Quote Originally Posted by BIG H
Is it just going to be another bunch of arguments from everybody discrediting him? I can't see him getting any real credit, everybody will just say Hopkins, was Old and Shot and that Calzaghe would never have beaten him in his prime.
But that's all exactly right. The whole reason why I favor Calzaghe to win the fight now is that the current Old (though not "Shot") Hopkins doesn't throw any punches. See, for instance, Hopkins v. Taylor (I and II). Calzaghe will win based on pure output.

Now Calzaghe still would have thrown more than a vintage mid-to-late-90s Hopkins, but that Hopkins would have thrown enough (and would have thrown with a lot more power) to have made it a very different fight. And I definitely would have favored that version of Hopkins. No question.