I prefer my boxing crisp and clean

[GodofBoxing]

Try as I may... I just can't get into this sh*t. Watch a Pavlik fight, a Cotto fight, a Margarito fight, a Mosley fight... and then go back and watch Calzaghe-Hopkins.

Between Hopkins headfirst lunging and Calzaghe's slapping punches... I was actually looking forward to the end of the fight and HBO's telecast of "Countdown to De La Hoya-Forbes." (Just kidding... I'm not THAT desperate).

But my point is... styles make fights. Hopkins fights I've never liked. Yeah, he's wily, cagey, all those things you may want to call him. But IMO his fighting style is b-o-r-i-n-g. Just a lot of lunging, clinching, wrestling and fouling. And apparently I've missed the good Calzaghe fights (Lacy and Kessler), and watched the shitty Calzaghe fights (Manfredo and Hopkins). But the guy just doesn't do it for me. What's with all this slapping sh*t? Where are all the punches meant to hurt people?

Tell you one thing. If Joe ever gets in the ring with Pavlik, that "0" is sure to go.

If I had a tenner for every time someone said that about joe's next opponent..

[TitoFan]

Try as I may... I just can't get into this sh*t. Watch a Pavlik fight, a Cotto fight, a Margarito fight, a Mosley fight... and then go back and watch Calzaghe-Hopkins.

Between Hopkins headfirst lunging and Calzaghe's slapping punches... I was actually looking forward to the end of the fight and HBO's telecast of "Countdown to De La Hoya-Forbes." (Just kidding... I'm not THAT desperate).

But my point is... styles make fights. Hopkins fights I've never liked. Yeah, he's wily, cagey, all those things you may want to call him. But IMO his fighting style is b-o-r-i-n-g. Just a lot of lunging, clinching, wrestling and fouling. And apparently I've missed the good Calzaghe fights (Lacy and Kessler), and watched the shitty Calzaghe fights (Manfredo and Hopkins). But the guy just doesn't do it for me. What's with all this slapping sh*t? Where are all the punches meant to hurt people?

Tell you one thing. If Joe ever gets in the ring with Pavlik, that "0" is sure to go.

If I had a tenner for every time someone said that about joe's next opponent..

Well... I never said til now.