Cal\aghe v kessler : No winner?

[Preme]

after all the drama and soap story lines, it's my thinking that when this fight finaly takes place (it will!) that there will be no winner...

warren and palle have worked harder than ever before to fuck this fight up and get everythign they want on their terms to get the msot money and power for them selves, warren knows calzaghe has only a few fights elft and wants to cash in, palle knows he as a promoter has onyl a few fights elft and wants to cash in...

honestly neither promo give a shat about their fighter and have made this fight such a mess that by the time one guy is elft standing the resty of the boxing world will turn to the losses and slate them..

kessler wins it will be "haha calzaghe is crap, i been telling you all for ages he was overrated bla bla and looked what happend when he finaly got in the ring with a good fighter who had to drag him in"

Calzaghe wins "kessler is overrated and been ducking calzaghe for years... they had to go there to get the fight FFS" etc etc

Its a fight that needs to happen, but i think the aftermath of the fight will kill what should be one of the biggest ever fights at SMW and one of the biggest fights of the 2007!

[gudnite vienna]

i would back calzaghe to win, but i know for a fact that if he does, there will be alot of people on this forum saying Kessler was'nt a top class oppenent and was unproven against top fighters.

Calzaghe can do no right in some people's eyes, which is sad because he's top #5 fighters to come out of the UK.

[Gandalf]

i would back calzaghe to win, but i know for a fact that if he does, there will be alot of people on this forum saying Kessler was'nt a top class oppenent and was unproven against top fighters.

Calzaghe can do no right in some people's eyes, which is sad because he's top #5 fighters to come out of the UK.

A majority of the forum members here were saying that Lacy would beat Calzaghe. Lacy was on a roll of hype and many were along for the ride. The fight then happened and Calzaghe beat him in the most one sided manner possible. Lacy has not been the same since. Most of Calzaghe's opponents havent been the same since they've taken a good slapping! And yet within a matter of months after the jubilation had worn down it was decided that Lacy wasnt quite the real deal and was indeed overrated. Overrated by whom exactly?? The bookies must have slipped up by giving Lacy such a huge shot and a vast number of forum members here must have been hoodwinked by sheer propaganda and screens and mirrors!

A large number of people on here have again been crawling out to attack Calzaghe. He is a chicken! He fights only bums! If he doesnt face Kessler then he is a coward! So that means those same people are actually rating Kessler then? Rating him on what? Beating the mighty Andrade? Mundine? Or even the whirlwind himself...Markus Beyer!!!

I think this fight will go ahead and the fans will get the treat they deserved. A decent fight between the best 2 the division has to offer. Kessler has a few "decent" names on his record but has shown little to suggest to me he will beat Calzaghe on skills alone. Does anyone really think Calzaghe wouldnt have beaten any of the fighters Kessler has beaten? Im not going to go into an analysis of how I think Calzaghe: Kessler might go but I am going to suggest that once the hoo ha has died down and if Calzaghe does indeed beat Kessler, that the same critics will once again crawl out and say that Calzaghe beat a green opponent! He beat a guy with flaws! A guy who wasnt Jones or Hopkins (even though they are old and never wanted a fight in the first place anyways!)....

You are damned if you do and you are damned if you dont! Boxing fans can be a fickle bunch!

[ICB]

i would back calzaghe to win, but i know for a fact that if he does, there will be alot of people on this forum saying Kessler was'nt a top class oppenent and was unproven against top fighters.

Calzaghe can do no right in some people's eyes, which is sad because he's top #5 fighters to come out of the UK.

A majority of the forum members here were saying that Lacy would beat Calzaghe. Lacy was on a roll of hype and many were along for the ride. The fight then happened and Calzaghe beat him in the most one sided manner possible. Lacy has not been the same since. Most of Calzaghe's opponents havent been the same since they've taken a good slapping! And yet within a matter of months after the jubilation had worn down it was decided that Lacy wasnt quite the real deal and was indeed overrated. Overrated by whom exactly?? The bookies must have slipped up by giving Lacy such a huge shot and a vast number of forum members here must have been hoodwinked by sheer propaganda and screens and mirrors!

