Joe Calzages resume: how could he have improved it?

[General Zod]

Coming to the states earlier...

Dude, your avatar is all kinds of wrong, lol.

[SirTomJones]

This thread isn't about who Calzaghe fought, but rather the fights that Calzaghe could of had. For example he should of fought Johnson especially after canceling the fight three times. He should of fought Pavlik instead of Jones and maybe fought Dawson before e he retired. What do yo u guys think?

3 times?

Pavlik fight would have been interesting but could they have filled up Madison Square Gardens and attract as much interest?

[-Swizzy-]

This thread isn't about who Calzaghe fought, but rather the fights that Calzaghe could of had. For example he should of fought Johnson especially after canceling the fight three times. He should of fought Pavlik instead of Jones and maybe fought Dawson before e he retired. What do yo u guys think?

by beating at least one great prime fighter. after Kessler's thorough destruction at the hands of Ward, I think it's safe to say that Kessler will never even be close to being an atg and that was Calzaghe's best win over a prime fighter. He could have grown the balls in the late 90's and early 2000's to fly over to the states and fight at least 1 or 2 fighters on American soil to earn a shot at hopkins or jones. but instead he made excuses like "I'm afraid of flying" but that fear quickly went away after hopkins and jones were past it. but at least he admitted that jones was the superior fighter and that if he was going to fight jones(in his prime) than he would need to get offered enough money for it.

[General Zod]

i understand why he didnt fight him, but an Otke fight would def. have helped his resume concidering he also was an unbeaten SMW with 20 defences.

Good point

[General Zod]

by beating at least one great prime fighter. after Kessler's thorough destruction at the hands of Ward, I think it's safe to say that Kessler will never even be close to being an atg and that was Calzaghe's best win over a prime fighter. He could have grown the balls in the late 90's and early 2000's to fly over to the states and fight at least 1 or 2 fighters on American soil to earn a shot at hopkins or jones. but instead he made excuses like "I'm afraid of flying" but that fear quickly went away after hopkins and jones were past it. but at least he admitted that jones was the superior fighter and that if he was going to fight jones(in his prime) than he would need to get offered enough money for it.

From my understanding of it Hopkins priced himself out, but what other viable opponents were there, Tarver maybe? I keep hearing about his fear of flying, did he actually say that nonsense?

[-EX-]

Dude, your avatar is all kinds of wrong, lol.

[B u r n e r]

Jones Prime

Hopkins Prime

Dawson

Toney.

Froch

Butte


Abraham


would be nice.

[General Zod]

Sure he did.

According to Frank Warren on the day the contracts were to be signed Hopkins demanded another 3M. Whats you take on why the fight never happened ?

[IMDAZED]

From my understanding of it Hopkins priced himself out, but what other viable opponents were there, Tarver maybe? I keep hearing about his fear of flying, did he actually say that nonsense?

I'm sure he could've found guys better than David Starie if he wanted. He complained about making weight but couldn't bring himself to try a LHW contender even though most were more recognizable and better than the bottom feeders at 168.

[IMDAZED]

According to Frank Warren on the day the contracts were to be signed Hopkins demanded another 3M. Whats you take on why the fight never happened ?

It did happen - after Hopkins called out Calzaghe a couple years ago. As to why it didn't happen back then--the same reason why Hopkins wouldn't fight anyone else either. If he didn't like King's cut, he asked for more. The idea that Hopkins was ducking someone who went life and death with Robin Reid and Sabary Kalem is hilarious.