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What Past Boxers Could Have Beat Joe Calzaghe ??
My list im not including really old boxers from the SRR's era.
Mike McCallum
Michael Nunn
James Toney
Roy Jones Jr
Herol Graham
Thomas Hearns
Michael Watson
Gerald McClellan
Just a quick list.
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A prime Roy is too much for anyone to handle IMO at 160-175 over last 20 years. Toney has a shot, but there are so many ifs/buts/couldn't be assed training thing with him that JC outworks him 8 fights out of 10.
p4p I rate Mike Mccallum above JC, rate him really high, but his best weight was below 168 and JC gets the nod.
Hearns nowhere near joe's level at 168 IMO, goes for Watson as well. G-man would be a barnburner (against a younger version of Joe), but I'd pick Joe to win again 8 out of 10 since he always finds a way to win in a tough fight, which is a quality he has that rarely gets appreciated, you can try and quantify and compare fighter's hand speed, power, chin, stamina, whatever- botton line is Joe is a winner.
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Les Darcy would have slaughtered him.
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A prime Roy is too much for anyone to handle IMO at 160-175 over last 20 years. Toney has a shot, but there are so many ifs/buts/couldn't be assed training thing with him that JC outworks him 8 fights out of 10.
p4p I rate Mike Mccallum above JC, rate him really high, but his best weight was below 168 and JC gets the nod.
Hearns nowhere near joe's level at 168 IMO, goes for Watson as well. G-man would be a barnburner (against a younger version of Joe), but I'd pick Joe to win again 8 out of 10 since he always finds a way to win in a tough fight, which is a quality he has that rarely gets appreciated, you can try and quantify and compare fighter's hand speed, power, chin, stamina, whatever- botton line is Joe is a winner.
I agree its an intersting thought, but apart from Roy who was truly special there is no one on that list who you could say with out doubt whould have destroyed JC at SM some good fights though
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Now that Calzaghe is fighting at light heavy, you can add Evander Holyfield, Michael Spinks, Dwight Muhammed Qawi, Eddie Mustafa Muhammed, Matthew Saad Muhammed
Those ones for sure.
If you include probablies, you can add Yaqui Lopez, John Conteh, Marvin Johnson, Victor Galindez, James Scott.
I'm sure there are others.
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ICB
My list im not including really old boxers from the SRR's era.
Mike McCallum
Michael Nunn
James Toney
Roy Jones Jr
Herol Graham
Thomas Hearns
Michael Watson
Gerald McClellan
Just a quick list.
Only one i could go for is Roy Jones, Toney v Calzaghe would be a good close fight (Not the Toney that fought Jones) the rest were best at 154/160.
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Chris eubank in his prime
James Toney
Roy Jones
Robin Reid i think Robin did beat him first time he deserved rematch
Nigel Benn in his prime
Herol graham
Thomas Hearns
Sugar ray leonard
Bernard Hopkins in his prime
Steve collins
Glenn Johnson
The G man
I could probably think of more just a few off top of my head.
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tysonbruno
Chris eubank in his prime
James Toney
Roy Jones
Robin Reid i think Robin did beat him first time he deserved rematch
Nigel Benn in his prime
Herol graham
Thomas Hearns
Sugar ray leonard
Bernard Hopkins in his prime
Steve collins
Glenn Johnson
The G man
I could probably think of more just a few off top of my head.
If were talking prime 2002-2005 Calzaghe at 168lbs only Roy Jones, Hopkins would get beat worse than the old version as he would try to fight Calzaghe and get pasted and again wins over tito and Oscar cannot possibly lead me to believe he beats Joe.
The rest Joe would box their heads off.
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err Herol Graham ? Dont think so...
People so hard on Calzaghe ,
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tysonbruno
Chris eubank in his prime
James Toney
Roy Jones
Robin Reid i think Robin did beat him first time he deserved rematch
Nigel Benn in his prime
Herol graham
Thomas Hearns
Sugar ray leonard
Bernard Hopkins in his prime
Steve collins
Glenn Johnson
The G man
I could probably think of more just a few off top of my head.
