Quote Originally Posted by Lyle
I didn't say Veit was bad...that was one of his better fights....Echols would have been a good fight for Joe too

Here are the guys Calzaghe SHOULD NOT have fought

Bika - Joe is old and should only go after SUPER FIGHTS
Kadberry Saleem
Mger Mkrtchian
Tocker Pudwill
Miguel Angel Jiminez
Rick Thornberry
I'm just going off the top of my head, but at least two of those fights were mandatories for Joe. Thornberry built up a decent record down in Oz, and he became the the mandatory. The others, I believe Jimenez, and Mkrtchian were also mandatory. And as for Saleem, he had a bad rep as a dirty roughhouse fighter, and, Joe did need to prove he could do more than box, he could mix it with the cheating buggers as well. Pudwill was a bum, and just a keeping busy fight. Same as I believe the Bika fight is.