Did you know that CALZAGHE beat CHRIS BYRD in amateurs?

[dde91]

calzaghe beat everyone he fought
from olympic silver medallists to all time greats
no need to make a thread about it

Well any brit can stay in there country for the majority of there career, and let there Promoter make them look good.

[The_Demon]

i said this already once. Jeff Lacy and Mikkel Kessler are Garbage. They haven't proved that they are ****. And if Reid, Woodall were Champs when Calzaghe fought them, why didn't he get there belts??? because they weren't champs, thats why.. It's obvious is your have a WBC, WBA, IBF belt, that your level of competition is different then a WBO, IBO, IBC, etc. unless you already had a major belt or a p4p title, and Calzaghe didn't have none of those when he held the WBO all them years. He's whack son,

you are still bitter about him losing to hopkins?
get over it seriously

[The_Demon]

Well any brit can stay in there country for the majority of there career, and let there Promoter make them look good.

you remember what happened when bhop left the states haha

[Chunk..]

Amateur wins don't mean ****.

[marzblkman]

when bhop left the states haha

Yeah, he won in Paris and after being knockdown twice still earned a draw fighting on 10 days notice in Ecuador. Your point??

As far as how long it took Hopkins to unify the division. Please come with a better argument. After Hopkins beat Mercado, he was begging to unify it but Don King, (Hopkins was being promoted by Goosen's "American Events" & Butch Lewis at the time) had the other two champs in tow and wasn't looking to giving Hopkins a chance. He saw with his own eyes what Hopkins did to Mercado on 10 days notice and in the rematch.

Joppy and Holmes held the other belts and they were both DK fighters. It was only when King thought he had a marquee name in Tito did he want to do a tournament (with options on the winner of course).


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[TonyJ]

He KO'ed Chris Byrd. Calzaghe is the man. Hopkins fans will alway be jealous because Calzaghe 1. has more fans, 2. won the fight and last but not least is way more attractive than ugly Hop. YOu can't call yourself a defensive master with a nose like this.

Well any brit can stay in there country for the majority of there career, and let there Promoter make them look good.

And what did Hopkins? He fought a cab-driver in Paris and was owned by a rancher in Equador. Wow, what a impressive resume. He should be renamed in "the roadwarrior".
Calzaghe fought Hopkins in the US, ok it still was a homegame because the "big name" Hopkins has no fans.
Calzaghe would outsell Hopkins in Philadelphia because ppl recognize that he is an ATG.

[IMDAZED]

Well that would make him a pretty good amateur.

[pesticid]

People who don't recognize amateur carrers don't know squat about boxing. He knocked out Chris Byrd, he made Bhop piss his short, he destroyed Roy at his own game. He beated on Eubank every minute of every round without getting clipped. He destroyed the only favoured fighter to beat him in Jeff Lacy. Jeff was supposed to murder him and then Joe destroyed his career. Mikkel was almost even odds and he's faster, stronger and probably more technical than Zaghe. Hech I picked kessler to beat him and then Zaghe adjusts mid-fight and closes the show.

[dde91]

He KO'ed Chris Byrd. Calzaghe is the man. Hopkins fans will alway be jealous because Calzaghe 1. has more fans, 2. won the fight and last but not least is way more attractive than ugly Hop. YOu can't call yourself a defensive master with a nose like this.



And what did Hopkins? He fought a cab-driver in Paris and was owned by a rancher in Equador. Wow, what a impressive resume. He should be renamed in "the roadwarrior".
Calzaghe fought Hopkins in the US, ok it still was a homegame because the "big name" Hopkins has no fans.
Calzaghe would outsell Hopkins in Philadelphia because ppl recognize that he is an ATG.

Calzaghe is no where near an all time great. How can you be an ATG beating 40 year old Jones and 43 year old Hopkins.
And Calzaghe fought Old washed up European Bums to keep his Whack ass WBO title. The WBO is a joke. Calzaghe will always be remembered as the man who hid behind a country his entire career until the ATG's of our era got old. ITs obvious.

Calzaghe is no where near an all time great. How can you be an ATG beating 40 year old Jones and 43 year old Hopkins.
And Calzaghe fought Old washed up European Bums to keep his Whack ass WBO title. The WBO is a joke. Calzaghe will always be remembered as the man who hid behind a country his entire career until the ATG's of our era got old. ITs obvious.

I always say this, but Calzaghe actually fought more Americans than any other nation in his title defences.