Team Ward dare Joe Calzaghe to come out of retirement

[Dropanuke]

Ward chose to slow down.

Wrong!! Ward was all over the place when froch caught him with a jab in like the tenth round. In round 12 froch was jogging to close the gap and ward was running like dirrell.

[ross]

Ward chose to slow down.

Wrong!! Ward was all over the place when froch caught him with a jab in like the tenth round. In round 12 froch was jogging to close the gap and ward was running like dirrell.

Watch the last 2 rounds against Bika. Its embarrasing...

[erics44]

ward and dawson was a rubbish fight, for the two "best" their their divisions

I didnt watch it live, i ended up forwarding most of it

if calzaghe fought ward it would be another sh!t fight

someone needs to stop the holding

[TheMacMagician]

Wards team are clutching at straws trying for a Calzaghe fight. Ridiculous. Shows how much they rate their opposition at SMW and LHW.

Rather than thinking about Calzaghe, Ward needs to do two things:

1. Fight outside of Oakland.

2. Fight a Light Heavyweight AT Light Heavyweight.

Next Ward will be offering Martinez a fight at 168 or Bernard Hopkins a fight at 168.

Ward has really grown on me though. Quality on Saturday. Was really disappointed in Dawson though, poor show.

Ward beats Calzaghe IMO.

[ross]

Wards team are clutching at straws trying for a Calzaghe fight. Ridiculous. Shows how much they rate their opposition at SMW and LHW.

Rather than thinking about Calzaghe, Ward needs to do two things:

1. Fight outside of Oakland.

2. Fight a Light Heavyweight AT Light Heavyweight.

Next Ward will be offering Martinez a fight at 168 or Bernard Hopkins a fight at 168.

Ward has really grown on me though. Quality on Saturday. Was really disappointed in Dawson though, poor show.

Ward beats Calzaghe IMO.

Yep, the win doesnt mean alot, especially when you consider that Pascal already beat him at his own weight, when he had a bit more ambition and was undefeated.

Look at the Bika fight and the Kessler fight. Calzaghe beat both by fighting. Ward had to hold on or be stopped against Bika and had to smash his head in to Kesslers face a fair few times as well.

Calzaghe got the fresher versions nad his fights against them were infinately more watchable.

[Beanflicker]

You can say what you want about Calzaghe and his opposition (it wasn't great, let's be real), but the guy is 40 years old and hasn't fought in 4 years.

I really don't see how beating Calzaghe at this point proves anything for Ward.

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

That's very big of ward! Calling out a retired 40 yr old! Jones is still fighting andre try him!

Dawson was overrated to fuck...pascal whooped him and he was lucky to get the nod vs johnson first time round! He barely beat diaconu too....

All this fight proved to me was that sakio bika is underrated and chad dawson is a quit job! Floored by ward 3 times then quits!! Ward couldn't even stop edison miranda and bika was bullying him ffs! Abraham had him going into turtle mode.

[Kirkland Laing]

Easy win for SuperJoe if he wants to make a comeback but probably won't have any motivation to fight Ward.

Seriously, expecting a 40 year old to make 168 for the first time in six years when he was struggling to make the weight even back then. Maybe Ward just wants to find out what it's like fighting in front of a sell-out crowd.

[ross]

Easy win for SuperJoe if he wants to make a comeback but probably won't have any motivation to fight Ward.

Seriously, expecting a 40 year old to make 168 for the first time in six years when he was struggling to make the weight even back then. Maybe Ward just wants to find out what it's like fighting in front of a sell-out crowd.

Hahahahahaha!

That is thebest reply in this thread!

Maybe he will call out Mayweather next?

[ninjaspy3]

Nonsense, all of you.

Calzaghe will stay retired if he knows what's good for him.

[ross]

Nonsense, all of you.

Calzaghe will stay retired if he knows what's good for him.

Well what better name for Ward to cement his legacy than the undefeated greatest super middle of all time Sven Ottke instead.....

[porkypara]

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

Zaghers is a legend, beat a better version of kessler than both ward and froch fought! And cleanlly too! Sakio bika when asked recently who the best fighter he has fought is said 'Joe CALZAGHE'! Kessler reckon's calzaghe is the best fighter he fought too!

The calzaghe that dominated eubank beats any version of ward, the eubank win was more a impressive performance and eubank is a more impressive fighter than dawson, Dawson looked ok outboxing 45 yr olds but come on.....The dawson that showed up against ward was clearly very beatable, i can't say that for eubank the eubank that joe fought!

[shza]

Wards team are clutching at straws trying for a Calzaghe fight. Ridiculous. Shows how much they rate their opposition at SMW and LHW.

Rather than thinking about Calzaghe, Ward needs to do two things:

1. Fight outside of Oakland.

2. Fight a Light Heavyweight AT Light Heavyweight.

Next Ward will be offering Martinez a fight at 168 or Bernard Hopkins a fight at 168.

Ward has really grown on me though. Quality on Saturday. Was really disappointed in Dawson though, poor show.

Ward beats Calzaghe IMO.

Yep, the win doesnt mean alot, especially when you consider that Pascal already beat him at his own weight, when he had a bit more ambition and was undefeated.

Look at the Bika fight and the Kessler fight. Calzaghe beat both by fighting. Ward had to hold on or be stopped against Bika and had to smash his head in to Kesslers face a fair few times as well.

Calzaghe got the fresher versions nad his fights against them were infinately more watchable.

What a joke! Beating the #1 guy in the division, who was on everyone's top 10 p4p list "doesn't mean a lot"? Do you honestly think Ward would have lost if the fight had been at 175? Dawson was 185 in the ring (to Ward's 176) anyway.

The Pascal fight was a fluke. Dawson lost the fight, Pascal didn't beat him (and Pascal was a round from getting KO'd when the fight was stopped); by contrast, Ward beat the hell out of Dawson. Are you really trying to imply that Pascal would beat Ward at 175? Or even be competitive? This is the guy who lost (twice, really) to the twice-as-old version of Ward.

What fight at light heavyweight is competitive for Ward? Pascal and Cloud are a step below Dawson (Cloud is probably two steps below Dawson), whom Ward has already dominated.

To each his own on "fun-to-watch" styles. Personally, I was never into the Calzaghe slap-fest show.

[shza]

Ward chose to slow down.

Wrong!! Ward was all over the place when froch caught him with a jab in like the tenth round. In round 12 froch was jogging to close the gap and ward was running like dirrell.

What a nuthugger. Try that again without ignoring that Ward had been fighting with a broken hand for many rounds at that point. Even putting that aside, no one outside of British nuthuggers thinks the Froch fight was remotely close. The guy has a big heart and takes every challenge and deserves huge respect for that -- but he is and always has been a very crude fighter. Would Ward have been dominated for 10 rounds by Jermain Taylor? Don't think so.

In Ward, Froch came up against a guy who had just as much heart, will to win, and confidence as he did, but had world-class talent to boot. Same result every time.