Lewis Interview On Calzaghe" All He Did Was Slap"

calzaghe is the best fighter from 160-175 other than RJ are u smoking something?

 

who would have beaten him then

 

Hopkins from 5 or more years ago; Toney would have had a field day counter-punching him (and Calzaghe's work-rate would mean very little to Toney's defense).

A few guys from 175 being bigger and stronger are POSSIBILITIES, although Calzaghe would start favorite - Tarver, Johnson, Dawson etc...

 

hopkins didn't share your confidence when he ducked like a ***** 6 years ago.

 

man if calzaghe fought every1 Rj fought he would have L's right now.
I think an older version of tarver ktfo calzaghe, prime toney, prime bernard, vrigil hill probably beats him, glen johnson probably beats him. mayb even clinton woods. most of the top lhw would all gie clazaghe problems. Calzaghe has no pop at LHW, and once he fights a fighter that has power and just as long as him he would b ktfo. Bhop shoulda gotten him outta there, but he saved his energy 2 pace himself for the long haul, but if that were a younger bhop that fight probably woulda been over

 

toney was fighitng at cruiserwieght by this point, not 160-175 and hopkins ducked joe and has now lost to, him obviously not prime but why did he duck him if he had a good chance of the win.

 

:-( Unsubstantiated.

The guy had a 10 million dela hoya pay-day.

Calzaghe brought NOTHING. He was a WBO-nothing titlist, very protected with a poor resume, and was un-known outside of the UK (not just outside of the US).

The fact that Hopkins gave him a chance at 43 kind of takes away this argument. Especially when he knocked him down and only lost by a SD.

 

Hopkins didn't duck Calzaghe.

Calzaghe was a nothing then, apart from to his fanboys. Hopkins probably didn't really know who he was (probably only knew him by name; doubt he'd have watched him fight).

So Hops chose to fight the BIGGEST fight out there for anyone 160 pounds or under - Dela Hoya.

Oh yeah, he chose that one because he was scared of Calzaghe. :-(

He was thinking $$$, plain and simple.

 

uhhh, the duck happened 25 months before his bout with DLH.

 

:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl

 

Yeah, the "duck".

Just like Joe ducked Soon Botes.

Yeah, you probably don't know who he is.

Same applies to Nard. Can't duck a no-one. And whether or not he had the potential, Joe was a no-one until very recently.

Thank Frank Warren for that. :good

 

that right ther is 2 show you how not good he really is. If he never beat kessler the other day, I still dont think bhop gives him a shot. With that "impressive resume" or "record" rather. kessler is the biggest name on his resume up until bhop. unless you want to count the conteder star peter manfredo as well

 

thats why he said he would fight him a few years ago for so much money and then all of a sudden he wanted twice as much when the fight was going to be made. atsch

 

don't insult my intelligence. i know full well who botes is and remember robin reid smashing the **** out of him around the turn of the decade.

but i wanna get back to your little arguement about the DLH/calzaghe/hopkins triangle. what does a 10mil payday with DLH over two years later have to do with any potential bout between joe and bernard in 2002?

 

Are we SERIOUSLY going to continue this Hopkins ducked Calzaghe talk even after Hopkins chose to fight him after Calzaghe's most impressive fight to date (Kessler) - when Nard was FORTY-DAMN-THREE?

:huh

Seems a moot point to me. Hops had so many bigger fights out there at the time, and has always looked for the most money. Perhaps he under-estimated Calzaghe's popularity back home, and realised he could get much more fighting him. Perhaps he would have rather have scored a fight against a bigger name at the time - A Dela Hoya, Roy Jones rematch, Winky Wright, etc...

To say it was a duck because the British media, Frank Warren, and Joe Calzaghe tell you it is - doesn't make it so.

Oh wait!!! In Joe's auto-biography there's a quote from the showtime dude, Jay Larkin... Still not workin'