Joe Calzaghe gets alot of hate.

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

SAKIO BIKA

When asked who the best fighter he fought is:

"calzaghe"

LENNOX ON JC:

"Joe has beaten everyone there is to beat and has nothing else to prove so I think he should retire."

DAVID HAYE ON JC:

"Very rarely do you get a guy with his kind of record retire on top form. Lennox Lewis showed you can walk away from the game and stay away from it. Roy Jones should have retired after he beat John Ruiz but he tainted his legacy by carrying on"

NIGEL BENN ON JC:

Asked whether Joe Calzaghe would have beaten Benn, Eubank, Collins and other greats from the era, Nigel Benn said:

“He might have beaten us all, who knows, we’ll never know.”

MARVIN HAGLER ON JC:

"I knew the first time I saw Calzaghe that he really had something, he went in there completely unfazed against (Chris) Eubank which nobody else had done. Eubank was the guy who usually seemed to have control of everything around him but the way Calzaghe went in there and manhandled him like that...

"I was watching it in Italy, it was the same night England beat Italy to qualify for the soccer World Cup.

"Calzaghe showed and proved power, speed, strength, workrate, stamina, chin, heart and every tangible and intangible that night and that's why I'm not suprised that he's not lost since.

"Sometimes it's like watching a welterweight or junior-middleweight in a super-middleweight's body because he's so nimble and sharp handed. I would never bet against him."

EUBANK ON JC:

"One of the greatest world champions in history and never had a hard fight. He got out with his face intact and plenty of money, one in a million."