The truth about bhop vs calzaghie is that it was a political decision. Calzaghie didnt do **** in that fight until the 8th round. I can count on two hands how many clean punches he landed in the first 7 rounds. Hopkins knocked him down and outlanded calzagie with clean punches. I dont care what punchstat says, i have watched the fight 20 times. If calxaghie was landing punches hopkins face woulda shown a little wear. His face was clean. Hopkins won the fight.
There were very few clean punches landed in that entire fight but the heavier punches were by Hopkins and the "official" punchstats were apparently recorded by one of Joe's sons or someone chosen out of the ample pool of love-stricken ESB volunteers.
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The school of thought that believes that Hopkins won the fight because he landed the cleaner and more effective punches while Calzaghe only landed slaps and rabbit punches is fraught with conjecture. If Calzaghe was indeed punching illegally by using the inside of his hands and punching behind the head then at least one of the four officials (the referee and three judges) would have penalised him for it. However, not even the judge who scored the fight for Hopkins made any mention of such illegalities. This school of thought equates this perceived illegality with "ineffective punching" which is simply making excuses for the fact that Calzaghe landed more punches on Hopkins than Hopkins did on Calzaghe. Regardless of computer stats, this can be plainly seen if you watch the fight without the bias of believing that Calzaghe is punching illegally. Calzaghe was the more effective aggressor, yet people excuse Hopkins' lack of effective agression by saying he is a counterpuncher. Calzaghe was the more effective ring general. Again, it is plain to see if you watch the fight - Calzaghe continually brought the fight to Hopkins, who in response continually fell in and clinched. It is even more apparent in the later rounds when Hopkins began to tire and ended up claiming Calzaghe had hit him with a lowblow. Calzaghe also controlled the tempo of the fight - after Hopkins knocked Calzaghe down in the first round, Calzaghe increased his workrate and Hopkins couldn't keep up, hence him resorting to continually falling in and holding and tiring in the later rounds. Anyone who disagrees that Calzaghe won this fight is simply biased against Calzaghe and will never apply logic to scoring the fight.
What kind of political decision was it? Hopkins had long been a staple of HBO whereas Calzaghe signed on in '06 for the Bika fight. 2 out of 3 AMERICAN judges had Calzaghe winning. The fight took place in Las Vegas, which last I checked, happens to be in AMERICA. Diaz vs. Malignaggi was a political decision. Hopkins vs. Calzaghe was the correct decision.
Calzaghe wipes the floor with anyone Bhop beat in his prime lets remember that before we start proclaiming Bhop's dominance over Joe so I just don't see the basis for this assumption that Bhop would dominate Joe in his prime is from.