Joe Calzaghe gets alot of hate.

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Byron mitchell is a 2X WBA SMW champ who beat ATG SMW #1 frankie Liles (something Ward is praised for doing)! Mitchell was rated in the ring mag SMW top ten for 5 years. Mitchell was 25-2 with 1 draw at the time he fought joe, his 2 losses were debateable decisions.

Eubank had just gone 1-1 with Steve Collins in most peoples minds before he fought Calzaghe, they were both toss ups the Collins fights. After Calzaghe he twice got hosed out of the CRUISERWEIGHT title, once by a bad decision and in the second one his opponent needed a KO to win because Eubank was so far infront...It got stopped because of swelling. Eubank was still an A-level fighter when he fought Joe, no doubt about that...As evidenced by his fight of the year (voted as FOTY on both sides of the pond) with the 'cat'. Eubank had just recently turned 31 when he faced Calzaghe. Eubank being shot is a haters myth, calzaghe had only been pro barely 4 years and comprehensively outboxed eubank flooring him twice, underrated win.

kessler Who put on a masterclass vs undefeated andrade, il enlighten you to andrade... he beat tito mendoza (who holds a win over the aforementioned keith holmes) beat otis grant, robert stieglitz, yusaf mack, vitaly tsypko, and was jobbed vs bute first time out!

-kessler also stopped cesar green in 1 round (green had a trilogy of fights with william joppy)

-kessler also easily beat anthony mundine, mundine schooled antwun echols and danny green (the guy tarver just beat

-Mundine is also the only man to defeat the talented and current IBF MW champ danny geale.

-In kesslers 3rd defence of his wba title he unified against wbc champ Beyer, beyer beat danny green twice and ritchie woodhall.

-kessler also beat former WBC champ eric lucas, lucas holds wins over vinny pazienza, glenn catley, omar sheika, segunda mercado and a draw with echols.

add to that wins over manny siaca and its a very impressive resume, he experienced a bit of a bump in the road with andre ward (that is still a tainted win for ward though considering kesslers eye injury, headbutts and his loss already to calzaghe) but redeemed himself with a win over froch.

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Brewer (who beat herol graham) lacy (who was favourite) bika (who gave ward his toughest ever fight and is looking at a title shot again soon) hopkins was humiliated, the jones comeback was emphatically ended (the same jones that had defeated trinidad, lacy, sheika, stole 5 rounds off of linear champ hopkins, in fact jones was even schooling lebedev before the stoppage!)! Sheika who beat glenn johnson, starie who beat clinton woods etc..

It is far from unimpressive.