Originally posted by Caps Conscience
You can't be serius when you compare the B-Hops and Calzaghe's resume it is very lopsided. B-Hop has KOed 2 boxing hall of famers (Oscar Delahoya and Tito Trinidad) and outpointed another Hall of Famer in Winky Wright not only that but he jumped up 2 divisions to beat the linear lightheavy weight champ after the age 40. All this after defending his title 20 consecutive times(against the likes of William Joppy, Antwan Echols, Howard Eastman, Segundo Mercado and the list goes on) . Zaghe has defended 20+ times, but he also ducked a Prime Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. and now that these guys are noticeably past their respective primes he is looking for big money fights against them.<----these actions make him a fraud in my eyes.
can't be serious?...there's only 1 thing we need to take into account...Calzaghe schooled Hopkins...it was always on the cards...to say it's because Hopkins is over the hill when Calzaghe is 36 years old himself is a bit of a bizarre point to make....he beat Kessler in what you would consider his prime
wow...Hopkins beat De la Hoya....not saying De la Hoya isn't a good fighter...but when you actually examine his career....he's never beaten any of the top opponents he went up against
as for the likes of Joppy....who?...look at his last 5 fights before Bute...the people he fought were useless...the 5 of them in there 6 fights each before Joppy...that's 30 fights in total...won a total of 3 between them....top notch opponents
same applies to Antwun Echols...useless fighter...shows in his last 6 fights...hasn't won since 2004....lost or drew as many as he has since Hopkins...against nobodies
Eastman...lost 5 of his last 7
Mercado...won 1 of his last 9 since hopkins in the last 13 years..
yes...all top drawer fighters....well played
oh
and Calzaghe beat Hopkins
now on the other hand we'll look at Calzaghe's opponents, opponents
Kessler...beat Mundine...who since that fight has won all of his fights
beat Andrade...who has only ever lost to Kessler
Jeff Lacy...only ever lost to Calzaghe...although he got that much of a whooping that hes only fought twice since
As far as Chad Dawson is concerned he is not ranked anywhere near Calzaghe in the P4P rankings and I believe that he would mop the floor with slappy go lucky. Bringing Dawson into this discussion in the way that you are trying to do is irrelevant because Chad is still proving himself while Calzaghe has been a Champion for over 10 years and there are only few named opponents on his resume.
still proving himself as in...hasn't proved himself at all...because he hasn't fought anyone of note at all....he should fight Andre Ward or Anthony Dirrell...both around the same weight...ish...both good prospects
Jaden its no secret that your biased and its being proven in the fact that you are defending Calzaghe even though you are not backing anything up with actual facts.
I dont have to defend him....the fact that he's undisputed champion of one of the most competetive weight divisions in boxing is defence enough...the fact that he's held a title for over 10 years is defence enough