Really?? Tarver,Wright,De La Hoya,Pavlik, Heck if you're going to include Bika,I may as well include Eastman,Holmes,Joppy,Pascal,prime Glen Johnson. Even a blown up Trinidad is better than that Bika win.
Not sure why people discount B-Hops victories over Trinidad and Oscar. Sure oscar got a gift decision prior to their fight... but discounting B-Hops wins on the basis that these guys were their best at WW, is poor. Hagler, while beat real good fighters at MW, his greatness came through his battles with Duran, Hearns, and SRL, thy were the fab four. Why are boxing fans so ignorant now? Many times in the history of boxing, fighters have moved up in weight to challenge the champ, why is it a thing we negate now? If they are past prime, yes that takes away from the victory, but beating a Prime Trinidad at the time when he seemed unstoppable and so powerful, especially in the way B-Hop did it, was absolutely amazing. Hagler would approve.
Calzaghe slapping around bums while challenging real fighters to come fight for his meanignless unrecognized WBO belt on his own front lawn was a running joke for years and years. Froch has done more in two or three years than Slappy did in a decade. Isn't it funny how all those Euros who spent the 90's and early 00's defending worthless WBO belts in their backyards were mysteriously "ducked" by everyone who was actually relevant? :rofl But hey at least he beat a 400 year old Roy Jones. By decision. After getting up off the floor to do it. A couple months before some Aussie nobody ever heard of would do it in one round. That's some legacy Slappy has there.
A shame how Calzaghe couldn't KO that shot to pieces Jones. Anything less than a KO of Jones at that point is an EVT loss.
this article says it all: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/boxing/9164514.stm "My mum, who was always too afraid to watch me fight, would be annoyed if I went back in the ring but I'm more concerned about my youngest son Connor. "He came into my dressing room before the Roy Jones fight crying his heart out because he saw me get knocked down against Bernard Hopkins a couple of months earlier. "He had also spent the Jones build-up watching footage of Jones' glory years, when he was at his peak, on You Tube. "Connor was sobbing 'dad, he is amazing' and I tried to reassure him 'don't worry son, Jones isn't that good anymore.' "So while I was supposed to be psyching myself up for a huge fight on the pads and getting into my 'zone,' I had to give my little boy a hug to stop him crying. "Then in the first round, Jones knocked me down which didn't help - Connor couldn't watch it. I can't put him through that again.
How anybody can watch those joe stoppages and actually think those show joes greatness is pathetic. Plus he looked like the weird dude that collected hair on charlies angels... Terrible stoppages.
Calzaghe is good enough to go the distance with prime RJJ. Tall southpaws are always tough for a natural left hooker like RJJ. Combine that with Joe's grit, chin and will, and Joe will always be a difficult opponent for any 168lber.
that was one of the least impressive highlights i have ever saw. the music all dramatic but all i see is slaps.
Lmao at the Calslappy highlights. The terminator music is the icing on the cake. Some of thise stoppages are ridiculous.
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_t9RQBdlHY[/ame] (The English translation to Sonne) One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, out Everyone is waiting for the light be afraid, don't be afraid the sun is shining out of my eyes it will not set tonight and the world counts loudly to ten One Here comes the sun Two Here comes the sun Three It is the brightest star of all Four Here comes the sun The sun is shining out of my hands it can burn, it can blind you all when it breaks out of the fists it lays down hotly on the face it will not set tonight and the world counts loudly to ten One Here comes the sun Two Here comes the sun Three It is the brightest star of all Four Here comes the sun Five Here comes the sun Six Here comes the sun Seven It is the brightest star of all Eight, nine Here comes the sun The sun is shining out of my hands it can burn, it can blind you when it breaks out of the fists it lays down hotly on your face it lays down painfully on your chest balance is lost it lets you go hard to the floor and the world counts loudly to ten One Here comes the sun Two Here comes the sun Three It is the brightest star of all Four And it will never fall from the sky Five Here comes the sun Six Here comes the sun Seven It is the brightest star of all Eight, nine Here comes the sun
Calzaghe wasn't even a real World champion for most of his career, just a belt holder. His WBO run means **** all. If Calzaghe's WBO defences are something special and made him number 1 in the division then the same applies to Artur Grigorian.