A large number of people on here have again been crawling out to attack Calzaghe. He is a chicken! He fights only bums! If he doesnt face Kessler then he is a coward! So that means those same people are actually rating Kessler then? Rating him on what? Beating the mighty Andrade? Mundine? Or even the whirlwind himself...Markus Beyer!!!

I think this fight will go ahead and the fans will get the treat they deserved. A decent fight between the best 2 the division has to offer. Kessler has a few "decent" names on his record but has shown little to suggest to me he will beat Calzaghe on skills alone. Does anyone really think Calzaghe wouldnt have beaten any of the fighters Kessler has beaten? Im not going to go into an analysis of how I think Calzaghe: Kessler might go but I am going to suggest that once the hoo ha has died down and if Calzaghe does indeed beat Kessler, that the same critics will once again crawl out and say that Calzaghe beat a green opponent! He beat a guy with flaws! A guy who wasnt Jones or Hopkins (even though they are old and never wanted a fight in the first place anyways!)....

You are damned if you do and you are damned if you dont! Boxing fans can be a fickle bunch!

Lacy was never elite he struggled against Omar Sheika and few others aswell Sheika fight told me he wasn't elite i thought he would give Calzaghe a harder fighter but i knew Lacy wasn't elite and i don't see why with hindsight that we can't say Lacy was overrated on other hand Kessler is solid boxer good all round skills never really struggled with anyone he basically beats most of his opponents one sided i can see Kessler is elite and if Calzaghe beats him he will get my respect and you won't here no complaints here.

[killersheep]

I vote that we don't have any more Calzaghe / Kessler threads until it's signed in blood.

[Trainer Monkey]

Similar opinion to Ices
Everybody knows whose 1 and 2 right now(flip flop them as you wish)there are no doubts,and no questions about it at this point.
Now just fight damnit,and prove whose 1,one way or the other

[Gandalf]

i would back calzaghe to win, but i know for a fact that if he does, there will be alot of people on this forum saying Kessler was'nt a top class oppenent and was unproven against top fighters.

Calzaghe can do no right in some people's eyes, which is sad because he's top #5 fighters to come out of the UK.

A majority of the forum members here were saying that Lacy would beat Calzaghe. Lacy was on a roll of hype and many were along for the ride. The fight then happened and Calzaghe beat him in the most one sided manner possible. Lacy has not been the same since. Most of Calzaghe's opponents havent been the same since they've taken a good slapping! And yet within a matter of months after the jubilation had worn down it was decided that Lacy wasnt quite the real deal and was indeed overrated. Overrated by whom exactly?? The bookies must have slipped up by giving Lacy such a huge shot and a vast number of forum members here must have been hoodwinked by sheer propaganda and screens and mirrors!

A large number of people on here have again been crawling out to attack Calzaghe. He is a chicken! He fights only bums! If he doesnt face Kessler then he is a coward! So that means those same people are actually rating Kessler then? Rating him on what? Beating the mighty Andrade? Mundine? Or even the whirlwind himself...Markus Beyer!!!

I think this fight will go ahead and the fans will get the treat they deserved. A decent fight between the best 2 the division has to offer. Kessler has a few "decent" names on his record but has shown little to suggest to me he will beat Calzaghe on skills alone. Does anyone really think Calzaghe wouldnt have beaten any of the fighters Kessler has beaten? Im not going to go into an analysis of how I think Calzaghe: Kessler might go but I am going to suggest that once the hoo ha has died down and if Calzaghe does indeed beat Kessler, that the same critics will once again crawl out and say that Calzaghe beat a green opponent! He beat a guy with flaws! A guy who wasnt Jones or Hopkins (even though they are old and never wanted a fight in the first place anyways!)....

You are damned if you do and you are damned if you dont! Boxing fans can be a fickle bunch!

Lacy was never elite he struggled against Omar Sheika and few others aswell Sheika fight told me he wasn't elite i thought he would give Calzaghe a harder fighter but i knew Lacy wasn't elite and i don't see why with hindsight that we can't say Lacy was overrated on other hand Kessler is solid boxer good all round skills never really struggled with anyone he basically beats most of his opponents one sided i can see Kessler is elite and if Calzaghe beats him he will get my respect and you won't here no complaints here.

