Comments Thread For: Nathan Cleverly: This Proves I'm Ready For The States

[mikeMack]

Cleverly needs to stay in the USA

America needs guys like Cleverly please stay here and live. Willing to trade 10,000 others in return. Get a better trainer like Hunter or Mayweather sr.

[yoz]

Cleverly has a lot of raw qualities going for him. He needs to get away from Wales and Warren and try to become a true champion, not the fraud he is now.

This ^^^^^^^.

[1prodz]

Cleverly absolutely destroys Hopkins with ease !!

[2012]

It was a great performance but the guy he was up against was quite bad imo, he rarely clinched & didn't know what to do on the ropes.

Lets hope Cleverly steps it up in his next fight

[daggum]

look at the fact that Calzaghe had about a dozen hand injuries in the first half of his career, and frequent re-occurrences thereafter

and all those early hand injuries were not "lies" as they were commonly reported at the time, when Joe was still taking his opponents out with ease, so it's not like he needed any excuses

Oh, but Americans don't like to acknowledge that, do they

and yet Ward's hand injury against Froch is brought up every 5 seconds

still pretending calzaghe had power? do we need to post all his "ko" vids again?

[IronDanHamza]

I wonder if he'll go down the same way Calzaghe has.

He'll pad his record for most of his career with C-class opposition. Then get the best out of a really close decision with 1 decent fighter, then retire undefeated.

I'd rather take losses from the best than have a legacy like Calzaghes

Then he'll be remembered as a great.

21 Title defenses after all, and everyone knows that equals great.

[MJ223]

I thought a title would prove that.....

[D-MiZe]

Cleverly and Calzaghe do not compare.

Cleverly really needs to get away from being trained by his father, it's limiting his potential. He was looking good when he was boxing his way in but as usual, that went out the window and he just became ragged.

Entertaining performance with him throwing so many punches but many landed on the gloves and he doesn't have good boxing IQ. Hawk was open for those body shots all night and it took Cleverly several rounds before he actually started working it.

The disappointing aspect with Calzaghe's career was that he was better than his record suggested and was never truly tested. However, Cleverly's level is already evident and fighting lesser opposition is the best way to go to preserve his career. I don't think this trend will continue though, he's getting sparked by a contender.