The Joe Calzaghe hate thread

No , Joe was at his peak. He threw a record high number of punches and even said himself he retired in his prime.

His mando was Chad Dawson , so he thew in the towel knowing that fight would be to hard for him.

 

tbf joe was post prime, as he had just achieved his greatest victory in his last smw fight, Kessler, a unification only 2 years previous.

he was just past prime, and clearly developed late since he went from minor title holder to improve to major title holder at age 34/35.

whereas someone like froch achieved major titles years before joe, and so its plain that he is a bit further down the road than joe was at the same age (but is as yet not running in terror from mandatories like joe).

 

How is Froch further down the road at 36 to what Calzaghe was at 36 atsch.
What is Frochs biggest win in your opinion

 

Dawson wasnt a mando. Calzaghe didnt hold a legit title, he had a magazine title.
Not sure how you think he was worried about dawson? Calzaghe was a SMW champ, Dawson won a SMW, WBO belt of sorts(not world title) at SMW, then jumped up away from SMW to face fighters nearly 2 decades older than him at LHW, and then when Calzaghe retires, Dawson dropped back down to SMW

 

Dawson offered Joe the chance to win his IBF belt and was even willing to travel to Wales for the fight.
Joe had no interest. He had the opportunity to greatly improve his legacy and becaome a proper two weight champ but walked away instead after beating two old timers.

 

Great thread!!! Calzaghe will live on as the greatest boxer to ever grace our shores!

Atg, wards daddy!

46-0 deal with it!!

 

Outboxed by Pascal ? Must have missed the part where he almost had. Jean out on his feet and the fight was stopped due to the cut atsch

 

how can u claim the opposite of the truth? and still believe you maintain credibility?

serious revisionism into the opposite of what happened, chad called out joe and joe ran in terror.

 

easily. he is, your BS wont change that.

his biggest win is the same as joes but more clearcut. but you know this so why would you ask? you want to start your cut and paste shopworn Kessler **** , that's why? no one reads it.

 

Absolutely there is no doubt whatsover that Joe was the best ever Welsh super middleweight.

 

Coke Sniffing Joe was actually a damn good fighter.

The shame is, on this forum he's treated like a top 15 atg.

It's mind boggling how overrated he is on ESB.

The most comical Calz comment I've ever heard on this forum was some ****** stating that Joe could have beaten Michael Spinks.

I didn't know whether to laugh, or cry.

 

Spinks was truly awful in that 90 second destruction at the hands of Iron Mike.