Not Calzaghe bashing - But why do so many people think he's rubbish?

Get ready get set, here we go again.....:-lol:

 

There is an unknown numbers of threads about that question! but i`m sure the usual posters would like to share their thoughts again, when they get online

 

I agree 100%

Also Joe isn't that brave, he didn't take many risks.

 

Well, you see, the ******* had the nerve to be undefeated in his career and win two lineal titles and defend his belt around 20 times. ****ing sonofabitch, how dare he be considered a great fighter.

 

Especially when Roy Jones, in his prime, admitted to ducking him.

 

One word, one explanation: Frank Warren. The enemy of good match ups.

I'm still a bit curious about one thing - he only fought in front of a (mostly) hostile crowd twice - and one was his awful performance against Robin Reid.

I wonder how it would have gone if he had fought Kessler in Copenhagen? Even in Wales he nearly got KTFO three times and edged the fight by 2-4 rounds (depending on which side of the Atlantic you're from) and got encouraged by the crowd in the later rounds.

 

The so called "slaps" i guess.

 

Before Lacy, Calzaghe's career is similiar to Erdei's right now.

 

Calzaghe found it easier to hide onor world title than travel to find Jones.

Jones would have been slagged of for handpicking Joe at the time who was an absolute nobody at the time...

Joe also said he used to be plane sick ...which was the reason why he didnt travel to US earlier..

forget Jones....why didnt he fight the other Champions???Tarver? Johnson? Reggie Johnson? Virgill Hill ??? Montell Griffin?

he could have made astatement at Light Heavy?

Remember Joe used to say he was tight at the weight at supermiddle?....

like I said its easy to hind behind a title(minor) when you are fighting fodder and hype jobs(kessler Lacy)

ROFL

hes pulled of one of the great Con tricks of the modern era.

but I will say something...i find it asham because Calzaghe is an brilliant fighter.

 

I remember Roy Jones Jr. admitting back in the day that, excepting himself, Joe was the most talented, dangerous fighter out there. He didn't want to risk fighting him overseas after his terrible experience at the olympics. He said this in an interview and I remember admiring the guy's honesty. About a year ago Floyd Mayweather Jr. talked about Joe's boxing prowess and felt he rivaled himself in pure boxing talent and suggested that their pure talent and speed explained a lot of the hate directed at them. To this day both long term prizefighters look unmarked. Noone would guess they were boxers. Finally, both Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard who rarely agree on anything both have talked of Joe's skill and greatness. Probably his skin pigmentation and his being from Wales has much to do with people underating him. If he were an American who had achieved the phenomenol record of Joe Calzaghe he would be rightfully considered an ATG.

 

:think

 

Explain how he ducked Hopkins? Somekind of mind control trick to force Hopkins to not sign the contract perhaps....?:think

 

Which are you counting as the other occassion?