Poll: Fantasy Super Six SMW

[rjj tszyu]

In his Prime Roy wouldn't have had a problem with any of those guys.

I hate to break it to you Calzaghe fans but during his prime Calzaghe #1 never left his weight class #2 never went to another country to fight a big fight....those are the things RJJ and Hopkins catch shit over and he did BOTH of them. To me Calzaghe is not much better than Svenn Ottke, in terms of how he handled his career of course and not how he fought. Calzaghe was a very solid capable fighter, I just don't think it's fair to compare him to top teir fighters when he rarely set foot in the ring with a dangerous fighter....compared to his record RJJ's is AMAZING.

Spot on Lyle. Anyone who thinks Benn would have a chance vs a prime RJJ is just plain on drugs. I watched Benn get whupped off Watson who was good but never Roys level as we saw when he got demolished off McCallum. And forget the draw with Eubank, Benn got shown in the first fight that he was not on Eubanks level, by the rematch Eubank was on the slope especially mentally because of what he had done to Watson. Then there is Benn's common opponent with Jones, Malinga! Well I don't think we need to say anymore Jones Schooled him and KO'd him Benn struggled through a decision and then lost to him. As for Calzaghe an old past it has been Jones floored him and then only got beat so comfortably due to the cut above his eye totally blinding him on one side.

Jones was on a totally different level, especially to Benn!

[El Kabong]

Exactly bud, and on the point I made with James Toney...Toney has one of the best chins/defenses in boxing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGLXZJo8p4Y

[rjj tszyu]

Exactly bud, and on the point I made with James Toney...Toney has one of the best chins/defenses in boxing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGLXZJo8p4Y

Agree totally with your points on Toney. He should have been in the voting for this little discussion. His "come from behind" (although I thought it was even when he KO'd him) win over Nunn was a special fight for me. I was a young boy watching boxing with my Dad and I just wanted to see more and more of this guy.

As for his chin and defense, If anyone has played the new fight night game with Ali, Teddy Atlas says something along the lines of "Ali was really hard to hit due to his reflex's and speed and then when someone did eventually get through he just stood there and took it because of his great chin" well that to me sums up James Toney, he is a defensive master and has a granite chin behind it, if it wasn't for his drug cheating I would get on about him a lot more on here but he really let everyone down when he started using steroids.

A fight I would have loved to have seen him in though was against B-Hop, it may not have had any interest from Joe public, but for the boxing purists it would have been a very meaningful and hard to predict fight, certainly for me.