Why do so many people on ESB think Calzaghe is P4P #1 or #2?

if you've held the belt for 10 years and your best opponent is lacey (up till now), it says something about his career.

 

Who said Lacy was his best opponent?

This has become par for the course now. Yanks that are so clueless about what goes on outside their own borders, that they actually think Lacy is his best win

 

Calzagh is a boxing genius, and it is unfortunate that there are not more credible opponents available. He has fought some great boxers, going back to Eubank (3-2 last 5 at the time) and was been incredible against Lacy and Kessler. It is a shame he never got to fight Sven Ottke - who would have got his arse kicked - and it would have been great to see him fight Benn, at any stage of his career.

Ultimately he is in a division that lacks big names and great fighters. This makes it hard for people to class him as an ATG. Despite this I honestly think he is at least top 3 P4P.

 

Calzage is also undisputed. Everyone has gotten amnesia about Lacy. He was a 3-1 favorite. He was a champion just about everyone said **** calzage lacy is the man now. To say that Lacy was not aquality opponent is complete bull****. He has looked like **** since then because Joe ripped him a new ******* and compelty ruined him. To say kessler was not a quality opponent is also complete bull****. Kessleer beats anyone else at 168 or any 160 pounder coming up and most 175 ponders right now.

You want other quality opponents Byron Mitchell, Omar Sheika, Robin Reid, Chris Eubank, These were all guys that were at the top of the division when Joe spanked them. Like I said it has been a weak division but Joe has completly and totally set himself head and shoulders above everyone else in it and I would favor him over anyone 175 or below right now.

 

MAN clazaghe said that after the lacey fight that it was his biggest win. i didn't mean to say his best opponent but it makes me think that when clazaghe himself said it was his biggest win.

 

THe reason why so many rank him at 1 or 2 is, that there are a lot of Brits on this board and they even think their football team is world class.

 

Biggest in the sense it got him the exposure he deserved. Joe thought Lacy was ****

 

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Britain doesn't have a football team

Yank in not knowing **** shocker

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Lacy really was ****. Courageous, but ****

He doesn't make the top 5 of Joe's victims

 

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Byron Mitchell was better and all

Eubank anybody?

Kessler...duh

Even Sakio ****ing Bika was better, at least he was a dirty little scrote that made life difficult

 

JC is Top 5 P4P, but Mayweather, Hopkins and Pacquiao definitely got clearly more resume than him.

He beat one world class fight in Kessler, but that doesnt make you the best boxer in the world.