Roy Jones Junior, Bernard Hopkins, Joe Calzaghe and their eras of dominance.

So basically what your saying is we should put weights on a good fighters back as they do with horses?

Hahahaha that would be funny as ****, lets do it.

 

Hopkins is a wise con-man criminal like Lex Luthor. Roy was Superman. Where Roy goes, the Sun shines and he rules. When Superman left the MW division to go and explore other divisions...Bernard-Luthor stayed behind an unprotected division where he knew he could rule over with the skies clear of Superman. Superman went on to bigger and better things flying high and fighting off bigger villains. Well until someone poured Kryptonite on him and then he was never the same. And then enters Bernard-Luthor.

 

All those guys came in after they ended their dominance.

 

When Joe was ruling SMW he also had a fighter in Sven Ottke who was also there winning fights at home so there were two top dogs in the divison that never fought so that somwhat harms Clazaghe's claim to ultimate dominance somewhat not to say his run at SMW wasn't a great achievement.

Then you look at Jones who wouldn't take the fight with Michalczewski despite everyone wanting it but as soon as he's flattened and shot he's willing to travel to Russia or anywhere else for a fight it's just a shame he didn't show that intent when he wasn't a punching bag.

Then finally we come to Hopkins who successfully defended his title a record 20 times and made sure there was no doubt he was the greatest MW since Marvin Hagler and this was topped off by his unification of ALL the major alphabet titles which made him the only true undisputed champion in the sport.

 

Hopkins fought who he could and yes he wasn't thrilled about a Roy rematch but he still fought a prime Roy albeit injured. His talent still shined against Hops. But Hopkins proved hardwork overcomes talent and even at 47 he's still the best of LHW and facing a new style in Dawson. Pretty impressive and won't happen again for a looooong time so we should enjoy the ol fart as long as he's here. His skill can only be compared to Floyd and JMM now.

Calzaghe foguth Kessler and Bika who are still relevant and good fighters now so that says something good about him. Aswell as him having a slightly easier time with Bika than Ward did but that just means styles make fights. Bute cruised by Bika but that doesn't make him better than either. Calzaghe could've beaten em both but I only hold him not facing Dawson against him not the debatable Hopkins fight. Be honest, no one wanted to see a repeat of the mess of the first fight and the fact is he fought him win or not. Would love to see Zaghe in this time handle Ward and Bute but he is still a level above them until they clear out who the king of SMW is currently imo. Still could've beaten Dawson and I'm down that he flat out ignored him but Kessler was a better fighter and he handled him. Debatably great.

Roy was immensely talented but I also don't like that he wanted to travel outside of US when he's done and not while he was still a force. As I do him taking steroids. TBF, yes him and DM would be a good match but a green Hopkins and an unmotivated Toney were still much better than him and Roy beat them clearly with no real struggle apart from a broken hand against Hopkins. They were the best he could've fought and he beat them people tend to not point that out. Great talent and possibly great but I have him over Calzaghe by wide margin and career-wise I have Hopkins over him but prime for prime Roy was better than both of them. Only thing I can't get over about him really is the roiding.

 

Funny that the only reason Hopkins was able to become MW champ was due to Jones leaving ..He would have never had that run if Jones had stayed put ..And Joe had no equals at super middle Sven Otteke was a joke and knew to avoid Joe at all costs !

 

And skulking in the shadow does Joe "Last laugh" Calzaghe. I am not sure where he fits into the Superman mythology, but in the last second he stepped up from an infinity division, unifies and move up, and beat* them both :scaredas:

*slaps

 

Beating Kessler was all well and good but it doesn't change the fact while Calzaghe was at 168lbs he had another champion also fighting out of his backyard who at the time seemed equally as dominant who he never got to fight and also retired undefeated, credit to Joe though once Ottke retired Calzaghe did manage to go on and beat Kessler and unify.

And as mentioned before same with Jones dominant champion fighting while there was another dominant champion but there was no face off? for whatever reason it didn't happen so it hurts Jones reign of dominance just like it hurts Calzaghe's reign of dominance.

Hopkins didn't have the same problem and would have probably retired after beating Taylor (possibly Sturm and then Abraham) but he had no idea HBO had their own hypejob who they were planning to launce of his success.

 

Superman wasn't on roids. Story fail.

 

That's as presumptuous as me saying Jones wouldn't have been a dominant 175lber if he wasn't roided up and fought DM

 

When was Calzaghe's era of dominance? When he is ducking guys in his backyard like Woods? When he is beating 154 pounders like Ashira and the great Pudwell? His entire career is based on two or three fights. Hardly an "era".

 

Jones will always be Hopkins daddy and you know it .I mean look how he acted in the rematch when he was totally shot ..Jones didn't need roids to beat Hops he didn't even need 2 hands :hey