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Pathetic thread.
It's always the same with anything to do with Calzaghe though. Whatever he has done, whatever he's doing and whatever he will ever do, it just won't be good enough for some people. He gets a constant barrage of ****ty criticism all the fucking time. Double standards everywhere.
It's ok for Muhammad Ali to showboat, it's ok for Sugar Ray Leonard to showboat, it's ok for Roy Jones Jr to showboat and it's ok for countless other lesser fighters to showboat as well, but it isn't ok for Joe Calzaghe. Same thing with fighting a few bums. For someone like Jones, it was just him being massively better, but for Calzaghe it was him picking on the helpless. If Roy Jones says he can't be beat, he's being charmingly arrogant, but how dare that Euro-bum Calzaghe show a little self-belief!
It's a psychological issue for some boxing fans who, American or not, have been conditioned in the superiority of American at the bigger weights. Sure, the Mexicans can have the the low weight classes, but welterweight upwards is American soil! I even understand why people have become conditioned this way, because history does reflect American superiority. No doubt about it. It's just beyond comprehension that a European fighter can be in the same league as an American great to these people.
I aint even saying Joe Calzaghe is as good as the fighters I've mentioned and I believe a prime Roy Jones Jr would have won a fight against Calzaghe, but I'm fucking sick of the treatment he gets. It isn't fair.
It's always the same with anything to do with Calzaghe though. Whatever he has done, whatever he's doing and whatever he will ever do, it just won't be good enough for some people. He gets a constant barrage of ****ty criticism all the fucking time. Double standards everywhere.
It's ok for Muhammad Ali to showboat, it's ok for Sugar Ray Leonard to showboat, it's ok for Roy Jones Jr to showboat and it's ok for countless other lesser fighters to showboat as well, but it isn't ok for Joe Calzaghe. Same thing with fighting a few bums. For someone like Jones, it was just him being massively better, but for Calzaghe it was him picking on the helpless. If Roy Jones says he can't be beat, he's being charmingly arrogant, but how dare that Euro-bum Calzaghe show a little self-belief!
It's a psychological issue for some boxing fans who, American or not, have been conditioned in the superiority of American at the bigger weights. Sure, the Mexicans can have the the low weight classes, but welterweight upwards is American soil! I even understand why people have become conditioned this way, because history does reflect American superiority. No doubt about it. It's just beyond comprehension that a European fighter can be in the same league as an American great to these people.
I aint even saying Joe Calzaghe is as good as the fighters I've mentioned and I believe a prime Roy Jones Jr would have won a fight against Calzaghe, but I'm fucking sick of the treatment he gets. It isn't fair.
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