calzaghe is my all time favorite fighter

@alidaygo619

8 жыл бұрын

breakit46 Ali is my favorite and Calzaghe

@erniewalling2413

6 жыл бұрын

alidaygo619 n

I've said this before on another post. After Michael Watson, Johnny Owen, Gerald McClellan British referees always step in quick when someone is on the way out. Remember, there was talk of banning boxing in the UK after all the aforementioned deaths and injuries. A referee has to make a life or death decision and he sure don't want to make a wrong one and have the death of a fighter on his conscience. The guy was defenceless, a compassionate ref stepped in to stop the beating. Hats off.

@stephendunn9797

9 жыл бұрын

Mark Mywords it's Britian once again paving the way for boxing, if we allow boxers to get seriously hurt over an over they endu p with serious brain injuries or premature parkisons, the sooner we stop a one sided fight the better. I know "but what if he comes back" well if he was THAT great he'd never have to take such a beating really... I will say this fight was stopped far to early, it robbed joe of a legit knockout.

@lukemccann

5 жыл бұрын

Mark Mywords fully agree. There was no possibility of Manfredo winning this fight. Once that becomes clear, the ref should intervene if he isn’t defending himself appropriately. Even in the rope a dope vs Foreman, Ali would at least lean back and look at the punches in order to evade them, and would throw back! Here Manfredo was just closing his eyes and hoping for the best, offering nothing in return. Safety of the fighters was rightly held as the #1 priority here.

@JoE-hv7rg

5 жыл бұрын

Personally I would rather see the ref stop the fight early rather then see a fighter get hurt bad, You can't come back from a bad call but you can't come back from death/serious injury. It's not good for the sport and most of all it's even worse for the fighters who have to live after the fight.

It took Joe less than 40 seconds to completely gauge Manfredo's timing. Amazing bit of class JC was. Just beautiful boxing.

This was a stoppage that was a little too early, but to be honest, that ref did Manfredo a huge favor by saving him from a total ass whoopin' and then a guaranteed KO by Joe Calzaghe. Anybody that thinks Manfredo stood any kind of chance is smokin' birdseed. No comparison of talent. Manfredo looked like an amateur, plain & simple. He had nothing for Joe.

@jamesking5508

5 жыл бұрын

YOU ARE RIGHT THE REFEREE WHO REF EMILE GRIFFIN AND BENNY KID PARET SHOULD HAVE BEEN CRIMINALLY CHARGED...BENNY WAS MURDERED WATCH THAT ONE WHAT A SAD FIGHT

@ianrutherford878

4 жыл бұрын

I know you like to call it ass whoopin. but what the ref saved him from was that damage to the blood-vessels in and around the brain that comes from having your head knocked in all directions hard and repeatedly.

@davidcoomber4050

Жыл бұрын

Did you see the boxer complain, he was glad to be out of there

@howabouthetruth2157

Жыл бұрын

@@ianrutherford878 You're not telling me anything I don't already know about the fight game kid. I've been deep into boxing for over 50 yrs now. And did I not say: "THE REF DID MANFREDO A HUGE FAVOR"? YES, I DID. What the fuck do ya think that means? ANSWER: THE REF SAVED MANFREDO FROM GETTING BAD HURT. Damn, you kids THINK "you are educating" a total stranger. Boy, I've forgotten more about boxing than you'll ever know.

Manfredo was outclassed, a middleweight and wasn't defending himself nor throwing punches hence the decision.

@jackcarterog001

9 жыл бұрын

Neilos 1965 Ali would have lost to Foreman if you were the ref

@charliegicquel6610

3 жыл бұрын

@@jackcarterog001 look what happened to Ali later in life

Manfredo can't handle Calzaghe's pace and footwork, especially down the stretch where Calzaghe only increases the pace. Really the ref saved Manfredo from a terrible beating.

@bobbybishop6413

10 жыл бұрын

lol, probably added 30 days to the end of his life. That was going to be ugly as hell, before the inevitable knockout. Righteous stoppage. He wasn't throwing at all, and just getting a boxing lesson. Can someone let their opponent throw like 30 or more punches in a row, and not answer back?

