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    Default Re: Calzaghe/Hopkins

    Quote Originally Posted by ninjaspy3 View Post
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    Calzaghe won the fight, it was horrible to watch but Calzaghe edged it. You cant win a fight by not going forward, Hopkins was too defensive for my liking. If Calzaghe wouldnt have forced the action there wouldnt have been a fight. He landed the more punches and set the pace of the fight.
    Can someone please confirm if this is a true statement?

    "You cant win a fight by not going forward"

    I wouldn't think that it's true but someone tell me if I'm wrong.
    In my eyes you wont win a fight by not going forward and hanging back for 12 rounds, period. There aint a right or wrong answer, its your own opinion.

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    Plenty of people have won fights without taking a forward step, but they actually threw punches whilst moving backwards, in this fight Hopkins didn't

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    Quote Originally Posted by BIG H View Post
    Plenty of people have won fights without taking a forward step, but they actually threw punches whilst moving backwards, in this fight Hopkins didn't
    Cant argue with that. But if I was a judge I'ld be scoring rounds for fighters going forward, attempting to force the action thus scoring as well. I just dont know how a fighter as negative as Hopkins was here could win.

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    Default Re: Calzaghe/Hopkins

    Quote Originally Posted by The Rascal View Post
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    Plenty of people have won fights without taking a forward step, but they actually threw punches whilst moving backwards, in this fight Hopkins didn't
    Cant argue with that. But if I was a judge I'ld be scoring rounds for fighters going forward, attempting to force the action thus scoring as well. I just dont know how a fighter as negative as Hopkins was here could win.
    Yeh in this case I totally agree mate, but there are other fighters who I admired even though they were on the backfoot, i.e Whitaker. He was on the end of some very dodgy decisions for the exact reason that some jusges will always score for the agressor.

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    Default Re: Calzaghe/Hopkins

    I've watched & scored it 3 times & every time for Hopkins. 1st time it was 114-113 in his favour, 2nd 115-112 & the last was 114-113 again. But I was glad he lost because Hopkins was a complete prick before the fight. I have to say on the subject of who people thought won it, with almost everyone I talked to at my gym, I'd say about 80-90% of those said they thought Hopkins won it.

    But ignoring that anyone who says 'Hopkins was robbed' or 'Calzaghe won it clearly' is living in lala-land. It was a close fight that could have gone either way... as the scorecards did.

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