Joe Calzaghe v ATG light heavyweights

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  1. Charlietf

    Charlietf Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I hope that you are joking
     
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  2. Clinton

    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Jones had been destroyed by Spinks inferiorites Glen Johnson and Antonio Tarver before he fought JC. Why you JC fans even begin to give credit for having beaten Jones is hilarious considering what Joe said in his autobiography. Then you are going to give Johnson and Tarver for being better than Jones. I am still waiting for you to introduce why light hitting lightheavyweight Hopkins can drop JC but he's going to survive monster Spinks
     
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    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Who else dropped JC? I've forgotten. Brewer? Who else? Spinks wasn't dropped at 175. The more I think about it, Mike knocks JC out
     
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    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    He's not. He can't help himself
     
  5. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    Holy ****. You're on a roll of dreadful posts.
    How so? He was that quick his ventures at 175 saw him get dropped by two old men. Calzhage wasn't even all that quick, especially not quick enough to write off ATGs like Conn or Jones vs him. Both of whom were quicker than Joe.
    Errrrrrrrrr okay. If Hopkins and shot Jones can put him down with right counters, you can bet your bloody ass that Moore and Charles can. If Mitchel can drop him with an uppercut, so can Spinks.
    Since both Patterson and Marciano are much bigger than Calzhage? Along with with Archie being passed it for both, and having success vs Marciano. They also had stinging power, Calzhage has none. Neither fight like Joe either, the Lytell fights are the best comparison. And Moore won both.
    Spinks is 5 times the fighter Joe was, and 10 times anyone he fought. Including old Hopkins.
    Imagine thinking JC can take that left hook.
    I think you don't realize how good some of these LHWs are. Guys like GalĂ­ndez and the Muhammad's, were better talents than Joe. And aside from Conteh and Scott, they're probably the worst on the lists.

    Charles, Spinks, Moore and Foster send Joe to the hospital.
     
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  6. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    Mitchell?
     
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  7. Clinton

    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    You still have not answered the question.
     
  8. Clinton

    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Shocking. And he's going to survive Spinks and the rest? Comparing those inferiories to the great 175 pounders, I think Joe gets kod by several of them
     
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  9. Clinton

    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    At the time Jones fought Calzaghe he most certainly was, and Calzaghe knew it because he said so in his autobiography. And so was Hopkins at 175, having several losses and no ko victories there. Btw wasn't Calzaghe dropped by Salem as well?