My American friends: If Mr. Joe Calzaghe shut-out Mikkel Kessler...

Damn right! He won't! Not even by JC! It won't happen, China Joe!

 

A self-professed communist, manipulating?:shock:

 

Even if he win (which is pretty hard to predict considering the opposition) I just can't see how he can be ranked in the Top 3 P4P.

Beating Lacy, Manfredo, Bika and an eventual Kessler isn't enough to be the best.
Pacquiao, Wright and Floyd are by far the 3 best.

And about the decade's best... well, no need to argument this one, Calzaghe is no where near a De La Hoya, Whitaker, Lewis, Trinidad, Hopkins in a best-of-the-decade contest.

 

Sorry, China Joe, that was out of order. I know you are not really a communist...you like professional boxing!

 

joe will handle kessler relatively easily.....and prove himself to be the best british boxer of modern times......world p for p....???....top 5....

 

Are you by chance saying that it might take a capitalist structure to bring the best out of an athlete?:scaredas:

 

Oh well, Joe does have very good boxing skills, no doubt about that.

Jones Jr and PBF are way above him in terms of pure skills though.

 

elaborated, yes, but not sufficiently to answer my question...and for good reasons too!

If money were to play no part driving boxers to excel, we would all be fans of the amateur sport. Why are we disappointed when we hear there is a great Cuban boxer who won't/cannot turn pro? If the amateur game was as good as the pro game, we wouldn't care at all...

China Joe, why does it take the capitalist structure to get the best out of boxers? Why is it not enough to pat them on the back and hang a medal round their necks?

 

And yet it is a boxer like Joe C. who has played the money game better than most and has been criticised as a result that you consider the best! Money came first for Joe. This is probably the reason why he became so good in the first place. If he had been Cuban, he wouldn't have been as good...