Joe Calzaghe's 14th fight, weighing 172 lbs

[daggum]

Sorry dude, but Joe did have power. Eubank actually said that that was the hardest he'd been hit in his career, and Eubank fought Nigel Benn twice. Also, what do you mean by "hometown stoppage", I've heard of a hometown decsion before, but I'd love to you to tell me which fight Joe has had that he diddn't deserve to win.

sorry but he didn't have power and doesn't have power its quite obvious. see the way the fights are stopped? the guys arent hurt he just unloads a bunch of punches and the ref steps in. synonymous with a built up record. unlike when roy jones knocks people out they are unconscious see the power difference? also there is this thing called variance in boxing. mundine would say ottke is the hugest puncher he's ever faced. is sven ottke a huge puncher..........................

[daggum]

Sorry dude, but Joe did have power. Eubank actually said that that was the hardest he'd been hit in his career, and Eubank fought Nigel Benn twice. Also, what do you mean by "hometown stoppage", I've heard of a hometown decsion before, but I'd love to you to tell me which fight Joe has had that he diddn't deserve to win.

hopkins hehe. missing don't win fights but he did miss a lot so maybe it does.

[RichCCFC]

You do realise Calzaghe landed the most punches ever on Hopkins and landed at a higher percentage than Hopkins did himself?

[GodOfWar]

Alot of Calzaghes fights were stopped way too early when he was about to ko his opponents the ref stopped it... He got screwed in his own fights making it look like the refs nutt hugged on him. And I've seen Calzaghe pissed in a bunch of his fights when they stop it early. One fight that wasn't stopped too early was the byron mitchell fight which morons complained it was stopped early. Calzaghe seriously hurt Mitchell in that fight, after Mitchell knocked Calzaghe down from a nice punch. Calzaghe came back with bombs that nearly took Mitchells head off.



I posted this video on my own topic yesterday but here it is, yet another early stoppage by the ref... It sucks, that the refs would screw Calzaghe like this and make it look like it was rigged even though he was clearly destroying his fighters before the refs stopped the fights.

[abadger]

sorry but he didn't have power and doesn't have power its quite obvious. see the way the fights are stopped? the guys arent hurt he just unloads a bunch of punches and the ref steps in. synonymous with a built up record. unlike when roy jones knocks people out they are unconscious see the power difference? also there is this thing called variance in boxing. mundine would say ottke is the hugest puncher he's ever faced. is sven ottke a huge puncher..........................

Hmmm. I'm pretty sure Nigel Benn is considered on of the hardest hitters ever at SMW, and I'm pretty sure Eubank ought to know. I repeat Calzaghe was considered a heavy handed KO artist in his early career, to the point where it was seen as his main strength. Go back and watch any of his early career fights and you'll hear the commentators talking about it, but I suppose they could all be wrong and you could be right....

[Kris Silver]

daggum you didn't address the valid actual example of Eubank. Nigel Benn, a notoriously big hitter struggled ever knocking Eubank around and pretty sure never did. Calzaghe did it in the first round.

Heart is right, a few of his fights were stopped somewhat early, whereby clearly another minute it would have been total knock out. It's a shame that wasn't aloud to happen more often, but more of a shame you can't watch several of his fights and see it, he hurts opponents often.

Eubank said he hits big, Byron Mitchell was hurt, Lacy's face was buggered, Veit knocked down 3 times in one round always looking stunned, struggling to walk, and the last time pretty solidly knocked out. There's several others.

And he's not accurate. Dude that's just disagreeing with fact. He normally has a much higher pct then his opponent, or most other top competitors. So your arguments are looking somewhat ignorant to the facts, and biased.

[kayjay]

Some people are upset that Joe is/was so much better than Hopkins and the other middleweights of his generation. It ruins their little stereotypes.

[abadger]

daggum you didn't address the valid actual example of Eubank. Nigel Benn, a notoriously big hitter struggled ever knocking Eubank around and pretty sure never did. Calzaghe did it in the first round.

Heart is right, a few of his fights were stopped somewhat early, whereby clearly another minute it would have been total knock out. It's a shame that wasn't the case more often, but more of a shame you can't watch several of his fights and see he hurts opponents often.

Eubank said he hits big, Byron Mitchell was hurt, Lacy's face was buggered, Veit knocked down 3 times in one round always looking stunned, struggling to walk, and the last time pretty solidly knocked out. There's several others.

And he's not accurate. Dude that's just disagreeing with fact. He normally has a much higher pct then his opponent, or most other top competitors. So your arguments are looking somewhat ignorant to the facts, and biased.

Nice to see you again my man. Excellent post as always.

[daggum]

You do realise Calzaghe landed the most punches ever on Hopkins and landed at a higher percentage than Hopkins did himself?

please stop with that compubox trash. it is in no way shape or form accurate and you know it if you saw that fight and watched calzaghe not land one single solid punch. now calzaghe hits harder than benn? you guys said it yourselves and are looking foolish. mitchell has no chin thats well known. he couldn't hurt lacy after landing tons of punches(sign of no power) veit is another guy who has no chin and has fought no one and every time hes stepped up has been ko'd. eubank is a blown up middleweight fighting a supermiddle and i just don't believe him anyway. joe "malignnagi" calzaghe. sorry for hating on your idol

[RichCCFC]

He USED to hit harder.

Not my words but EUBANKS which means even more. I think Eubank knows a lot more than you.