Of course Calzaghe has power!!!

He has power, but it's not great power. He used to put more power in his punches but I think over the last few years he's always been looking to protect his dodgy hands.

 

:good

 

I think Joe has quite good power. Maybe not Lacyesque one punch knock out power, but atleast enough to take most guys out with an accumilation of punches.

However over the past few years Joe has took the power out of his shots and concentrated more on speed because of his brittle hands, like darzar said. Joe admitted it himself in an interview. Its pretty obvious to see. His more recent fights hes had more of a dart in-throw quick, light punches-dart out again amatuer style. If you watch his earlier fights he sat down on his punches more and put more venom into them.

 

Totally agree, watch a near washed up Eubank get straight back up unaffected from being caught plum by Calzaghe, and give Joe "the hardest fight of his life."

 

:good You are absolutely right, badman!

Evidence:

round 1: Calzaghe vs. Veit I
round 1: Calzaghe vs. Eubank
round 2: Calzaghe vs. Mitchell

 

Yes Calzaghe has power but I think its speed and volume that keeps guys off of him for the most part. And yes he does slap a lot. They don't call him Calslappy for nothing.

One has to give him and his father real credit though. I mean here's a guy who has no history in boxing who had the self belief to become a top trainner. He has certainly passed on his confidence and self belief to his son, who has taken what appears to be a brutal lack of technique and turned himself into a world champion and a legend. They've both done it on their own terms and not given a **** what other people think or say about both of their deficiencies. To them everyone else is just seeing things wrong.:good

 

Well said.

 

He HAS power. He just doesn't use it!

When he fought Hopkins, he DIDN'T throw with power. He flurried with WEAK but FAST arm punches.

What he sits down on his punches they can be effective.

The Lacy fight is a good example. Though Lacy was beat up by the end of the fight, you notice that when Calzaghe would flurry, they bothered Lacy but didn't actually hurt him. When Calzaghe put something on them, like a straight left or right hook, they hurt Lacy.

Against Hopkins, Calzaghe RARELY threw real power shots. Personally I think this was because he knew that if he committed to big punches, that Hopkins was still sharp enough and had enough power to land and hurt Calzaghe with a good counter. It was a choice Calzaghe made I believe. He knew his output was limited by Hopkins's style. In the first few rounds he tried to throw straight punches, got hit hard several times. Later on he switched to going in, throwing flurries and getting at. Effective punches? Not really, but he landed so many its hard to score the fight for Bernard.

 

Because even slaps can keep someone from full on charging. And also because most boxers know just trying to walk through something is pretty ****in stupid. Even stalkers who walk down opponents don't do it face first.

Joe MIGHT have a lot of power, but he doesn't demonstrate it, or hasn't in a while. His punches ARE more akin to arm punches, therefore do not convey the power one might get from sittin on your punches and putting everything into it.

 

:huh WTF are you cryiong about? Is it a discredit to Calzaghe to discuss his lack of a bug punch? If you're going to get your panties in a bunch over this, perhaps your a little too sensative about Joe C.

 

Just like pointing to Hopkins fight doesn't prove he has zero power, searching for fights to benefit your argument don't prove he does. Anyone who can look at this w/o emotion can see it's grey, not simpley black and white.

 

Thanks.

I also think both guys (Joe especially) really take some stick for this "I'm the man. **** what you think." self confident attitude here oversees, where we don't see him as one of our own beating the odds and doing it his way. We just see some really arrogant dude that fights like an amateur and tries to act like everything he does is amazing or that he's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

That part in the count down show where he's tapping a bag and its got a punch counter on it is a perfect example. He's people are yelling, whooping and cheering him on like what he's doing is amazingly impressive. And after words he starts bragging about howmany punches he landed persecond. To most people that just looks like some dude pitty patting a bag real quickly....not impressive. Then we see some guy walking around acting like what just happened was amazing and that he's great for having done what he just did. That type of **** bothers people an causes them to discredit him. But you have to admire a guy that has that much self belief and doesn't care what other people think he knows he's the man.

 

He has decent, respectable power, nothing more.