the division has been weak for years now. But I don't think Calzaghe is leaving the division for good. Think he will fight B-Hop @ 175 and then come back down and continue on his path of fighting no namers. If Calzaghe really does leave for good. The division has nothing and Kessler will run the division until that changes or Kessler moves up. Don't think Froch, Bute, Mindine or Inkin have what it takes to make this a compeitive division. It is already boring enough to me, but taking Calzaghe out makes it all the more worse.
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actually I've seen all of the guys you mentiond fight. On seperate occasions each.TommyGunn said:168 is a great division with great fighters in it.
its one of the strongest and most competitive in the world, it just doesn't have an american top dog and thats why most americans arent educated enough to talk about it with any real knowledge.
kessler.
bute.
froch
inkin.
anybody who says these guys cant fight i laugh my ass off at, i bet guys like you chris havent seen them fight before but you'll comment and call it a weak division.
add names like.
green.
miranda
lacy.
mundine.
andrade.
beyer.
yeah, that division sucks.
judging by your post right there what can be said about the division???? that champion won't fight the real competition in. Out of the 10 guys you named to summerize the o so great division...2 of them the so called champion of the division has fought. Now if he was american/black/talks to much he would be dogged for ducking those guys like you guys seem to like to do for Mayweather because he hasn't fought Cotto...Mayweather has fought tougher guys in his division then Calzaghe has in his division yet its people like you who hate on him then love on Calzaghe...please enlighten me why that is?
face it your boy Calzaghe has a history of being scared of a threat. I mean for like the tenth time in this thread alone look at his track record. He didn't face a opponent decent record until his 18th Pro fight. I mean until he fought Mark Delaney his opponent with the best record was 26-21-1. :laugh:
Calzaghe backed out of 2 fights with Lacy and made Lacy head to Manchester to fight him. Whether Lacy was number 1 conteder, I don't know but he was a conteder that im sure of and as I said. 2 decent opponents in his 21 tittle defenses? thats not good I don't know what your mean with that post. I wouldn't even consider Eubank a legend, not to mention Eubank moved down from Light Heavyweight to fight Calzaghe and then moved back up after the fight for his last 2 fights of his career. Eubank was trash when Calzaghe fought him. Eubank's legendary career ended in 95...2 years before Joe beat him.TommyGunn said:that was a great contradiction there. :laugh:
you forgot to mension the 2 guys he fought were both the #1 guys behind him, not 2 or 3, #1.
if you knew anything about calzaghe or the sport of boxing you'd know thats why calzaghe left micky duff and signed with frank warren in his early career.
duff kept putting guys like henry wharton over him for fights with the likes of benn and eubank and joe got pissed with it, within 3 fights of leaving duff calzaghe was champion winning a title against a legend.
so whats your point chris?
21 defences, 11 years, 4 world titles.
Calzaghe has had a fluke title reign until he beat Lacy after backing down from him twice. Then he went back to his boring ways and fought Manfredo & Bika instead of fighting the new contender in Kessler who he finally fought after a year of ducking. I mean theres no way you can spin this garbage in Calzaghe's favor. The fact remains he is afraid to lose.
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