If were talking prime 2002-2005 Calzaghe at 168lbs only Roy Jones, Hopkins would get beat worse than the old version as he would try to fight Calzaghe and get pasted and again wins over tito and Oscar cannot possibly lead me to believe he beats Joe.
The rest Joe would box their heads off.
Hopkins would get beat worse ??? to be fair you could argue he won at 43, imagine the Hopkins that faced Glen Johnson, that Hopkins would dominate Calzaghe.
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It would depend on the weight and period. This thread is too random. At 168 Calzaghe has a chance against anyone.
Not a well thought out thread.
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Well remember that Joe fought most of his career @ 168, under the new weigh-in rules. Joe's talked about how tough it was to make 168, so mos tlikely he'd be a light-heavyweight under the day-of-the-fight weigh in procedures.
There's quite a few light-heavyweights I'd pick over him (Foster, Spinks, Qawi to name a few). Of the more recent fighters, I'd pick a prime Roy over Calzaghe. Probably Toney at 168 as well. And the Hopkins of the late 90s/early 00s. I don't picture Hopkins having too much trouble going up one weight class to 168. Even though he made 160 rather easily, he was always a physically strong guy.
I don't like Hearns and Leonard's chances that much. They were too small and not the same fighters they had been when they fought around the 168-175 range (SRL had some help with the weight and the WBC for those titles).
Maybe the Hearns of the mid 80s that went to light-heavy wins over Joe. I don't think the 1991-92 version wins though.
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ds91
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tysonbruno
Chris eubank in his prime
James Toney
Roy Jones
Robin Reid i think Robin did beat him first time he deserved rematch
Nigel Benn in his prime
Herol graham
Thomas Hearns
Sugar ray leonard
Bernard Hopkins in his prime
Steve collins
Glenn Johnson
The G man
I could probably think of more just a few off top of my head.
If were talking prime 2002-2005 Calzaghe at 168lbs only Roy Jones, Hopkins would get beat worse than the old version as he would try to fight Calzaghe and get pasted and again wins over tito and Oscar cannot possibly lead me to believe he beats Joe.
The rest Joe would box their heads off.
Hopkins would get beat worse ??? to be fair you could argue he won at 43, imagine the Hopkins that faced Glen Johnson, that Hopkins would dominate Calzaghe.
Styles make fights, Hopkins would have opened up and been hit. The only way to beat Calzaghe is to let him lead whilst staying off the ropes. I think Taylor would be a tougher fight for Joe than Pavlik again styles.
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ICB
My list im not including really old boxers from the SRR's era.
Mike McCallum
Michael Nunn
James Toney
Roy Jones Jr
Herol Graham
Thomas Hearns
Michael Watson
Gerald McClellan
Just a quick list.
it is very simpel - NONE
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A prime Roy is too much for anyone to handle IMO at 160-175 over last 20 years. Toney has a shot, but there are so many ifs/buts/couldn't be assed training thing with him that JC outworks him 8 fights out of 10.
p4p I rate Mike Mccallum above JC, rate him really high, but his best weight was below 168 and JC gets the nod.
Hearns nowhere near joe's level at 168 IMO, goes for Watson as well. G-man would be a barnburner (against a younger version of Joe), but I'd pick Joe to win again 8 out of 10 since he always finds a way to win in a tough fight, which is a quality he has that rarely gets appreciated, you can try and quantify and compare fighter's hand speed, power, chin, stamina, whatever- botton line is Joe is a winner.
I agree its an intersting thought, but apart from Roy who was truly special there is no one on that list who you could say with out doubt whould have destroyed JC at SM some good fights though
I agree about Jones being untouchable . Joe is my favourite active boxer but I admit hed not have beaten Jones.
