Adrien Broner is a 2 division so-called "world champion" the world champion status is meaningless with these 4 belts per class. the competition is what's important - and Calzaghe had no elite competition. His best win is a robbery against a 43 year old man. Other than that, he never fought an A-level boxer that remotely resembled an elite fighter at the time of their match. Bring up all the paper title defenses and paper champions you want, that does not make them legitimate competition
Exactly, this is well said. Joe sat in Wales, content fighting bums, with his hometown referees who would stop the fight for him the first second they could, my video has over a dozen instances of this. Calzaghe fanboys, they are as delusional as the worst *******s, hell maybe worse. Pacquiao atleast has great wins, Calzaghe's "legacy" is that of smoke and mirrors, a completely fictitious lie people have created. Calzaghe said himself HE WAS NOT INTERESTED IN TOUGH FIGHTS, the quote is well documented, and they try to act like he was some destroyer, taking on all challengers. atschatsch Edit: Found the exact quote! Calzaghe: "I'm not chasing after Roy Jones. Be honest, Roy Jones is a good fighter and I don't want tough fights, I just want big money." Oh, and Broner is actually a "3 time world champion" at super feather, lightweight, and the belt he won off Paulie at 147. Just further cements your point about how little that entire phrase even means anymore.
If you could build a time machine and put Calzaghe in the ring with prime, true all time greats in and around his weight class, guys like Roy Jones, Archie Moore, Michael Spinks etc, his deluded fans would be in for a cold, hard reality check when they see just how one sided these fights would be.
Dear God, if there are people who think he would take out someone like Spinks, Archie Moore, Ezzard Charles, Roy Jones Jr. in their primes, they need some psychiatric help for being delusional.
I've actually seen people on here picking Calzaghe to beat Marciano and Holyfield at cruiserweight, and no, I'm not joking (I wish I was).