Calzaghe won the fight.
Close, not a visually impressive win but he won.
People who say Hopkins won in my opinion focus on the fact that Calzaghe struggled with Hopkins style and emphasize all the negatives whilst completely ignoring that Hopkins did virtually nothing in the second half of the fight and kept holding and claiming low blows to try and get himself a breather.
If Calzaghe would have fought the way Hopkins did, writhing on the floor as if his balls had been exploded in order to get a breather and try and get points docked he would have been derided.
Hopkins lost and he deserved to lose becuase he refused to fight.
If you don't try and win you don't deserve to win. Calzaghe won that fight.
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