is Calzaghe HOF or potential future HOF

[Moschino045]

an article on Secondsout says hes not, but says that steve Collins IS ??

[Easy-E]

not yet, but he finally looks like hes going in the right direction

[Derranged]

He would have to do a hell of a lot more than just beat Lacy

[Super Cruiserweight]

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[Katz]

i think he could be, if he stays undefeated, unifies middleweight, and wipe out the lightheavyweight.

[strongisland24]

if he takes out tarver big time. not like close. i think it would have to be a huge one sided fight.

[Bozo_no no]

Absolutley not.

He wasted almost his entire career up to this point, and in the grand scheme of things, this win over Lacy is not a HoF ticket.

He'd have to pick it up as of right now and win a title at 175, unify 168, or beat a string of credible top rated fighters.

One fight doesn't make him a HoF fighter.

[ELPacman]

This Lacy fight certainly made him standout now, though it doesn't put him into HOF status. The Lacy fight was a great win though in the end, he beat a very inexperienced, young, and horribly looking 1 dimensional fighter. In that fight at least. Lacy just reminded me of Vargas for a second, though I wouldn't say Joe is Tito or DLH yet.

[JuicyJuice]

I was speaking to my mate Dean Francis after the Ashira fight, and I told him that I believed Joe wouldn't get the respect he deserved until he retired.

Even if he retired after the Evans Ashira fight or lost against Jeff Lacy, I told Dean that nobody will go undefeated for 15 years (amateur or pro) like he did (Calzaghe hasn't lost since 1990, and that was such a bad robbery that it made Roy Jones Jr's loss to Park Si-Hun look fair by comparison). I told him that nobody will dominate the number-one ranked amateur in the world (at that weight) like he did (and get robbed as badly as he did). I told him that nobody will win ABA titles three years in a row at three different weights like he did. I told him that nobody will go 40-0 as a pro at that level (beating five former world champions at that weight) like he did. I told him that nobody will break their hand after four rounds in a world title fight and win the next eight rounds one-handed like he did.

Obviously, I was wrong that Joe won't get the respect he deserves until he retires because after that win over Lacy he has the respect now. But I still say he's under-rated and under-appreciated.

Also let's remember that Joe was the first man to ever stop Chris Byrd and the first man to ever floor Chris Eubank.