Joe's best performance was against Kessler....

**MANGLER** · 10-25-2008, 05:15 PM

Mixin in quality of comp wit the performance put on, Kessler was a better one for Joe. But he clearly destroyed Lacy more thoroughly than he did Kessler.

**BattlingNelson** · 10-25-2008, 05:26 PM

Here's an excerpt from Graham Houston:

In his last fight Kessler regained the WBA title in impressive style when he wore down and stopped a previously unbeaten fighter, Dimitri Sartison, in the last round. The Dane usually doesn’t blow people out (although he flattened Markus Beyer with a perfect straight right hand), but his punches are sharp, fast and accurate and he does a good job of breaking his opponents down.

It will take an exceptional fighter to beat Kessler — Joe Calzaghe did it, but the Danish boxer was handicapped by an injured right hand and still fought well — and Haussler isn’t anything out of the ordinary.

**AztecWanker** · 10-25-2008, 06:02 PM

also , i heard that kessler didnt spar leading up to the fight, can anyone confirm this?

**BarrySlisk** · 10-25-2008, 06:05 PM

Yes thats true. The camp made it clear up to the Sartison fight that THIS time all went well and he was able to spar unlike last time.

**BattlingNelson** · 10-25-2008, 06:08 PM

Originally posted by el guason456

also , i heard that kessler didnt spar leading up to the fight, can anyone confirm this?

Yes. You can read about it on Graham Houstons site both in the preview of the Sartison fight and the Haussler fight.

On ESB today Kessler's american agent said this: "The broken right hand wasn't a rumour, though we didn't bring it up before or straight afterwards," Marley said. "You can't at that level with the money Joe and Mikkel earned. We were not going to disappoint HBO or 50,000 punters at Millennium Stadium."

**Ryn0** · 10-25-2008, 06:08 PM

Originally posted by BatTheMan

Here's an excerpt from Graham Houston:

In his last fight Kessler regained the WBA title in impressive style when he wore down and stopped a previously unbeaten fighter, Dimitri Sartison, in the last round. The Dane usually doesn’t blow people out (although he flattened Markus Beyer with a perfect straight right hand), but his punches are sharp, fast and accurate and he does a good job of breaking his opponents down.

It will take an exceptional fighter to beat Kessler — Joe Calzaghe did it, but the Danish boxer was handicapped by an injured right hand and still fought well — and Haussler isn’t anything out of the ordinary.

Sorry, Bat but every fighter makes excuses AFTER a fight. I really don't think Kessler had hurt his right hand, atleast not enough to affect his performance. I remember him landing some HUGE right hands and uppercuts early.

**BarrySlisk** · 10-25-2008, 06:15 PM

I think he did not spar to spare his hand for the fight. So he was able to box but did not spar. He later had surgery. But like you say every boxer has excuses. Joe won and that's that. I like Joe, so it's not so bad.
But I would like to see a rematch though.

**BattlingNelson** · 10-25-2008, 06:18 PM

Originally posted by Ryn0

Sorry, Bat but every fighter makes excuses AFTER a fight. I really don't think Kessler had hurt his right hand, atleast not enough to affect his performance. I remember him landing some HUGE right hands and uppercuts early.

This is Mich. Marley on ESB today: "The broken right hand wasn't a rumour, though we didn't bring it up before or straight afterwards," Marley said. "You can't at that level with the money Joe and Mikkel earned. We were not going to disappoint HBO or 50,000 punters at Millennium Stadium."

Kessler's hand was surgically repaired after the fight. There's pics on Kessler's homepage from the hospital.

**hookoutofhell** · 10-25-2008, 06:20 PM

kess didn't look bad in the fight but it was obvious as the fight wore on that he just couldn;t time JC which was not surprising as he he hadn't been sparring.

have to agree with you JC found another gear against kess - a gear that only some fighters have, the great ones in every era and imo we will only really appreciate joe once we begin to realize how good kess is.
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Joe's best performance was against Kessler....