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Originally Posted by Britbb  Kessler not world class?
Kessler would bang the crap out of hopkins, pavlik, taylor, any of those guys.
Unfortunately roy jones ducked calzaghe years ago (when jones was at his peak) because calzaghe was seen as a risky southpaw with not much money in the fight compared to big american bouts.
But the last few fights joe has will culminate in the climax of an unbeaten legacy. He will beat hopkins, then go on to beat pavlik, then go on to beat roy jones jr (or another light heavy fight such as daswon or tarver, although its pointless fighting tarver if he beats hopkins because tarver got destroyed by hopins in his last fight). Then he will retire.
With a nice unbeaten record and will have beaten names like pavlik, hopkins, kessler, roy jones jr, lacy and eubank. |
Kessler is World Class for a Supermiddle mate but hes nothing special if were talking lb for lb.
Pavlick and Taylor are Middleweights really so he should beat them.
The problem Joe has faced is although beating the best names at his weight he came into the Supermiddles when all the glamour had virtually gone out of it and the old glamour names he did beat ie Eubank, Brewer etc were imo past there best when he fought them and the likes of Lacey was just hype as hes now classed as a joke in the game tbh.
All this being said mind, you can only beat whats in front of you and hes done that but he and Warren should have chased the bigger fights along time ago as sadly you have to be a big draw in the States to get any decent credit which is wrong but thats the way it is and it wasnt until he beat joker lacey that the yanks started taking notice.