Joe Calzaghe drops a decision against Robin Reid in 1999...

Nah. His career was always risk/reward balanced plus he never had the hunger to goto the states. I think it would have panned out pretty much as it did.

 

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America?! I remember them going on about Woodhall who was ringside and WBC champ at the time.

Even that fight didnt happen before Woodhall lost his title and he was only 50 miles up the M5 :-(

 

**** hopkins look at jones face that's what would happen if he dares to mix it up but he won't look at the scorecards twice 116-112 he got the 3rd one from a black judge and he is a goldenboy fighter he almost quit by a fake lowblow he got the split the same way like de la hoya got it against floyd ignorance cost him and everytime he opens the books he will look at that result if he is so sure that he won why beeing so upset about it???

 

Hopkins gets WAY too much credit when people bang on about how he "beat Calzaghe"

First half of the fight Hopkins was dominant. But Joe kept his cool. Joe Cool. He kept forcing the fight and the end result was Hopkins couldn't stand it and was left a blubbering wreck, faking a low blow for a 4 minute time out - not that it did him the slightest bit of good.

When a fighter resorts to such dirty cheating cowardly tactics, he has no right to cry about the result if the fight is a close one. As well as being a racist, a dirty fighter, a cheat and a coward, Hopkins can add being a bad loser to his credentials.

As for the question in the thread..... who knows. We can only speculate. I speculate that - in a way - it would have been a good thing for Joe. He'd have been more inclined to go for the big money fights in America - thus fighting the best - instead of defending his "0".

 

Calzaghe did fill out 70,000 stadiums when he fought in the UK, the problem with fighting in the US is everyone prefers to watch the boxing on TV, so JC didn't really need to go. But if he would have lost fights he would have gone to America earlier because he would not be calling the shots.

 

This is the relevant point. Calzaghe might have gone to the US (or far more likely to Germany) because that would have been the only option for him. People like Calzaghe, Ottke, Hopkins, Jones, etc stayed at home because they could. Others didn't because they couldn't. Most of the time that's the deciding factor.

 

If Joe lost then he'd be a risk-reward nightmare, possibly. Either that or someone like Roy Jones would have underestimated him and offered him a shot at 175 (if Calzaghe had a few fights there). Calzaghe would have given Jones quite a few problems, but would have ultimately probably lost. But Joe's losing efforts would have got him into the US fans minds then, leading to a career of many title shots and fights with 'big names'.

Maybe.

 

Plugs..what the hell kind of thread is this? LOL. Nobody wants to touch it with a 10 foot pole! LOL.

5 hrs. later, and this is the 10th post of a Calzaghe thread? I looked at it when you first put it up...thought about it, and just said..naahhhh. LOL.