Vasquez - Marquez as exciting and close as the fights were...P4P

mike464 · Mar 2, 2008

Decebal said:

Calzaghe never said Kessler was another Lacy at all! Where did you get that from? In an interview just before Kessler, he was saying how Lacy was made to order and how it meant nothing at all, but how Kessler he would have to be at his very best for. He said the same after the fight. Calzaghe fans went overboard criticising Kessler but that was because so man Kessler fans thought Kessler was obviously going to win it. I called Calzaghe UD 116-112 and guess what the score turned out to be. I held Kessler in very high regard before the fight and was impressed with him even more after the fight. But I never thought he would beat Calzaghe...didn't think Calzaghe would be as good as he was on the night either, mind you.

About the circular reasoning...true...it is circular reasoning, but there's no way of getting away from that, I am afraid. This is why you can perform better whilst looking worse - compare Calzaghe against Lacy with Calzaghe against Kessler. To me, there's no doubt in hell Calzaghe was better against Kessler, even though he looked worse. Performance-wise...what he did was much superior against Kessler...

Anyway, even assuming Calzaghe and Kessler didn't go up p4p after that fight...what was your rating for them prior to that fight? Couldn't have been less than Calzaghe p4p 5/6 and Kessler p4p 20.
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Calzaghe is an interview after the Manfredo farce said to Merchant "he's just another Lacy". Calzaghe had been desperate to fight Taylor and Merchant was asking about Kessler.

China_hand_Joe · Mar 2, 2008

scurlaruntings said:

I hate fan boys and cheer leaders. This forum is going to pot because of posters like you. That crap post is a waste of hard disc space.
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I do not believe Calzageh should be considered the best ever because he is going to stop Hopkins within 4 rounds. I was critising Decebals overly simplified system.

Besides, Calzaghe is already proven to be number one.

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