Would £5,000,000 be enough to coax Calzaghe out of retirement?

Eubank might have been past his best (nowhere near as much as the haters try and make out, and I say that as someone who is both a huge fan of his and has followed his career since the early days, circa 1989 when he was fighting the likes of Ron Malek an co) but he was still extremely formidable and had plenty left in his tank both before and after he fought Joe as well - and I don't want to hear that he was weight drained when he fought Joe crap either because it's complete bollocks and I have plenty of proof to back that assertion up too). And let's not conveniently forget that Calzaghe was a very green bambino when he fought Eubank who hadn't mixed above domestic class nor been past eight rounds before. In fact, he'd only been past five on three occasions, one of which was against Eubank's cousin, whereas Eubank had been the full 12 round route on no fewer than sixteen occasions. So Calzaghe was not only having to make a gargantuan leap up in class when he fought Eubank but he was also having to do so over a distance that he hadn't come close to doing.

Eubank turned up in excellent shape for that fight and the performance he put in would've been enough to secure victory against pretty much all but the top few elite fighters in his division around that time. People try to downplay that win because they don't like Joe, but the reality was it was a fantastic performance by a way pre prime extermely inexperienced and green Joe against a still very potent and formidable Eubank. They did exactly the same straight after the Hopkins' fight too, whom was immediately dismissed as older than Methuselah's grandfather and more shot than Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid after Joe beat him.

And the reason Joe said it was his hardest fight is pretty self-explanatory. But I'll leave that for him to explain.

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Yeah I knew that. He was in training to fight undefeated banger Mark Prince at 175.

Due to the difficulties Eubank had making 160 for the first Watson fight, where he cut too much weight in too short a space of time (19lbs in four days apparently), the British Boxing Board of Control said they were going to strictly monitor his weight in the lead up to that fight and there's no way they would've let him fight unless they were fully satisfied, although atberry (aka Eubank's biggest fan) claims that Eubank lied about his weight to them, which I have a hard time believing given atberry's close relationship with Eubank's bollocks and his constant blurring of fantasy and reality to prop Eubank up at every given opportunity. I do enjoy reading his posts though lol. The words ''strictly'' and ''monitoring'' sort of give the game away. Thing is, Joe himself looked ****ing huge at the press conference to announce that fight. I remember it well. He looked really thick set and it was plain to see he had a lot of weight to shift before the fight too.

Regardless of whether there's any truth to that or not, there's absolutely no doubting Eubank was in excellent shape for that fight though and anyone who says otherwise either has an agenda against Calzaghe or is a clueless idiot. Calzaghe set an absolutely blistering pace from the get-go in that fight and was all over Eubank like a soup sandwich from first bell to last, offering him no let up or respite and throwing and taking copius amounts of seriously heavy leather in the process.

Weight drained fighters, especially ones about whom it was common knowledge like to fight at their own pace and hated fighting southpaws, and who had absorbed heavy punishment from a much harder punching Calzaghe than the one of later years, cannot fight at the kind of electric pace Joe set that night. That pace was ridiculous even by Joe's lofty standards. :good

 

You seem to be labouring under a misapprehension that I'm too stupid to realize you're a troll and that I would bother wasting any of my time playing your silly little games. :good