Jones Calzaghe

user54321 · Post by **user54321** » Sat 8th Nov 2008 08:47 pm

Boxing fans!!!!!

Roy Jones Jr V Joe Calzaghe live @ 0400 GMT

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Watch it online there...

'MON THE CALZAGHE!!!!!!!!!

His last fight!!!! Come on you big Welshman, let's make this a good 'un!!!!!

cantona7 · Post by **cantona7** » Sat 8th Nov 2008 09:01 pm

should be a good fight. cant say im not rooting for rjj, but i think calzaghe takes this one.

user54321 · Post by **user54321** » Sat 8th Nov 2008 09:40 pm

cantona7 wrote:should be a good fight. cant say im not rooting for rjj, but i think calzaghe takes this one.

Aye man, I'm looking forward to it ... i'm in work but we got a few beers and a a wee bit of greenery for the 4am start. Finish work at 8am...

The 56" monitor on the wall is a bonus too

jayo · Post by **jayo** » Sun 9th Nov 2008 01:18 am

looking forward to the big fight, hope calzaghe does the job and doesnt lose his unbeaten record!

courtjester · Post by **courtjester** » Sun 9th Nov 2008 04:36 am

Roy Jones is so shot it isn't even funny. Calzaghe's work rate is way more than Jones can handle these days.

cantona7 · Post by **cantona7** » Sun 9th Nov 2008 06:07 am

yea hopkins and roy jones jr weren't nearly what they used to be when they fought calzaghe.

Boner · Post by **Boner** » Sun 9th Nov 2008 01:00 pm

You've got to remember Calzaghe isn't exactly in his prime either he'd of slapped them all over the ring at any time.

cantona7 · Post by **cantona7** » Sun 9th Nov 2008 07:15 pm

i strongly disagree. maybe he could have won but not dominated like he did tonight.

courtjester · Post by **courtjester** » Mon 10th Nov 2008 02:41 pm

Boner wrote:You've got to remember Calzaghe isn't exactly in his prime either he'd of slapped them all over the ring at any time.

This is absolutely not true for one reason: Roy Jones, in the 1990s, was far too athletic for just about anyone between middleweight and light heavyweight throughout history, and that includes (gulp hard) The Incomparable Walker Smith (who was really a blown-up welterweight). A few light heavyweights might have been too much for Jones physically, like Moore and Spinks, but a prime Jones would've been competitive in those fights, too.

Jones was never a great fighter. He was just too damn fast to hit. His technical defense was shoddy. (Mayweather, by comparison, can do what Jones never could, he can stand in the pocket and make the best fighters in the world miss without moving his feet.) But as an athlete, there may never have been a better one in boxing history than Jones.

That, and his half-assed defense, are why the slightest slip in athleticism was magnified by so many dramatic losses late in his career. He didn't have the core skill set to compensate because he never had to develop it.

But from about 1992-97, Jones was as unbeatable a middleweight as you'll ever see. That includes Robinson, Ketchel, Greb, Walker, LaMotta, Turpin, Hagler, Monzon, all of them.

In their primes, Calzaghe couldn't have hit Roy Jones in the ass.

If you want to know what that fight would've looked like, go to YouTube and find the Jones-James Toney fight. It would've looked like that.

U-Roy · Post by **U-Roy** » Mon 10th Nov 2008 02:58 pm

TokeOnThat · Post by **TokeOnThat** » Mon 10th Nov 2008 03:13 pm

You just know there is going to be a rematch at the Millenium Stadium!!!

TokeOnThat · Post by **TokeOnThat** » Mon 10th Nov 2008 03:16 pm

NOW THAT'S A PUNCH!!