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Markusdarkus
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ds91
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Markusdarkus
If were talking prime 2002-2005 Calzaghe at 168lbs only Roy Jones, Hopkins would get beat worse than the old version as he would try to fight Calzaghe and get pasted and again wins over tito and Oscar cannot possibly lead me to believe he beats Joe.
The rest Joe would box their heads off.
Hopkins would get beat worse ??? to be fair you could argue he won at 43, imagine the Hopkins that faced Glen Johnson, that Hopkins would dominate Calzaghe.
Styles make fights, Hopkins would have opened up and been hit. The only way to beat Calzaghe is to let him lead whilst staying off the ropes. I think Taylor would be a tougher fight for Joe than Pavlik again styles.
Hopkins in his prime was still hard to hit, Calzaghe is not so hard to hit especially with the right hand, Hopkins best punch. combine his accuracy with a higher workrate and you got a Hopkins UD.
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Bomp
A prime Roy is too much for anyone to handle IMO at 160-175 over last 20 years. Toney has a shot, but there are so many ifs/buts/couldn't be assed training thing with him that JC outworks him 8 fights out of 10.
p4p I rate Mike Mccallum above JC, rate him really high, but his best weight was below 168 and JC gets the nod.
Hearns nowhere near joe's level at 168 IMO, goes for Watson as well. G-man would be a barnburner (against a younger version of Joe), but I'd pick Joe to win again 8 out of 10 since he always finds a way to win in a tough fight, which is a quality he has that rarely gets appreciated, you can try and quantify and compare fighter's hand speed, power, chin, stamina, whatever- botton line is Joe is a winner.
Toney had a very good workrate. I usually don't take Compubox seriously, but Toney had all kinds of great numbers in terms of punches landed, and in order to have that, his workrate had to be good.
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A prime Nigel Benn would have been able to i reckon.He was raw man!!A great britsh fighter,one of me favourites of all time!!!
"THE DARK DISTROYER!!!"
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You never know in boxing benn was great but was limited in the chin department all losses by stoppage. watson a good fight underrated i say he was the best out of benn eubank just a really unlucky fighter. roy jones was great and its a shame if calzaghe fights him now i hate when fighters get old and get beat from guys they would smash in their prime.
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ICB
My list im not including really old boxers from the SRR's era.
Mike McCallum
Michael Nunn
James Toney
Roy Jones Jr
Herol Graham
Thomas Hearns
Michael Watson
Gerald McClellan
Just a quick list.
What did McClellan do at super middle?
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RJJ prime not old and decrepide
Hopkins did win that fight so Hopkins.
Hagler
Pavlik
there is almost too many to list.
Greb , Robinson
Ray Lenord
Hearns.
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tysonbruno
Chris eubank in his prime
James Toney
Roy Jones
Robin Reid i think Robin did beat him first time he deserved rematch
Nigel Benn in his prime
Herol graham
Thomas Hearns
Sugar ray leonard
Bernard Hopkins in his prime
Steve collins
Glenn Johnson
The G man
I could probably think of more just a few off top of my head.
U really think Collins would have beaten Joe?
man I was a huge Colllins fan, really got me into boxing, I loved when he beat Eubank, they were great nights. but tbh he would not have had a hope against Joe.
Big Reid fan as well, he deserved a rematch but I had him losing(slightly)
Don't think Benn or Gman would have beat him either
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Poom
err Herol Graham ? Dont think so...
People so hard on Calzaghe ,
Why is that so hard to believe ?? didn't Graham in his prime give McCallum razor thin close fight ?? and Kalambay ?? didn't he also beat the living hell out of Jackson until that punch out of nowhere ?? and remind me of how many slick fighters Calzaghe has fought ??
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porkypara
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Originally Posted by
ICB
My list im not including really old boxers from the SRR's era.
Mike McCallum
Michael Nunn
James Toney
Roy Jones Jr
Herol Graham
Thomas Hearns
Michael Watson
Gerald McClellan
Just a quick list.
What did McClellan do at super middle?
