Pay your respects to Joe Calzaghe

Not going to lie, for a sec I thought Joe died, you should fix the title.

 

In RJJ's own words.

"Would have been my biggest challenge at any point in my career"

 

He didn't almost beat Calzaghe at 43. To save typing it all again, I'll quote from an earlier thread I originally posted in answer to someone who claimed Joe was ducking a rematch with Hopkins:

The split decision just shows that Adelaide Byrd is either blind or can't score a fight. She had it 6-6 and with the KD, scored the fight to BHop.

(Another lady judge, Eugenia Williams, scored the first Holyfield-Lewis fight in favour of Holyfield, when the man won at best, two rounds.)

The two other judges scored it 9-3 and 8-4 in favour of Calzaghe.

Well, here's what American Jay Larkin had to say about that:

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- Jay Larkin, then Showtime TV Network's Senior Vice-President of Sports and Event Programming.

You don't KNOW anything about a hypothetical fight and neither does anyone else. We can guess.

IMO, prime Roy beats prime Joe (It would be his toughest test).
But I don't see Bernard beating him.

Different fighters have their primes at different ages. Tyson was past prime at 24. Lewis was just coming into prime at 30.

Bernard's prime was, IMO between 1999 and 2005. He was past prime, but so was Calzaghe.

Joe faced a better version of Bernard than Roy did.

And Pavlik found out how much Bernard was past prime six months after the Calzaghe fight.

 

Is he dead? :roll:

:rofl :rofl

 

ATG?? What you Zaghe nuthuggers smoking. He was a good fighter but dont give me ATG Bull****.

 

Respect to JoeC, future HOF...and thats just about it!!!

 

RIP Joe Calzaghe

 

He's a ****ing legend.

Has TFFP be banned or something?