Quote Originally Posted by wacko3205
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Quote Originally Posted by Mickey Gomez
Joe Calzaghe has comprehensively proven himself to be one of the best boxer's of his generation (he already was in my book). The people who lit up forums and blogs with their comments about Joe being a slapper, a ducker etc etc should now finally recognise Joe for what he is.

Tonights fight was won on skill, people talked about Kessler's power as if it was something that would decide the fight, power doesn't win fights, speed doesn't win fights, skill wins fights. Joe has bags of boxing skill and imho is second only to Mayweather in pound for pound boxing ability.

Well done Joe

I would say he is a better overall fighter than mayweather. Mayweather is a great defensive fighter, has tremendous reflexes and speed and his offense is not really worth talking about, doesn't throw combinations, doesn't jab much, his best punch which he uses is right hand leads and his chin is untested. Joe can box, brawl, counterpunch, control the ring, has fast hands, power and a very good chin which was tested numerous times tonight.
While I do think that Joe Calzaghe is the shit...I sure as hell wouldn't put him into the same bracket as Floyd.
Well Wacks I was beging to think about Joes skills a while a go and while agree his defense is miles from Floyd I think as an overall view Joe is very well up there with him I mean Joe more then makes up for it with his offense and the way he uses the ring dodging punches hands on the side a la RJJ winding the punches and countering. His jab was something else tonight and hes shown tonight that his skills exceed more then what we had seen.