Your Calzaghe-Hopkins Scorecard

[XaduBoxer]

The judges scorecard:





Joe Calzaghe dug himself out of an early hole by taking most of the later rounds in his light heavyweight split decision win over fellow legend Bernard Hopkins on Saturday night in Las Vegas. Super Joe took seven of the last eight rounds on the scorecard of judge Ted Gimza (115-112) and nine of the last ten on the card of judge Chuck Giampa (116-111). Judge Adalaide Byrd, who scored the bout 114-113 for Hopkins, awarded Calzaghe four of the last six rounds. The first six rounds of the fight were difficult to score as the judges were fully in agreement on only the 10-8 first round. In the second half, however, five of the six rounds were agreed upon across the board.

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[JLAQ]

120-108 Calzaghe, if not for the KD. Nard never won a round. He ran all night. Calzaghe, the aggressor, chased him like some dirty ex-con, bitch-slapped Nard like crazy, all the while being restrained by the biased referee. It was a masterclass in boxing. Grace under pressure.

[Violent Demise]

1 Hopkins 10-8
2 Hopkins 10-9
3 Hopkins 10-9
4 Hopkins 10-9
5 Calzaghe 10-9
6 Calzaghe 10-9
7 Hopkins 10-9
8 Hopkins 10-9
9 Calzaghe 10-9
10 Hopkins 10-9
11 Calzaghe 10-9
12 Calzaghe 10-9

115-112 Bernard Hopkins

[Tysonbruno]

1 Hopkins 10-8
2 Hopkins 10-9
3 Hopkins 10-9
4 Hopkins 10-9
5 Calzaghe 10-9
6 Calzaghe 10-9
7 Hopkins 10-9
8 Hopkins 10-9
9 Calzaghe 10-9
10 Hopkins 10-9
11 Calzaghe 10-9
12 Calzaghe 10-9

115-112 Bernard Hopkins

I thought pretty similar to this i was sat as the decision came through i never thought Calzaghe had won for one minute then he gets a 116-111 what a joke.Hopkins was the champ in his own backyard i just don't think Calzaghe did enough to win like ICE said the other day Calzaghe should be 43-2 he should have lost to Reid and Hopkins this Hopkins win was a proper gift.

[Puya]

Good bye B-Hop no more I have to hear form you BYEEEE!!!
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[Pugilistic]

120-108 Calzaghe, if not for the KD. Nard never won a round. He ran all night. Calzaghe, the aggressor, chased him like some dirty ex-con, bitch-slapped Nard like crazy, all the while being restrained by the biased referee. It was a masterclass in boxing. Grace under pressure.

what a stupid comment. bernard never won a round ? he ran he actually did a thing called lateral movement. you need to watch de la hoya - trinidad to see what running actually is. calzaghe was the agressor but landed nothing effective at all while being countered by hopkins effective leads. you can talk about compubox stats but they are completely unrealible.

Bad rep for you for such a shit and nuthugger post

[Tysonbruno]

Calzaghe never really landed anything of substance like Hopkins did Calzaghe was the one who was down and the one who was hurt on a few occasions.

[Fenster]

Funny old game is scoring.

All three judges gave the 11th round to Hopkins yet I notice all you Hopkins boys gave it to Calzaghe...

[BIG H]

Such a hard fight to score. Infact the hardest to score since Hopkins Taylor 1 imo. I think we all agree it was VERY close

[porkypara]

I think I scored it 115-112 to Calzaghe.

Cant find my score card.


Hopkins used every dirty trick in the book and he still got beat.

The ref should have warned Hopkins for his constant holding and taken a point if it continued.

THE BEST MAN WON.

[Dizaster]

I'm not getting into the arguements of scoring.. Some of the rounds could have gone either way.. The first knockdown was definetly a knockdown, but certainly had no effect on Calzaghe being hurt.. It was a nice punch that had Calzaghe's feet squared up and obviously not balanced, and then Hopkins pushing forward to make sure Calzaghe went onto his ass..

No my stream was pretty crappy, but the other times I saw a punch get Calzaghe wobbling, it was a punch that had shortly followed a head clash.. So it could be argued that it was the butts that had Calzaghe almost out a few times... I don't think Calzaghe would have gone down in the first from the punch, if Hopkins did not continue to come forward and push him off balance..

100% agree though that Hopkins landed the better punches.. By far.. And did not run.. He was tactical. If he stood and traded with Joe, it would have been Joe's fight..

Everyone someone chooses as part of their gameplan NOT to stand their and go blow for blow with their opponent,,,, someone will accuse them of running..
Boxing is a game of tactics, as much as it is a game of punching.. Hopkins is one of boxings best tacticians, and gave Joe one hell of a run for his money...
Jlaq, i'll give you the benifit of this one, as you may be a hard core Joe fan and can only see this fight through one eye... But come some newer fights, I hope your fight analysis extends past just the guy you support...
Hopkins performed better than any of Joe's previous opponents.. And if they fought 10 times, I have no doubt he could win at least half of those...