Its not what he did this is a bad style match up for Calzaghe fact, i really find it hard for Calzaghe to survive the Gman's onslaught early.
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miles
It would depend on the weight and period. This thread is too random. At 168 Calzaghe has a chance against anyone.
Not a well thought out thread.
Not a well thought out thread because its a question on who could have beaten one of your favorite fighters ?? its just a question and its got plenty of replies which means people were interested in the question, which is the whole idea. This isn't supposed to be an award winning thread.
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Markusdarkus
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ds91
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Markusdarkus
If were talking prime 2002-2005 Calzaghe at 168lbs only Roy Jones, Hopkins would get beat worse than the old version as he would try to fight Calzaghe and get pasted and again wins over tito and Oscar cannot possibly lead me to believe he beats Joe.
The rest Joe would box their heads off.
Hopkins would get beat worse ??? to be fair you could argue he won at 43, imagine the Hopkins that faced Glen Johnson, that Hopkins would dominate Calzaghe.
Styles make fights, Hopkins would have opened up and been hit. The only way to beat Calzaghe is to let him lead whilst staying off the ropes. I think Taylor would be a tougher fight for Joe than Pavlik again styles.
Oh please you compared Hopkins to Skelton thats how much you know on Hopkins, if your such a big Calzaghe fan you would realize Calzaghe has struggled in rough fights before with Salem, Bika, Reid, etc which Hopkins was a master of in his prime and he even broke Glen Johnson's will. A young Hopkins was a punching machine and still had great skills to go along with it, the old Hopkins lost purely because he didn't have the work rate or the stamina to fight for the full 12 rounds which wasn't the case with the younger Hopkins, i suggest you do some homework on a younger Hopkins and don't just base him off a few of his older fights.
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Markusdarkus
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ds91
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Markusdarkus
If were talking prime 2002-2005 Calzaghe at 168lbs only Roy Jones, Hopkins would get beat worse than the old version as he would try to fight Calzaghe and get pasted and again wins over tito and Oscar cannot possibly lead me to believe he beats Joe.
The rest Joe would box their heads off.
Hopkins would get beat worse ??? to be fair you could argue he won at 43, imagine the Hopkins that faced Glen Johnson, that Hopkins would dominate Calzaghe.
Styles make fights, Hopkins would have opened up and been hit. The only way to beat Calzaghe is to let him lead whilst staying off the ropes. I think Taylor would be a tougher fight for Joe than Pavlik again styles.
Hopkins in his prime didn't even open up too much. He just picked his shots better then he does now and could wear someone down.
Hopkins prime even the Hopkins that fought Trinidad, would beat Calzaghe
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southakron314
RJJ prime not old and decrepide
Hopkins did win that fight so Hopkins.
Hagler
Pavlik
there is almost too many to list.
Greb , Robinson
Ray Lenord
Hearns.
Leonard, hearns, Pavlik (lol), Hopkins?
man you hate Joe Calzaghe.
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All time i have to go Roy Jones UD, Hagler and Toney would have give Calzaghe a good fight i want to say Robinson but he only had one fight above 160.
Archie Moore at 175 is a tough fight for anyone and i think Bob Foster would also UD Joe in a tough fight.
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Markusdarkus
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southakron314
RJJ prime not old and decrepide
Hopkins did win that fight so Hopkins.
Hagler
Pavlik
there is almost too many to list.
Greb , Robinson
Ray Lenord
Hearns.
Leonard, hearns, Pavlik (lol), Hopkins?
man you hate Joe Calzaghe.
No... I just no the best fighter he ever fought was a 43 year old man who beat him. I forgot Toney. Pavlik would eat him up and shit him out. No Enzo is saying Pavlikm is not worthy......hahahaha.......but Peter Manfredo is? What a joke this guy is. And so are you.
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southakron314
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Markusdarkus
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Originally Posted by
southakron314
RJJ prime not old and decrepide
Hopkins did win that fight so Hopkins.
Hagler
Pavlik
there is almost too many to list.
