Light Heavyweight's Today Haven't Got A Patch On The Past Light Heavyweight's

[ICB]

How do you see a fight between Conteh and Calzaghe going?

Pretty hard to tell, John Conteh had a fantastic jab. And could often win fights with his jab alone, he pretty much dominated Yaqui Lopez with just his left jab.

Some people say John Conteh was a one handed fighter, i disagree its only when he had bad problems with his right hand. That he become a one handed fighter, he did have a pretty good right hand before his right hand problems.

And he did have underrated movement aswell, i think a prime John Conteh may of won a decision. He had great boxing skills and Joe Calzaghe at times, when he comes forward is off balance especially against Bernard Hopkins. So i think John Conteh would keep on his toes, and exploit that weakness.

It would of been a great fight though John Conteh is underrated IMO, he beat Matthew Saad Muhammad despite being floored multiple times. And despite being past his prime.

[JazMerkin]

I think one of the reasons for that Ice is that with the Super-Middleweight division, we now see many fighters who formerly would have been LHWs boiling down to 168.

Let's say you have a division with Kessler, Dawson, Bute, Abraham, Froch, Andrade, Johnson, Hopkins & Taylor. I'm not saying it's on or even near a level with that of the 70s/early 80s, but its still not that bad. In fact, I think only with the current Welterweight divisions can you look at it favourably alongside divisions of the past