Favorite fighters from the 90s.

I said jones jr would have beat the fuck out of Calzaghe and either made him turn bitch or get kod. Where did I mention the word mallard?

 

Context. Behave.

 

Jones had his chance with Calzaghe. Made Kellermans weep.

 

Calzaghe knew his place

He stayed where it was safe among the Mario diets and kid fyre McIntyres.

 

Most Americans (including me) thought Lacy would best Calzaghe.

But most Calzaghe haters have one thing in common. They're 0-4 in predictions in his big fights. They picked Lacy, Kessler, RJJ & Hopkins.

 

Calzaghe means "Pol Pot" in Engrish

 

Who the fuck picked jones jr over Calzaghe?

 

Agreed..no Vinne Paz, no HoF

 

nobody with any brains

 

Will McIntyre made Richard Frazier look like ezzard charles

 

To Joe’s credit, I believe he wanted the big fights but Warren played a major role in him not getting them. I think Warren probably figured he was past his best and pitted him against Lacy possibly thinking he’d cash him out while he could.

 

Plenty did:

Final Prediction: Roy Jones vs. Joe Calzaghe

 

Yeah after Marciano was done with him....

 

It was Warren and if you look at Hatton it was pretty identical, Hatton had to demand the Zoo fight....

 

I'd say Calzaghe was more complicit than Hatton, happy to follow Warren's business plan

 

This...

Sadly for Calzaghe, His was the Era Where Euro Fighters STOPPED Hiding Overseas, Like Prince Naseem and Lennox Lewis...and Ricky Hatton to Follow...

Yet, Until VERY Late In His Career, Calzaghe was Lumped w/MichalSHITski and Other Euro Fighters Who Wouldn't Even ENTERTAIN the Notion of Fighting on American Soil...

Calzaghe's Admitted He COULDN'T Beat a Prime RJ...Beating a Twice KO'ed Roy Jones Meant NATHAN...



REED

 

Yeah REED beat me to it. I remember Joe admitting that he wouldn't beat a prime Jones.

I think even Froch admitted he couldn't beat a prime Jones. With Carl's ego, that's saying a lot, because until then I never heard Froch say a guy would have beaten him.

 

Yeah was wondering that myself. Everyone woth half a brain knew RJ was a dead man at this point

 

Hahaha go read about him vs johnson. Horrible duck job

 

5 years?

Betwen the Eubank and Lacy fight ( more than 8 years), the only ''good'' fighter he faced was Brewer (no Sheika and Mitchell dont count).

edit: I guess you could also add Robbed Reid, who was, well robbed

 

Lol that's not really saying much. A prime RJJ would beat the fuck out of a lot of people and yes no doubt Calzaghe would be destroyed.

 

A fair few did, remarkably. I won a bunch of sig bets on that fight, including one with Mister REED (who may have made that pick with his heart, rather than his head tbf), if memory serves.

MTF

 

Michael Watson
Nigel Benn
Paul Ingle (I lived in Scarborough at that time. Ingle was a massive celebrity there and had a sports bar where he regularly drank with locals. Good lad is Paul).
Lennox Lewis
Carl Thompson

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I think he pretty shamelessly ducked Glen Johnson. That's fairly clear. But he agreed to travel to America to fight Hopkins and signed a pre-contract to do so. Hopkins pulled out to fight that Hakkar guy and Joppy instead.

The Lacy fight was clearly intended by Werren as a cash-out. Most expected Joe to get laid out. It was only after that fight that everyone realised what a waste of a career Calzaghe had been up to that point.

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Sky Sports did an interesting talk thing a few years back with Collins, Eubanks, Calzaghe, RJJ and Ritchie fucking Woodhall. It's probably still on YouTube somewhere. Collins spent the whole time acting the prick and challenging RJJ to fights Anyway, pretty much everyone bar Collins accepted that RJJ would have beaten them. RJJ said he thought his hardest fight would have been against Eubanks.

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For those who haven't seen it. It's an interesting watch:

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How is ingle now

 

He's much better. After the injury he suffered really bad mental health problems and got almost as fat as Hamed. Sold the bar in Scarborough and denounced boxing. He's lost a load of weight. As coincidence would have it, I'm in Scarborough now with the missus. He's still milling around and he's recently opened a new bar with his boxing memorabilia back on the walls. It's great. Had a pint or two in there.

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Calig keeping receipts. I remember the build up to that fight. Lots of people seemed blind to just how shot Jones obviously was.

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Are you going to Scarborough Fair?