British Guy Who Beats Calzaghe (vids)

[BARNWOOD]

MICHAEL WATSON. HE MIGHT OF BEEN ABIT STIFF BUT HAD SOME REALLY NICE SKILLS. AND ALL THE TOOLS TO BEAT JOE EG COOL UNDER PRESSURE, CONSUMMATE COUNTERPUNCHING, USED HIS LEFT HAND BRILLIANTLY ON BOTH DEFENCE AND OFFENCE- OPENING HIS GLOVE AND HOLDING IT HIGH TO PROTECT HIS HEAD (FRM JOES JAB AND RIGHT HOOKS) ON DEFENCE AND ON OFFENCE HOOKING OFF JAB, DOUBLING HOOKS HEAD TO BODY ETC THIS REDUCES JOE TO JUST SWEEPING LEFT HANDS WHICH LEAVES HIM OPEN FOR THE RIGHT HAND PUNCH THAT ENDED ALOT OF WATSONS FIGHTS

JOE WAS GREAT AGAINST LACY BUT HE WAS IN WITH A PUNCBAG, LOOK WHAT WATSON DID TO A SUPER SLUGGER/SWARMER LIKE BENN WHO HAD SPEED TO SPARE. HE WAS A BIGGER UNDERDOG AGAINST BENN THAN CALZAGHE WAS AGAINST LACY

ROUNDS 1/2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5gsFbGyxmE
ROUNDS 3/4- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLrRdH9DHdg
ROUNDS 5/6- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgXobe8_8Yk

THE 2ND ROUND IS AN ALMOST FLAWLESS EXHIBITION OF BOXING FROM WATSON. HE IS LITERALLY PUNCH-****ING-PERFECT- ALONG WITH BENN'S FISTS SWIRLING ROUND HIS GUARD, WE SEE WATSON HIT HIM WITH EVERY SHOT IN THE BOOK IN THIS ROUND. NOT JUST JABS, THOUGH PLENTY OF THEM; LEAD STRAIGHT RIGHT HANDS, LEAD RIGHT UPPERCUTS AND BABY BARRERA-STYLE LEFT HOOK/UPPERCUTS, UPPERCUT-JAB 1-2'S, LEAD RIGHT-LEFT HOOK 1-2'S, DIGGING BODYSHOTS, THE ABSOLUTE WORKS, IN HIS QUITE METHODICAL WAY WATSON HITS HIM WITH THE KITCHEN SINK. BENN LANDS MAYBE TWICE CLEANLY IN THE WHOLE ROUND

THE 2ND FIGHT WITH EUBANK WE SEE WATSON KEEP UP THE PACE OF A LIGHTWEIGHT WHILE HITTING EUBANK AS HARD AS POSSIBLE WITH EVERY SINGLE PUNCH AND WITH ALL THIS ABLE TO KEEP SWITCHING THE ANGLE OF HIS ATTACK THROUGHOUT! HE WAS SO STRONG THAT TRAGIC NIGHT HE MIGHT WALK RIGHT THROUGH JOE ON THAT FORM

[The Noose]

Benn and Calzaghe are quite different.
Especially a young wild inexperienced Benn.
I think it would have been close.

Watson was very good. Incredibly strong.
I think ironically his best fight was against Eubank. His last one.
Ive never seen Eubank broken down the way Watson did that night.
Yet Eubank pulled out one of the most amazing KOs ever.

[shingle]

mike mccallum give watson a hell of a beating and stopped him easily watson would have been to slow against calzaghe and would have been given a boxing lesson

[Mr. Ryan]

I think Michael Watson's various disabilities would make his conquest of Calzaghe a little complicated. I recently read a story on Michael Watson's recovery, I'm so glad that he's regaining his motor functions again.

[GEOFFHAYES]

Watson rope-a-doped Benn, all he had to do was keep his ****ing hands up because Nigel was such an idiot back then. Before that, nobody knew who Watson was.

He looked one-dimensional, static and average in the McCallum and first Eubank fights. Eubank had to lose 19lbs in four days and was completely gone after six rounds (couldn't even stand up straight) but Watson couldn't take advantage, Eubank had won the first six rounds easily.

The second Eubank fight, yes Watson was leagues above anything we'd ever seen from him.. the rumours of hypnosis and drugs.. wouldn't suprise me, because he was a completely different fighter from the first Eubank fight and it wasn't a jaded Eubank this time. He was very, very strong on that tragic night, everything Eubank hit him with - nothing, Watson kept coming. Eubank said he heard Watson breathing heavily in the first fight when up-close or in clinches but not at all in the second fight despite it being fought at a much higher tempo, and says Watson's hands felt an awful lot heavier second time around and heavier than any hands he's ever felt. He said Watson scared him. When he made the comment in the post-fight interview about wanting Watson's blood tested, he meant it (despite denying it later).

[GEOFFHAYES]

Watson and Calzaghe, it's difficult to say, the Watson that fought Eubank in the second fight looked so strong and Joe could not stand and trade IMO. But that was just one fight.

Generally, I'd go for Calzaghe, definately.

[GEOFFHAYES]

mike mccallum give watson a hell of a beating and stopped him easily watson would have been to slow against calzaghe and would have been given a boxing lesson

McCallum wasn't all that impressive against Watson, but Watson posed little problems just standing in front of McCallum and throwing lots of pitter-patter shots (most of which missing).. he was just picked off here and there, gradually broken down to the body and collapsed through as much exhaustion as anything in the 11th.

No way an old McCallum beats the Watson from Eubank II.

[Shanus]

Watson rope-a-doped Benn, all he had to do was keep his ****ing hands up because Nigel was such an idiot back then. Before that, nobody knew who Watson was.

He looked one-dimensional, static and average in the McCallum and first Eubank fights. Eubank had to lose 19lbs in four days and was completely gone after six rounds (couldn't even stand up straight) but Watson couldn't take advantage, Eubank had won the first six rounds easily.

The second Eubank fight, yes Watson was leagues above anything we'd ever seen from him.. the rumours of hypnosis and drugs.. wouldn't suprise me, because he was a completely different fighter from the first Eubank fight and it wasn't a jaded Eubank this time. He was very, very strong on that tragic night, everything Eubank hit him with - nothing, Watson kept coming. Eubank said he heard Watson breathing heavily in the first fight when up-close or in clinches but not at all in the second fight despite it being fought at a much higher tempo, and says Watson's hands felt an awful lot heavier second time around and heavier than any hands he's ever felt. He said Watson scared him. When he made the comment in the post-fight interview about wanting Watson's blood tested, he meant it (despite denying it later).

He said Calzaghe hit the hardest out of anybody he ever fought.

[GEOFFHAYES]

He said Calzaghe hit the hardest out of anybody he ever fought.

There's a difference between hardest shots and heaviest hands. People claim Eubank said "Never been hit like that!" when walking out the arena after the Calzaghe fight. But Eubank himself insists Benn was the hardest hitter..

[Shanus]

There's a difference between hardest shots and heaviest hands. People claim Eubank said "Never been hit like that!" when walking out the arena after the Calzaghe fight. But Eubank himself insists Benn was the hardest hitter..

When Annie uploads the documentary again, listen, he said he's never been hit as hard as Calzaghe.

I like the way the 1990's elite take their hat off to him.