Joe Calzaghe gets alot of hate.

[Hulk]

Just to be clear:

At no point in Joe Calzaghes career could he have ever had the opportunity to fight James Toney, Roy Jones or Bhop at 168.

No theres an excuse for him not fighting every meaningful opponent if you are a big enough supporter of the man.

Just as there is plenty of reasons why he could have fought Roy Jones Jr. at light heavyweight well before Jones was a shell of his former self.

Its all perspective and who's corner you are in so theres no sense throwing a bunch of names out there of who he could have fought as they will all be shot down with excuses and various reasons as to why it wasn't Calzaghe's fault that he fought Mario Veit a half dozen times

What opponents could he have fought and why does this urban legend continue to have shelf life? There is no one he could have fought that he didn't unless you include Stieglitz lol prior to Kessler.

Funny how Sir Slappy absolutely destroyed the next coming in Lacy, later dismissed as a bum of course and then gave the heir apparent in Kessler a boxing lesson.

Dariusz Michelsweski, Sven Ottke, Antwun Echols, Marcus Beyer, Danny Green, Anthony Mundine. There's six missing from his resume that were reasonable options at one time.

Calzaghe would have been the favorite to beat nearly all of them and blame can be put on Ottke in particular for not fighting outside his home, but the fact remains that all six are missing from his record.

Theres always guys a great fighter could have fought and Calzaghe is no different.

And I never thought Lacy was a bum, I always liked him even after he was revealed as a one dimensional fighter.