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Eubank was way out of prime!

Theres always an excuse for every fighter. Wards team called out calzaghe and everyone knows jc will stay retired. It was just the cocky response jc made about he would have beaten ward if was still around.
Retired fighters can say anything!
The only retired fighter that could come back tomorrow and truly compete is lennox lewis (weak divison).
A guy who ducked no one.
Calzaghe didnt say he could beat him now, he said he would have beaten him.

Lewis would be shite now and he ducked Chris Byrd. He didnt want to go anywhere near him and I can remember the crap Lewis used to come out with that it would be a lion against a Byrd. He may well have flattened Byrd but I reckon he was scared of beingmade to look a fool by him.
Eubank was not shot, he was 31 ffs! What was tarver and hopkins 46/7 when dawson fought them?

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, The SD loss was in collins home town!!

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 v thompson was voted FOTY, hardly the mark of a shot fighter! He put em both down too, imagine what he would have dne to dawson!!

Eubank was still an A-level fighter when he fought Joe, no doubt about that, Eubank that Calzaghe beat knocks out dawson!

Eubank being shot is a haters myth, calzaghe had only been pro barely 4 years and comprehensively outboxed eubank flooring him twice, underrated win. IF ANYTHING CALZAGHE WAS GREEN!

As for lewis v byrd, lewis did not fight southpaws, he dropped the IBF belt rather than face byrd, that is fact! I dont think he was neccessarily ducking him but it was high risk low reward fight, byrd was not a marquee name and he had a habit of making fighters look bad! I think lewis probably avoided sanders though...and any idiot that thinks that lewis would make any impact if he came back now are clearly delusional fanboys, what is he nearly 50 and about 25 stone!! Wlad would make mincemeat of him...the likes of solis would make him look foolish too! Idiotic statement! None of the 90's fighters could make an impact in wlads era, mcall, tua, holy, tucker, briggs, mercer, golota, tyson, witherspoon, biggs, grant, maskaev, rahman, moorer, etc all got beat by klitschko opponents....

Fuckoff wiv that shit era crap, just because it doesn't fit your particular M.O doesn't mean its shit! The 90's mob couldn't even beat james toney lol...