He could have beaten the slow top 10 guys like Diaconu and Cloud, and weaker lower top 10 contenders like Mack and Murat
Maybe if he fought the older top 10 Light Heavyweights like Johnson and Tarver he could have outworked them, maybe. But he was dropped by both Hopkins and Jones so it would have been interesting to see what fresher Light Heavies like Dawson and Pascal would have done, or even what the older Johnson and Tarver could have done
All those fights would have interested me, plus early fights at LHW. I'd have liked to have seen Joe move up after he couldn't get the unification fight with Ottke in 2003.
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