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mkkreuk


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aussiehoi wrote:


RedCabbage wrote:


Slightly bizarre result, but she probably did have the most personality of the nominees. You could tell she was slightly embarrassed about it. Calzaghe definitely should have won.




fair enough calzaghe is a great fighter but he has only won one fight to note, simply outstanding that tara should win it. but to  say calzaghe to win when he didnt even make it top 3 is far fetched




 


so what if he didnt make the top three? he is/was the best british p4p (pound for pound) best fighter and in the top 10 p4p fighters in the world without a doubt. He demolished the guy that was being compared to mike tyson!


one fight? SO thats the way boxing works - great boxers tend to have one or two major fights a year. No-one is going to knock Muhammad ali for "only won one fight to note" in 1974 (The Rumble in the Jungle). DArren clarke came second never won anything of note individually in a predominantly individual sport. He was second. Beth tweddle won one major title, right? Zara phillips won one major event (gold at the world equestrian games) in a largely elitist sport where the horse does most of the work. (although it may sound like it) im not knocking their achievements but i just think ur point why JC shouldnt win it is a moot one. Nearly all winners have got it on one spectacular performance, e.g. Johnny WIlkinson - Rugby world cup winner, Flintoff - a great ashes performance.


If your qualm is "only" winning one thing of note, then there should have only been one winner. Nicole Cooke.



-- Edited by mkkreuk at 17:59, 2006-12-11

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I think the main thing holding back Calzaghe was that he's a bit of a sh*t. Boxing is one of those sports where it helps to be extraordinarily arrogant. Lennox Lewis managed to be arrogant with dignity but not very many boxers can do that.



-- Edited by RedCabbage at 18:25, 2006-12-11

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yeh arrogant reminds me of someone.    well i think the bbc avoided a potential disaster comp, but the actual program was a disaster.

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I think the main thing holding back Calzaghe was that he's a bit of a sh*t. Boxing is one of those sports where it helps to be extraordinarily arrogant. Lennox Lewis managed to be arrogant with dignity but not very many boxers can do that.



Joe's actually probably one of the more humbler boxers at the moment out of those who have actually MADE it (bar hatton). LOL

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mkkreuk wrote:

If your qualm is "only" winning one thing of note, then there should have only been one winner. Nicole Cooke.


I haven't read through in enough detail to work out what this argument was all about, but I agree that Nicole Cooke should have won it ... and I'm not even a cycling fan. In fact, I'd have given two of the top three slots to women and neither of them would have been Zara.

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