Greb , Robinson
Ray Lenord
Hearns.
Leonard, hearns, Pavlik (lol), Hopkins?
man you hate Joe Calzaghe.
No... I just no the best fighter he ever fought was a 43 year old man who beat him. I forgot Toney. Pavlik would eat him up and shit him out. No Enzo is saying Pavlikm is not worthy......hahahaha.......but Peter Manfredo is? What a joke this guy is. And so are you.
Lets see Pavlik beat Abrahams or Kessler, Pavlik is not in Calzaghes league.
The old discredit a fighter because he beat a P4P fighter in a close fight, works everytime.
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ICB
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Markusdarkus
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ds91
Hopkins would get beat worse ??? to be fair you could argue he won at 43, imagine the Hopkins that faced Glen Johnson, that Hopkins would dominate Calzaghe.
Styles make fights, Hopkins would have opened up and been hit. The only way to beat Calzaghe is to let him lead whilst staying off the ropes. I think Taylor would be a tougher fight for Joe than Pavlik again styles.
Oh please you compared Hopkins to Skelton thats how much you know on Hopkins, if your such a big Calzaghe fan you would realize Calzaghe has struggled in rough fights before with Salem, Bika, Reid, etc which Hopkins was a master of in his prime and he even broke Glen Johnson's will. A young Hopkins was a punching machine and still had great skills to go along with it, the old Hopkins lost purely because he didn't have the work rate or the stamina to fight for the full 12 rounds which wasn't the case with the younger Hopkins, i suggest you do some homework on a younger Hopkins and don't just base him off a few of his older fights.
I have Hopkins career at home and he still doesnt beat Calzaghe the only version that had a chance was the version coming off his best B2B wins. People forget he took tarver to school and beat Winky in the two fights prior.
And i said i find Skelton and Hopkins the worst fighters to watch they dont try and wion fights but mug and steal fights.
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Joe has problems with the Straight Right... I have said this time and again, Gerald McClellan would have eaten him alive..Gerald was strong, quick and had a solid chin to go with very underrated technical ability... and Geralds Straightright hand put you to sleep period!!!
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southakron314
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Markusdarkus
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Originally Posted by
southakron314
RJJ prime not old and decrepide
Hopkins did win that fight so Hopkins.
Hagler
Pavlik
there is almost too many to list.
Greb , Robinson
Ray Lenord
Hearns.
Leonard, hearns, Pavlik (lol), Hopkins?
man you hate Joe Calzaghe.
No... I just no the best fighter he ever fought was a 43 year old man who beat him. I forgot Toney. Pavlik would eat him up and shit him out. No Enzo is saying Pavlikm is not worthy......hahahaha.......but Peter Manfredo is? What a joke this guy is. And so are you.
Calzaghe's past his prime but I'd say he'll still beat Pavlik, your sounding like a broken record with the Calzaghe bashing, kinda like a guy Northside who used to do the same. As for Pavlik would eat him up and shit him out, your making the guy out to be superman, he won a close fight in his last fight that could have gone either way, and the first fight he came within a whisker of been ko'your still bashing Calzaghe for not fighting Pavlik but I notice your man didn't take up the Kessler offer ;)
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Markusdarkus
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ICB
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Markusdarkus
Styles make fights, Hopkins would have opened up and been hit. The only way to beat Calzaghe is to let him lead whilst staying off the ropes. I think Taylor would be a tougher fight for Joe than Pavlik again styles.
Oh please you compared Hopkins to Skelton thats how much you know on Hopkins, if your such a big Calzaghe fan you would realize Calzaghe has struggled in rough fights before with Salem, Bika, Reid, etc which Hopkins was a master of in his prime and he even broke Glen Johnson's will. A young Hopkins was a punching machine and still had great skills to go along with it, the old Hopkins lost purely because he didn't have the work rate or the stamina to fight for the full 12 rounds which wasn't the case with the younger Hopkins, i suggest you do some homework on a younger Hopkins and don't just base him off a few of his older fights.
