Quote Originally Posted by zinmex
Quote Originally Posted by AdamGB
I don't get the obsession with Bernard having to throw loads of punches... Its Joe's style to come forwards and throw loads of fast solid shots... he's a boer puncher...

Styles. Fights.
Agree, but still quite remarkable that Hopkins picking his shots still has such a low rate of landed hits. It is like two hits in the air and one landed...Calzaghe lands like two out of three and still hits about four times as much as Hopkins. If you have a low output of punches and picks your punces then you rate of hits should also be higher than a fighter who has high output of punches.

Last night was an air hitting festival.
Joe fights different, a lot of those shots are just to keep the man at range or feel him out. Calzaghe is nearly always trying to land and a lot of the time he will throw a shot and have it blocked but still stand there and move up and down the body and land... the first shot my miss but it moves the guard so he can set his flurries up.

Hopkins moves in and out to keep the man away from him, score his points and make the other man work whilst not actually allowing him to be able to hit him.