Joe Calzaghe Announces Retirement

Lets have it straight hopkins and roy jones jnr ducked calazghe for years and wen he came big they decided 2 fight him. The hopkins fight was made 2004 but hopkins asked for double the the money when the fight was made read clazaghe's book. Dawson has faught over the hill fighters in tarver and johnson, i fink glen johnson won that fight. Hopkins is a boring fighter to watch atleast calzaghe was gud to watch. HE faught and beat everyone thats was infront of him give him sum respect!!!!
 
Lets have it straight hopkins and roy jones jnr ducked calazghe for years and wen he came big they decided 2 fight him. The hopkins fight was made 2004 but hopkins asked for double the the money when the fight was made read clazaghe's book. Dawson has faught over the hill fighters in tarver and johnson, i fink glen johnson won that fight. Hopkins is a boring fighter to watch atleast calzaghe was gud to watch. HE faught and beat everyone thats was infront of him give him sum respect!!!!

CALZAGHE GREAT FIGHTER
 
Lets have it straight hopkins and roy jones jnr ducked calazghe for years and wen he came big they decided 2 fight him. The hopkins fight was made 2004 but hopkins asked for double the the money when the fight was made read clazaghe's book. Dawson has faught over the hill fighters in tarver and johnson, i fink glen johnson won that fight. Hopkins is a boring fighter to watch atleast calzaghe was gud to watch. HE faught and beat everyone thats was infront of him give him sum respect!!!!

CALZAGHE GREAT FIGHTER!!!
 
The problem with this is that the casual UK boxing fan sees his record, sees him as undefeated and assumes he is the GOAT.

Personally I think he leaves behing a great legacy and the best Super Middleweight ever. BUT I think he should have carried on, and Im dissapointed that he finishes his career with two fights against guys far past their prime. He shouldve fought Dawson at least.
 
British fans think he will make HOF everyone else says he's mediocre.Beating Lacy and Hopkins isnt enough for HOF.
 
Coster said:
Dawson was coming off the back off a debatable decision win over Glen Johnson & Pavlik would've been easier than RJJ. The fight would've been looked at no different to the Lacy fight.. in a Jones he at least beat a legend, though he turned out to be a shadow of his former self. I remember a lot of people on here picking Jones for that fight though...
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exactly, i love the hypocrisy here. Every fight he has he's picked by half of sherdog to get beat and then when he doesn't they're cans or over the hill. Hop was so past it he destroyed Pavlik. Ottke ducked him and earlier in his career jones, collins and hopkins didn't want the risk for the money. He gets off the floor to win 4 times and has had to deal with awful hand problems.

If he fought and beat dawson he'd get no credit, i wouldn't have minded seeing the froch fighe but good on him for calling it a day. Let the haters have their say but he will be known as the best super middle ever, not a bad legacy.
 
Coster said:
Dawson was coming off the back off a debatable decision win over Glen Johnson & Pavlik would've been easier than RJJ. The fight would've been looked at no different to the Lacy fight.. in a Jones he at least beat a legend, though he turned out to be a shadow of his former self. I remember a lot of people on here picking Jones for that fight though...
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Really? I don't recall a lot of people picking Roy Jones... If they were, it was because they are sentimental sons of bitches... I heard Roy Jones was going to fight Joe Cal, I immediately thought of Roy Jones' fight with Glen Johnson.
 
Tony121 said:
exactly, i love the hypocrisy here. Every fight he has he's picked by half of sherdog to get beat and then when he doesn't they're cans or over the hill. Hop was so past it he destroyed Pavlik. Ottke ducked him and earlier in his career jones, collins and hopkins didn't want the risk for the money. He gets off the floor to win 4 times and has had to deal with awful hand problems.

If he fought and beat dawson he'd get no credit, i wouldn't have minded seeing the froch fighe but good on him for calling it a day. Let the haters have their say but he will be known as the best super middle ever, not a bad legacy.
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Very nice post +Juan
 
wish him well on the rest of his life, rare a boxer gets out with that much money, and that little damage done to him.
 
Dude... The forums are stupid. I replied to coster's comment and it ends up 3-4 comments above his.
 
All you keyboard warriors talking shit about the greatest ever, huh?

You would never have the balls to say all this to his face, because you know, that he would slap the living shit out of you.
 
cool2007 said:
All you keyboard warriors talking shit about the greatest ever, huh?

You would never have the balls to say all this to his face, because you know, that he would slap the living shit out of you.
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The greatest ever? :eek:
 
didn't hopkins turn down a fight with calzaghe in 2002?
 
Toasted said:
didn't hopkins turn down a fight with calzaghe in 2002?
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He demanded to be paid double overnight or something like that I think, but I didn't follow boxing back then so I can't tell for sure.
 
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