Quote Originally Posted by miles View Post
Well said, Eric. Calzaghe started slow and then totally took over the fight. The only thing that kept Hopkins half in was by the use of fighting dirty and trying to buy time.

It is silly to argue that Hopkins was just too old and it would have been different if younger because the same thing would have happened. Hopkins has never been able to fight at the pace of someone like Calzaghe and in his own prime was fighting pumped up WW's like Trinidad and DLH. Hopkins has never at any stage in his career held a trump card over someone like Calzaghe.
Watch this fight and tell me Hopkins couldn't keep up with Calzaghe in the stamina department.



Hopkins doesn't have to fight at a Calzaghe pace anyway, if he throws enough to keep Joe backpedaling which a prime Hopkins could do, then he would win.