I don't argue with the Joe win which is already going against a lot of people, but calzaghe 120-108 is just showing a lack of respect for proper judgment of a bout.

[ICB]

Such a hard fight to score. Infact the hardest to score since Hopkins Taylor 1 imo. I think we all agree it was VERY close

I don't think Taylor vs Hopkins 1 was that hard to score, Taylor pretty much clearly won most of the early rounds, with Hopkins at best winning 2 rounds out of the first 8 with 1 even round. Then Hopkins clearly won the last 4 rounds.

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

120-108 Calzaghe, if not for the KD. Nard never won a round. He ran all night. Calzaghe, the aggressor, chased him like some dirty ex-con, bitch-slapped Nard like crazy, all the while being restrained by the biased referee. It was a masterclass in boxing. Grace under pressure.

You're getting slapped down with -27 REP for your comment. This is a forum and you're allowed your oppinion but this is rediculous... You do know this is a boxing forum, no?

The people that post here make intelligent comments that can be backed with fact... Not mindless drivle.

I've seen one post from you on this forum and it was idiotic... Hopkins didn't win a round? If you ever want some help on how to score a fight in regards to ring generalship, active agression and landing harder, cleaner shots let me know...

Clearly you need some help.

I love BHop but still scored the fight with Calzaghe winning by 1 pt.

Although I wanted Joe to lose I'm glad he got a fair decision here. I hate hometown bullshit.



... although I'm a hopkins fan... I don't deal in fan-boy bullshit either

[JLAQ]

120-108 Calzaghe, if not for the KD. Nard never won a round. He ran all night. Calzaghe, the aggressor, chased him like some dirty ex-con, bitch-slapped Nard like crazy, all the while being restrained by the biased referee. It was a masterclass in boxing. Grace under pressure.

You're getting slapped down with -27 REP for your comment. This is a forum and you're allowed your oppinion but this is rediculous... You do know this is a boxing forum, no?

The people that post here make intelligent comments that can be backed with fact... Not mindless drivle.

I've seen one post from you on this forum and it was idiotic... Hopkins didn't win a round? If you ever want some help on how to score a fight in regards to ring generalship, active agression and landing harder, cleaner shots let me know...

Clearly you need some help.

I love BHop but still scored the fight with Calzaghe winning by 1 pt.

Although I wanted Joe to lose I'm glad he got a fair decision here. I hate hometown bullshit.

Look, if people can call the Floyd-Baldomir class a masterclass in boxing 120-108, when all he did was run in a fight officiated by a ref who said Floyd was the greatest, why can't we do the same with Calzaghe, who instead of running like Floyd, chased the bigger fighter in Hopkins, actually HURT Nard (did Floyd hurt Baldo?), all the while being prevented to let it all out by a ref who also thought Nard was the greatest?

In other words:

Floyd in Baldo ran for 12 rounds from a feather-fisted journeyman, w/ the ref rooting for him, did not hurt Baldo, gets a wide UD 120-108, while

Cal in Hop stalked the much bigger and so much more accomplished fighter in Hop (compared to Baldo that is), with the ref against him, hurt Nard at times, but only gets an SD 115-114?

There is no JUSTICE if that's how you see it.

[Pugilistic]

120-108 Calzaghe, if not for the KD. Nard never won a round. He ran all night. Calzaghe, the aggressor, chased him like some dirty ex-con, bitch-slapped Nard like crazy, all the while being restrained by the biased referee. It was a masterclass in boxing. Grace under pressure.

You're getting slapped down with -27 REP for your comment. This is a forum and you're allowed your oppinion but this is rediculous... You do know this is a boxing forum, no?

The people that post here make intelligent comments that can be backed with fact... Not mindless drivle.

I've seen one post from you on this forum and it was idiotic... Hopkins didn't win a round? If you ever want some help on how to score a fight in regards to ring generalship, active agression and landing harder, cleaner shots let me know...

Clearly you need some help.

I love BHop but still scored the fight with Calzaghe winning by 1 pt.

Although I wanted Joe to lose I'm glad he got a fair decision here. I hate hometown bullshit.

Look, if people can call the Floyd-Baldomir class a masterclass in boxing 120-108, when all he did was run in a fight officiated by a ref who said Floyd was the greatest, why can't we do the same with Calzaghe, who instead of running like Floyd, chased the bigger fighter in Hopkins, actually HURT Nard (did Floyd hurt Baldo?), all the while being prevented to let it all out by a ref who also thought Nard was the greatest?

In other words:

Floyd in Baldo ran for 12 rounds from a feather-fisted journeyman, w/ the ref rooting for him, did not hurt Baldo, gets a wide UD 120-108, while

Cal in Hop stalked the much bigger and so much more accomplished fighter in Hop (compared to Baldo that is), with the ref against him, hurt Nard at times, but only gets an SD 115-114?

There is no JUSTICE if that's how you see it.

joe did not hurt hopkins. joe followed hopkins round the ring, majority of the time throwing ineffective flurries. rounds that joe won was because hopkins was too inactive. the hopkins that faced trinidad would of beat joe decisively