Andre Ward vs Joe Calzaghe.

Sure, but Fossles was a pretty awesome light heavyweight. He'd destroy God Boy too.

 

no question

the point is they'd all weigh light heavyweight on fight night, so it's not as if it's unfair... Still both would be raped by Foster, Charles, Spinks, Archie, Harold Johnson, EMM, Roy in his prime... Galindez would prove far too strong, and Saad would come on late (as always) and knock the shit out of them... Conteh shitkicks both of them as well

 

Conteh v Calzaghe is a fight I'd love to see. Joe would be battered in bolivian

MTF

 

It seems hard to believe they'd weigh the same.

Wasn't Foster like 6'3? Pretty solid looking too. I think he'd dwarf Joe and Ward in the ring.

Incidentally, how big of a SMW do you think Calzaghe was?

IMO kind of average sized. He's a legit 6 foot (ignore that 5'11 boxrec has), but a pretty slender 6 foot. Calzaghe has never looked particularly beefy.

Frock is a big super middle. An inch taller and just all around thicker.

 

Even when Foster fought at heavyweight he barely broke 180, I don't think he was by any means a big light heavyweight

 

Wow, that's nuts, he really did weigh in at 180 odd.

I guess he wasn't a particularly big light heavy. In fact looking at him, he does have a comparatively smaller frame than someone like Hearns. His upper body is pretty slender, narrow shoulders etc.

He's just tall. But then again you have Tall Paul who is in the 6'3 range and somehow made 147 ::

 

he weighed in the 170s every time out, that makes him a Lt. Heavy, same as foster

And Foster had narrower shoulders than my girlfriend

 

Yup, Conteh would knock the legwarmers off 'im

 

It's weird that Foster has such small shoulders actually.

Historically big punches always have big shoulders. Even guys like Hearns who was pretty skinny at 147, had some big meaty shoulders, to really get some mustard on those shots.

 

Foster's power, imo, came from his legs and his superb technique/timing

You would expect Foster to have chicken legs but he really didn't

 

As a barely related aside to the power discussion, I was reading an article on Carl Froch's training yesterday and he was going through the expected stuff about his running, push ups, sit ups, chin ups etc before he mentioned he did some light weight training.

'I take 25-30kg and stick it on either side of the bar so it adds up to about my bodyweight & pick it up from the floor and lift it over my head. I usually do 4 sets of about 20 with shortish breaks, but I make sure I take it easy because I don't want to strain myself'.

Anybody who's trained with weights knows that's STRONG, even if Carl doesn't. He then goes onto say that punching powers just god given and he's sparred with lightweights who punch hard and heavy guys who don't, etc without considering that guys being strong enough to put bodyweight over your head 80 times in 5 minutes without straining themselves might play a part.