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He's good but he's no Froch, eh.
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the true p4p no. 1.Comment
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adie forestfan says Joe is good, but not GREAT YET!
FFS, Joe has been world champion for 10 years, is undefeated and as the Lacy clip shows has possibly the fastest hands in the division at 30 plus. He battered the best American who would come to fight him and has just made a mockery of the "Contender" tv show. Lacy hasnt come back after the Calzaghe fight because he had the guts ( i salute the fella) to stay in for 12 rounds and the fight might have finished him for good.
If Calzaghe isnt great, then fighting since the age of 14, winning 5 ABA titles at different weights and losing one junior bout (being overlooked for the Olympics because of politics) then going on to be an undefeated world champ for 10 years has been all for nothing....
get real mate,,,Joe is the best fighter ever to come out of Europe bar NONE.Comment
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Calzaghe is the greatest British fighter ever.
He's fought everyone.Comment
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Calzaghe has only fought 2 mandatories in TEN YEARS and why has he only fought 2 mandatories in ten years,take a look on WBO-rules or Warrens Boxing Organization-rules
"When a Champion must make a mandatory defense, the Mandatory Challenger shall be the highest classified available boxer who, in the judgment of the World Championship Committee, best satisfies the following criteria:
1) has a record acceptable to the World Championship Committee, and who, because of accomplishment and achievement, is recognized by the World Championship Committee as a class boxer; and
2) Complies with the WBO and Association of Boxing Commissions Criteria for the Ratings of Professional Boxers; and
3) In the event that the Champion has a contract with a major television network (HBO, SHOWTIME, ZDF, Sky or other similar broadcast company), is an acceptable challenger to the Champion’s television network."
Nr. 3) explains everything. The fighter has to be acceptable to the television network. Very often Calzaghe and Warren can just go ahead and say that the opponent is not acceptable.
And very often WBO rank a fighter with no big TV-promotion behind him as mandatory challenger. They do that to satisfy promotors like Warren and the big German promotors, because Warren and the Germans feed WBO with the majority of money from the sanctioning fees. The rules have been created to satisfy the big promotors, so they can do whatever they like.
In the case of Calzaghe it means, that he can fight bums whenever he likes. In the case of Kessler (WBA and WBC) it means that he has to fight tough guys like Andrade, who was mandatory challengerComment
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Calzaghe can't win. He's been slated for possibly fighting his #1 challenger in Inkin and now he's criticised for not facing enough mandatories in the past. Mind you, I'm not sure what the point of your post was as you seemed to be criticising the choice of mandatories - which surely means you should be applauding Calzaghe for not facing many of them? I never could figure out our resident pastries.
I seriously worry for the mental health of our scandinavian correspondants should Kessler come up short when he finally faces a genuine top class opponent.Comment
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When all is said and done our Welsh warrior is defo in the top 10 pound 4 pound fighters and as much as I like Kessler and Taylor Joe would beat the bothComment
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