Would Andre Ward win a single round against Calzaghe ?

Don’t insult my intelligence. Domestic fighters stay fighting domestic for a reason. Sure he beat some solid fighters. But people were clamoring him to come to the states for years while Jones and Toney were still prime and while Hopkins was still in his mid to late 30s. He never did. He stayed across the pond.

 

You have failed to answer and as suspected shown that you don't really have much knowledge on the subject.
You have even once again instead of answering, changed the argument and tried debating that instead

Only around half of Calzaghes title fights were in his home country
Was Ward a domestic fighter in your opinion?

Toney was a CW before Calzaghe won his first SMW title, so that wasn't an option
Hopkins decided against fighting Calzaghe in America years previously and ended up fighting I believe Hakkar instead for less

So tell me, exactly which SMWs was he supposed to travel to America to face?
Hopkins decided against facing Calzaghe so tell me which SMWs?

 

We can settle this once and for all. Who wins if Joe fights even semi-prime Roy Jones? We don’t even need it to be 1996 Roy Jones. Let’s say 1999 Roy Jones, or even 2001. Who wins?

The question is rhetorical of course. Everyone knows who wins. Prime Roy was arguably the greatest fighter of all time.

 

Jones was the draw. Joe had to come here to face him. Like it or not the US is the Mecca of boxing on the grandest scale and you gotta come here to fight the best. Which he didn’t do. He waited until Roy was a literal corpse and Hopkins was no longer at his apex.

 

We can only guess

What we do know is that past best, bloated, end of career Calzaghe did beat Jones


BTW
I notice once again you couldn't answer and then changed subject again

 

Hopkins

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Jones was at HW around this time and I believe Hopkins decided to fight Hakkar instead for less

 

Are you a Lourdon alt?
All the people you state had already moved up in weight other than Hopkins who clearly didn't want that smoke and was offered the fight.

 

It’s Loudon, not Lourdon.

I see that the Calzaghe Police have been having fun again.

 

I can name them for you.

Branko Sobot
Tocker Pudwill
Evans Ashira
Kabary Salem
Mger Mkrtchyan
Miguel Angel Jimenez
Will McIntrye
Rick Thornberry
Peter Manfredo
Sakio Bika = Was a virtual unknown at the time
Juan Carlos Gimenez = What did he do to deserve a title shot ? lost 10 round decision to a nobody, then beat the amazing Miguel Javier Lopez who was 3-13, Paul Jones 3-4, and was also 38 years old at the time. The only thing i remember about Gimenez was losing 1 sided decision to Benn and Eubank years before.

I mean that's really a high quality list of elite fighters right there right ?

And Joe Calzaghe's best wins all coming off losses

Charles Brewer = Coming off losing to Antwun Echols by TKO in round 3
Robin Reid = Coming off an abysmal performance losing to 40+ Thulani Malinga
Richie Woodhall = Coming off a loss to Markus Beyer in which he was floored 3 times by light hitting Beyer i might add
Byron Mitchell = Coming off losing to Sven Ottke

And a few other things

Chris Eubank = Had 11 days to make Super Middleweight limit was a late replacement.
Mario Veit = Why rematch a guy you already KO'ed in 1 round ?

Overall Joe Calzaghe was a very talented fighter but alot of his title defences were lackluster, he picked it up towards the end with wins over Lacy, Kessler, and moving up to beat Hopkins. But i feel like he could of moved up sooner and had bigger fights, Calzaghe often stated he had trouble making Super Middleweight limit, so moving up wouldn't of been a problem.

 

My apologies for the spelling...
I'm not the police for anybody. I do however pull people up if they are logically inconsistent or demonstrating blatant bias.

 

Look at Dynamicpuncher’s last post.

100% legit.

Yet if I’d have written that, I’m somehow an irrational hater like Herol.

 

Thankfully nobody is like Herol......
I can't disagree with Dynamicpuncher's post as it's not factually incorrect. however we can do that with the vast majority of fighters and resumes when we pick them apart.
As I mentioned above it's applying that critique equally and fairly and not just applying it to a fighter you don't like. So dynamic isn't then elevating someone else at the same time so it is a little different tbf.

 

I owe you a big thank you.

Over the last few nights, I’ve been reading a truly great thread.

One of the funniest I’ve read for a while:

‘Globe heads, where’s the curve?’

Ha!

Brilliant.

 

I should really know better than to engage with shadow.......
It's like debating a 3 yr old with brain damage...