What Makes Joe Calzaghe's Resume Great?

[Dan...]

Badge, you know I love you and all but do you ever get sick of typing out Joe essays? I mean you gotta be repeating yourself an awful lot. Can't you just sig one of them? If there's room that is.

[DiegoFuego]

Any pretty good 168lber would have gone undefeated in Calzaghe's shoes. And I do mean any. He literally fought nobody his entire career. 3 good fighters, 2 of them waaaaaay past their best, almost to the point of being unable to even fight 4 hard rounds (Hopkins and Eubank). Kessler is the other good fighter he fought, but even Kessler has zero good wins on his resume. So he knocked out a fellow overprotected Euro champ. Big deal.

He has done absolutely nothing with his time as champion

[abadger]

Badge, you know I love you and all but do you ever get sick of typing out Joe essays? I mean you gotta be repeating yourself an awful lot. Can't you just sig one of them? If there's room that is.

Sometimes I get sick of it, but I just seem to get drawn into these arguments. Maybe I will give it up for a bit and post only about Nonito Donaire from now on. BTW, have you watched Alexander Alexeev? He looks a really good prospect and has shades of Calzaghe and Kessler both about him. One of those fighters that when you watch them you immediately go, "hello, who's this guy?"

[Dan...]

Sometimes I get sick of it, but I just seem to get drawn into these arguments. Maybe I will give it up for a bit and post only about Nonito Donaire from now on. BTW, have you watched Alexander Alexeev? He looks a really good prospect and has shades of Calzaghe and Kessler both about him. One of those fighters that when you watch them you immediately go, "hello, who's this guy?"

Yeah he looks like he has some very good skills. Need to wait to see him in there against some better competition to make a proper judgement though.

[Dan...]

Any pretty good 168lber would have gone undefeated in Calzaghe's shoes. And I do mean any. He literally fought nobody his entire career. 3 good fighters, 2 of them waaaaaay past their best, almost to the point of being unable to even fight 4 hard rounds (Hopkins and Eubank). Kessler is the other good fighter he fought, but even Kessler has zero good wins on his resume. So he knocked out a fellow overprotected Euro champ. Big deal.

He has done absolutely nothing with his time as champion

Dude you are too harsh on him. I understand where some of your contempt for him and his resume comes from but you have to be more rational about it. I am not a Calzaghe fan either but the fact is that his resume is not as poor as some ppl make out and, whilst it is overrated, going undefeated for so long does require some credit. Lacy may have been over-hyped but ther are still a lot of good 168ers that would have been beaten by him at the time he fought Calzaghe. Also, Kessler is a class fighter. I know his resume is weak as **** right now but I can assure you that is going to change. That man is the real deal. BHop, although old, was still near the top of the pile of LHWs when Joe beat him.

[IMDAZED]

Dude you are too harsh on him. I understand where some of your contempt for him and his resume comes from but you have to be more rational about it. I am not a Calzaghe fan either but the fact is that his resume is not as poor as some ppl make out and, whilst it is overrated, going undefeated for so long does require some credit. Lacy may have been over-hyped but ther are still a lot of good 168ers that would have been beaten by him at the time he fought Calzaghe. Also, Kessler is a class fighter. I know his resume is weak as **** right now but I can assure you that is going to change. That man is the real deal. BHop, although old, was still near the top of the pile of LHWs when Joe beat him.

I think this post says it all. When I first started watching Joe C. on Showtime I was an instant fan. How could you not be? He was fast, threw nice combinations and wasn't a wuss. Over time he's beaten some solid fighters and I think that makes him great. Particularly, his win over Omar Sheika impressed me. It looks like a journeyman name on his resume but, at the time, Sheika was arguably the most dangerous 168lber in the world. Calzaghe sliced him up early.

Those are the little things that impressed me. It's unfortunate he wasn't in the mix from 99-04, when the top dogs were on fire but he's lasted long enough to earn his proper due. And he can still create an ATG legacy if he so chooses.