Joe Calzaghe under the micoscope

[Fenster]

That looks an impressive record by anyone standards.

He's beaten an all-time great fighter (Hopkins) and a great supermiddle (Eubank), unified against a couple of unbeaten prime fighters (Kessler and Lacy), beaten a handful of proven "world" champs (Reid, Brewer, Woodhall, Mitchell), beaten a handful of young hungry/tough contenders (Sheika, Veit, Bika, Starie) and totally outclassed some mediocre opposition.

How many fighters, over the past 10 years, around Calzaghe's weight-class, would also be UNBEATEN against that lot?

Sven Okkte.

Reid was very unlucky not to beat him (shocking ref). Brewer and Mitchell had arguable losses. I don't see him beating Hopkins, Eubank or Kessler. Starie gave him a close-ish fight.

Very slim chance, Andre, Ottke would have remained unbeaten through that level of opposition.

[Andre]

That looks an impressive record by anyone standards.

He's beaten an all-time great fighter (Hopkins) and a great supermiddle (Eubank), unified against a couple of unbeaten prime fighters (Kessler and Lacy), beaten a handful of proven "world" champs (Reid, Brewer, Woodhall, Mitchell), beaten a handful of young hungry/tough contenders (Sheika, Veit, Bika, Starie) and totally outclassed some mediocre opposition.

How many fighters, over the past 10 years, around Calzaghe's weight-class, would also be UNBEATEN against that lot?

Sven Okkte.

Reid was very unlucky not to beat him (shocking ref). Brewer and Mitchell had arguable losses. I don't see him beating Hopkins, Eubank or Kessler. Starie gave him a close-ish fight.

Very slim chance, Andre, Ottke would have remained unbeaten through that level of opposition.

I did wink and smile after the comment.

Although he was a very tight fighter that just had answers out of his one dimensional boring fight style. Styles make fights, they also muck them up and guess who was a master at it.
When he did mess up in the ring, the home team refs had his back. Someone (we will blame the usual promoter) should have tried to lure him $$$ over to England for a good old school whooping then.