Trinidad, DLH, and Calzaghe likely to be inducted into HOF in 2014

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How the fuck can you put Clazaghe in at the same time as ODLH who fought Trinidad, Vargas, Quartey, Hopkins, Mayweather, Chavez, Gatti, and a whole host of other great fighters.

What a load of shit. Calzaghe finished his career 46-0, dominated & won every world title in his division, beat Kessler, Hopkins, Eubank, Bika, Lacy (when you all thought he was the 2nd coming of Tyson). You can only beat what is in front of you and most americans were clammering for him to fight Dawson & Pavlik at the end of his career and both have been brutally exposed so you'd only be criticising his record still. Who didn't he fight? As far as skill goes, he one of the best naturally talented fighters to have graced the sport. I'm sure you'd be begging them to put a steroid cheat like Toney in when he's been retired for 5 years. Unbelievable.

I hate James Toney and no I dont think he should be in.

Roy Jones was 39 years and 10 months old when the Italian Dragon fought him.
Bernard Hopkins was 43 years and 6 months old "................................"
Peter Manfredo is a joke.
UD over Sakio Bika (avg. judge's scorecard 116-111)
UD over Kessler (avg. judge's scorecard116-112)
Jeff Lacy was an overhyped 1-dimensional fighter who built up his record fighting New Jersey club fighters like Anwar Oshana, Omar Sheika, etc. and anybody decent whipped his ass like Joe Calzaghe, Jermaine Taylor, etc.

How can you compare that with what Oscar did? Calzaghe never fought anybody like Vargas, Gatti, Mosely, Mayweather, Quartey, Chavez, Camacho, Trinidad, Mayorga. IN fact most of them would have blown him out.

But I like the way he threw slaps in bunches. He landed about 40 power punches in Rd. 1 against Byron Mitchell (yeah, true, 10 were rabbit punches and/or holding and hitting) and Mitchell was like "WTF? Is there a mosquito in here?"

Telling the same fibs over and over and over again does not equal truth. What it does equal is sincere delusion. Before he sparked out his hands he had one of the best ko %'s in boxing, dominated a weight class for a decade or more, never ducked anyone and would have been hell on earth for any fighter over the course of boxing history in the weight area including Jones.

Other then that, yeah he was pretty pedestrian.

Sven Otkke lmfao. You cant make up this shit.

KOs against who?? Anybody a Grade-A fighter? Name the great KOs. I mean seriously, Branko Sobat? Will McIntyre? Kabery Salem? Oh and my favourite of the lot, Tocker Pudwill! It makes me laugh when criticism of Calzaghe is lazily put down to "American jealousy". Could you imagine if the likes of Floyd Mayweather or Oscar De La Hoya had continuously defended their titles against opponents of the caliber of Pudwill and McIntyre? They would have been savaged by the US boxing media. quality challengers like Robin Reid (who he narrowly beat), and Byron Mitchell (who dropped him and should have easily finished him) were the exception rather than the rule. My point is: Where was the craving for the big fights and willingness to travel Stateside that Ricky Hatton had? This is what Calzaghe should have been doing. Going over to America and demanding the big fights, as well as dumping the weak WBO title. But, like I said earlier, Joe seemed happy just to stay at home and pick up easy paychecks.