Quote Originally Posted by Violent Demise
Quote Originally Posted by WWatt
Quote Originally Posted by Violent Demise
Like if it would of ment something if he did. It would of been looked at the same way as when Brian Nielsen was closing in on Marciano's record. A joke.
When you've beaten everybody in sight from Eubank to Reid to Starie to Sheika to Woodhall to Veit to Brewer to Mitchell to Lacy, it's no joke.
Yeah, it is. Starie and Veit are garbage. Sheika and Woodhall are mediocre at best. Eubanks, Mitchell and Brewer were way past there primes. Lacy was overrated. Reid was at his best. And Calzaghe refused to give him a rematch after his SD win. As for beaten everybody in site? Where's the Sven Ottke, Roy Jones, Bernard Hopkins, Antonio Tarver fights? How come he never faught them? I would of even settled for Eric Harding, Glen Johnson, Dariusz Michaelwski or Montell Griffin. Why weren't any of those fights made? Let me guess, it was all there fault. Not Joe's. Joe's never at fault.
Okay, well lets look at this list VD. Some of them may be valid, some are certainly not. Sven Ottke retired undefeated, and that was his main aim by the time the Calzaghe star was reaching it''s Zenith, and he was not going to risk that record with a fight against Calzaghe. Antonio Tarver never fought at SMW, he's been an LH all his career, and if Calszaghe had gone after it, there wouldn't be this thread about records would there? While there was speculation about him going up, I think the decision was made some 3 years ago that the move would have to be late in his career to crown it as a two-weight champ. Hopkins spent most of his career, and it was a damn good one at middleweight, and until his second defeat by Taylor, there wasn't that much incentive for him to move up. RJJ hasn't fought at SMW since 96, do you think he could still get back down. Unless they agree to fight there, why would Joe put himself at the disadvantage of fighting him at an unfamiliar weight. It's all well and good saying the fight should be made, but since RJJ lost his LH titles, there's no incentive for Joe to go up. And at the end of the day, RJJ probably thinks he's the star and deserves a bigger cut, and the money would be hard to hammer out.

And for your reserves list, Griffin hasn't won a fight of note since 02, and again, he is a long term campaigner at LH. Harding, ditto. Michaelewski ditto. Why none of these chose to come down and challenge him at SMW, I can put forward no better reason than they probably couldn't make the weight. The only truly valid one that you have put forward is Glen Johnson, who agreed to fight Joe at SMW twice, and twice Calzaghe was injured. Coincidence or ducking the fight, unless there is evidence otherwise, I'll excuse Joe because of his brittle hands, but I understand why you would think otherwise. At the end of the day, Joe is a champion, and his best weight is quite obviously at SMW. You put forward a list as strong as the one you've got at LH for Joe at SMW, and then he'll have a case to answer. That's my POV, and you can slate him all you want, and no, Joe's never at fault often.....