Joe Calzaghe: Andre Ward is good but beatable

[littlebif]

Hopkins did have they skills to match calzaghe but he doesnt have the workrate and thats what won it for calzaghe.

[Gandalf]

Hopkins did have they skills to match calzaghe but he doesnt have the workrate and thats what won it for calzaghe.

The stamina and workrate is part of the skillset. Either you can throw that much or you can't. Calzaghe's output was an ability and you have to include it as one of his tools. Hopkins has never had it in him to throw a hundred punches in a round. It is one of the things that makes Calzaghe great.

[Manos de Piedra]

Ward's resume is already better than Calzaghe's and he's still got big fights and his prime left. Can't say if he's great yet need to see him for a few more years.

Every fighter in the history of the sport is beatable, it's just about styles.

[Gandalf]

Ward's resume is already better than Calzaghe's and he's still got big fights and his prime left. Can't say if he's great yet need to see him for a few more years.

Every fighter in the history of the sport is beatable, it's just about styles.

How is his resume better than Calzaghe's?

He has beaten two Calzaghe leftovers and has a bunch of middling fighters like Abraham, Miranda and Green. He could potentially have a better resume than that of Calzaghe, but at the same time where are the names he could fight? He has to fight Bute and then maybe move up and fight the likes of Dawson, Hopkins and Cloud, but as things stand I don't think his resume is better than Calzaghe's and people have selective amnesia when it comes to who Calzaghe fought in his early years as champ. People like Reid, Sheika, Eubank and Mitchell are every bit as significant as Abraham et al. Are we really going to suggest that Allan Green would have beaten even a shop worn Eubank? It is nonsense.

Wards resume is decent enough, but I don't see how it is superior to that of Calzaghe.