Joe Calzaghe's strenghtes and weaknesses?

Strengths

Speed
Power
Work rate
Stamina
Adaptability
Chin

Weakness

Mentality
Injuries
Open to counters

 

How come Jermain Taylor beat Hopkins? Was it because of all Jermain's skills and slickness? Or was it because he just out muscled and out worked the smaller, older, slower Hopkins? Hopkins stamina hasn't been the same for some time and you can watch several of his fights and see him fade. Even in the last rounds against Ornelas he was tired as ****.

 

Outboxed? Is that what running in chin up in the air arms flailing about. Yeah that was boxing 101 that night.:nut

 

And if we go back to a younger Bernard, we can see him gassed and looking lucky to hold on against Segundo Mercado in 1995. 2 can play at that game.

He lost to Jermain Taylor, because as we've seen in Bernard Hopkins career, whenever he's faced a fast 2 handed fighter at a fair weight, he's struggled and gotten beat.

There's a reason Hopkins turned down a career high payday ($3m) to fight Joe Calzaghe in Vegas in 2002.

 

Yeah that's why Calslappy retired instead of facing Dawson.....Best America has to offer?

 

atsch WOW it doesnt help when you use his win over totally shot RJJ to try to explain how great Calzaghe is, that says something about his record!!! There is very very long list of fighters that would KO that RJJ!!!

 

Andre Dirrell arguably beat Froch too.... Jermain Taylor whooped him for 11 rounds. Froch is good and so is Kessler. But beating them shouldn't make anyone a hofer unless you are from Wales and in that case you're the GOAT.

 

I didn't use it to explain how great Joe is, I used it to goad and wind up that idiot CASH_178

 

haha if Calzaghe is ducking Dawson, is Dawson ducking Nathan Cleverly? :rofl

 

You're right Hopkins sucks......

 

How'd that work out for you?:rofl