Fair play to you, Ice Cold and for being the first to respond to my posting.

Do you not see yourself seeing Kessler from the same perspective that other fans were seeing Lacy prior to the Calzaghe: Lacy fight? Lacy had beaten good fighters. He had difficulties but they were overlooked. Do you really see any flaws in Kessler? Other forum posters have indeed highlighted them. His workrate, his need to be in the groove to run smoothly, how he holds his other hand down after the jab is thrown. Did anyone stop Robin Reid like lacy did? Did you predict he would be stopped so easily? A guy that took Calzaghe to his closest decision. I bet that Robin Reid would beat the Beyer that Kessler beat too. But would Reid stop Kessler? Possibly not. But he would have lasted longer than against Lacy perhaps. See, its all tangibles.

Kessler is in the elite? Why, did he stop Calzaghes toughest opponent? He has beaten a journeyman with a chin (Andrade), an old man (Beyer) and Mundine (Who cares?). Nothing is to suggest he is the elite. He is overrated big time and Calzaghe will get stick if it turns out as I think it will. Maybe not from you, but from others!

This fight will happen, and I cannot wait!

[ICB]

i would back calzaghe to win, but i know for a fact that if he does, there will be alot of people on this forum saying Kessler was'nt a top class oppenent and was unproven against top fighters.

Calzaghe can do no right in some people's eyes, which is sad because he's top #5 fighters to come out of the UK.

A majority of the forum members here were saying that Lacy would beat Calzaghe. Lacy was on a roll of hype and many were along for the ride. The fight then happened and Calzaghe beat him in the most one sided manner possible. Lacy has not been the same since. Most of Calzaghe's opponents havent been the same since they've taken a good slapping! And yet within a matter of months after the jubilation had worn down it was decided that Lacy wasnt quite the real deal and was indeed overrated. Overrated by whom exactly?? The bookies must have slipped up by giving Lacy such a huge shot and a vast number of forum members here must have been hoodwinked by sheer propaganda and screens and mirrors!

A large number of people on here have again been crawling out to attack Calzaghe. He is a chicken! He fights only bums! If he doesnt face Kessler then he is a coward! So that means those same people are actually rating Kessler then? Rating him on what? Beating the mighty Andrade? Mundine? Or even the whirlwind himself...Markus Beyer!!!

I think this fight will go ahead and the fans will get the treat they deserved. A decent fight between the best 2 the division has to offer. Kessler has a few "decent" names on his record but has shown little to suggest to me he will beat Calzaghe on skills alone. Does anyone really think Calzaghe wouldnt have beaten any of the fighters Kessler has beaten? Im not going to go into an analysis of how I think Calzaghe: Kessler might go but I am going to suggest that once the hoo ha has died down and if Calzaghe does indeed beat Kessler, that the same critics will once again crawl out and say that Calzaghe beat a green opponent! He beat a guy with flaws! A guy who wasnt Jones or Hopkins (even though they are old and never wanted a fight in the first place anyways!)....

You are damned if you do and you are damned if you dont! Boxing fans can be a fickle bunch!

Lacy was never elite he struggled against Omar Sheika and few others aswell Sheika fight told me he wasn't elite i thought he would give Calzaghe a harder fighter but i knew Lacy wasn't elite and i don't see why with hindsight that we can't say Lacy was overrated on other hand Kessler is solid boxer good all round skills never really struggled with anyone he basically beats most of his opponents one sided i can see Kessler is elite and if Calzaghe beats him he will get my respect and you won't here no complaints here.

Fair play to you, Ice Cold and for being the first to respond to my posting.

Do you not see yourself seeing Kessler from the same perspective that other fans were seeing Lacy prior to the Calzaghe: Lacy fight? Lacy had beaten good fighters. He had difficulties but they were overlooked. Do you really see any flaws in Kessler? Other forum posters have indeed highlighted them. His workrate, his need to be in the groove to run smoothly, how he holds his other hand down after the jab is thrown. Did anyone stop Robin Reid like lacy did? Did you predict he would be stopped so easily? A guy that took Calzaghe to his closest decision. I bet that Robin Reid would beat the Beyer that Kessler beat too. But would Reid stop Kessler? Possibly not. But he would have lasted longer than against Lacy perhaps. See, its all tangibles.

