Quote Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust View Post

KOs against who?? Anybody a Grade-A fighter? Name the great KOs. I mean seriously, Branko Sobat? Will McIntyre? Kabery Salem? Oh and my favourite of the lot, Tocker Pudwill! It makes me laugh when criticism of Calzaghe is lazily put down to "American jealousy". Could you imagine if the likes of Floyd Mayweather or Oscar De La Hoya had continuously defended their titles against opponents of the caliber of Pudwill and McIntyre? They would have been savaged by the US boxing media. quality challengers like Robin Reid (who he narrowly beat), and Byron Mitchell (who dropped him and should have easily finished him) were the exception rather than the rule. My point is: Where was the craving for the big fights and willingness to travel Stateside that Ricky Hatton had? This is what Calzaghe should have been doing. Going over to America and demanding the big fights, as well as dumping the weak WBO title. But, like I said earlier, Joe seemed happy just to stay at home and pick up easy paychecks.
And what about Marciano's ko ratio to quality ko's? How about Tyson? And again with the inference that he somehow ducked someone by staying at home. Who?

Great fighters get dropped all the time, have in the past and will continue to be. So what?

Give me an example of a fight that he should have made but didn't. Based on your testimony here today there ought to be several. I'm only asking for 1. There are only a handful of guys that might beat Joe at 168 in the history of the sport and none of them are fighting today save one that is a write off in Roy Jones. Calzaghe is a shoe in to the Hall.