Tommy Loughran Vs Joe Calzaghe

Loughran had very good jab, and I agree with janitor Loughran was much more mobile and varied in his footwork than Joe, BUT I wouldn´t say he was a better fighter overall, Calzaghe had the workrate, much better speed, power to make this a close fight…

This IS a good footwork !
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Tommy carries his chin high in my opinion, and is too straight up too.....not an easy fight for both...

 

Calzaghe is bigger, weigh-ins are broken these days.

 

Loughran, by a very close decision.

 

Calzaghe's relentless high workrate style combined with his stamina and overall toughness win him the day against pure boxers with poor power his own size.

 

Joe would have lined him up for his 47th victim if he had lived another twenty six years.

Rumor has it he wanted Duran and Frazier but both said no in 2009 so Joe retired.

 

The thing here is, Calzaghe is an aggressive swarmer type fighter. Sure, he has great foot movement and immense speed but he is there to be hit.

Loughran is the master boxer, technically he is good. He's not a great technician as he's an artist rather than a scientist, he was intuitive IMO more than formulaic. Despite this he had a solid grounding in the sport.

We are very lucky to have Loughran sparring with Dempsey on film. Now, I for one, and many others, think Loughran handled Dempsey better than Tunney. He was like Hopkins in there, ceding the ground then quickly stepping in with crisp counters down the pipe then closing the distance with speed into close range.

That is a technique Hopkins gave Calzaghe hell with. And Loughran gave Greb a very tough fight and Greb and Calzaghe have similar styles, although I don't know enough about the bout to make any further comarisons.

I'd pick Loughran to fight a canny bout, picking his counters and tieing up Calzaghe not giving him a handle on what to do next. Then popping in counters as Calzaghe struggles to adapt. Although both guys are very adaptable it is not going to be one-sided.

 

I could see Loughran outboxing JC. Very good foot movement and above all else he had a very good imagination. He would spend hours in front of a mirror practicing very subtle movements to throw his opponents timing off. Plus Joe C doesnt carry the pop to really earn fear in a tough old schooler like Loughran so you'd probably see a lot of pivoting and lateral movement to catch JC out of position.

 

Relentless high work rate?
Loughran beat and drew with Harry Greb , and Mickey Walker ,both would be favourites to beat Calzaghe in the real world.
OVERALL TOUGHNESS ? Loughran beat 3 world heavweight champions, drew with another, 3 lightheavyweight champs, several other world champs and countless rated contenders at both weights ,his resume makes Calzaghe's look decidedly anaemic.

 

Loughran and Calzaghe have one thing in common. They were both chamelions. They could both shift style repeatedly during a fight. Loughran was a whole order of magnitude more extreme, in his ability to switch styles. He ocasionaly adopted a style that went against every notion of common sense, but turned the fight around.

Calzaghe is a fighter that I was initialy skeptical of, but was eventualy won round to.

I think that McVea's coment about resume's has to stand. Loughran has a sick resume from middleweight to superheavyweight. He beat the Sergio Martinez of his era, the David Haye of his era, and the Alexander Dimitrenko of his era.