Calzaghe - Hopkins The Facts!!

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Those punch stats don't tell the whole story the first 4 rounds Hopkins won IMO and maybe Calzaghe did land few more punches in some rounds but Hopkins still landed more effective blows of the rounds he won, just say for instance in the rounds Calzaghe won he landed 20 more punches than Hopkins in those rounds, but in the rounds he lost he landed a few more punches than Hopkins, but Hopkins landed the much more effective blows ?? punch stats can be misleading and they are in this case as well.

Punchstats doesnt "tell all" in cases like Marquez-PAC fights wherein JMM just landed about 20 more punches than PAC the whole fight BUT when it's over 100 punches landed that is a BIG discrepancy that even a cleaner harder puncher like Hopkins can overcome.

Taylor was out landed by almost 100 punches in the rematch vs Pavlik and many people thought he won the fight, in fact it was anyones fight until the last 2 rounds, the difference is Hopkins also scored a knockdown which made it even closer.

For once youve written something i agree with!!!

Up until the last 2 rounds it was even, infact even maybe hopkins winning by 1 point due to the knock down.

But because calzaghe quite clearly took those last 2 rounds, thats where calzaghe wins.

Like i say, it was a very tough fight (for both fighters), an ugly fight, hopkins dominated the first segment then calzaghe turned it around, hopkins was too spent by that time and had no more tricks to turn it back.

You are right, it all came down to the last 2 rounds, the fact calzaghe won those rounds meant that he won.

Im taking nothing away from hopkins, great fighter, but calzaghe got those last two rounds and that was what swayed the fight.