Joe Calzaghe was on of the true greats

[Shadow boxer 3]

prime James Toney and prime Roy knock calzaghe out

[Shadow boxer 3]

In his last handful of fights he surrounded the loss to Calzaghe with a clear win over Winky, a serious beatdown of Tarver, and a Calzagheover Lacy like schooling of Pavlik. I don't think Bernard was too far gone from his prime if at all when he fought Joe.

WTF. B-hop was 43 years old and past his prime when he fought calzaghe. any reasonable calzaghe fan knows that.

[yeykax]

well i give Calzage some type of credit but not the greatest an what messed up his career was that he faced Hopkins,JRR when they were old not when we wanted to back in 2000 so bcuz of that he will never be consider An ATG!!!!

[koboy]

Also hampered by his lack of boxing skill and balls.

Joe has tons of boxing skill. He was one of the most adaptable fighters out there and could probably outbox anybody. Sadly, he chose not to fight Toney, RJJ and Hopkins in their prime and though we will never know what the true outcome of these fights could have been, I still think he would lose to them.

But Joe is a great boxer and ironically, it's one of the knocks against him, he boxed too much. He didn't exhibit any kind of power against the top fighters.

[portuge puncher]

how did the thread starter come to these copnclusions.

joe almost got beat by a 44 year old hopkins, i'd say if they would have fought when b-hop was 38, b-hop would have won.

and prime roy jones would destroy him, joe wouldent make it to the 8th round.

and toney at SMW would beat the **** out of joe.

joe's a good fighter, but dont compare him to ATG's

[hishaam15]

well i give Calzage some type of credit but not the greatest an what messed up his career was that he faced Hopkins,JRR when they were old not when we wanted to back in 2000 so bcuz of that he will never be consider An ATG!!!!

Well, if he fought JR n B-hop when they were in their primes i dont even think JC's name would be mentioned right now...

[daggum]

wierd thing about joe calzaghe is how his father always says there is nothin wrong with his hands it's in his head yet joe seems to always moan about it, could it simply be a made excuse for duckin fighters like johnson?

you got it exactly. a good excuse to pull out of fights and for his lack of power that he never had.

[boxasmash]

calzaghe is 37 and past his prime.

[boxasmash]

you got it exactly. a good excuse to pull out of fights and for his lack of power that he never had.

its great that you dedicated your whole account to joe calzaghe and all 2,500 posts.

damn you must really like him.

[daggum]

its great that you dedicated your whole account to joe calzaghe and all 2,500 posts.

damn you must really like him.

he's the greatest of all time. why talk about second best when we got joe calzaghe right here right now.