Joe Calzaghe, Whats so great about him anyway?

[Mistadobalina]

he's christian bale's brother

[Walt Liquor]

Was that article about Floyd mayweather?

[daggum]

his mental game.....and anyone who outhustles bhop gets my respect...zaghe got great skills....

you respect a guy for throwing a bunch of inaccurate punches just to steal the fight cause he doesn't have the skill to hit hopkins cleanly. pretty sure boxing is hit and not be hit instead of calzaghe's throw aimlessly and get countered strategy. i respect him for inventing a new sport that is based on volume and not substance. good job joe!

[baracuda]

He out-hustled an OLD Hopkins. Same reason why Hopkins lost to Taylor. Hopkins started to wait for rounds to go by before he picked up the pace. That happens with aging fighters.
Hopkins had been on the decline stamina wise for years. Not to say Calzaghe was at his peak either, but it would have been interesting if you could at least take the two at the same age (of where Clazaghe was) if you couldn't get them in their prime.

Either way...I've always maintained that it was not Calzaghe's fault for not getting the Hopkins fight sooner....that's on Hopkins for not moving up. Of course, I do put blame on Calzaghe for not moving up to fight a Prime Roy Jones Jr. either.

was'nt bhop in the p4p when zaghe beat him?.....and what did an older bhop did to the undefeated pavlik ?....

[Kevin Jesus]

They weren't "Great" by the time Joe got to them. They were just "names."

Exactly. 40 year old names at that.

RJJ had been brutally KTFO twice already.

Hopkins just came off one of the ugliest fights i have ever seen and he was already 43.

I think calling a fighter a really good fighter is already good enough. It's not like "really good fighters" appear all the time.

[Shadows]

Calzaghe was a very, very good fighter. Deal with it.

His resume wasn't the greatest, but that doesn't anything away from his skills.

[baracuda]

you respect a guy for throwing a bunch of inaccurate punches just to steal the fight cause he doesn't have the skill to hit hopkins cleanly. pretty sure boxing is hit and not be hit instead of calzaghe's throw aimlessly and get countered strategy. i respect him for inventing a new sport that is based on volume and not substance. good job joe!

..he could'nt hurt bhop even if he wanted to,so he tried to outpoint him and he did.....i did'nt think bhop would hesitate to throw punches like hedid with all the talk pre fight...joes mental game did a good job ..you do what you gotta do to win..and he did it fair and square...

[Kevin Jesus]

So a 'name' destroyed the current middleweight king?

Cool story brah.

Kelly Pavlik is a good fighter with great power. Nothing special, you'll see a former WW beat him over 12 rounds, at his own weight.

[VipersThunder]

I agree.

Great fighters like RJJ and Hopkins would beat him..

Oh wait...

If they weren't over 40 boxers at the time of the fight it would be different. I think that goes without saying but you just have to have a come back right?

[Walt Liquor]

If cal-slappy hits like such a bitc h, how did many of his opponents faces' get so busted up. How did Byron Mitchell get knocked out? How did lacy's career get destroyed?

I can understand a lot of the criticism, because he had so much time in between fights and took a lot of soft touches, but it's easy to see the hate when you can't bear to give him credit for any of his wins. Dude is a master boxer with a very high boxing iq. That is undeniable.