Well first off I don't think that any fighter is unbeatable especially one who has left himself wide open and got knocked down in the first round in his last two fights.
I love Joe, he's my favourite fighter but he's been walking something of a tightrope in his last two fights.
Against Hopkins, and more so against Jones he was fighting old fighters who didn't have the speed and youthful determination to make him pay.
But if he got clocked like he did against Jones by Chad Dawson or Kelly Pavlik in the first round he'd have a harder job trying to survive I think.
Now I fancy Joe to beat those fighters, but you can't just assume that he would run through them both. I made this point the other way about those who say Roy and Hopkins would have destroyed Calzaghe in their primes, I don't think they would have, and logically its the same here.
Calzaghe vs Dawson is a GREAT matchup imo. Dawson is technically very good, he's young, he's got power, he's been able to cope with adversity already in his career, he's got a winner's mindset.
That's a tough fight right there, for both guys.
And with Joe's defense there is ALWAYS the possibility that he gets hit and hard at some point, that's what makes him so damned exciting to watch. Even Tarver if he managed to land a big shot, or Johnson............
No fighter really has iron in their chin and as good as Calzaghe can take a shot if you fight that way against the world's best every time, then you have to think at some point you might luck out.
I don't want him to retire though, I love watching him fight and I love it when he puts on a boxing show.
Him and Dawson I'd love to see, but I'd be watching it from behind the sofa most likely


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