Calzaghe: "I Want Taylor Because I Love Beating the Top Americans"

[Clegg]

I promise you, Taylor beats Joe C..

JT has the punch to keep Calzaghe honest

What does that mean? Keep him honest? What?

and the jab to keep Joe in front of him.

Elaborate on this. How does having a good jab mean that you keep someone in front of you?

"His jab was so good, I had no choice but to give up on movement and just stand there and let him hit me with it"

I so badly wish that Dibella in effort to restore JT's elite status would take the short end of the stick and make this fight happen.

Bad Intentions fought Pavlik (a bigger guy with a bigger punch and high workrate)

Define "bigger guy". Pavlik is the one who was able to continue fighting at 160, whereas Taylor had already decided to move up to SMW. Therefore Taylor is and was the bigger guy.

and I think he would have the athletiscm to overcome Calzaghe.

What exactly does that mean? He would have better stamina? The evidence suggests otherwise. Would he be faster? The evidence suggests otherwise.

People talk about the 'athleticism' of Taylor but they never seem to say what exactly that means or what advantage it gives.

I guess I must be overlooking something? Which is...?

[abadger]

What does that mean? Keep him honest? What?


Elaborate on this. How does having a good jab mean that you keep someone in front of you?

"His jab was so good, I had no choice but to give up on movement and just stand there and let him hit me with it"

Define "bigger guy". Pavlik is the one who was able to continue fighting at 160, whereas Taylor had already decided to move up to SMW. Therefore Taylor is and was the bigger guy.

What exactly does that mean? He would have better stamina? The evidence suggests otherwise. Would he be faster? The evidence suggests otherwise.

People talk about the 'athleticism' of Taylor but they never seem to say what exactly that means or what advantage it gives.

I guess I must be overlooking something? Which is...?

Indeed. I would like someone to answer these points also.

[RodBarker]

Indeed. I would like someone to answer these points also.

Most of them are common sense and dont need defining , because Taylor moved up and Pavlik didnt means Taylor is bigger , that ones a beauty , maybe Pavlik works harder to keep his weight where he can defend his 160 title , most fighters when they are really hungry can fight at a lower weight than when they lose that edge , in boxing terms Pavlik is taller with more reach and when they fight in the same division that means he is bigger , just because Taylor moved up doesnt mean he is bigger could mean he is lazy , the ideal in boxing is to be as big as you can for the weight , Margo Williams and even Cotto are examples of it .

[hunter1]

jermain taylor is a bum and would get owned by joe calzaghe just like the rest

[abadger]

Most of them are common sense and dont need defining , because Taylor moved up and Pavlik didnt means Taylor is bigger , that ones a beauty , maybe Pavlik works harder to keep his weight where he can defend his 160 title , most fighters when they are really hungry can fight at a lower weight than when they lose that edge , in boxing terms Pavlik is taller with more reach and when they fight in the same division that means he is bigger because Taylor moved up doesnt mean he is bigger could mean he is lazy , the ideal in boxing is to be as big as you can for the weight , Margo Williams and even Cotto are examples of it .

I'm not seeing much here on how Taylor beats Calzaghe. Or is that the part thats common sense? I think common sense is:

Taylor gasses badly, Calzaghe has excellent stamina and workrate.
Taylor's main weapon is his jab, Calzaghe excels at taking away his opponents best weapons.
Taylor doesn't have much power, Calzaghe has an excellent chin.
Taylor is tactiaclly poor, Calzaghe is tactically excellent.

Maybe I'm wrong.

[RapidFire_Royce]

i fail to see how taylor would be able to win this fight. People make all this noise about taylor's jab and how good it is but if is last 6 fights prove anything is that he is not committed to using it throughtout a fight or even a whole round for that matter. The thing that i do admire about calzaghe and he showed it in the fight with kessler and bhop is that he can adapt his style. and just like in the second pavlik fight how taylor decided to fight in spurts calzaghe would simply start comming foward trying to make him brawl. he did that with kessler and flustered the hell out of him and he did that to bhop which i feel he lost most of the exchanges with bhop but he was so aggressive and won enough exchanges to earn the win. Im no huge calzaghe fan but wether you like him or not when it comes down to it he has never ran in a fight and will brawl whenever it gives him the advantage two things that taylor has proven he cant handle

[Point Blank]

shut the **** up ***** ur scared of pavlik go back to whales and suck goat's ****. ****ing slapper

[The Gully Gad]

To remind people how haters of Calzaghe have changed their mind after he has fought who they wanted him to fight.

It is never good enough!!

lol

U guys are bad man... hehe

[Sir Tom Jones]

shut the **** up ***** ur scared of pavlik go back to whales and suck goat's ****. ****ing slapper

Americans

[fightnews55]

Calzaghe sucks . He's just the biggest ***** slapper I ever saw in my life. He fights like a girl. Who cares if he wins he's still a disgrace. Punch like a man for Christ sake.