What was Calzaghe's greatest performance?

the eubank win is very underrated.

don't listen to all the haters excuses and bull**** about eubank only losing because he was shot, weight drained and came in as a late replacement. he wasn't shot. he was only 31 years old and he turned up in excellent shape. and besides it was just as difficult for calzaghe to fight a different opponent to the one he'd been training for as it was for him [infact more so because eubank had the experience of dealing with these type of things before]. calzaghe had been preparing to face steve collins [who had a completely different style to eubank] and he had just as little time to prepare for the late change as eubank did.

sure, it wasn't a peak eubank he fought [just as it wasn't a peak calzaghe eubank fought], but he was still a very formidable challenge for any 168lb fighter in the world, especially an extremely inexperienced bambino like calzaghe who'd hardly fought any rounds up until that point and had never been the 12 round distance before.

and all this nonsense about eubank only having two fights in two years prior to facing him cuts no ice either. everyone who followed his career knows he'd had a hectic schedule in the previous 3-4 years prior to losing to collins for the second time, and there's absolutely no doubt that the time off would have allowed his body to recuperate and done him the world of good both mentally and physically.

he still had plenty left in the tank after getting whipped by the bambino calzaghe to engage in two almighty wars for the ages against the very dangerous, big punching wbo champion carl ''the cat'' thompson [who would later go on to slay none other than the future unified cruiserweight champion david ''the hayemaker'' haye]. eubank not only gave ''the cat'' hell, but he actually came within a whisker [pun intended] of licking his ass [again pun intended].

the simple truth is it was an extremely impressive performance by calzaghe. maybe not his best win [at least he could thwack a lot harder back then], but it's a very underrated victory.

***cue rebuttal from an unbiased hater***

 

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