Calzaghe/Hopkins

[Taeth]

They both fought dirty that fight, and HOpkins should have won it by a point. I can't believe how many punches compubox "Amassed" for Joe because he was hardly landing anything cleanly. Hopkins won because he landed the cleaner harder shots, and I agree it was disgraceful what he did with the low blow, but after that he controlled the fight once again showing that Calzaghe only won any of the rounds because of Hopkins' age more than anything. Hopkins was clearly the better fighter.

[Althugz]

People always seem to disregard how dirty Calzaghe actually was in that fight.

He was throwing low blows and rabbit punches throughout the whole fight. He even admitted to hitting Hopkins low in the 2nd round because he got knocked down.

Calzaghe Says Low Blow Against Hopkins Deliberate!!! on Boxing Daily

Hopkins was dirty but Calzaghe was no better.

This fight had no clear winner, Calzaghe was sloppy and inaccurate and Hopkins was over cautious. You either had Hopkins winning because he landed the cleaner harder punches or you had Calzaghe winning because he threw more and controlled the tempo.

I can agree with majority favoring Calzaghe because he controlled the tempo of the right later on, but it wasn't a clear win.

Thanks Pugilistic, it took 14 posts from the start of this thread for me to actually read something that wasn't Joe Calslappy biase. (apart from LanceUppercuts post too)

I agree with you...A difficult to score fight. I prefered Hopkins in the fight, not that it was pretty..but compared to Calzaghes sloppy punches that didn't land much I gave Hopkins the nod after watching it.

Everyone at my boxing gym had Hopkins winning too.

[match]

Calzaghe won this fight fair and square but it was by no means a landslide. Like Jones-Hopkins in '94, Jones clearly won but it wasn't a blowout.

[ross]

You can tell how much Beranrd was struggling and just trying to stay in the fight by all the bullshiit, cry baby, biitch girl shiit he did, rolling round on the floor, he didnt want a fight, he skirted, grabbed and side stepped his way to a loss

Even Jones couldnt push Hopkins that far and before you say "Hopkins was old" so was Joe, if it had happened 10 years before, the same thing would have happened, Hopkins wouldnt have had a clue, he thinks his crappy tactics will make people stutter and hesitate, he didnt bank on someone who can throw non stop punches for 12 rounds, a younger Calzaghe would have had the same workrate but more power.

[Fenster]

People always seem to disregard how dirty Calzaghe actually was in that fight.

He was throwing low blows and rabbit punches throughout the whole fight. He even admitted to hitting Hopkins low in the 2nd round because he got knocked down.

Calzaghe Says Low Blow Against Hopkins Deliberate!!! on Boxing Daily

Hopkins was dirty but Calzaghe was no better.

This fight had no clear winner, Calzaghe was sloppy and inaccurate and Hopkins was over cautious. You either had Hopkins winning because he landed the cleaner harder punches or you had Calzaghe winning because he threw more and controlled the tempo.

I can agree with majority favoring Calzaghe because he controlled the tempo of the right later on, but it wasn't a clear win.

Thanks Pugilistic, it took 14 posts from the start of this thread for me to actually read something that wasn't Joe Calslappy biase. (apart from LanceUppercuts post too)

I agree with you...A difficult to score fight. I prefered Hopkins in the fight, not that it was pretty..but compared to Calzaghes sloppy punches that didn't land much I gave Hopkins the nod after watching it.

Everyone at my boxing gym had Hopkins winning too.

I hope the guys at your gym can fight better than they score?

[Althugz]

People always seem to disregard how dirty Calzaghe actually was in that fight.

He was throwing low blows and rabbit punches throughout the whole fight. He even admitted to hitting Hopkins low in the 2nd round because he got knocked down.

Calzaghe Says Low Blow Against Hopkins Deliberate!!! on Boxing Daily

Hopkins was dirty but Calzaghe was no better.

This fight had no clear winner, Calzaghe was sloppy and inaccurate and Hopkins was over cautious. You either had Hopkins winning because he landed the cleaner harder punches or you had Calzaghe winning because he threw more and controlled the tempo.

I can agree with majority favoring Calzaghe because he controlled the tempo of the right later on, but it wasn't a clear win.

Thanks Pugilistic, it took 14 posts from the start of this thread for me to actually read something that wasn't Joe Calslappy biase. (apart from LanceUppercuts post too)

I agree with you...A difficult to score fight. I prefered Hopkins in the fight, not that it was pretty..but compared to Calzaghes sloppy punches that didn't land much I gave Hopkins the nod after watching it.

Everyone at my boxing gym had Hopkins winning too.

I hope the guys at your gym can fight better than they score?

Funny that, the first thing we were taught was that scoring shots are with the front of the glove...not by slapping your opponent with the inside of the glove...