It's crazy to think that in Calzaghe's...

[I Love Jesus!]

Remember the stories Juyjuy used to post about Calzaghe's monstrous power? How a young Joe was one-punch Ko'ing Bouncers back in Wales.

yeah but he was koing bouncers in his "title" defenses to. Do we have to break out the videos again

[New England]

british refs stop fights too early. they're the laughing stock of the civilized world.

[dan_cov]

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[dan_cov]

Had enough power to sit iron chinned Eubank on his a#s. As his hand problems got worse he relied more and more on volume and sat down on his punches less.

He was well past his best & came down from Cruiserweight on just over a weeks notice! He was a dead man walking.

[soul_survivor]

There were some absolutely ridiculous stoppages in there but Cal hit harder when he was younger, Eubank said he was one of the hardest hitting guys he had ever faced but it is common knowledge that Cal had fragile hands and to save himself the pain and to extend his career as best as possible, he stopped sitting down on his punches as he had done in his early to mid 20s.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

He was well past his best & came down from Cruiserweight on just over a weeks notice! He was a dead man walking.

He was supposed to be fighting at Light Heavyweight on the same bill.

[DARKSEID]

What's even crazier is that 95% of those KOs were TKOs

[Oasis_Lad]

How hard Joe hit is of no concern to me. I couldn't give a shit.

The fact that an Old Joe went to America and Feigned Bumming Hopkins is enough for me. Especially after Hopkins ducked the **** out of a Prime fight between the two.

"Here you go, Bernard, a Career high pay day."

"I don't want it! I'd rather face Hakkar for 300K."

"WTF!"

[big_james10]

... first 25 fights, 23 of them ended in a knockout.

A 92% KO ratio lol.
Anyone else ever notice this?

I'd also like to add that only 2 of those 23 were actual KO's.

Now I've only really watched Calzaghe's second half of his career in spurts, but he was regarded as pretty feather-fisted at that point.. which to me, is the crazy part.

Was his decline in power due injuries/surgeries?

If so, I think it's still rather impressive to go from being a guy who can end a fight like that, then turn around and revamp his style to become a boxer who just completely out-fights, out-throws, and out-boxes his opponents (Regardless of a lack of top tier competition we in the SMW division like we have today).

What I have noticed is that this is a useless statistic. Like all other fighters with great KO percentages (including GGG and Deontay Wilder), his record is padded with tomato cans. Acelino Freitas won 29 of his first 30 fights by knockout. What happened after that? He started fighting live opponents. He fought 11 more times after that and lost two of those fights and had two draws. In both of the fights he lost, he quit in the middle of the round because he was getting the sh.t beat out of him.

Calzaghe spent most of his career in a weak division. When he finally moved up, he fought two guys at 175 who were way past their prime -- Roy Jones and Bernard Hopkins. He avoided Glenn Johnson like the plague when he had a chance to fight Johnson after Johnson KO'd Roy Jones and chose to retire instead of fighting Chad Dawson and Antonio Tarver when they were both in their primes at 175. He deserves none of the accolades that he has received.