Sei l'orgoglio di noi sardi e della Sardegna

Only real shame here was that someone of Manfredo’s quality (or lack thereof) was in the ring with Calzaghe. Clearly around his peak here, it would have been great to see Calzaghe in with a higher level operator 🥊🥊👍🏼

@glasschin871

3 жыл бұрын

Calazghe was forced fight manfredo in order to get the HBO contract and was promised a fight with jermaine Taylor. Calzaghe had to give up fighting his mandatory Robert Stieglitz as well and drop the IBF title. Taylor when pulled out when it was time to sign.

@lukemccann

3 жыл бұрын

@@glasschin871 class knowledge. Thanks for this 🥊🥊👍🏼

Determinación y velocidad de manos. Súpervo. Calzagueeeeee.

Why was he in the ring? Early stoppage? Yes, but this guy would have been destroyed if left to continue

@dontaskme7004

3 жыл бұрын

He won the TV show The Contender.

@glasschin871

3 жыл бұрын

@@dontaskme7004 no he didn’t he came second. Sergio mora won.

@glasschin871

2 жыл бұрын

@The Stormblooper you would expect him too considering he was a higher weight class and an all time great and the contender was a show about prospects and journeymen.

A body shot hurt him before the flurry and he was just covering up not fighting back. The ref didn’t have the best angle but it’s manfredos thought he barely threw a punch the whole way.

I don’t understand the ‘slap’ comment. When you put on a pair of professional boxing gloves you hand via the glove is stitched closed. It is physically impossible to open your hand and slap. Probably why only the casuals and haters make that comment because they have never laced up. Calzaghe occasionally threw shots from a wide arching angle...but anyone who says it is a slap can’t have ever put on a pair of gloves or is just ignoring reality and hating.

Erm... the first thing the referee said was "Defend yourself at ALL times".

Bad stoppage but at the same time Manfredo was doing fuck all.

Peter Manfredo may not be a future Hall of Famer, but that was the most egregious home town stoppage I have ever seen.

@glasschin871

3 жыл бұрын

Manfredos own trainer said he would have been knocked out if the ref didn’t save him

@danyoutube7491

11 ай бұрын

It seemed rather premature but it's not a 'home town stoppage' because that's suggesting that it was stopped to aid the home fighter, and I don't think many people could be so deluded as to think that. It was stopped because the referee was seeing a hopelessly out of his depth fighter doing virtually nothing but a turtle impersonation. Perhaps the premature roars of the crowd everytime Manfredo was near the ropes influenced the referee into thinking the situation was more dramatic than it was, maybe also the memory of Lacy getting hammered a bit too long was on his mind, I don't know. The behaviour of refs in Britain became considerably more 'better safe than sorry' after tragic results in the same weight division in the early 90s.

greatest fighter ever. by a mile

@checkandbalance2903

4 жыл бұрын

Idiot. Here’s two top 50 lists by educated boxing analyst and Calzaghes not in either one .. much less the “greatest”. You’d think if he’s the greatest he’d al least crack the to 50 www.liveabout.com/greatest-boxers-of-all-time-424093 www.google.com/amp/s/syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/1436191-the-top-50-pound-for-pound-boxers-of-all-time.amp.html

@eddiehockley4144

4 жыл бұрын

@@checkandbalance2903 Joe obviously isn't the greatest boxer ever but he had one of the greatest careers ever. How many on that list were undefeated world champions at 2 different weights? How many on that list retired undefeated? how many didn't lose a fight for 19 years? How many were continuous world champions for 11 years ? how many made 20 successful defences ? To save you the bother of checking i will tell you, none.

Too many of Calzaghes fights were stopped like this which actually robbed him more than anyone. Clearly he was going to win the fight as well as the many others that were stopped similarly. Had he been allowed to finish them off his critics wouldn't be able to call him "just a slapper."

joe never punches him self out

Did the mc used to work on the railways?

Manfredo dad said Joe was slow 😂

Rubbish stoppage but meh, Mandredo was never going to get into that fight.

If you don't throw punches back, You leave yourself open to the ref stopping the fight . Simple !!!

@MrMarkhall1

4 жыл бұрын

Simpleton.

People laughing at Joe slapping, never got slapped in their life! My father slapped me open handed and it shook me up more then 12oz hooks and jabs! Slapping is fkn underrated, hahahaha !

@rohanjones1000

4 жыл бұрын

in the 90s, this comment would be called ...so gay.

@joanb.descuatan5333

4 жыл бұрын

@@rohanjones1000 sexvideoo

Bloody el, joe was fast. And a good man.

Great time to stop the fight unless you want or need to see a young man badly hurt or even worse.Great refereeing.Jim.LVERPOOL.

