Joe Calzaghe

[BritishFightFan]

He may be over-rated by some Brits, but the man has been a World Champion for well over a decade and has never been beaten in the sport of boxing and the fact that he suffers with a terrible hand condition makes this all the more remarkable.

For me, a resume that includes names such as Bernard Hopkins, Chris Eubank, Mikkel Kessler, Jeff Lacy, Mitchell, Robin Reid and Roy Jones Jr. is fairly impressive and deserves at least a little bit of respect.

Why do some people appear to genuinely hate the man? Is it because he is British?

[hookoutofhell]

alot of things:

- hes welsh for one so the brits were a bit slow to get behind him, compared to other brit boxers like hatton, prince, benn, bruno. none of these fighters are as good as joe but theyre huge following meant that they were more likely to be picked by US fighters as they could at least bring in some dough.

- the style, even as a joe fan i can see why ppl would hate his style and say he is a slapper

- personality - out of the ring he isn't a hatton or prince, joe is pretty much a regular joe.

[Dynamite Kid]

hes a fraud

[BritishFightFan]

hes a fraud

I am not sure you can be a fraud when you become the Undisputed World Champion of your weight division, but everyone is entitled to their opinion, no matter how nasty.

[Dynamite Kid]

i am not sure you can be a fraud when you become the undisputed world champion of your weight division, but everyone is entitled to their opinion, no matter how nasty.

im just trying to provoke the fruad to fight someone half decent who is not 40 plus or unproven like kessler,lacy or at the end of their road mitchell,reid,brewer,eubank,woodhall

[2501]

I don't hate him, but i sure do hate his fans overrating him claiming he should be P4P #1 because he beat Jones.

[hookoutofhell]

I don't hate him, but i sure do hate his fans overrating him claiming he should be P4P #1 because he beat Jones.

hell no im a joe fan but no way does he deserve a no 1 spot for beating jones. personally i think if you were to break down their styles and look at the fighters and completly disregard their resumes then joe slightly edges out pacman, but as soon as you include their resumes then anyone has to admit that pacman takes it with a margin.

joe took the fight with RJJ as it was one of the only fights left that truly motivated him.

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"He always fights overated bums and old people."


Thats all you hear on here day after day lol

[Ian_ST24i]

joe took the fight with RJJ as it was one of the only fights left that truly motivated him.

That's true. He was up for RJJ, and really enjoyed himself in that fight, in stark contrast to the Hopkins fight, which he couldn't get motivated for.

Pacman has a better resume than Joe, and rightly deserves no.1 p4p.

[_Hunter_]

im just trying to provoke the fruad to fight someone half decent who is not 40 plus or unproven like kessler,lacy or at the end of their road mitchell,reid,brewer,eubank,woodhall

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