Fact or Fiction: Younger Hopkins...

i said yes on both but in reality I don't think prime Hopkins could dominate Calzaghe. He'd pull out a close UD in my opinion but no way domination.

 

Agreed!

 

I don't think the Hop/Calzaghe fight turns out much differently if they were both in their physical primes. Whatever Hopkins has lost in athleticism he has made up in ring smarts. Hopkins put on his greatest performance, according to himself, after he'd already lost to Calzaghe, so that would have to make you question whether Hopkins could be considered over the hill when he fought Calzaghe despite his age.

 

H2H calzaghe would have beaten BHOP in a close UD.

 

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yes on 1 and thats it

the only crime in hopkins vs calzaghe was that it should have been a UD instead of a split....that fight is not as close as the scorecards suggest, clazaghe beats any version of "bucktooth nard" thats what i call him after the "i wont ever lose to a whiteboy comment"