Sir Joe Calzaghe - underrated and hated

Me? I have no problem dealing with 46-0 Calzaghe. Dude was a terrific fighter.

How does Mayweather even enter into this? You guys think that be because you don't look beyond nationalist or racial lines, that nobody else does.

 

This guy has no job has and acts like an internet tough guy attacking posters because he has no bollocks in real life. :rofl:rofl

I've never asked you but what exactly is the problem with working nights, it's not by my own choice it's where I was posted to in the military for 3 years and all things considered, it an easy posting, with a bonus allowance for unsociable hours. And exactly how many medals have your country awarded you with? I'm gonna guess, less than me.

And having no girlfriend? I suppose you have never been single in your life then? And this might be a revealation to you, but you don't actually have to be in a relationship to have ***ual intercourse. And the benefit of that is you you can have said intercourse with more than one female. But I suppose you are stuck with the big fat heffer you met when you was 5 years old and have to throw a bag of flour at her to find the wet patch before shagging her for a full 9 seconds on your birthday every year. :hi:

 

You do realise I've just credited Mayweather, who is black and an American right.

I think you assume I only like Joe because he's a Brit. How do you explain my fandom for Chris John? or Marquez, or Golovkin or Abner Mares or Garcia or Uchiyama or Rigondeaux or Kovalev?

All different races and nationalities.

 

I don't keep track of your fandom Hans. You definitely seem to be anti-American, and like to point to the bias of others, particularly African-Americans. But if you're saying no, I'll have to take you at your word.

 

Calzaghe is not underrated to start with, maybe he was not favoured to win against Jeff Lacy but that's just about it. Ever since, he was a slight favourite to beat Kessler. Then, he travelled to the Planet Hollywood and was favoured to win against Hopkins and obviously in his last fight, he was highly favoured to win inside the distance against Roy Jones Jnr. At the start of his career and in which domestic affairs are concerned, against Eubank, against Reid, I don't know but I would be shocked if he was the underdog for those fights.

Calzaghe hated - why would he be? Why? The fella performed, beat the real bum who was exposed in Lacy, nothing more than a short, left hook puncher. Fought adversity against the best Kessler we have seen and could possibly have stopped him had the refere not given Mikkel time to recover from that body shot late in the fight. Struggled, oh my, he struggled against Hopkins but pressed him until Bernard had almost nothing there so he won a SD and then beat the F*** out of an ageing and shot RJJ. Why would someone hate him? Bernard fans like myself? I don't hate him... Roy fans? Why would they? Roy in his day would send Joe back to Wales with his trademark lefthook out of nowhere, a sample of which had Joe on his knees in the 1st stanza in MSG.

Bottom line, Joe proved he could improvise out of a jazzlike ability and in style like the best afro-americans in spite of delievering a workmanslike performance.