Hopkins Won In My Eyes

[southakron314]

Hopkins won in my eyes Calzaghe didn't do enough to take it

Hopkins landed the cleaner shots. Calzaghe fights like a kitten and could not hurt Hopkins. Hopkins hurt Calzaghe on the other hand.

[El Kabong]

Hopkins landed the cleaner shots. Calzaghe fights like a kitten and could not hurt Hopkins. Hopkins hurt Calzaghe on the other hand.

I am not sure either fighter was hurt too bad...Calzaghe did go down and he did take some big shots but he was never wobbled or visibly in trouble at any point in time.


Hopkins caught some solid shots from Joe as well....I think the thing with Joe's power is that it's not thudding, it's more like Floyd Mayweather's it's quick and accurate BUT he throws a lot more and therefore it's speed and accumulation of punishment that does a fighter in vs Joe and not just one huge shot like Hopkins does (on occasion) usually he sets up his punches via combinations.

[ICB]

Hopkins landed the cleaner shots. Calzaghe fights like a kitten and could not hurt Hopkins. Hopkins hurt Calzaghe on the other hand.

I am not sure either fighter was hurt too bad...Calzaghe did go down and he did take some big shots but he was never wobbled or visibly in trouble at any point in time.


Hopkins caught some solid shots from Joe as well....I think the thing with Joe's power is that it's not thudding, it's more like Floyd Mayweather's it's quick and accurate BUT he throws a lot more and therefore it's speed and accumulation of punishment that does a fighter in vs Joe and not just one huge shot like Hopkins does (on occasion) usually he sets up his punches via combinations.

Yes Calzaghe was wobbled Lyle i can't remember exactly what round but Calzaghe almost went down right at the end of the round.

[The Fightfan]

all you Hopkins fans I feel for ya but to say he won is just absurd.Come on landed the cleaner punches maybe 1 of 5 punches landed in a round for Hopkins.Yes it was harder but Joe would answer with 5 "slaps" to hopkins 1 in the rounds.As far as the foul I knew exactly what happened to Bernard it actually happened to me not long ago his cup pinched his balls and boy I'll tell ya you feel that all the way down to your toes,but I never fell to the ground,got up delayed the fight for a minute or two from just a brush of the cup.I mean my god man I was punched in the balls not touched.

Bernard talks probably the best fight in the world but when it comes to he always reverts back to 1 punch and hold,1 punch and hold.At the end of the night he didn't get dazed or knocked down and he will always say he won the fight.Hopkins is a crafty old man but get serious Joe threw more landed more and was always on the attack.Get past the so called "defensive geniusness"(if that's a word) and watch the fight.

[ICB]

all you Hopkins fans I feel for ya but to say he won is just absurd.Come on landed the cleaner punches maybe 1 of 5 punches landed in a round for Hopkins.Yes it was harder but Joe would answer with 5 "slaps" to hopkins 1 in the rounds.As far as the foul I knew exactly what happened to Bernard it actually happened to me not long ago his cup pinched his balls and boy I'll tell ya you feel that all the way down to your toes,but I never fell to the ground,got up delayed the fight for a minute or two from just a brush of the cup.I mean my god man I was punched in the balls not touched.

Bernard talks probably the best fight in the world but when it comes to he always reverts back to 1 punch and hold,1 punch and hold.At the end of the night he didn't get dazed or knocked down and he will always say he won the fight.Hopkins is a crafty old man but get serious Joe threw more landed more and was always on the attack.Get past the so called "defensive geniusness"(if that's a word) and watch the fight.

So if a fighter lands 10 solid shots in a round and the other guy lands 25 pitter patter shots, you would score it for the guy that landed 25 pitter patter shots ??

[El Kabong]

....well if we scored the fight your way Pernell Whittaker would never have won a single fight

[ICB]

....well if we scored the fight your way Pernell Whittaker would never have won a single fight

Whitaker used to land solid jabs and straight left hands, Whitaker never threw pitter patter punches, and lets not forget his opponents couldn't even touch him

[Scrap]

Whittiker never left the Parish to avoid the Punch he wasnt a Bottle job.

[amat]

....well if we scored the fight your way Pernell Whittaker would never have won a single fight

Whitaker made a lot more of his punche then Calzaghe does. Look at the Chavez fight and the power shots Whitaker was throwing that night. Calzaghe's punches are literally slaps.

[LondonBB]

....well if we scored the fight your way Pernell Whittaker would never have won a single fight

Whitaker made a lot more of his punche then Calzaghe does. Look at the Chavez fight and the power shots Whitaker was throwing that night. Calzaghe's punches are literally slaps.

More hate.

Well, he rocked hopkins in the 10th with a 'slap', he floored eubank with a 'slap', he floored lacy in the final round with a 'slap'.

Beaten lacy, kessler, hopkins, reid, eubank, has a record of 45,0,0 and been champ for 11 years, now a two weight champ.

Nor bad for a 'slapper with no power'.

It doesnt take a genius to work out that a 'slapper with no power' doesnt get to be 45,0,0 champ at two weight divisions and champ for 11 years without being good at something?

Whats he good at? What are joes good points? Or is it all fluke? Is he a cheater or something? A conspiracy?

Surely you must have something good to say about a champ such as calzaghe?

Atm you seem like a hater, whatever he does, whoever he beats you will never rate him.

[JLAQ]

....well if we scored the fight your way Pernell Whittaker would never have won a single fight

Whitaker made a lot more of his punche then Calzaghe does. Look at the Chavez fight and the power shots Whitaker was throwing that night. Calzaghe's punches are literally slaps.

If they were slaps, how come the much bigger Bernard Hopkins was afraid to slug it out with him? You're being very inconsistent here.

[The Fightfan]

Most likely.Remember this all started over two guys fighting in a street somewhere.The sport of boxing that is.Take out all the mumbo jumbo point shit and just see who throws more and who lands more and usually that's your man.People may laugh but look at it this guy didn't seriously hurt Hopkins but he sure as hell went after him didn't he,he did throw alot of "pitty pat" shit and what did Hopkins do cover up and shoot 1 punch at a time and hold.It's clear as day who is holding,Joe is throwing and Hopkins is clinching.Even when Hopkins waived his arms in the 11th I believe he threw 2 shots and held on to Joe.

[Spicoli]

Calzaghe won the fight.I had it nip & tuck but Calzaghe was coming on later when Hopkins fell into the Damn wait around mode late.Just the way I saw it,period.

By no means was it the trouncing and over whelming of Hopkins some were predicting though.Respect is due both fighters!

[El Kabong]

Hopkins loses fights by being lazy and giving away rounds...he lost to Taylor that way and he lost to Calzaghe that way

[Mark TKO]

all i will say is I had it even - but damn those rounds were hard to score

had one man nicked it 114-1113 on the deciding score then fair enough


thought 116-111 was a bit off the mark mind