The difference between Ricky Hatton and Joe Calzaghe

Any chance you could disappear and stop clogging up this thread? At least the other Calzaghe maniacs write something substantial and make a decent contribution, your short sharp **** posts we really could do without.

 

Yawn. The same old same old tired jibes. I would be very confident of my boxing knowledge and length of tenure as a fan far outstrip yours. That Hatton did not feel ready to fight Mayweather in '05 really means nor proves nothing, he still pursued and got a fight with the world p4p#1 within 3 years of becoming a world champion. Calzaghe never bothered doing so in 7 years. These are just facts.

 

Your work is done in that you have made your point - but that point has been completely ineffectual with regard to my thread.

No matter what Ricky Hatton, Ray Hatton, Floyd Mayweather, Beatboxer, or anyone else did between 2005 and 2007 and 2084, the FACT is that Ricky Hatton was fighting in the division below the world p4p#1. He secured a fight with him within 3 years.

Joe Calzaghe fought in the division below the world's best fighter for 7 years from 1997-2004. He never forced the issue to get this fight. He never went to the USA and fought in Jones's division. He never beat Michalczewski and called Jones out.

Facts, Beatboxer. You can't fight them.

 

Are you sure Hopkins's decision had nothing whatsoever to do with money??

As I said before, you guys defend Calzaghe to the death over each and every matter under the sun. He is bang to rights on this one though. Godspeed :hi:

 

Couple of points, you say that calzaghe never fought a top 10 p4p fighter during those years. well the guy was operating in a division where there wasn't any, so its a bit tough. and he DID try and get a fight with hopkins , thats a known fact and its also known that hopkins pulled out, not calzaghe.

secondly, in my opinion there is a much bigger gulf in class between mayweather and hatton over jones and calzaghe. i know you think jones is the nesxt hardest man to superman between those years but that is my opinion. calzaghe would have given him a good scrap, thats alot of peoples opinion, just cos its not yours doesnt mean its wrong .

other than that fairly good post i suppose. b+ .

 

pacfan, you're a good lad but your irrational dislike of calzaghe and constant need to run down his achievemnts gets very very tiresome. i dont know your problem with him. cant you just take your hat off and say he's done well and is a **** hot boxer ? because he is, and if you put him in the top 100 of all time, which you do, you know this.

 

That dude would pass a polygraph swearing that Joe Calzaghe was a really a woman if I said he was a man.

 

His boxing skills have nothing to do with his strategic approach to his career. Wrong thread, sorry. I think he is a very good boxer, but definitely not a great one. I haven't written a top 100 so I don't know. He may sneak in there, I have no idea.

 

beatboxer, hatton isn't WW, and should be applauded for trying to do his thing there. the guy looked tiny against collazo, tiny.