I saw manfredo up close later that night in the cardiff hilton his face was covered in welts he looked much worse for wear it was and early stoppage but it would of happened down the line anyway

I think Michael Buffer's long, drawn-out, overblown introductions lasted longer than the actual fight. ... And who the heck ran over Manfredo's trunks with a lawn mower?

@tomnekuda3818

4 жыл бұрын

Best comment!

I love Joe

the prince of the ring man

Calzaghe is the best

The greatest

Calzaghe was slapping him not punching hard at all never should of stopped it . He would of won anyone but way to early

@jamiebushby729

5 жыл бұрын

COACH DEE unfortunately calzaghe had to slap instead of sitting down on his punches like he did when he was younger joe used to ko people stiff when he was younger but his hands got destroyed over the years he even had to slap the heavy bag towards the end of his career it's a shame he could of beaten Floyd to the 50-0

@danyoutube7491

5 жыл бұрын

One may call the last few punches slaps, but that's just down to the way Manfredo was ducking and weaving his head, and Joe's was automatically throwing his hands at the target which from that odd angle made the punches awkward and look 'slappy'. If you mean his normal punches were slaps, well...why did they immediately make Manfredo back off and get his guard up and almost entirely stop firing back, and why is it so clear in the slo mo replay that Manfredo's guard is being battered open by Calzaghe's 'slaps'? He was rather heavy handed, so even his salvos of light shots could be decently hard. Whenever he landed in this fight the effect on Manfredo was visible, and he was rocking his head back and breaking his guard open with those supposedly weak punches.

Definitely early stoppage, but it looked very much like there was no way he was gonna win that fight.

The stoppage was fine, he wasn't throwing back and getting his head smashed in.

Ref did the right thing, kid doesn't belong in the same ring!

Why does the commentator keep mentioning ‘reality tv’ boxing? They were still professional fights whilst competing on the contender

@ImranAli-tm3rq

5 жыл бұрын

because some of them are small minded arrogant pricks who have never stepped in the ring..

Lmfao, anynody that thinks peter stood a chance had to come off Federal Hill in Providence

So few views!!!

why is joe fighting a tv show guy for a title defence? why was it stopped when joe missed with loads of punches.

@bencarlson8324

4 жыл бұрын

He had to take this stupid fight for HBO to cover it and give him a shot at better opponents.

@rohanjones1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@bencarlson8324 ok. kinda weird for a 34 year old man who has had a supposed title for 8 years to need international exposure by fighting a guy off a tv show - but as you say. Hadnt he just dropped a belt for this tv show guy?

Why an earth did the American not choose red, white or blue gloves-black just does not go🤔

if a fighter is getting hit and not hitting back,ofcourse the ref is going to stop it,,even if you get punched and there aint no bruise or swelling or cut,,IT DOESNT MEAN THEY ARE NOT HURT INSIDE, did you watch the one show when they had the boxing machine there,,CALZAGHE BEAT FROCH AND EVERYONE ELSE,,AND THAT WAS NO ADDRENALINE INVOVED,WELL NOT LIKE A FIGHT,,SO IMAGINE HOW HARD CALZAGHE DOES HIT, TRUST ME THEY AINT NO SLAPS,15 HIT COMBO,OF COURSE THE LAST 4 PUNCHES ARE GOING TO BE WILD AND WEAKER THAN THE FIRST 6,,,CALZAGHE IS A FUCKING LEGEND MUN..EUBANK EVEN SAID,IT WAS LIKE GETTING HIT BY A TRAIN,, FUCKING SAYS IT ALL TO ME, BOXERS ARE THERE TO BOX AND NOT DIE,THERE ARE MORE DEATHS IN F1 THAN BOXING,,U WOULDNT THINK IT THOUGH,,1 CRASH PER 2 RACES,TO 1000 PUNCHES PER FIGHT,,FUCKING INCREDIBLE

@johnathancasey4818

8 жыл бұрын

yeah sometimes I think that,sometimes I don't,it only takes one punch too many,but thank fuck t was stopped,otherwise the poor fucker could be a cabbage

@johnathancasey4818

8 жыл бұрын

HE WAS AN AMATURE,SHOULDNT HAVE BEEN IN WTH ANY PROFESSIONAL BOXER

@jamesjajohn3149

8 жыл бұрын

The ref new it was a miss match and he didn't want the kid getting hurt. I think the ref could of left it 5 seconds more but that's about it.

