Quote Originally Posted by LarryB
I always rated him but up until 5weeks ago there wasn’t a boxing site you could go onto that called him S***, a fraud or afraid of a challenge.

Now everyone rates him as a saviour just cos he beat lacy who was a bulked up slugger anyway

Steve Collins would have beaten the 2 of them
Larry or whoever you are, please tell me what you mean by saviour

The reason he is being spoken about in the highest regard right now is because of so many different reasons.

1. 99% of the boxing pundits had him being brutally KO'D

2. As you put he was seen as a protected bum, but if you looked closer at his ameateur and pro record you could see he was far from it.

3. He went into the fight as an underdog.

4.He produced a boxing lesson against a guy a lot of people thought was the next big thing in boxing.

5.There is a big British following on this forum.

I could go on and on and on, but they are the main reasons, and why did Steve Collins not fight Joe in 1997?? Then he was shouting his mouth off in 1999 that he was coming back to beat Joe's arse what happened to that?

Steve Collins was a game fighter but did not have the same class as Joe Calzaghe.