
Originally Posted by
Violent Demise
Maybe I should of made myself a little more clearer. I was talking about fighters faced. Taylor in 32 fights has already faced better fighters than Calzaghe did in 46. Taylor's opposition of Bernard Hopkins (x2), Winky Wright, Kassim Ouma, Cory Spinks, Carl Froch, Kelly Pavlik (x 2) and William Joppy is clearly better than Calzaghe's of Mikkel kessler, Bernard Hopkins, Jeff Lacy, Robin Reid, Sakio Bika and Chris Eubanks
I don't think even Jermain Taylor would count Kasim Ouma as resume worthy, he's gone about 0-5 or something in recent fights. Cory Spinks was a career welterweight and that fight was an embarrasment for Jermain, one of the poorest performances ever by an undisputed world champ imo. Joppy was old and well past his best. Honestly Sakio Bika may not have the world titles of those three guys but I'd put him as a tougher opponent than all three by far. Obviously Taylor got smashed by Froch and Pavlik so they don't really enhance his legacy, unless you want to give Francios Botha credit for being Ko'd by Lennox, Wlad, Tyson and Michael Moorer.
Calzaghe would have won total landslide victories or KO'd Spinks, Ouma, Wright and Joppy.
I doubt all four between them would win more than 5 rounds.
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