@johnathancasey4818

8 жыл бұрын

YEAH I THINK YOUR RIGHT

@erniewalling2413

6 жыл бұрын

Johnathan Casey how true

Should have let it run but anyhow Calzaghe would have won

Manfredo wasn't dedicated to any of his punches, too worried about being hit.

@brianmorecombe2726

Жыл бұрын

The commentary was laughable HBO bias again."It was stopped too early as Manfredo might have waited for Calzaghe to be gassed" Do me a favour.He would have got that round after round for the next 3 rds if he didnt get knocked out.

Sergio Mora the winner of first contender would have given calzaghe a much better fight.

Complete missmatch i never got why calzaghe took this fight maybe just to stay busy but this was just to easy.. no yank ever beat calzaghe schooled lacy schooled jones beat hopkins k.o.d byron mitchel theres a few more yanks on his hitlist aswel u just couldnt beat joe

Very Early stoppage. Same results nevertheless... saved that face a needless beating.. it was only gonna get worse..

Calzaghe also had a broken hand

no power punch, why match stoppage? with this yardstick would also beat Tyson!

Joe looks even more threatening with mustache/beard. Not a good fight....no clean finish but we all know where it was going.

as a massive joe fan , i think the stoppage was early but i think joe was a different league as a boxer . he would have raped him later in the fight .

Whilst JC would have easily won this on merit, this stoppage was utter bullshit.

no reason to stop fight ...anougher windmill win

A world title at stake and the ref. does that??? I know he meant well but Manfredo showed no sign of distress or injury....Refs are under a lot of pressure because of the number of deaths that have occurred in recent years and they tend to protect themselves as much as they do the fighter...Manfredo and his corner and promoters must have gone home with a sour taste in their mouths and no, not from Galzhage's gloves.

@danyoutube7491

11 ай бұрын

Another round of the same and he'd either have stuck in his turtle shell or come out of it and taken cleaner shots. He wasn't showing signs of injury but he was showing signs of being out of his league by a country mile; the covering up looked like a last resort of someone who had realised they couldn't compete rather than a clever tactic (if he really thought he could make Calzaghe punch himself out then he was delusional, because he would no doubt have seen some footage of previous Calzaghe fights and without doing something to make it a rough fight for Calzaghe or making him miss a lot slowing down wasn't going to happen) and under the rules you have to be protecting yourself and fighting back. He offered one modest punch near the end before going back into his shell as Calzaghe started raining the shots in. It would have been more entertaining for fans to see a longer fight though.

Biggest miss match of all time

Your BETTER than this Peter.

terrible stoppage!!!!!!!!ffs that man might have been killed.

Terrible stoppage !! Calzaghe slapped like hell. Never really respected him as a fighter as he avoided James Toney & Roy Jones in their prime. He fought Jones when he was way past his best.

as for my experience as a boxing spectator, the most ridiculous stops and refereeing I've ever seen come from England and Germany, the intent seems noble, which is to protect the boxer who succumbs, but in this case the shots were fast and not very powerful, instead of the referee I would have let it run.

What are these silly skirts that fighters wear nowadays? It seems that boxing has become more about flash, image and bling than substance. They need to go back to the 1950's when two fighters in the ring wore black and white trunks.

Bad stoppage. Not even close to over.

Joe had it made,as soon as he did well, the ref stopped the fight. I've seen two others like this.

American fight judges and refs. No wonder boxers don't want to fight there.

Terrible stoppage, I'm a HUGE Calzaghe fan, it was obvious Manfredo wasn't hurt, sure he was hit by 50 punches without a single punch thrown back... okay yeah maybe they should have stopped it, with calzaghe, he looks like he's throwing arm punches, they don't look painful.... but as real boxers know, he's hitting it's causing swelling and brain damage over long periods. Easy win for Calzaghe if that was allowed to go on but why embarrass Manfredo?

@stephendunn9797

9 жыл бұрын

Stephen Dunn (count how many punches landed on Mandredo, compared to calzaghe within 2 mins, he landed 2 compared to 50)

surprise surprise another joe calzaghe fight stopped by the welsh mafia ref with nothing landing on is opponent.

@rohanjones1000

4 жыл бұрын

@Ian Murray manfredo was a tv show competitor not a boxer. why was he used for a wbo defence? anither joe C soft touch again.

