believe the fight will be, but you have to give Kessler credit to as he is the WBA and WBC champion and is a true champion in his own right.

 

I'm with Blocky on this one, Joe thrashes Kessler badly. I was just being nice before for the sake of peaceful conversation...:yep

Calzaghe TKO 10, another performance performance over a near P4P opponent. A TKO because while Kessler is an excellent fighter and soon to be a favourite, he becomes tentative when swarmed and doesn't like speed, the swarming from Joe will make him more tentative like it would Taylor(though, Joe smashes Taylor inside 6 rounds).

If Calzaghe's in any form near to the Lacy fight, which I firmly believe we will see, he's going to blast Kessler into tomorrow guys.

 

I hope you are right - I noticed that when Kessler is being swarmed as you say, he jumps back and is more tentative to throw. Calzaghe will throw him off his gameplan in my opinion. Maybe he stops him, but I think Kessler's chin is pretty solid. Maybe not as solid as Lacy's, but I don't see him taking as many punches as Jeff did.

 

If he gets TOO tenative, he absolutely WOULD be taking that kind of punishment, because that just gives Calzaghe more oppurtunities to throw endless vollies of punches from awkward angles(which Kessler is vulnerable to awkward shots also) and it would lead to a massacre after the mid rounds, corner stoppage most likely over a brutally thrashed, bloody and broken Kessler.

Calzaghe at his best is just that damn good mate. It's interesting for me as a long time fan to see a fighter who was endlessly bashed and thought of as a fraud 2 years ago now to be considered on the verge of becoming an ATG, stupid ****ing media and fans. If Britain would have embraced Calzaghe after the Eubank fight as something truly potentially great, he'd have been able to get the big fights, win or lose, would have made an extended mark that he hasn't been able to secure.

Kessler bounces back, Calzaghe is one of his ultimate stylistic nightmares. I consider Kessler to be the 3rd best fighter from the 160-175 crop and at the moment I rate them:

Calzaghe
Dawson
Kessler

Kessler beats anyone else from 160-175 except Dawson and Calzaghe.

 

How do you see the following playing out?

Kessler-Wright
Kessler-Hopkins
Calzaghe-Wright
Calzaghe-Hopkins
Dawson-Hopkins

 

How do you see the following playing out?

Kessler-Wright - Kessler TKO 8, too big, too strong and can nearly match jabbing skill to dictate the pace, Wright can't win this one.

Kessler-Hopkins - Kessler 116-112

Calzaghe-Wright - Calzaghe 120-108, see the Soliman fight? Calzaghe is that x10.

Calzaghe-Hopkins - Calzaghe 116-112, Calzaghe's workrate and in and out movement give Hopkins hell, to be fair, Hopkins gets 4 clear rounds by timing Joe with his amazing overhand counter rights.

Dawson-Hopkins - I'm torn, that right hand is going to land and Dawson's going to hit the deck, but I'll go with Dawson clear UD by outworking an old veteran.

Let's add Hops-Wright...

Hopkins UD 117-111.

 

Glad to have you aboard Req.:good

I know that you have been in respect of Calzaghe's ability from way back.