I respect him anyway. No one can touch him at super middle - light heavy and everyone will see that tonight.

It's not his fault Lacy was hyped to be the next big thing. IMO if he wasn't as good that night and the fight was a bit closer he would have earned far more respect......because Lacy would have been fed another fighter to look good against (similar to reid, pemberton) and he would have kicked on and had his pick of Beyer or Berrio for another title.

As it happened Lacy was embarassed and he took such a beating that his next fight was a ten rounder.
I'm not going to say Lacy was exposed because thats harsh, Calzaghe was just awesome.

Now if Calzaghe makes mince meat of Kessler the exact same thing is going to happen. It's too easy using hindsight to come to the conclusion that Kessler was over rated and had padded his record with bums. That's what will happen if Calzaghe looks great tonight.

IMO calzaghe's record is padded with pointless fights but i can assure you he didn't handpick the opponents. Bigger fights fell through. For example he was ready to sign Hopkins before Hopkins' team demanded $6m instead of the agreed $3m. The other big fight that never happened was Roy Jones but to be honest Jones was never in Calzaghe's weight division when the fight could have possibly been made. Calzaghe has admitted that Jones would have been the only fighter he would have been worried by but he would have absolutely loved the challenge....it just never happened.

He's been pretty unfortunate with injuries as well and it's easy to get frustrated with him but it's not exactly his fault. It's not like he is wanting to pull out of these fights. When he pulls out he doesn't get a purse.

Jesus i've gone on a bit here

anyway the best conclusion for Calzaghe's would probably be an exciting and close'ish points win 116-112 ish....with Kessler putting on a decent showing