Hate to say it but..Hopkins might do a number on Calzaghe!!!

[smashup]

Loves ruining a southpaw and is a classic counter puncher even at his age...
Vastly experienced and dirty with it plus Joe has NO experience at Light Heavy at all.
Just think he might have the awkward style to frustrate Cally and grind out a street war.
Just a gut feeling
Yours?

[JT Rock]

Loves ruining a southpaw and is a classic counter puncher even at his age...
Vastly experienced and dirty with it plus Joe has NO experience at Light Heavy at all.
Just think he might have the awkward style to frustrate Cally and grind out a street war.
Just a gut feeling
Yours?

I appreciate what your saying, but Nard throws about 10 punches a round 3 of them are legal

Joe is to busy with good footwork as well as timing and closing the distance.. I hate to say this but Joe will get NO credit for beating Hopkins because I see this being the fight that Bernard looks his age... I would be suprised if Hopkins wins 3 rounds. Calzaghe by Lopsided UD

[smashup]

Bika dragged Joe into an ugly fight a few years back and was nowhere near a Hopkins,that is a worry
Obviously being a Londoner like Joe (hehehe) i want him to batter Hopkins silly but he knows some cute tricks.
I like the one he got away with against Winky....pulling his man onto a lunging headbutt but cleverly blocking the refs vision of it with his arm!
Seen him do this a few times and if he can get his man to leak some claret then it seriously makes you change your gameplan.
Joe is a master at adapting to a style during a fight but Hopkins is strong,dirty and cute as f*ck with it.
Very clever fighter is Hopkins.

[ICB]

Bika dragged Joe into an ugly fight a few years back and was nowhere near a Hopkins,that is a worry
Obviously being a Londoner like Joe (hehehe) i want him to batter Hopkins silly but he knows some cute tricks.
I like the one he got away with against Winky....pulling his man onto a lunging headbutt but cleverly blocking the refs vision of it with his arm!
Seen him do this a few times and if he can get his man to leak some claret then it seriously makes you change your gameplan.
Joe is a master at adapting to a style during a fight but Hopkins is strong,dirty and cute as f*ck with it.
Very clever fighter is Hopkins.

Not just the Bika fight Calzaghe also struggled in ugly fights with Reid, Salem.

[JT Rock]

Bika dragged Joe into an ugly fight a few years back and was nowhere near a Hopkins,that is a worry
Obviously being a Londoner like Joe (hehehe) i want him to batter Hopkins silly but he knows some cute tricks.
I like the one he got away with against Winky....pulling his man onto a lunging headbutt but cleverly blocking the refs vision of it with his arm!
Seen him do this a few times and if he can get his man to leak some claret then it seriously makes you change your gameplan.
Joe is a master at adapting to a style during a fight but Hopkins is strong,dirty and cute as f*ck with it.
Very clever fighter is Hopkins.

I want Joe to kick the ever livin piss out of Hopkins, Joe has proven he is one tough cookie and is a master tecnician in his own right with his perfected craft... Hop will get old in the 1st 3 rounds and it will be apparent that he cant run with the big boys anymore...... Calzaghe will retire him

[jaz_pagan]

I agree...Hopkins WILL do a number on him.

I don't think we'll see Calzaghe with his usual workrate...not after he gets countered with a couple of straight rights.

I'll take Hopkins by unanimous decision.

[ICB]

I think a lot of people just think Calzaghe will be able to go in there and just out work Hopkins and throw punches from all angles. Thats not the case folks Hopkins can stop Calzaghe's work rate with clinches and etc. Calzaghe should box and use his Southpaw jab, if he gets involved on the inside against Hopkins he will get roughed up big time.

[BIG H]

Loves ruining a southpaw and is a classic counter puncher even at his age...
Vastly experienced and dirty with it plus Joe has NO experience at Light Heavy at all.
Just think he might have the awkward style to frustrate Cally and grind out a street war.
Just a gut feeling
Yours?

I think it's the toughest fight yet for JC, but think he nicks it 116-112

[CutMeMick]

I'm gonna take Joe by MD.

[Fenster]

Swapped back to Hopkins again Smash?

Before the fight you'll be back on Calzaghe.. gauranteed.. then Hopkins, then Calzaghe....

Only problem I see for Joey boyo is the fight being in Vegas. He could get "robbed."

And even if not robbed, Hopkins will make the fight as boring and ugly as humanly possible.. so tough to score.

[Master]

I cannot see anything other than a Galzaghe win. Sure it is his first time at light heavy and it is away from home and it is against a spoiler who once was a great fighter in his own country. It will be exactly like the Bika fight and Joe will out point him 115-113.

[ono]

I think Hopkins style is one which Calzaghe will have trouble with. But i don't see a 43 year old Hopkins being active enough to take advantage of the trouble he will cause calzaghe.

Calzaghe sometimes loses his composure when he's in with a dirty fighter. He's also guilty of trying to impress too much and leaving himself open to straight rights.

I reckon Hopkins will get inside his head but i don't think he has the workrate or power to do anything other than make the fight a bit scrappy. Calzaghe should win on workrate alone.

UD calzaghe.....in a fight that will actually not really be that close but the judges will have it 115-113 ish.

[smashup]

Hopkins better be tip top fitness wise for this because JC will set off a fierce pace early on but i'm intruiged to see how the old master deals with it
Like i said i think he's got the experience to do it and force Joe to change his gameplan (which he will do) then back over to Hopkins to out think him in return.....
Can't wait for this one.

[Bomp]

At first I thought it would be an easy UD for Joe, but loads of writers seem to be making a case for B-hop and they're making me a little twitchy, but that happens every Joe C fight for me.

Though B-hop was at middle for a long time, he does seem to have more physicallity than JC. IUt's going to be tough for Joe, but IMO it's his fight to lose. If he boxes behind his jab early he can get rounds in the bank, forcing B-hop to take the initiative later on then he can be the counter puncher. As long as JC doesn't make the mistakes, I feel he should win comfortably. He should be experienced enough by now, I think the Kessler fight was a good warm up for this one since he also followed a strategy of countering Joe with straight rights, as long as Joe doesn't give too many opportunities he should be all right.

[Hulk]

Calzaghe will suffer the same fate all southpaws who have faced Bernard have. B-hop knows how to handle southpaws with that straight right. And he will slow even Calzaghe's workrate to a crawl. Hopkins by decision.