Why did Calzaghe hide at 168 for so long?

probably because he likes the men in that division. heh, what a ***.

 

He's too big to move down.

At 175 he must have come to the conclusion that the likes of Michalczewski and Roy Jones were too hot to handle.

 

Everyone knows you're a B-Hop fan. Stop trying to draw Calzaghe fans off-sides. The truth will be told on April 19th. Or maybe you'll just use the excuse that B-Hop is "way past his prime" if he loses?

 

He was too big to fight at MW where a lot of the action was going on...so that meant: SMW or LHW.

SMW was very strong when the best fighter in the world was fighting there: RJJ...there was also Glen Johnson, but Calzaghe didn't fight him in the end...

LHW was the place to be - that's where the big fights were being made, but Calzaghe would have had to be a draw to get access to them; if he couldn't get a fight agains Hopkins in 2002, I doubt Tarver would have fought him...but yeah, he should have chased Hopkins, Tarver, Johnson and RJJ for sure, whether at 168 or 175...

...he probably didn't because he was happy making good money at home against decent enough opponents, without having to push the boat out too far, by going to fight out of the USA to become a name with no guarantee that he could have been given the big fights. But yeah, he should really have taken the chance!

 

Such a stupid post. Its like saying why did B-Hop stay at middleweight for so long. Who cares.
Who cares if smw was created 20years ago, what has that got to do with anything. Some of the topics on here are nonsense.

 

:good

 

....on the other hand...Hopkins should have tried to fight Calzaghe too...for example...

 

Welcome :good

 

For the same reason he is now fighting a 42 year old boxer

 

Probably because Frank Warren told him to.

The WBO belt was available, and there was money to be made!

 

For the tough challenge?

 

People forget that Calzaghe, up until Lacy was a nobody. We know now that JC is an elite fighter, and always has been. But for 10 years of WBO defending, he was kinda like Zsolt Erdei. Known to be decent, but not a big name, and a with poor resume.

He couldn't just move up and face Jones. Or just move down and face BHop. He did not bring the exposure, the money, or the fans.

 

would have been an awful lot tougher had ol' snaggletooth grown the nuts big enough to step up to fighting joe back in 2002.

no excuses bernardsexuals.

 

Rumsfeld the Calzaghe-hater.