Calzaghe beating up Eubank (videoclip!!)

I've got highlights of Calzaghe's career-defining fight so far (beating the legend of Brit boxing Eubank). The clips are of Calzaghe's best moments in the fight. Thanks to martinwbc for these clips :) The WBO super-middleweight title holder Steve Collins was scheduled to face the exciting up-and-comer Joe Calzaghe in October 1997, but just 10 days prior to the fight he pulled out and retired!! Chris Eubank stepped in to face Calzaghe for the vacant title, but Eubank had been retired for two years and had just seven days to somehow lose 25lbs bodyweight! Despite coming out of retirement and taking the fight with only a weeks notice, many still expected the wily old veteran Eubank to be too smart and cagey for the fresh, young prospect Calzaghe. But instead of freezing, Calzaghe exploded! It was an all-out war til the end! The hightlights in the clip are Calzaghe's best bits in the fight. There was this cool moment halfway through the fight when Eubank strangely looked upto the ceiling of the stadium and as Calzaghe went towards him Eubank caught him with a sweet uppercut, but unfortunately the clip doesn't quite show that bit. Eubank said to Calzaghe before the fight "You had better be on your toes because if I land the first punch of the fight you will be knocked clean out. I'm tired, so I plan to finish it with the very first punch! I'm a tired man so this fight will not last long, I believe he is going down very early." Well let's see what happened shall we? :) Check out some clips of the fight, click here: http://s17.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0PSDZ8GO7CAUS2NV4QMEDFU2O3 Remember what Roy Jones said in 2001? Here's what Jones Jr admitted: "I'll never fight Joe Calzaghe cos' he's too dangerous.. he's fast, powerful, hungry, and he's unbeaten. I can make easier money fighting easier fighters."

Comments (20)

LOLORSKATES

RRJ wouldnt fight calzaghe he only fights fat americans. :duh: fat americans? :rolleyes:

18y ago

FUMIN_88

in 2001...roy jones would have beat calzaghe with 1 hand..stop lying to urself u british bum...lets say which is a harder fight...calzaghe or john ruiz... RRJ wouldnt fight calzaghe he only fights fat americans. :duh:

18y ago

kayjay

People really overrate Eubank. :kiss: :kiss:

18y ago

MrFactor

People really overrate Eubank.

18y ago

Easton_Assassin

BWAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA, you idiot! The quote is from Roy Jones himself. It's no secret that he avoided all the best fighters in all of his divisions. The guy is a disgrace to boxing. Not unlike a Smaller and less talented verison ruling the p4p rankings today!!!

18y ago

kayjay

Major props to you my friend! I too think that Eubank at his sharpest was ace, but unfortunately he wasn't consistent enough and we didn't see those flashes of excellence persistently enough. How long? Tell me.

18y ago

JUYJUY

I don't think there's much doubt, certainly amongst those who no what Eubank was capable of, that he'd of beaten Toney.

20y ago

JUYJUY

Eubank vs Calzaghe was like the british version of the saddening Louis vs Marciano fight. Calzaghe is the only guy to knock Eubank down though,the other times Eubank went down(Benn,Watson twice,Collins) was when Eubank slipped they werent real knockdowns.It was clear on each of those Eubank slipped.The first man to really put Eubank down was Calzaghe so I think his power underrated. Eubank = chin of cast iron though. I was watching Eubank vs Benn II the other day,I actually watched Toney vs Jones just before it.Do you know something? Eubank would of beaten Jones at his peak.Eubank peak in my opinion was the Benn rematch,he looked really really sharp for the first half of the fight but he says he injured his back when he shoved Benn out of the ring at the end of round six,and says he twisted his back at the start of round seven.This is evident when you look back and he was edged by Benn in each of the last six rounds because of this which meant that the fight was a draw.But for that first half of the fight,even having to endure a few Benn power shots(and believe me Benn could bang) Eubank looked real brilliant and that Eubank would give Jones hell and just beat him,I really believe that.Benn is more difficult to handle early on than Toney,Eubank handled Benn better than Roy did Toney early on,in those superfights of the supermiddles in 93 / 94. Major props to you my friend! I too think that Eubank at his sharpest was ace, but unfortunately he wasn't consistent enough and we didn't see those flashes of excellence persistently enough.

20y ago

Orange_Sneakers

20y ago

JUYJUY

Excuses, excuses, excuses.......................... Excuses? It's the truth!

20y ago

MetalVomit

A severely weight-drained Toney, a green Hopkins (who wasn't even ranked in the top five at 160 at the time), and a 40-year-old McCallum. Nice one Einstein. Excuses, excuses, excuses..........................

20y ago

scap

Jealous of a yellow coward? Okay. Hey Juuuj why are you always going to war with everyone over british middlewights? At the very least post a few comments once in a while in other threads that dicuss HW's or featherweights or promoters...fucking anything but british middlewights. You are getting to a point where even when you make a great point which you have done a few times you are dismissed by most because you are the ultimate homer of british middleweights...it was a good era for them and you but Im telling you take a vacation from it.

20y ago

JUYJUY

Jealous of a yellow coward? Okay.

20y ago

JUYJUY

A severely weight-drained Toney, a green Hopkins (who wasn't even ranked in the top five at 160 at the time), and a 40-year-old McCallum. Nice one Einstein.

20y ago

JUYJUY

No he's a disgrace to an extremely biased, wounded hater like yourself. Jones would have smoked Calzaghe at any point in his career. Yeah, ofcourse he would of :rolleyes: Just like he smoked, uhh, Richard Hall(the Nigel Benn wannabe lol) and then people started calling him "better than Sugar Ray Robinson". Pathetic.

20y ago

GasPed

Juy Juy - I notice you're posting the very same Eubank/UK nuthugger stuff on the Saddoboxing board under the alias "DD". Maybe in the interest of time (yours and ours), you could just post it there - and if we're interested we'll be sure to go over there and read all of your fascinating insights... ...deal? ;)

20y ago

JUYJUY

After watching that i think he looks decent but if he fights like that against a well prepared lacy he is going to get knocked out. Joe has a very strong chin, so no he won't get KO'd. He's only been down once in his life (against Mitchell, who was better than Lacy) and do you know what he did? He got straight back up and won by stoppage soon after. Joe knew that he had to go right at Eubank non-stop because the only way to beat Eubank was to out-work him, even if Eubank was past his best or out of shape he would win you unless you worked for it. Against Lacy, Joe will be more patient as he usually is and will pick him off with fast combinations when the time is right.

20y ago

Floydmayweather

After watching that i think he looks decent but if he fights like that against a well prepared lacy he is going to get knocked out.

20y ago

JUYJUY

But Lets Say 2 Or 3 Yrs Earlier But Calzaghe wanted to fight him 2 or 3 years earlier, he was chasing Jones Jr from the late 90's onwards right up until Jones Jr's last couple of fights. No excuses.

20y ago

JUYJUY

if jones seriously said that, i just lost all respect i ever had for him What, you mean you actually had respect for him in the first place? ;)

20y ago