I suppose you could look at it in two ways: 1) Calzaghe broke through at the right time when the likes of Benn, Eubanks and Colins were at the end of their careers. He filled the void which was left by these three and got hyped to hell because he was the only real British contender out there at Super-Middle, even though I preferred Robin Reid when he was in his prime and thought that he actually beat Calzaghe the first time they fought.
2) He was born about 5 or 10 years to late and so couldn't pit his skills with the three mentioned above. I have no doubt that if he was around with these he wouldn't have been undefeated. I just don't think that he could have stood toe-to-toe with these, then again neither could they!

For me, he was born too late and I would have loved to have seen him in a few tear-ups with them. Don't get me wrong, he is a great fighter but he's by no means our best ever like some people say he is.