Reguardless of who you think won....

[ICB]

Both Guys deserve a ton of credit. Joe for fighting a determined fight. He made adjustments and after the fight was very honest in saying it was the hardest fight of his career. And Hopkins once again proved that even at his age he is still one of the best in the world and he knows all the tricks. He fought a very competitive fight against another great fighter of this generation. I think this fight ultimately furthered their legacys. Both ATG fighters without a doubt with some remarkable accomplishments.

Hopkins gave one of the best performances i've ever seen from 40+ fighter, that just shows you how good he is that he can take a fighter like Calzaghe who is in his prime all the way to a close razor thin decision. Calzaghe did look sloppy and ordinary at times IMO. I will give Calzaghe a lot of credit even though i think he lost, he still got up from that knockdown and fought on like a true champion.

[BoomBoom]

Both Guys deserve a ton of credit. Joe for fighting a determined fight. He made adjustments and after the fight was very honest in saying it was the hardest fight of his career. And Hopkins once again proved that even at his age he is still one of the best in the world and he knows all the tricks. He fought a very competitive fight against another great fighter of this generation. I think this fight ultimately furthered their legacys. Both ATG fighters without a doubt with some remarkable accomplishments.

Hopkins gave one of the best performances i've ever seen from 40+ fighter, that just shows you how good he is that he can take a fighter like Calzaghe who is in his prime all the way to a close razor thin decision. Calzaghe did look sloppy and ordinary at times IMO. I will give Calzaghe a lot of credit even though i think he lost, he still got up from that knockdown and fought on like a true champion.

Absolutely, and I do think he fought his fight most of the rounds. Joe was just busier and outworked him slightly in some of the middle/latter rounds.

[LondonBB]

Both Guys deserve a ton of credit. Joe for fighting a determined fight. He made adjustments and after the fight was very honest in saying it was the hardest fight of his career. And Hopkins once again proved that even at his age he is still one of the best in the world and he knows all the tricks. He fought a very competitive fight against another great fighter of this generation. I think this fight ultimately furthered their legacys. Both ATG fighters without a doubt with some remarkable accomplishments.

Hopkins gave one of the best performances i've ever seen from 40+ fighter, that just shows you how good he is that he can take a fighter like Calzaghe who is in his prime all the way to a close razor thin decision. Calzaghe did look sloppy and ordinary at times IMO. I will give Calzaghe a lot of credit even though i think he lost, he still got up from that knockdown and fought on like a true champion.

Agree and disagree mate.

Disagree that calz is at his prime, hes 36, i dont think hes at his prime tbh. Not far over but past his best by a bit.

Id say though that i agree with you about hopkins, definately a great fighter, hall of famer. Hopkins took calzaghe all the way and knocked him on the floor in round 1, outclassed him with classic counter punching there.

But i disagree that hopkins won, i had it 115,113 to calzaghe, bhop taking the first 3 rounds, but calz took the 4th (no one can deny that), and then took 6 rounds later in the fight aswell, giving joe 7 of the rounds, hopkins 4 rounds (and a 10,8 round) and a 1 drawn round meaning calz win the fight by 2 points.

I cant see how you can get a 114/113 to hopkins though, it means you are giving hopkins some of the rounds that i thought clazaghe clearly won?

No doubt bhop won the first 3 and the 9th but the rest of the fight joe did enough.

Both great fighters but in the end it was the true champ joe calzaghe who played bernard at his own game and proved why he is now the winner and ring mag light heavy champ!