You do realise Cleverly is following the exact same path as Calzaghe, right?

:good

 

i would like to see cleverly fight ryan coyne... :good

 

:rofl:rofl Some people standards are rather pathetic.

Good one!:good

 

He fought over here this weekend, anyone know why?

 

Fought in his home state 19 times. 9 of his last 10 have been in California, and he got a lot of flack for his Oakland demands during the super 6. He's not an away fighter, but he's still the best SMW right now.

I don't know what Cleverly is being compared to Ward here, he's three years younger than Ward. When Ward was Cleverly's age, he was pre-super 6 and only had one semi-decent win on his record. Their resume's were comparable at that stage. However, Ward is clearly the more talented fighter, so I would be highly surprised if Cleverly developed as much as Ward did since late-2009.

 

American butthurt, hating on calzaghe because he beat your best

 

lets be fair, wbo title is worth something now, its seen as the smallest of the 'major' titles today (whereas in Calzaghes time is was the equivalent of the unwanted WBU/IBUM title).


So Nath is not really following Joe C (defending unknown title for 9 years), he is defending a title that has some legitamacy despite him not winning it outright. If he was following Joe C then he would be defending the WBU/IBO/whateverinventednoprestige title, but hes not.

 

this be why

[url]http://irishboxers.ie/article/coyne-makes-his-91-second-debut-in-sheffield/[/url]

 

He should. Calzaghe is the GOAT:

[url]http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?p=13878232&posted=1#post13878232[/url]

 

Cleverly has plenty of time to step his game up. As of now, I won't bash him. He ain't really done much yet. He looks like a decent fighter, just not a special fighter. We'll see what happens when/if he takes a really tough fight.

 

At least Calzaghe fought some credible opponents.
And didn't Cleverly win a bs decision ?

 

Sort of. The big difference is that Calzaghe actually had to beat someone pretty good to win the title, while Clev was just handed a vacant belt. The other big difference is that when he does have to face a decent mandatory, he'll probably lose. He's struggled against some pretty mediocre competition. Too bad his next mandatory is Robin (nee Haxhi) Krasniqi, who's pretty awful himself.

 

its true, clevelry has plenty of time to step up.

Remember out of the first seven defences of Joe Calzaghe, six were utter bums -- thats almost 90% **** defences in that first run. The statistics dont lie. ****ing abysmal.
Lets be honest, Cleverly can easily surpass that in his next 4 or 5 fights. Any middling champion can do that! but whether he ends up raising his game to a Kessler 20 fights down the road is a mystery still.