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I think beating Jeff Lacy, Mikkel Kessler, A still very good Bernard Hopkins, World champions such as Eubank, Woodhall, Reid, Mitchell & Brewer and remaining undefeated for 15 years would give you at least an equal claim as somebody who got banged out by a veteran Vince Philips
If he beat Hopkins, if Hopkins won, and what happens when you have a hard time landing cleanly on a 40 year old who could still pot shot you at will when you weren't overwhelming him with slaps? I give Calzaghe all the credit in the world for coming up so close with Hopkins(I felt Hopkins won by the knockdown) and beating guys like Kessler and Lacy so onesidedly, but he looked bad against Roy Jones, and I still say those people who gave him 11 rounds were smoking crack.
Until he got cut, Jones was giving Calzaghe all he could handle. Jones was tagging with right hands constantly. If Jones would have put it all out on the line after he hurt Calzaghe, he might have stopped him. I was sitting surrounded by Calzaghe fans and not of them would deny that a young Roy would have destroyed Calzaghe after seeing how close it was against a shot Roy Jones.