I have Hopkins career at home and he still doesnt beat Calzaghe the only version that had a chance was the version coming off his best B2B wins. People forget he took tarver to school and beat Winky in the two fights prior.
And i said i find Skelton and Hopkins the worst fighters to watch they dont try and wion fights but mug and steal fights.
are you kidding me? Hopkins would of beat joe decisively if he had the workrate to keep up with him but at 43 it just wasn't there and thats why the fight was close. A younger Hopkins would of threw more, landed more and would win a UD, and when you reply to this post actually reply with knowledge on why Calzaghe would beat a younger Hopkins.
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Both Hopkins and Roy Jones of the late 90's early 2000's would have destroyed Calzaghe.Calzaghe for me is overrated his major threat in 45 fights was Kessler other than that he took an easy route he never chased the big names like Hopkins and Jones and so on when they were in there primes he wouldn't even rematch Robin Reid who many thought beat Calzaghe and lets have it right he was basically beat by a 43 year old Hopkins it was his closest fight ever.
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ICB
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porkypara
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Originally Posted by
ICB
My list im not including really old boxers from the SRR's era.
Mike McCallum
Michael Nunn
James Toney
Roy Jones Jr
Herol Graham
Thomas Hearns
Michael Watson
Gerald McClellan
Just a quick list.
What did McClellan do at super middle?
Its not what he did this is a bad style match up for Calzaghe fact, i really find it hard for Calzaghe to survive the Gman's onslaught early.
The G mans biggest asset was his power.He was an ok boxer but he relyed on the power to get the job done.
Calzaghe has a great chin so that takes away McClellans best chance of winning.
How do you see McClellan winning this fight?:confused:
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In 45 fights these are the best he has fought.
Chris Eubank:
Who came in at short notice had to lose 11lbs in 7 days Eubanks was past his best but still gave Calzaghe a good fight one of his toughest in fact but this did show us what Calzaghe was made of.
Robin Reid:
Who in my eyes beat him alot of people thought so as well he should have at least got a rematch.
Omar Sheika:
Lets have it right this was a guy who got beat by Tony Booth for god sake.
Richie Woodhall:
A good fighter won a WBC world title at super middle but he nearly got beat by Glenn Catley many thought he did get beat.Then he got beat by Markus Beyer and lost his world title.Woodhall was a good fighter but just good not outstanding.
Charles Brewer:
This guy lost twice to Sven Ottke he had 8 losses before he got to Calzaghe and Calzaghe had some rough times in this fight and he should have KO'd Brewer in my opinion for it to be a impressive win.
Byron Mitchell:
A fairly good puncher won a world title vs Frankie Liles TKO11 but then went on in his first defence and drew with Bruno girard then lost it in his 2nd defence in a rematch vs Gerard.In his fight before Calzaghe lost vs Sven Ottke so it was a safe bet for Calzaghe to win.Calzaghe got dropped heavy but came back to KO mitchell a good win.
Jeff Lacy:
IBF Super Middleweight champ but well overrated and overhyped.He had good power but relied on it he had struggled vs Omar Sheika so more reason for Calzaghe to fight him.Since his loss to Calzaghe Lacy has still failed to impress vs Tsypko and Manfredo so proves to a certain degree he was overhyped.
Mikkel Kessler:
39-0 a good solid fighter number 2 in the world WBC/WBA world champ.A good competetive fight hat off to Calzaghe for this win.
Bernard Hopkins:
43 year old former middleweight champ ranked number 1 at light heavy i think Hopkins won as do many others .
I think calzaghe is overrated slightly i think people get caught up in the he's made 22 world title defences.yes he made 22 defences but went alot of easy routes to do it so could he beat a peak Hopkins or Jones or some of the other fighters alot of you have mentioned e.g G man,Toney and peak Eubank and so on the answer is NO!;);D
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Maybe your forgetting that Shieka was coming off a win over Glen Johnson and that Mitchell actually beat Ottke.