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**FinitoElDinamita** · 10-12-2011 01:40 AM

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**Dia bando** · 10-12-2011 07:35 AM

Thank's JT Rock it seem's to me Joe doe's get's a lot of stick, and i do think he has done a lot for boxing it a bit like Floyd some love some hate. The more people get into boxing the better it's good for us as fan's and good for the sport.

**JT Rock** · 10-12-2011 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by Dia bando

Thank's JT Rock it seem's to me Joe doe's get's a lot of stick, and i do think he has done a lot for boxing it a bit like Floyd some love some hate. The more people get into boxing the better it's good for us as fan's and good for the sport.

I used to slag off Calzaghe until he beat my boy Lacy down. I think he gets the flack from not fighting Jones and Hopkins until they are old. But hey aside from that he was a great champion did his thing and got out at the right time.

Now he prefers a bit of blow instead of Boxing

**Violent Demise** · 10-13-2011 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by Dia bando

Thank's JT Rock it seem's to me Joe doe's get's a lot of stick, and i do think he has done a lot for boxing it a bit like Floyd some love some hate. The more people get into boxing the better it's good for us as fan's and good for the sport.

Ok let's not get carried away. I can understand you being a big fan. Even a groupie. That's fine. But seriously what the fuck has Joe Calzaghe ever done for the sport of boxing? The man has always put his own interests first. Do I blame him for it? No. But facts are facts.

**Dia bando** · 10-13-2011 05:54 PM

I am just a fan and JOE is one of many fighter's, which i like not just JOE and in Wales he did have a big fan base. and he had been a boxer for many year's man and boy.You could not say he did not have a great record, and a lot of fan's,And if people dont like Joe that's up to them but just as i have a dislike for B Hopp it's no big deal.

**RohanKnight** · 10-13-2011 10:50 PM

I remembered the other guy who you'd have to rate above JC at SM - Nigel Benn. Man that guy was another level, he destroyed America's best when they were prime not when they were pensioned. And even though he lost to a prime Eubank, that Eubank was a LOT more dangerous back in his pre-Watson era than when the points win preferring one who fought JC. JC is lucky he wasnt around when he rose to the top in Britain, end of his undefeated record early on.

On the other hand maybe that wouldnt have happened, Joe might simply have waited till Nigel Benn was 40.

**Dia bando** · 10-14-2011 07:46 AM

I like Benn hell of good fighter but Joe would have beat him,Watson did out out box him so i would say just like the Lacy fight for Joe. And i do like Benn game as hell.

**RohanKnight** · 10-14-2011 09:53 AM

naaa Nigel Benn was something else at his prime. Watson was a clever boxer not a slappy chap, thats why he beat a young Benn - you couldnt beat Benn by slapping he would just storm right in and connect. But prime Benn would take down prime Watson. Lucky for JC he retired, if pensioners could drop him then Benn would have dropped him round after round.

But I have to agree that JC would have always had a longer career than Benn, as he has proved, he was a lot fitter for longer plus smarter in that sense that knew how to pick nobodies and elongate his title years rather than face the best from the beginning like Benn did. Benn would have already have fought RJJ, Bhop, Froch and Sven a decade ago, and at their peaks, if he had been born in JC's generation. No fear. A real man.