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Quote Originally Posted by Jimboogie View Post
Ice Cold Boxing... I don't disagree with anything in your rant bar the word farce.

Yes Calzaghe has beaten a lot of overrated and underwhelming fighters. But he was the man at 168 for a decade and then BEAT Bernard Hopkins on top of that.

I just fail to see what is farcical about that? Who are you gonna tell me has been a more accomplished, more talented fighter at 168?

But don't get me wrong, i feel like the super-middle weight division has entered a new era, post Calzaghe, were a couple of brilliant fighters have arrived. So we'll see.
The reason Joe Calzaghe is the best Super Middleweight, is because most of the top American fighters used the division. As a stepping stone like RJJ, James Toney. And also because the best of our British fighters had retired, which isn't Joe Calzaghe's fault. But as i said he could of moved up, considering he always said he found it hard to make 168.

And also because the Super Middleweight division, is a pretty new division isn't it ? didn't it only become a serious division in the late 1980s ? i know the division was made in the 1960s or something, but i thought it only become a serious division in the late 1980s.

Either way my point still stands, and as for fighters that were more talented than Joe Calzaghe at 168.

Roy Jones Jr
James Toney
Michael Nunn
Michael Watson = Debatable
So why didn't Hopkins step up when he was 30? Why should Calzaghe have stepped up? You offer no reason why. He offered to fight Hopkins, we know Hopkins withdrew wanting more money.

Is Calzaghe to blame for this? You offer 4 fighters at 168 that you say are better than Calzaghe and offer no reason why. All 4 are debatable with a lot of bad days between them.

More talented than=your opinion on a forum.....quite a tacky concept too if I might add.