Calzaghes win over Eubank or Frochs win over Taylor which is more impressive

[letsgobrady]

Taylor is in his prime. What are you basing the bold part on? how do you know the Taylor from now wouldn't knock out a 31 year old Eubank under 36 rounds?

My bad, I meant under 6 rounds Lol.

the only fights the taylor clearly won were against lacy and ouma and even in the ouma fight who was a much smaller man still kind of made taylor look bad every other fight could of went either way and winky clearly beat him, i don't understand the hype behind fighters that have a bunch of contraversial wins

[Abstraction]

Voted Eubank, but meant to vote for Taylor,

Eubank was 2-3 in his last 5 bouts, and lost his next two bouts.
Taylor, despite losing to Pavlik, still looked alot better than Eubank did

[daggum]

hmmm, thats true. Eubank did get a few gift decisions late in his career, although I only remember the Close and Schommer ones.

also the second benn and first watson fights were gifts. malinga fight could have gone either way too. he lost basically half his fights during his title "reign"

[coghaugen]

I believe both were underdogs in both fights.

Calzaghe was quite a big betting favourite against Eubank.

[coghaugen]

If you judged Eubanks fights on aggression and workrate, he lost to Malinga, Thornton, Close (first), Benn (second), Amaral, Schommer. But if you judged them on accuracy and economy, he won every one of his fights clearly including Collins (first), Thompson (first).

It's all subjective.


"In my last fight against Joe Calzaghe I lost 20 pounds in seven days because I underestimated him and thought I could beat him on heart alone." -Eubank, Feb '98

"Since I started boxing in February 1983 I've always had to lose weight. So this is a first." -Eubank, Feb '98

[hammerhiem]

Anyone who thinks Eubank was shot Vs Calzaghe needs to sit their dumb ass in front of a tape of the two Thompson fights.

[street bully]

Cmon. Eubanks was really diminished when he fought calzaghe, his speed and timing were non existant, and all he had was power.

[gingeralbino]

If you judged Eubanks fights on aggression and workrate, he lost to Malinga, Thornton, Close (first), Benn (second), Amaral, Schommer. But if you judged them on accuracy and economy, he won every one of his fights clearly including Collins (first), Thompson (first).

It's all subjective.


"In my last fight against Joe Calzaghe I lost 20 pounds in seven days because I underestimate him and thought I could beat him on heart alone." -Eubank, Feb '98

"Since I started boxing in February 1983 I've always had to lose weight. So this is a first." -Eubank, Feb '98

I havent watched the Eubanck/Close fights again, and I was a kid watching them on tv at the time, but I was furious that Eubank got the decision in the first one, I thought it was a pure robbery. I remember the second one being closer. Its hard to tell, as I'm from N.Ireland I was always gonna root for our local fighter, and I was a kid so who knows.

[Hook]

I believe both were underdogs in both fights. Calzaghe clearly beat Eubank by decision, while Froch had to come from behind to beat taylor by knocking him out in the 12th round.

Yes I know I ****ed up the poll by typing too fast...

Calzaghe was the favourite to beat a washed up Eubank. Eubank had not won a decent fight for year and year. He was pretty much inactive for two years and semi retired. He took the fight at 11 days notice drain.

FROCHS WIN IS A MILLION TIMES SUPERIOR

[deadbeat hero]

interesting difference of opinion on Eubank here. Personally, I don't ever remember watching Eubank and thinking he was shot. It got a bit messy for him towards the end of his career but I only ever remember him being courageous in the ring. The Thompson fights were brutal !