What Past Boxers Could Have Beat Joe Calzaghe ??

[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.

[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.

[bikersk]

Les Darcy would have slaughtered him.

[sonny78]

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

[CGM]

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.

[GAME]

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.

[Thread Stealer]

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.

[yvonne]

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!!!"

[feeney]

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.

[Markusdarkus]

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.

[Pugilistic]

Prime Hopkins

[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.

[Markusdarkus]

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.

[Poom]

err Herol Graham ? Dont think so...

People so hard on Calzaghe ,

[ICB]

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 ??