Why do some people hate Joe Calzaghe?

[Pullcounter]

All great and unique fighters always get hated on. Also imagine if he was american and also white( makes a massive differance" he would be THE BEST. Also he fights a unique way where NO ONE has never stopped him or never felt the feeling of losing.

yeah, he is unique

[Pullcounter]

Calzaghe is number 1 on the all time list.

yeah, probably not

[bigflip55]

i dont know why other people hate him, but i hate joe cuz 1 the way he talks, he sounds like a f**king a**hole 2 his ugly fighting style (the s**t works though) 3 the way he beat jones, i f**king love roy jones and i just though he was being disrespectful in the way he was showboating (if roy was doing it, it would have been ok lol) and 4 i hate him so much im forced to like the guy, hes definatly one of a kind and a shoe in for the hof. anyways, f**k joe lol much respect calzaghe

[Drunk Punch]

Something that puzzles me, is why some people hate Joe Calzaghe. We see themposting here every day: Daggum, Flawless, DiegoFuego, TheManchine, Burner, etc. There are even Brits who seem to dislike him: Terrible, Chunk, raycorey, Duffgun, etc. Some in the American media have long discredited him, such as Max Kellerman, Teddy Atlas and Dan (Arse) Iole.

He's 45-0, he's won all the titles at 168: Ring, WBC, WBA, IBF, and of course WBO.

He had some soft title defenses (like Starie and Pudwill), but so did Hopkins and Jones, and Joe he fought a lot of good opponents and world champions as well: Kessler, Lacy, Eubank, Mitchell, Brewer, Hopkins, etc.

Strangely, once Joe defeats someone, the haters come out and say that opponent was no good (Lacy) average (Kessler) or shot (Hopkins, Eubank). No matter who he fights and defeats, some will never give him credit.

The purpose of this thread is to find out WHY.

Fear of a Welsh planet.

[IMDAZED]

People will discredit Calzaghe, no matter who he defeats.

If he fought and defeated Dawson, his haters like them_apples and bsrizpac would say Dawson is a bum.

Sure dude.

[hammerhiem]

People will discredit Calzaghe, no matter who he defeats.

If he fought and defeated Dawson, his haters like them_apples and bsrizpac would say Dawson is a bum.

True and it's not just Calzaghe they do it with either.

[Guest]

"I hate all white boxers from Europe."

Sincerely,
Tunney

[The Hammer]

You can almost predict the cycle. Certain people will hype up his other opponents because they don't want to face the fact that Hopkins is his best win; a controversial one. And because these same people know that it was close, they pretend "it's not worth seeing again, besides Calzaghe would win clearly anyway."

People will discredit Calzaghe, no matter who he defeats.

If he fought and defeated Dawson, his haters like them_apples and bsrizpac would say Dawson is a bum.

[Truth]

I use to disliked him, but I've gotten over it....

for me it was just the taunting of Roy and I thought he was a little overrated. But then I realized that almost everything is a little overrated.

[hammerhiem]

I thought he was a little overrated. But then I realized that almost everything is a little overrated.

I can't help but agree with that.