Would Chris Eubank Go Through Joe Calzaghe's Resume Undefeated?

I enjoyed trolling your ass earlier Berry. And FTR I don't have a problem with you. I actually enjoy reading your posts for the most part, other when you're shitting on Joe all the time. I was just playing you at your own game.

You know god damn well Joe beat a still very formidable Eubank who had plenty left in the tank and was clearly not weight drained. It was a fantastic performance by an extremely inexperienced and green bambino version of Joe. He hadn't even been past eight rounds before (only past five on a couple of occasions) and had never fought anyone remotely close to world class before. That version of Eubank would've beaten lots of top fighters that night.

To Eubank's credit that version of Joe would've knocked or stopped almost all of the fighters he subsequently went on to fight IMO, give or take one or two. He fought with an incredible intensity in that fight and was punching as hard as I've ever seen him. You could hear the power of his punches back then. They were very loud when they landed cleanly (I'm talking strictly about his power shots, not the lighter flurries or ''slaps'')

It's actually an excellent fight and one I would recommend anyone should check out if they haven't seen it yet, or even if they haven't seen it in a while. It's a shame his hands gave out on him because that was the real Joe to me, that and the one who dazzled in the amateurs on route to his second and third ABA titles.

And no, Flute did not knock Eubank out. lol. He did spar him in preparation for the Amaral fight though (sorry Mind Reader I couldn't blow my cover once I'd started lol). What Flute said about sparring Calzaghe was true though, and he used to spar against Nigel Benn too.

Much of what I said about Rocchigiani was steeped in truth though. I do think he was very flat and that it was a close fight if you actually count the clean shots that landed. A lot of Eubank's punches were hitting arms and gloves and the vast majority of his scoring shots were to the body. Very little was able to penetrate Rocky's air-tight guard, whereas he was the one scoring most of the clean shots to the head, albeit he was throwing less than Eubank. I must've watched that fight 20 or so times, this was back before we had the Internet obviously and I only had access to what I'd recorded off of TV. I seemed to remember having a different winner each time, although I can certainly see how many would've seen it for Eubank by virtue of the fact he threw much more though. And to be perfectly honest I'm pretty sure I had it for Eubank more times than the reverse too.

The Amaral fight was close too from what I remember, although I can't recall how I scored it. I think I had Eubank a winner.

The Close fights were very tight affairs too, but again I don't remember how I scored them. I can recall not being impressed by Close's style at the time for some reason though.

 

You do talk some utter nonsense at times though. lol

Oh yeah, and I made up the bit about Hill getting robbed against Schommer in the amateurs and watching it on a Russian site. lol. And Schommer definitely beat Eubank too.