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This bout at Light Heavy. Can a destructive puncher like Moorer at light heavy stop Calzaghe?

I think it will play out for Joe a little like against old man Hopkins and shot to Bits RJJ.

Except that when Joe is knocked down in the first round, he stays down.

I want to hear Saad's take.

Moorer, @ LH, had the speed and power, not to mention being southpaw aswell, to cause serious damage to Calzaghe.

Moorer wins this, no doubt in my mind.

Goodnight, Irene wrote:I want to hear Saad's take.

Calzaghe might get dropped early, but he would rise and deliver a Boxing lesson to Moorer. 9-3ish decision, Michael struggled mightily with Leslie Stewart in his biggest fight at 75. Joe would have boxed circles around him. Too inexperienced.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

Goodnight, Irene wrote:I want to hear Saad's take.

Calzaghe might get dropped early, but he would rise and deliver a Boxing lesson to Moorer. 9-3ish decision, Michael struggled mightily with Leslie Stewart in his biggest fight at 75. Joe would have boxed circles around him. Too inexperienced.

Moorer was too inexperienced when compared to a guy who faced two pensioners at LH ?

What? Moorer was an inexperienced fighter, Calzaghe was not.

In 1 or 2 out of 10 fights Moorer would ice him. In all the other fights it pans out like Saad says.

God, Moorer was a wicked puncher. Truly savage --- but Saad is right that he was a greenhorn going up against a very experienced campaigner.

Still, you cant help wonder how Calzaghe reacts when Moorer first lands. The guy was a threshing machine at 175.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:What? Moorer was an inexperienced fighter, Calzaghe was not.

Read what i said.

If Old Man Hopkins who hasn't knocked anyone down except Calzaghe at 175 can knock Joe down, and if shot to bits RJJ can knock Joe down, what effect do you think Moorer would have at 175?

I read what you said, it didn't make any sense. As for your new question, Hopkins is a brilliant counter-puncher and just because he was able to catch Calzaghe doesn't mean an advancing Moorer would do the same. Joe wouldn't have to come forward, Michael would follow him around, it's a completely different fight.

As for Jones, if Moorer is going to hit him flush with his forearm, Joe could be in real trouble. I honestly don't know why you would even bring that up.

Michael never beat anyone at Light Heavy that would have handled old Roy and Moorer himself probably loses to old man Hopkins. So the fixation you have there for countering Moorer's inexperience still makes no sense to me. Leslie Stewart was over the hill too.

Moorer KO1. Moorer under Manny at light-heavy and heavy was simply a lethal hitter and a brutal finisher. To cite his struggle with ex-champ Leslie Stewart given Joe's struggles with the likes of Robin Reid and Kabary Salem is laughable.

Recovering and surviving against a grandad is not the same as facing Moorer. Moorer too much of everthing for JC, in my humble opinion/having watched every single Michael Moorer fight from his pro debut to 1997, and every JC fight from 1997 to 2008.

KO1 ???

Seems a bit out to me. I'm not saying it couldn't happen but it's very unlikely. If only because Calzaghe would be very cautious in the first few rounds.

Moorer had a pretty destructive and notable reign as WBO champ at LH. He was well on his way to being a distinguished LH champ and i thought he was better than Hill and Prince Charles William.

I think Joe takes a couple of counts up to round 5, than starts to pick it up and crowds and overwhelms Moorer work rate to take a close but clear decision. At the end Moorer is cut and bruised.

I think Calzaghe gives Moorer a boxing lesson in this match up. A wide UD for Joe with Moorer taking a beating that leaves him bloody and bruised.