Kessler is in the elite? Why, did he stop Calzaghes toughest opponent? He has beaten a journeyman with a chin (Andrade), an old man (Beyer) and Mundine (Who cares?). Nothing is to suggest he is the elite. He is overrated big time and Calzaghe will get stick if it turns out as I think it will. Maybe not from you, but from others!

This fight will happen, and I cannot wait!

back Kessler has had tons more fights than Lacy i don't see why anyone would call Kessler overrated if Calzaghe beat him if they do then there just haters i see flaws in Lacy in which told me he wasn't elite Kessler to me is real deal i think everyone recognizes Kessler is the man Calzaghe needs to beat and if people start saying he was overrated if Calzaghe beats him then they are hypocrites.

[Gandalf]

Fair play, Ice. All we need now is just for the fight to happen. Im sure it will, just a few more days now for it to be announced. It will be great!

[ICB]

Fair play, Ice. All we need now is just for the fight to happen. Im sure it will, just a few more days now for it to be announced. It will be great!

I haven't heard news for a while was wondering when they were going to announce it.

[Gandalf]

Fair play, Ice. All we need now is just for the fight to happen. Im sure it will, just a few more days now for it to be announced. It will be great!

I haven't heard news for a while was wondering when they were going to announce it.

Last I heard it was to be announced in the next 2 days. Fingers crossed!

[yoitsdan]

Sometimes when there's too much talk, the fights just don't come through, it seems like it's so close to being made, but when you have 2 promoters who will do anything to protect their prize assets from losing, it's always going to be difficult. I'm just crossing everything that this comes off.

[p4pking]

i would back calzaghe to win, but i know for a fact that if he does, there will be alot of people on this forum saying Kessler was'nt a top class oppenent and was unproven against top fighters.

Calzaghe can do no right in some people's eyes, which is sad because he's top #5 fighters to come out of the UK.

A majority of the forum members here were saying that Lacy would beat Calzaghe. Lacy was on a roll of hype and many were along for the ride. The fight then happened and Calzaghe beat him in the most one sided manner possible. Lacy has not been the same since. Most of Calzaghe's opponents havent been the same since they've taken a good slapping! And yet within a matter of months after the jubilation had worn down it was decided that Lacy wasnt quite the real deal and was indeed overrated. Overrated by whom exactly?? The bookies must have slipped up by giving Lacy such a huge shot and a vast number of forum members here must have been hoodwinked by sheer propaganda and screens and mirrors!

A large number of people on here have again been crawling out to attack Calzaghe. He is a chicken! He fights only bums! If he doesnt face Kessler then he is a coward! So that means those same people are actually rating Kessler then? Rating him on what? Beating the mighty Andrade? Mundine? Or even the whirlwind himself...Markus Beyer!!!

I think this fight will go ahead and the fans will get the treat they deserved. A decent fight between the best 2 the division has to offer. Kessler has a few "decent" names on his record but has shown little to suggest to me he will beat Calzaghe on skills alone. Does anyone really think Calzaghe wouldnt have beaten any of the fighters Kessler has beaten? Im not going to go into an analysis of how I think Calzaghe: Kessler might go but I am going to suggest that once the hoo ha has died down and if Calzaghe does indeed beat Kessler, that the same critics will once again crawl out and say that Calzaghe beat a green opponent! He beat a guy with flaws! A guy who wasnt Jones or Hopkins (even though they are old and never wanted a fight in the first place anyways!)....

You are damned if you do and you are damned if you dont! Boxing fans can be a fickle bunch!

