Who was the best of our great SMW's?

Calzaghe
Watson
Eubank
Benn
Collins

Watson beat Eubank in the first fight and would have beaten him in the second fight barring Eubanks amazing comeback with that lethal uppercut.

He also took Benn to school when they fought. Watson would have given Joe his toughest fight out of this list and is so underrated it's pretty sad really.

 

atsch

 

How many good fighters has Calzaghe done "an absolute number on"?
I'm suprised about what some people come out with about Calzaghe, he's a good fighter but he doesn't "destroy" or "do numbers on" on good fighters in their prime, he doesn't even do it to fighters that are past their prime. Or he's been hiding it well when he's fought them.

 

He's had two close fights in his 45 bout career... That's 43 fights out of 45 where there is simply no disputing his margin of victory. The other two he won incidentally, disputed or not. But I suppose all of those opponents must have been past their prime, out of shape, paid off or something else right? And Calzaghe must have had the fear of God up him in every fight to maintain his motivation levels.

He's very good and would make Eubank look how Watson made him look for long periods of time.

 

That's no what I asked, how many good fighters has he done a "number on" in your opinion?

 

I said he "would do a number on Eubank" because he has the kind of tools that Watson put to good effect during their two fights. Except Joe has higher levels of fitness and stamina. This is what I'm basing my claim on and not going by any other irrelevent fighter on Joe's resume.

 

I suppose it depends what the definition of "an absolute number on" is to people.

My definition of it is what we're going to see on May 3rd. That is someone getting an absolute number done on them. I can't compare such a thing to Calzaghe-Eubank prime for prime.

 

I think Eubank would win a couple of early rounds at most. We'd be looking at 118-110. Joe's conditioning and workrate (and Chris's lack thereof) would end up dominating the fight.... in my eyes at least.

 

Thats silly talk, Joe himself says that a past best Eubank was his hardest ever fight.

To think that a prime (pre Watson) Eubank may well beat him is hardly "nonsensical".

 

Joe was no where near prime in their fight either, so prime v prime would be a good fight.

 

The trouble with that is many Calzaghe fans had Joe's prime being about 6 months ago (Kessler), but after seeing the fight with Bernard they now place it 6 six years ago when he was fighting god knows whom.

Nobody knows when Joe's real prime was because of the lack in liquidity of opponents.



Away from that, and anything really, I just noticed that Nigel Ben is now only a year older then Hopkins and Eubank is actually two years younger.

 

calzaghe followed by benn