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I'm picking Robin Reid / Bernard Hopkins

Can't pick anyone aside those two really, although I think he beat Hopkins and thought Reid was closer.

Chris Eubank was the hardest fight for Joe mentally. He's often said he was totally exhausted in the second half, and badly rocked in the final round.

The Kessler fight was tough for Joe... (Still think he won though)

Joe's good little book - 'No Ordinary Joe' - strongly suggests that Kessler and Eubank were the two fighters who got close to giving him a hard night at the office. Eubank properly spooked him by getting back-up from a big knockdown and taking a lot more shots for several rounds before roaring back in the later rounds and Joe rated Kessler's strength, chin and heavy-handed, high work-rate. He's chillingly dismissive of Jeff Lacey and Hopkins!

JC told me personally that Eubank was by far his toughest fight. I would think Eubank, Reid, Hopkins. . . It really wasn't the sternest opposition.

For my money, it was Hopkins. It was a split decision for crying out loud.

Bika gave him a hard nights work.

HomicideHenry wrote:For my money, it was Hopkins. It was a split decision for crying out loud.

I watched his fight against Kessler with two of my friends. And on this night, we each wrote our scores down on separate notepads at the end of every round. True to form, we never exchanged our scores.

The interesting thing is both of them scored the fight 1 round in Kessler's favour. I had it scored a Calzaghe victory by two rounds. So if we had've been the judges, it would've been a Kessler Split Decision win.

But it's just an indication of how all of us tend to score fights differently.

Your friends need to go to Specsavers.

I will never say anything positive about robin reid after he wasted everybody's hard earned cash one night on a bill in Essex. rubbish.

I'd say Hopkins. I do think Calzaghe won it, but it was his toughest fight in my view.

HomicideHenry wrote:For my money, it was Hopkins. It was a split decision for crying out loud.

OMG! The judges decision? You get dumber by the second.

I'd say Reid.

SNG wrote:Your friends need to go to Specsavers.

Agreed, but in their defence they both had a few drinks in them before watching it and they aint really in to boxing all that much.
And, as I say, it highlights the curious ways that people tend to score rounds.

The Reid fight I had robin by a round,or a draw it was that close he never gave a rematch. He beat a weight drained inactive and slightly shot Eubanks and still got rocked in the last seconds.he pulls out of a Glen Johnson fight.

He never fought ottke.his career from 97-2005 was a disappointment.than he destroys a overrated lacey
Beats a not quite peak Kessler.comes off the floor to beat a shot Jones jnr and gets a gift decision v Hopkins

His legacy doesn't come close to Carl frochs incredible incredible run.people were saying groves 1st fight showed Joe would have had him.lol hahaha

mugabi wrote:The Reid fight I had robin by a round,or a draw it was that close he never gave a rematch. He beat a weight drained inactive and slightly shot Eubanks and still got rocked in the last seconds.he pulls out of a Glen Johnson fight.

He never fought ottke.his career from 97-2005 was a disappointment.than he destroys a overrated lacey
Beats a not quite peak Kessler.comes off the floor to beat a shot Jones jnr and gets a gift decision v Hopkins

His legacy doesn't come close to Carl frochs incredible incredible run.people were saying groves 1st fight showed Joe would have had him.lol hahaha

That's one of the funniest posts I've ever read. One of my favourite bits was "not quite peak Kessler". I mean, there's trying to make a guy's record sound bad, and then there's really trying.

Eubank was a tough fight ? Not on the scorecards it wasn't. I'd say the Reid fight and I had Joe winning that by 4 pts.

BeHop,Bika and Kessler

misterpunch wrote:I will never say anything positive about robin reid after he wasted everybody's hard earned cash one night on a bill in Essex. rubbish.

Are you on about the Serdjane fight? If so, there's a good explanation for that but I do understand your frustration.

Chris Eubank.

Calzaghe is famed for his great stamina, but he was dead on his feet in the latter stages of that fight.

Eubank took him into the trenches & credit to him, he came out the other side & this was before he was somebody in boxing.

Bobbyptsd wrote:

mugabi wrote:The Reid fight I had robin by a round,or a draw it was that close he never gave a rematch. He beat a weight drained inactive and slightly shot Eubanks and still got rocked in the last seconds.he pulls out of a Glen Johnson fight.

He never fought ottke.his career from 97-2005 was a disappointment.than he destroys a overrated lacey
Beats a not quite peak Kessler.comes off the floor to beat a shot Jones jnr and gets a gift decision v Hopkins

His legacy doesn't come close to Carl frochs incredible incredible run.people were saying groves 1st fight showed Joe would have had him.lol hahaha

That's one of the funniest posts I've ever read. One of my favourite bits was "not quite peak Kessler". I mean, there's trying to make a guy's record sound bad, and then there's really trying.

He's been posting some serious shite about stuff like this for a few days, found the suggestion that Hopkins holding and hitting showed how Calzaghe could be nullified equally funny, along with the claim that Froch would beat Golovkin because Arthur Abraham was once thought to be the monster that Golovkin is seen to be now and that he's one of the top 5 British fighters ever, you can just feel the hate with every post.