Coffe fights mid-distance and is happy to trade. I givehim a chance to win. Unlike RJJ and Hopkins at this stage, Coffe has courage. c
Glencoffe is old but even still, he'd take Calzaghe to the brink and maybe even eat his asshole alive.
It would look like Calzaghe - Lacy,.. Joe would counter-punch when neccessary, and go forward where neccessary,.. Calzaghe has the skills that he's able to maintain on top of his stamina,... and I wasn't impressed with Glencoffe's last performance against that scrub Clinton Woods,..it was a major turn off, he may very well have lost that 'legitimately',...infact, all his fights with scrubbette Woods were close, Coffe fights in an endearing aggressive manner and unlike Hopkins, at 40+, Johnson is the real 'physical marvel' who fights like a young man, but brain always beats braun, Calzaghe has that, and the stamina in abundance.
I agree. Glen is one of my favorite fighters. I will always root for the guy, but he is not an elite fighter. He is good enough to beat good fighter on an off night for those fighters and bad enough to lose to Clinton Woods and Syd Vanderpool. He did get robbed alot and he did lost legitimately to some scrubs like Vanderpool and Woods.
dsimon writes: Well said Well said!!! :bears: Glencoffe always makes it a fight but even Tarver's speed befuddled him a bit. People may base their feelings on the Dawson fight But Dawson had a learning experience that fight.
So here's an interesting thought... Had Joe gone through with the proposed Glen Johnson fight in 2004 (postponed due to yet another Joe injury before being scrapped altogether), it's quite possible that either: - Roy never fights (and gets KTFO by) Johnson, or... - Roy never fights (and gets humiliated by) Calzaghe If Joe fought and beat Johnson back then, he'd have been a LHW titlist, but one that wasn't coming to America anytime soon. Thus, Roy, with minimal options (he wasn't rematching Tarver, and every other belt would've been tucked away in Europe) possibly sits out the remainder of 2004. Perhaps he comes back rejuvenated in 2005, instead of sitting on back-to-back KO losses for more than a year. Amazing how one cancelled fight affected three careers.
I think if Glen fought the perfect fight (i.e. the fight he fought against RJJ) he could win - moving his head, maintaining mid-distance, and staying low) he could give Joe a real run for his money by trading with him and avoding getting tied up.
It would definately be competitive and would I say Johnson would have a slightly outside shot at winning. In theory, Johnson could blunt Calzaghe's workrate with his own and push him back negating Calzaghe's aggressiveness.
dsimon writes: Not fast enough. Calzaghe has deceptively fast hands. Glencoffe would make it close against almost anyone... god bless the guy for that ability becasue it is underappreciated in these times, but int he end Joe gets there first on all the exchanges and wins an easy fight.
Calzaghe does have fast hands, i'm not even sure i would call it deceptive. I think his main strengths (other that workrate) are his awareness of distance and the angles he uses.
Deceptively fast is usually used on people who aren't ordinarily considered fast. Like Mayorga for example. Calzaghe has always been considered fast, and seen to have fast hands.
slappy's hand-speed is contingent on his slapping - it's the whole reason he slaps - to deceive people into thinking he has "rea" handspeed. "real" handspeed is Judah, RJJ, PBF, ODH, andGrigsby. Sloppy's handspeed is manufactured.
Glen beat Dawson IMO so if Joe doesn't retire, Glen should be the fight he takes. Not the Dicaonu ducker.
if the fight was close enough Johnson could get the edge as he'd land effective punches rather than wussy slaps
