Quote Originally Posted by LondonBB View Post
And so it comes to pass that my exact prediction i made (on this site) is yet again coming into fruition

I predicted that joe beats kessler, people will still doubt him.

Then joe will beat hopkins, people will still doubt.

Then joe will beat pavlik and people will still hate and doubt.

Then joe will beat jones and people will still hate.

I think joe will fight both pavlik and jones. I think he will beat them both.

He will then retire with a record of 47,0,0 and the greatest fighter of this generation after having fought and won against the likes of mitchell, eubank, reid, lacy, kessler, hopkins, pavlik and jones.

Been totally undefeated for 11-12 years, undisputed champ at 2 weights and beaten everyone out there, on home shores and in usa.

And heres the funny bit...even after he does all this, people will hate on him, call him a slapper, brawler, no power blah blah...pmsl...WAKE UP...THIS IS JOE CALZAGHE 45,0,0 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT LOL.

Pmsl at the way people put roy jones ahead of calzaghe in the 'hall of fame super middleweight spot' when jones had all of 3 fights at that weight, and only 1 good fighter...yet joe is the champ for 11 whole years at that weight and beats everyone out there, good and bad but people dont put him as the hall of fame greatest supermiddleweight, its truly laughable and pittyful.

In the end i think joe is doing this for money. He will fight both jones and pavlik and beat them both.

I wonder what the excuse will be when he beats pavlik? Itll be the same as the excuse was about lacy and kessler.

The excuse about jones will be that hes a shadow of his former self (and he isnt as good as he once was either, i totally agree on that), but if joe beats him, the records show who is the best anyway. The records dont lie.

End of the day, joe will fight both and beat both, i think this iswhat will happen.

Id like to see him fight pavlik next, win that one in las vegas and then fight jones as a farewell (to both fighters) in cardiff with 70,000 fans watching live at the stadium...it will also be a world record number of fans for two legendary fighters finally facing each other...both fighters totally respect each other, it will almost be like rocky balboa vs appollo creed in the end of rocky 3 when they start boxing each other as friends and mutual respect in the ring. This fight shouldve happened years ago but it didnt, jones didnt want it, so let it happen as the pair of them's last fight.

I know 90% of people on the forum will want to see joe lose against pavlik and jones, but the fact is that YOU STILL DONT GET IT DO YOU LOL...Calzaghe wont lose because he is JOE CALZAGHE...He is the best.

Forget speed, power, stamina whatever, there is one thing that makes a boxer a true legend (ali had it, jones had it, robinson had it, leonard had it, hagler had it)...RINGCRAFT!

When someone has RINGCRAFT they can win a fight despite any other ability or lack of ability.

Like a footballer such as maradonna was so incredible, he had the craft, he could read the game and master the field.

Joe is the same, he overcame hopkins, someone else who posseses great craft in the ring but joe used his strongpoints to nullify hopkins and eventually took over.

Suprise suprise everyone wants him to lose...but suprise suprise even after he beats pavlik and jones and then has a list of:

47,0,0

Beaten:

mitchell
reid
eubank
lacy
kessler
hopkins
pavlik
jones

Undisputed champ for 12 years at 2 weights, ring magazine p4p number 1.

People will still doubt and hate

I know joe will fight pavlik, hes just doing this to make more money. Likewise hes gonna fight roy jones in cardiff aswell.

For any other fighter people start shouting 'no pavlik shouldnt face blah blah, hes not ready and has to prove himself first'...joe is the champ, joe is the one everyone wants to fight, so joe gets first choice. People arent queing to fight jones, pavlik, tarver etc, no one even gives a damn about chad dawson...they care about getting in the ring with joe calzaghe 45,0,0 undisputed ring mag champ at 2 weights for 11 whole years! Everyone wants to fight joe, just like roy jones jr could choose who he fights because everyone wanted to fight him...now it is joe calzaghe who is in that position, he is the great one, therefore he fights who he wants to fight.

When roy jones ducked calzaghe years ago, after calzaghe wanted to fight him (back in roys prime), where was all the criticism of roy jones? THERE WASNT ANY!

So why the double standard

Well...we know why the double standard, dont we? Because one word...'hate'...people love to hate calzaghe. Even though hes a v geniune and friendly guy, modest, well spoken and great for the sport...people hate him. Then you get a cocky arrogant foul mouthed money grabber called mayweather who isnt a particularly likeable guy and has very few fans who will follow him and pay to watch him in the stadium (they all follow hatton and de la hoya) but mayweather doesnt get stick on internet forums lol.

I think joe is playing the money game, he will fight both pavlik and jones, he wants to get the most money though, who can blame him afterall he is the 'in' commodity right now.

But even after he beats pavlik and jones, people will still hate and disrespect him.

However these peoplea opinions mean nothing, because the people who count are the ring magazine (i see people in here putting joe in at 7 or wherever in the top 10 p4p fighters, its laughable, they put cotto and pavlik higher lol)...the ring mag are who count, and the ring mag will give joe p4p number one and probably greatest fighter of the generation after he beats pavlik and jones...i couldnt care less what any internet armchair warrior thinks.

Great post !

saved me the job