Rate These Resume's From Best To Worst

1. Jones
2. McCallum
3. Hopkins
4. Toney
5. Nunn
6. Calzaghe

Don't mind flipping Toney and Hopkins or Jones and McCallum.

 

Bums and old men - yet 4 years on, Hopkins is still fighting and beating the young men like Pavlik and potentially should have had the decision against Pascal.



Kessler is a bum? Funny that a multi time unified champion who handed an undefeated champion his first loss is a bum.



This is the typical type of bull**** most guys in America do. We DON'T corner the market on good fighters, the European guys show us that in the SMW, LHW, CW and HW divisions, in fact if anything, being European generally means you're a better fighter than the Americans at these weights.

The fact remains, Calzaghe was the only undefeated fighter and again, using that list, is the only fighter other than Jones Jr to beat someone in that list during a period they were still considered "The Man" in a division.

He also remains the only fighter to have completely unified his division, gained every title in it and then moved up and defeated "The Man" in the next division.

But you guys think his resume is **** because like most people in our nation, you're a bunch of xenophobic ****wits.

 

How on earth is Jones #1 when he avoided the best fighters never beat a unified, undisputed, or lineal champion, always took the path of least resistance and refused to travel to fight? :think

 

One boxer held all titles at the weight class he was in, Joe Calzaghe.

One boxer beat "the man" and P4P #2 at the time in the division above him (without any catchweight bull****), Joe Calzaghe.

RJJ gets credit points for wins through several divisions and the HW win, but ultimately, beyond RJJ, no one compares to Calzghe in this list in an objective rational argument.

 

1 Mccallum
2 B-Hop
3 Jones
4 Nunn
5 Toney
6 Calzaghe

 

atsch

Tell me who are those elite fighters, that Calzaghe defeated.

Bar must be pretty damn high, so I would like to know.

 

I from Britain, and you only mentioned Kessler and Hopkins.

Care to add??....

 

1. Roy Jones Jr
2. James Toney
3. Bernand Hopkins
4. Mice McCallum
5. Michael Nunn
6. Joe Calzaghe

 

Bernard Hopkins without a doubt best resume by a mile.

 

McCallum is getting severely underrated.

He is #1 on this list for me.

He was a natural 154 lber but he moved up to 175 lbs and beat a prime LHW champion in Jeff Harding. Heck even beating 29-2 LHW Randall Yonker is crazy impressive for a man his size.

Now factor in his wins over prime versions of Watson, Curry, Braxton, and Jackson, and it's a no contest. And his most impressive accomplishment in my book...outboxing (not KOing, but OUT BOXING) a prime Herol Graham, in Graham's own home turf, when both were 1 loss fighters. Graham is a guy that used to clown Chris Eubank in sparring, according to Eubank himself.

My list:

1. McCallum
2. Jones
3. Hopkins
4. Toney
5. Nunn
6. Calzaghe

 

Calzaghe fought only bums and old men.

 

mine is first is Hopkins
then Jones,Nunn,McCallum,Calzaghe. Yeah McCallum is second to last . His resume is ok, but not with the elite fighters he could have had. Maybe that is not his fault.

 

You forgot Toney

 

Hopkins has the best resume.

However, looking at that Calzaghes vs the rest isn't anywhere near as bad as some people make out. Plus the fact that:


1) Just because they're European fighters doesn't make them bad. The US fighters have more profile, especially within the US and so you're looking at the US fighters on US fighters resumes Vs the Euro fighters of exactly the same standard on Cals resume and marking them lower.

2) Calzaghe was never that much of a draw earlier in his career (even when he was champ), which also covers what you would call "his prime". Cal was no doubt a great boxer though so was not a good risk/reward for Hopkins or RJJ back then. It wasn't Calzaghe wouldn't fight them.

3) Good US fighter Vs Good US fighter makes more money than Good US fighter vs Good Euro fighter in most circumstances. If you're from the US who are you going to fight? It's harder for a Euro fighter to make the big fights - less so now, but was especially true back in the turn of the Century.

So much bashing on Calzaghe on here and that's the obvious purpose of this thread. Okay, his resume could have been better in a perfect World, but Pro Boxing isn't just a sport, it's a business.

In terms of career, Joe Calzaghe had one of the best and most successful in recent history.