Why does Joe Calzaghe get so much hate?

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People dislike, or better yet, have a deficient of respect for Calzaghe due to his early Bute-like period of fighting bums in England.
He compounded the problem by ducking the elites (as Bute did) until they were old and less than past prime before he faced them.
Even then, with less than prime elites in front of him, Calazghe lost to Hopkins, and beat on an punch drunk Jones.

Calzghe is, The King Of The English Bums.

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[UppercutDamage]

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Accurate and real.
Over half of Calzaghe KOs were due to help from the crooked English Refs who always seemed to stop the fight prematurely after Calzaghe landed a few of those fluff slaps of his.
LOL, the guy couldn't even throw a straight punch and tended to rip the tape of his gloves across his opponents faces.
Had Calzaghe fought in the US at that period, he would have been KO'ed long ago. Nigel Benn would have murdered him.

Of the Warren/Calzaghe team, Frank Warren was definitely the more talented of the two.
Business strategy Versus skill, and business strategy won.

[ßringer]

Ward couldn't even dominate a wild Sakio Bika.

......Neither could Joe.

[Larry the boss]

The facts bout Joe....................at 37 he was undefeated and Ring lhw champ..........at 37 Roy Jones was called shot and getting knocked the fuck out

[UppercutDamage]

Final tally of Joe Calzaghe's career, and his place in boxing history:

Hopkins, Toney, Jones, Benn are all > Joe "The Slappa" Calzghe

[rorymac]

Final tally of Joe Calzaghe's career, and his place in boxing history:

Hopkins, Toney, Jones, Benn are all > Joe "The Slappa" Calzghe

False.....

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Final tally of Joe Calzaghe's career, and his place in boxing history:

Hopkins, Toney, Jones, Benn are all > Joe "The Slappa" Calzghe

the slappa who dominated roy jones and split his face open. toney and hopkins famously ducked benn and eubank.


watch some more boxing, then come back and start posting.

[Poet682006]

At least we can agree on Bowie lol.

Not that I have Ricky in my sig because I thought he was a great fighter, I just like him for his character and heart

Yeah, but the problem with Weebler is he DOES think Hatton was a great fighter :hahahaha9:

[rorymac]

Yeah, but the problem with Weebler is he DOES think Hatton was a great fighter :hahahaha9:

What can you do?

Out of interest are there any fighters that you give an "unreasonable" amount of backing for one reason or another?

[Poet682006]

What can you do?

Out of interest are there any fighters that you give an "unreasonable" amount of backing for one reason or another?

Not really, I try to be a dispassionate as possible.

Hell, when I watch a fight I'm completely silent unless someone does something ******. After a fight, if a fighter I particularly like wins I'm happy for about five minutes, if he loses I'm bummed for about five minutes.

Poet