Who was Joe Blow's best opponent of his career?

[DiegoFuego]

The depth in Calzaghe's resume is phenomenal.

Brewer, let's not forget a lot of people were saying back in the day that Jones Jr was running scared from him.. until Bomber fella made him look bad (but then again, Bomber fella would of made Carlos Monzon look bad). Also, Brewer was clearly robbed against Ottke and Echols, Ottke was Calzaghe's SMW rival and Echols was Hopkins's toughest fight.

Joe also proved himself the best of the 'Three Amigos' but beating Robin and Richie (along with Alan Minter, Richie and Robin were the only Olympic medalists from Britain to go on to win pro world titles).

Omar Sheika, that was almost a 50/50 fight, Sheika was considered a great prospect back then although had trouble with Glen Johnson in his previous fight.

And Bryon Mitchell, big-punching former world champion.

Not to mention Eubank and Lacy.

LOL is this dribble supposed to impress me? this is only making Calzaghe look worse.

[Bozo_no no]

You are by far the craziest person I have ever come across in life.

And I mean that.

Did you discuss that with Froch over the beer you had with him 10 mins after his fight?

A guy that creates multi accounts to argue with himself is sure a great judge of who's crazy.

Cheers to that. Give good old Carl my best, will you?

[K-DOGG]

I ask because I've just got the latest issue of "Lazy Yanks Who Can't Be Bothered To Do Any Research Monthly" (I'm on subscription) and it says Jeff Lacy.

I assume this is just because Lacy was the only titlist (after winning the vacant IBF belt against Syd Vanderpool and then defending it against has beens and never weres) but I'm more interested in who was actually the BEST, rather than a boxrec statistic.

Several of Joe Blow's opponents gave him reasonably competitive match-ups, though this could be due to varying different factors, such as outside concerns (he was terrible when he had the divorce) and how "up" for the opponent he was.

But Jeff Lacy WASN'T the best man Joe Blow faced, not by a LONG way. So the question is... who was?

TOCKER PUDWILL OF COURSE!!


But seriously folks.....

Eubank was towards the end of his career when Joe beat him and he was coming back down to Super Middle after exploring the Light Heavyweights; but he's got the best resume of any of his opponents.

Reid was closer to his prime, probably in it, whe Joe squeaked out a win and Lacy is more than green; but you wouldn't have guessed it by the asswhoopin' Joe put on him.

There are other names on his resume that I recognize....many that I do not.....; but I would say Eubank, Reid, and Lacy would be the top 3 and not necessarily in that order, given the perspective of where each were in their careers at the time....with Sheika comiong in at #4.


At least those are the thoughts of this lazy yank.

[adamk1304]

A close, SD win over Robin Reid is his best win??
Weak.
And JuyJuy, Woodhall had just lost to Marcus Beyer the fight before and that was the last fight of his career.

The thread says who was his best opponent, not his best win.

[Guest]

JOKE Calzaghe...

[Jcsuper]

I know some people will say I'm a fool and blablablabla...

But I've always thought that Calzaghe is really overrated...

And sorry, nobody will convince me that Lacy is a Top fighter, the guy is in the same class of Gatti...

[DiegoFuego]

I'll always hold Mayweather's slaughtering of Gatti in higher regards than Calzaghe's beatdown of Lacy. Gatti was more accomplished. Besides, Calzaghe had a hometown crowd to back him the whole way through. Mayweather went to Atlantic City and shut the arena up.

[jonbonjovi]

i dont see many other undefeated fighters that have hardly lost a round in the last 10 years...

joes a true pro - everyone he fights he beats, longest reigning champ in the sport today

[K-Nan]

Jcsuper is right as far as Mr. Lacy goes. I think his ultimate destiny in the sport is to be the stepping stone, the measuring stick for REAL prospects. He's a good name to have on your record.

[GEOFFHAYES]

At the end of the day, Calzaghe might be going down as the greatest British fighter ever - he already is according to HOFer Barry McGuigan.

It doesn't matter what American's try to do to disparage him: they feel bitter about all British fighter and always will.


Three-weight world champion Duke McKenzie rates Calzaghe as the best British fighter of his lifetime.

BBC boxing's main pundit for 10 years, Richie Woodhall, rates Calzaghe as the best British fighter he's seen fight live (including TV). Likewise Amir Khan.

Former world lightweight champion and respected commentator Jim Watt rates Calzaghe as the greatest post-war British fighter alongside Ken Buchanan.