Its time to give Calzaghe his props...

Oh come on the excitement of SMW must have gone to your head! Outrageous statement! Mundine might win the first round or two if he's lucky.

 

Nobody from 160-175 "butchers" Bernard Hopkins

 

Hopkins truly picks and chooses when he fights. Mundine is fit, and fast.

Wright, well, I'm not convinced that above 160 he'd do too well.

Both of these guys couldn't beat Taylor (insert 'but they wuz robbed' here).

That's enough proof for me. And neither are big bangers to really check Mundines chin out. Mundine is very quick.

And I didn't say he'd win. I said he'd give them trouble, and I still think he would. Hopkins is what, 41 now, not 31. At 31, he wouldn't have problems. At 41, youth and speed can start to take it's toll.

 

Respect to Joe Calzaghe.

 

Hopkins is 42, and when was the last time he faced anybody under the age of 37 and beat them?

Tarver was garbage in their fight. Absolute ****ing garbage.

If Hopkins could back in time even 3 years, I'd agree with you. See how looks against Winky first. (even though Winky is fighting 10 pounds out of his weight class....)

Winky is a better fighter, and has better pedigree. I agree 100%. But like I said, I have doubts about him fighting above 160. And even fighting Hopkins won't prove much.

Both guys fighting at 170 is just like fighting at middle without dropping the water weight. I bet at fight time, they're both pretty close to what they were as middleweights.

 

I hope Calzaghe gets KO'd.

 

If Mundine went all out against a big hitter he would most likely get KTFO.

 

I think he already causes anyone at 168 problems.

 

oft well thats you won the argument then :thumbsup

fact is, in the past 10 years the only big fights out there for Joe Calzaghe where RJJ, Hopkins and Ottke. Roy Jones fought 'tomato cans'. Hopkins and Ottke never even acknowleged Calzaghe. When have you ever heard the words 'Joe Calzaghe' come out the mouth of B.Hop? Never. He ran away and made money from blown up welterweights, with a 20 defence record every bit as mediocre as Calzaghe. At least Calzaghe's best opponents where natural Super-middleweights.

 

Well he sure better think twice about the bitchslapping thing I've seen him use. Kessler won't brake by any of those slaps that's for sure

 

I think Joe is going to school Kessler, just own him. He's too fast and MK is too robotic.

Kessler's one chance is to continuously fire the jab to try to hang Joe up for the right hand. Even if he does this, it might not be enough, but IMO, it's his only chance.

 

theres still time for him to injure his delicate hands in training and cancel yet another fight.

 

so your the truth then are ya? end of debate then.the truth is there hasn't been a real top of the tree super middle he could have fought the last 10 years.jones and toney had already moved up when calzaghe beat eubank,a eubank incidently that managed to give a world class cruiserweight in carl thompson all the trouble he could handle in his 2 fights after calzaghe.his resume in beating guys like eubank,reid,brewer,mitchell,woodhall isn't bad.fair enough the last few years hasn't been great but he did after much clamour get round to fighting lacy and we saw what happened now he's going to fight kessler.i always thought talk of him avoiding fighters was plain nonsense it was more the shenanigans of warren.i believe he's actually been avioded more than anything.

 

Little Reg,

You obviously know very little about JC and his career.

Are you aware that he has box and defeated 5 former world champions, Brewer, mitchell, Reid, Eubank to name but a few?

I'm not going to further waste my time replying to this post.

U always have one fool trying to **** against the wind

Regards,


John:good

 

Calzaghe is the most avoided fighter of recent years.