You make a good arguement Miles, but I don't think it's fair to draw a dead comparison between people giving Lacy a great chance against Joe and now giving Kessler a good shot and hyping him up... The thing is, hindsight works in two ways here.. I think it is valid to say that Lacy wasn't as good as many had thought, as well as that he hadn't beaten fighters as good as Kessler has(that has nothing to do with hinsight really).. Mundine, Andrade, and Beyer may not be p4p guys, but they were definetly a step up from an old Robin Reid and Scott Pemberton, who were really Lacy's only two impressive wins prior to fighting Joe. The other side of it is, that we now know how good Calzaghe IS at the present time, and what he can do in big fights, again thanks to hinsight. If Joe had put on a performance as great as he did against Lacy, and against someone who had been so hyped up, prior to fighting Jeff, I think it's very safe to say those people wouldn't have been nearly as confident in Lacy's chances to beat Joe. Wheras now, people know what Calzaghe is capable of doing in the ring, and he's gotten his dues, yet people STILL rate Kesslers chances at beating him very highly, simply because Mikkel has also shown great things recently, and has never really struggled with an opponent. Go ahead and watch Lacy's fights against Omar Sheika, Rubin Williams, Syd Vanderpool, or Donnel Wiggins. He had SEVERE troubles in all of those fights, and they certainly were overlooked... But that wasn't due to anything he did, or rather corrected.. Kessler is a much better fighter than Lacy ever was, and if people don't see that now, or deny it after the fight then fine, but you've got to ask what their opinion is really worth in the first place.

[Wacko3205]

i would back calzaghe to win, but i know for a fact that if he does, there will be alot of people on this forum saying Kessler was'nt a top class oppenent and was unproven against top fighters.

Calzaghe can do no right in some people's eyes, which is sad because he's top #5 fighters to come out of the UK.

A majority of the forum members here were saying that Lacy would beat Calzaghe. Lacy was on a roll of hype and many were along for the ride. The fight then happened and Calzaghe beat him in the most one sided manner possible. Lacy has not been the same since. Most of Calzaghe's opponents havent been the same since they've taken a good slapping! And yet within a matter of months after the jubilation had worn down it was decided that Lacy wasnt quite the real deal and was indeed overrated. Overrated by whom exactly?? The bookies must have slipped up by giving Lacy such a huge shot and a vast number of forum members here must have been hoodwinked by sheer propaganda and screens and mirrors!

A large number of people on here have again been crawling out to attack Calzaghe. He is a chicken! He fights only bums! If he doesnt face Kessler then he is a coward! So that means those same people are actually rating Kessler then? Rating him on what? Beating the mighty Andrade? Mundine? Or even the whirlwind himself...Markus Beyer!!!

I think this fight will go ahead and the fans will get the treat they deserved. A decent fight between the best 2 the division has to offer. Kessler has a few "decent" names on his record but has shown little to suggest to me he will beat Calzaghe on skills alone. Does anyone really think Calzaghe wouldnt have beaten any of the fighters Kessler has beaten? Im not going to go into an analysis of how I think Calzaghe: Kessler might go but I am going to suggest that once the hoo ha has died down and if Calzaghe does indeed beat Kessler, that the same critics will once again crawl out and say that Calzaghe beat a green opponent! He beat a guy with flaws! A guy who wasnt Jones or Hopkins (even though they are old and never wanted a fight in the first place anyways!)....

You are damned if you do and you are damned if you dont! Boxing fans can be a fickle bunch!

Lacy was never elite he struggled against Omar Sheika and few others aswell Sheika fight told me he wasn't elite i thought he would give Calzaghe a harder fighter but i knew Lacy wasn't elite and i don't see why with hindsight that we can't say Lacy was overrated on other hand Kessler is solid boxer good all round skills never really struggled with anyone he basically beats most of his opponents one sided i can see Kessler is elite and if Calzaghe beats him he will get my respect and you won't here no complaints here.

Sorry ICB.

That statement is a bit incorrect. Lacy was never OFFICIALLY ELITE because he hadn't worked his way up the entire ladder but for a fighter with 20 some odd fights he was ranked #2 in the division & he dispatched game names & also some of Calzaghe's prior foes.

Lacy was worth the hype & was a solid fighter with a drive to the top...he just hit a roadblock when he faced the best.

Lacy will never be the same...never.

I say to this day that Joe ruined him with that performance.

Go back & check the rankings...Lacy was the top man in the division...over Kessler & was expected to TKO Joe by many boxing fans & respected scribes.

[ICB]

Wacko Lacy was never elite as P4P said he struggled with Sheika and others who are far from elite i don't care where he was rated or how much hype he got but he was never elite.