The Best S.Middleweight of all time is.....

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  1. DINAMITA

    DINAMITA Guest

    I actually agree with everything you've said there. Honestly!
     
  2. jecxbox

    jecxbox St. Brett Full Member

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  3. Jude

    Jude Just Journeying Man Full Member

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    Are you questioning my knowledge.. ouch thats hurts man.. and a laughing little blue dude aswell... thats it im going back to bed.. sob sob...
     
  4. glscotland

    glscotland ****ing Legend Full Member

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  5. loko

    loko Active Member Full Member

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    Without question; Calzaghe. Must be smokin crack or hatin to get any other answer. Only man to ever unify the whole division. Oh and by the way when he retires and there's some revison done on his career suddenly everybody will be praising him and sayin how great he was etc... Exactly what happened with Lennox.
     
  6. JonOli

    JonOli Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Cmon, the rules were all over the place in that fight. Benn spent half the early rounds with his head ducking way below the belt. Anyway... that's not the point..

    From those early rounds it was obvious a lot of Gmans power carried to 168; he had Benn backing up, and all over the place early on. Gmans power would give him a shot at troubling Calzaghe in a H2H... that was my point.
     
  7. treva1977

    treva1977 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    this one is easy JOE CALZAGHE.
     
  8. JonOli

    JonOli Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I've seen that before... it's great. lol
     
  9. ThePlugInBabies

    ThePlugInBabies ♪ ♫ Full Member

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    so ducking below the belt is reason to stop the fight now? if he was going below the belt it was marginal, gerald looked clueless looking to come to terms with benn's bob and weave defence. the myths surrounding this fight get more hilarious by the day.

    ....and the g-man done superbly in the first knocking benn all over the place, but it was he who was backing from the second and further into the fight when benn started pouring it on. the g-man had stamina question marks and was very sloppy and open to hit. ATG power, but it only gets you so far.
     
  10. mrbassie

    mrbassie Boxing Addict Full Member

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    That's bollocks. The rule is if you're knocked out of the ring you have twice as long to get back in and to your feet, not an automatic stoppage.
     
  11. Eubank

    Eubank Active Member Full Member

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    1) Eubank
    2) Calzaghe
    3) Benn
     
  12. JonOli

    JonOli Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Where did I say it was an automatic stoppage?
     
  13. TheH1tMan

    TheH1tMan Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I completely agree.

    There cannot really be any dispute. If you go for h2h you could say Calzaghe or RJJ. If you go for achievement then it is undoubtedly Calzaghe. In other words no matter how you look at it, it can only be one of them.

    I would also pick RJJ, Toney, Calzagh and Kessler to beat Benn h2h.
     
  14. Bomber

    Bomber Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I can not seriously consider Kessler a contender to Benn, even though I do rate Kessler. I think highly of Benn due not to his length of reign, but to his quality in the few years he was in the 168 pound bracket.

    His reign was in my opinion the highest quality of all the champions. Not that he was the greatest fighter per se.

    Saying that, Toney et al would still have been fights that we all should have been privy to.
     
  15. DINAMITA

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    Nah, you honestly couldn't. Calzaghe has had a long undefeated career, but he has NEVER scaled the heights of pure quality, ability and brilliance RJJ did. Then again, neither has anyone but Whitaker since the Fab Four were in the ring in the mid 1980s. Seriously, Calzaghe has never been anywhere near as good as RJJ was, it's not even close.

    The RJJ who dominated then #2 P4P and future HOFer James Toney for the IBF supermiddleweight title in Nov 1994 would've destroyed Calzaghe at any point in his 168 career.