"Joe Calzaghe would beat prime Michael Spinks"- Max Kellerman

Oh come on now.

If Khan were a natural 168-175 lb. fighter, he would have gotten knocked silly by Mikkel Kessler. A guy with pretty good handspeed, and rather sizeable advantages in power, chin, and technical skills. He'd be too stupid to beat ole' Hopkins, even with the advantages in speed and youth.

He might not beat the likes of Charles Brewer, Jeff Lacy, aging Chris Eubank, and Robin Reid either.

 

If Lacy was hype, what was Miranda?

Miranda beat one contender of note in his whole career. Howard Eastman, who was on the downside of his career. He has wins over some fringe contenders like Allan Green and Willie Gibbs.

Lacy, likewise, had one win over a contender in Robin Reid (also on the downside) and fringe contenders like Rubin Williams, Omar Sheika, Syd Vanderpool, and Scott Pemberton.

Neither guy exactly had a murderers row.

The only thing that would really tip things in Miranda's favor would be that he broke Arthur Abraham's jaw and the fight could have been stopped when Abraham said he didn't want to continue. And that was probably because he thought he'd win on a technical decision. When he found out he would have lost because the broken jaw was from a punch and not the headbutt, he carried on, and still won despite the broken jaw.

And that is at 160 anyway.

After getting whupped by Kelly Pavlik at 160, these are some of his results above 160:

Stopped in 4 by Arthur Abraham
One-sided decision loss to Andre Ward
Stopped in 3 by Lucian Bute

And then has lost 4 out of his last 5 to fighters I have never heard of (except Tony Bellew).

His wins above 160 have largely been over journeyman fighters, and guys with nice records over weak opposition.

There's nothing that Miranda did that would give me much confidence that he even beats prime Jeff Lacy, let alone stop him in 3. Lacy took some hellacious beatings and his only stoppage defeat was a corner stoppage after Lacy got the holy hell beaten out of him by an old RJJ.

Lacy was a rather limited slugger, but so was Miranda.

I personally am not a fan of Calzaghe's ugly style, his tendency to punch in a "whack-a-mole" style rather than an actual proper punch, but he was far far better than someone like Edison Miranda.