Calzaghe did slap..it was effective though. He was just trying to get as much contact as possible. You know most pros load up on punches and Calzaghe developed a style that didn’t rely on this and it was an advantage. That said this opponent sucked and Calzaghe had one to many a fight against this quality of opponent

@fizzy3427

6 жыл бұрын

Ehh, it is very easy to say that it is the quality of opponent that marks his career. He fought the best people he could find for at least 26 of his fights during a stagnant era. 52/4, 48/4, 39/0, 26/3, 20/1, 21/0, 24/1, 45/1, 23/3, 18/1, 25/2, 39/4, 21/1, 37/8, 29/2, 30/0, 26/2, 20/1, 22/1, 23/2, 26/1, 58/8, 14/1, 45/2, 45/2, 12/0

@checkandbalance2903

4 жыл бұрын

His quality of opponents does Mark his career. Those records mean nothing. They were not established top class operators. Calzaghes over all opponents win percentage is 70 percent while Wards is 89 percent.

terry O'Connor has always been the worst ref ive ever seen,makes so many mistakes

Wow. First fight 'Ive ever seen being stopped on slaps. Slaps that WERE NOT landing!! Joe Calslappy.

@erniewalling2413

6 жыл бұрын

zaytony maybe you would like to get slapped by him

@danyoutube7491

6 жыл бұрын

@Zaytony: The last few weren't landing as Manfredo began ducking his head at/slightly below waist level- he did this because the several previous shots were landing, albeit mainly on his gloves, and despite his gloves being clamped to his head Manfredo's head was actually being buffetted quite a bit by those shots, so they obviously had a fair amount of power. The whole round had seen Manfredo becoming progressively less effective at even avoiding shots, to the point that he hadn't tried to fire back for some time and had only been able to try and keep his guard up as much as possible and get pushed back by Calzaghe's advance. Sure he wasn't on the verge of being knocked out, but the evidence of the previous round and the third up to that point made it clear that the fight wasn't a contest any longer, and Manfredo already seemed to have run out of ideas during the second of how to stop Calzaghe simply using him as target practice. That said, I concede that Manfredo wasn't severely hurt, just battered and out of his depth, and the pure spectator part of me wishes it had been in America where perhaps more consideration would have been given to giving Manfredo every chance to shine and where, perhaps, there is not such a strong culture of stepping in when a fight has become very one sided or a fighter is hurt- in other words, the fight would surely have been allowed to go on far longer and we may have seen much greater drama and excitement, and either a convincing KO or an uncontentious stoppage. But to go by the rules and ideals of the sport, one could argue that the ref was right to stop it, because it hadn't looked like a true contest since early in the second round and despite what the crowd often wants to see, if it isn't a contest then it shouldn't be happening.

@eddykelly4082

4 жыл бұрын

What fight were YOU watching? The fighter was being hurt, why else would he cover up and fail to retaliate? He took around 10 punches to the head, believe me ALL pro boxers know how to punch. Slaps are what girls do, not REAL CHAMPION Men boxers.

Ridiculous stoppage this. Manfredo was hopelessly outclassed but wasnt hurt

@Will-nc7lp

9 жыл бұрын

Wasn't throwing punches either ....hence the stoppage.

@mattmacolan1388

9 жыл бұрын

Dave Roberts I agree with you on the stoppage. Its a shame, but Peter stood no chance against Calzaghe. Joe would have just bombarded him all night like that.

@hambutty1

9 жыл бұрын

I'm a massive fan of JC, but this fight shouldnt have been stopped there.

@eddykelly4082

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe he wasn't hurt, but, should he be subjected to harsher punishment until he was really hurt?.... Are you sick or something?. The ref did the kid a favour, making it pos. for him to fight again, instead of being brain damaged by repeated punishment.

rubbish comentaters i ve seen boxer s killed before that !! and he was getting a real hiding !!

@stephendunn9797

9 жыл бұрын

***** NOBODY! knew what Emanual did, he was a true hero of the sport, he was the Alber einstain of Boxing, 31 wins in title files of his boxers, just 3 times where his boxers didn't WIN their title fight, though 2 draw and ONE loss. that record not only hadn't been beat.. hasn't been neared. Sorry, I get upset thinking about Mannys passing on.

Sorry but this was a pathetic fight,this was a bum fight Calzaghe took.Hardly surprised manfreako bum took a wuppin.Laughable HBO bias commentary again.

Calzaghe and Manfredo. Like a couple rival pizza joints.