He needs to fight Pavlik. That would be good. But, I don't think he's a fraud at all. He had real skill. :2 cents:
Undefeated Calzaghe quits boxing
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lol who is this guy 
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a light heavyweight boxing champ who cares about him. Boxing suck now days anyway.
:nanner: a light heavyweight boxing champ who cares about him. Boxing suck now days anyway.
He's got real skill, that's why people like him. iThe heavyweight division is totally overrated now anyway. At least it's all Europeans at the top though.
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lol who is this guy
a light heavyweight boxing champ who cares about him. Boxing suck now days anyway.
Undefeated world super-middleweight and light-heavyweight boxing champion.
There are many good fighters in other divisions. :hatsoff:
It all depends on who you watch.
Sugar Ray Leonard (Welterweight)
Thomas Hearns (Welterweight, Super Welterweight Middleweight, Super Middleweight, Light-Heavyweight, Cruiserweight)
Roberto Durán (Lightweight)
Marvin Hagler (Middleweight)
Julio César Chávez (Light welterweight)
I guess those guys don't matter either?
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When you have undefeated champs retiring prematurely because most of the competition sucks, you definitely have problems. I'm not sure if that's the reason he retired, but most likely it is. Boxing is on life support right now with all the corruption and cheating going on, and unfortunately for them everything MMA touches turns into gold. Which sucks for people like me because I like boxing and I'm not really interested in MMA.
Dare I say it, but it probably says more about american boxing 'fans' than it does about Calzaghe.
It's not the fans. It's not Calzaghe. It's boxing itself. It's been crap since I have been alive and I'm closing in on three decades in age. I haven't even been alive when boxing was a sport worth watching. (Or where people didn't have to pay ridiculous sums of money just to watch a major fight on pay per view.) There has been no real competition since that time either. Some of the only fighters since then of note, like Mike Tyson, were more successful because they were medium size fish in a very small pond. The rules, politics, corruption, and different organizations of boxing have made it painful to be a fan of, when you get a chance to watch it at all. I couldn't name the heavyweight champ today in any organization if my life depended on it. I don't know any champ, of any division, of any weight class, in any organization, for that matter and I'm more than just a moderate fan of almost all major sports. I'm very far from alone in that respect and that should tell people something. In most ways boxing has no one to blame for it's downfall but itself. It has collapsed under the greed of the people in it. Those are a lot of the reasons MMA has because so popular, has overtaken boxing, and is on the verge of making it obsolete.
Agreed.
I am a little older so I remember watching the big 4(Hearns,Hagler,Leonard & Duran) & you could actually catch some of their fights on ABC's Wide World of Sports/Network TV. Now I barely know how to find a boxing match(no hbo/showtime) besides PPV:dunno:
Tyson could have help keep boxing on life support for the early to mid 90's as their were some real good Heavyweights in that decade(Tyson,Lewis,Bowe,Holyfield,etc...), but we know the overhyped disappointment he became.
Boxing is becoming irrelevent before our eyes & the Commissions & the atrocious Alphabet organizations seem to care less.
LOL, boxing isnt dying; the 1/24 Margarito-Mosley fight not only sold out the Staples Center, but set the attendance record. This, in a building that has hosted countless concerts, Lakers games etc. I don't know about you, but that's pretty damn good for a dying sport
I happen to love the welterweight divison in boxing!
So much potential!
Floyd might return!
Pacquiao is the ****. If people don't like to watch him fight, there's something wrong with them.
Always good fights at 147 :thumbsup:
Cant wait for Pacquiao/Hatton on May 2nd :glugglug:
I would like to see a good 115 llb fight
^^^There was one on Showtime last night
He lives just up the road from us. To us, he's our local hero, and I won't hear it any differently.
A proud, devoted, true sportsman who always has time for his fans which is more than can be said for the current brood of gobshite overpaid nappy wearing sport "stars" I see in most sports these days.
Well done Joe, I think its time to come in.
A proud, devoted, true sportsman who always has time for his fans which is more than can be said for the current brood of gobshite overpaid nappy wearing sport "stars" I see in most sports these days.
Well done Joe, I think its time to come in.
a true legend
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