Sugar Ray Leonard- "Joe was a special kind of fighter."

And...................


it's not like we have had 6 million Joe threads over the last few days

 

wow I don't know when this happened atschatsch

 

No he wasn't, what a load of rubbish. Calzaghe was a absolute red hot favourite going into that fight.

 

Roy was expected to beat Joe? By whom?

 

Interesting how he left out Hopkins because he knows Hopkins was cheated in that fight

 

Plenty of people were tipping Jones to win due to his speed and heavier hands at 175lbs.

 

lot's of people predicted Jones would win. People seem to forget these things so quickly just because Calzaghe destroyed him. Hopkins, Froch, Lennox Lewis and Glen Johnson to name just a few. People's views have changed so quickly just because they got proved wrong. A classic example is Froch. He was adament Jones would win, then when Calzaghe beat him by some distance, only then does he start saying it was a mismatch.

 

Or maybe he thought Calzaghe would win.

Seems like the fights he mentioned were the ones where he picked Calzaghe's opponent.

 

I was pretty sure most thought JC would beat Jones by a lanslide..... Some ppl wanted to try an think Jones had a chance but in reality it was just to try an legitamize the fight

 

It was more out of hope then expection on here yes.

Why the Pro's thought different, **** knows.

Apart from Froch, he's a bitter ****. Obvious his reason.

 

Roy Jones was most definitely not expected to beat Calzaghe.

 

very few people thought roy would beat joe... joe was a heavy favorite and for good reason, roy was way past him prime.... in retrospect its easy to see how he beat lacy, but at the time that was not what i expected. im not the biggest calzaghe fan, but sugars right, he was a special fighter

 

RJJ was never expected by anyone to beat calzaghe, the same jones who was brutally koed by tarver and johnson

ray leonard never mentioned how calzaghe failed to ko jones

 

its official, SRL is punched drunk....