'Celtic Warrior' Steve Collins takes potshots at Calzaghe and Hopkins

Copied and pasted from boxrec forums: "You can't put Joe in the category of best super middleweights ever as he hasn't fought anyone decent. If he had achieved what he did ten years earlier when we were around then you could argue he'd be the best of all time. "But we were the best. Even 'Marvellous' Marvin Hagler wouldn't have lasted in our era! "Joe couldn't choose what era he boxed in and that's just unfortunate." "Back in the day when Bernard Hopkins was around, you had fighters like Sumbu Kalambay, Nigel Benn, Reggie Johnnson, Roy Jones JR, Mike McCallum, Gerald McClellan, James Toney, Michael Watson, Chris Eubank and many more talented contenders rated above Hopkins. "I would not have classed 'The Executioner' as a threat." "Joe is one of the best pound for pound fighters in the World today, but he may not have even been in the Top Ten of the middleweights or super middleweights in the late 1980s or early to mid 1990s." "Eubank was finished as a fighter by the time Joe fought him. I know this for a fact, because I hit him harder than I've ever hit anybody in our first fight in Mill Street. And I hit him for 12 rounds. "In our second fight, I could tell Chris was a shot fighter, and that was from the punches I landed in Mill Street."