Joe Calzaghes 21 Title defenses

[!! Shawn]

although i agree with the weakness of calzaghe's defenses......

omar sheika wasn't a bum! he was pretty good just nothing special.

he gave us some pretty entertaining fights.

Charles Brewer wasn't a bum either.

[IMDAZED]

what makes David Telesco, Graciano Rocchigiani, Lou Del Valle, Eric Harding, Julio Cesar Gonzalez, Zsolt Erdei, Glen johnson or Clinton Woods and better than the equivelent top 5 at SMW?

Answer: nothing, both divisions where weak as fcuk.

Go ahead and post the top five at 168 for those same years. Then lets compare.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

bsrizpac and IMDAZED setting up camp in a Calzaghe thread.

Well I never!

[hammerhiem]

Yeah I gotta umm...disagree with you there. LHW was a LOT better than SMW.

Unless of course you think guys like Virgil Hill were garbage.

That being said yes you are correct, SMW was garbage.

Virgil Hill was never held a title @175 during Calzaghe's SMW reign having lost his before Calzaghe beat Eubank, he moved up to Cruiser in 1998 calzaghe had all of 2 defences at that time.

[Xplosivo]

Now post the SMW rankings for those years. And then let's go toe-to-toe. I'm here.

1999 Ring Ranking:

Title Vacant
1. Sven Ottke
2. Joe Calzaghe
3. Byron Mitchell
4. Markus Beyer
5. Charles Brewer


2000 Ring Ranking:

Title Vacant
1. Sven Ottke
2. Joe Calzaghe
3. Bruno Girard
4. Charles Brewer
5. Thomas Tate

2001

Title Vacant
1. Sven Ottke
2. Joe Calzaghe
3. Byron Mitchell
4. Antwun Echols
5. Charles Brewer

2002

Title Vacant
1. Joe Calzaghe
2. Sven Ottke
3. Antwun Echols
4. Eric Lucas
5. Byron Mitchell

Interestingly, the ring title for 168 lbs for vacant from 1998 - 2005

http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.ph...eweight--2000s

[redhead]

Calzaghe would beat ANY of the proposed fighters you people mention. All in their prime too.

Jones is a fcuking *****

Benn was MASSIVELY over rated

I could go on.

idiots.

[IMDAZED]

Virgil Hill was never held a title @175 during Calzaghe's SMW reign having lost his before Calzaghe beat Eubank, he moved up to Cruiser in 1998 calzaghe had all of 2 defences at that time.

He was still a top contender until 1999, I believe. At least up until towards the end of '98 when he took a tune-up at cruiser. Calzaghe was champ in 1997 and a ranked super middle. But let's compare the two divisions, man.

[IMDAZED]

1999 Ring Ranking:

Title Vacant
1. Sven Ottke
2. Joe Calzaghe
3. Byron Mitchell
4. Markus Beyer
5. Charles Brewer


2000 Ring Ranking:

Title Vacant
1. Sven Ottke
2. Joe Calzaghe
3. Bruno Girard
4. Charles Brewer
5. Thomas Tate

2001

Title Vacant
1. Sven Ottke
2. Joe Calzaghe
3. Byron Mitchell
4. Antwun Echols
5. Charles Brewer

2002

Title Vacant
1. Joe Calzaghe
2. Sven Ottke
3. Antwun Echols
4. Eric Lucas
5. Byron Mitchell

Interestingly, the ring title for 168 lbs for vacant from 1998 - 2005

http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.ph...eweight--2000s

Not interesting at all - not a shock either.

LMAO @ Antwun Echols making the top five.

[hammerhiem]

Go ahead and post the top five at 168 for those same years. Then lets compare.

1998 SMW

Title Vacant
Frankie Liles
Joe Calzaghe
Richie Woodhall
Sven Ottke
Charles Brewer

2002 SMW

Title Vacant
Joe Calzaghe
Sven Ottke
Antwun Echols
Eric Lucas
Byron Mitchell

2004 SMW

Title Vacant
Joe Calzaghe
Mikkel Kessler
Anthony Mundine
Antwun Echols
Danny Green

[hammerhiem]

Not interesting at all - not a shock either.

LMAO @ Antwun Echols making the top five.

Be honest is Echols any worse at top 5 than Erdei?

Honestly now.

The ring title was vacant because Ottke was top 2 and refused to fight anyone he couldn't get a home town win off.