Joe Calzaghe Is A Master Boxer

Calzaghe is a beast He is the king of 168 and no one is going to take him off that throne.

 

Agreed. Calzaghe saw that he would not win the fight by forcing his way on the inside, adjusted his game, and used the perfect jab for the situation. Very fast and well placed.

It wasn't hurting Kessler but it was completely ****ing up his rythym and allowed Calzaghe to stay just outside of the danger zone and use his speed to zoom in and out to score points.

I thought he fought brilliantly.

 

What little speed Calzaghe loses,because of advancing age;he gains in ring smarts,tempo,distance,angles and "tricks."

A master boxer he is.

Moving up to the 175 pound division will only stand to benefit an aging champion,as he doesn't need to struggle to make weight anymore.

He will fill in nicely.

 

The Calzaghe fans have known this for years.

 

Calzaghe brilliant but no Lacying, great fight :good

 

Absolutely Agree

 

i got him at #3..his 16 years of domination cannot be denied, I think #3 is fair enough. He really hasn't even been close to losing in all this time either. Total domination.

 

the Talent has always been there but 168 has been a fairly weak division since the mid 90's when Joe was just starting to shine. It took him fighting a great fighter in his prime to see how good he really was and he passed the test at 35, remarkable. When we look back Calzaghe will probally be one of the 5 best p4p fighters of the past decade.

 

I think Calzaghe is like a good wine, he just gets better with age.

 

except for calzaghe and hopkins, i cannot think of any other fighters who could have ever shut kessler`s style down and both are unique in being able to adapt to other fighters styles and nuetralisng them.

thats what calzaghe did to kessler`s jab, not by getting his right foot outside like i thought he would have to and coming around him, but by keeping his feet subtly shifting non stop for the whole 12 rounds, back and forward, side to side, looking at punches , just moving a fraction to slip and then being in a position to counter.

also calzaghe staihgtend his punches enournosly for this fight, having to to get inside kesslers own speed without taking big shots in return.

it meant point scoring but not power, but that is what was required in this fight as gung ho would have been very dangerous.

 

Joe did what great champions do - he found a way to win.

After 6 rounds I thought Kessler looked the stronger and as a Calzaghe fan, was fearful as I thought Kessler was starting to command the ring too much.

However, he got into the trenches with Kessler for a couple of rounds to earn his respect and then jabbed (as I was shouting at him to do from the sofa) brilliantly to keep Kessler out of rhythm.

Kessler was reasonably hurt in the 8th, as much as Calzaghe was in the 4th, but Joe did hit on the back of the head and the ref had to intervene, stopping Joe's only chance to end it inside the distance.

Kessler was very strong, but it was his first time fighting someone of Joe's quality and it began to tell in the later rounds as he got arm weary. But he'll be back, a very decent man and a good boxer, he was quicker than I'd have thought.