Calzaghe disses U.S. talent pool.

Agreed. I disagree that Hopkins lost to Joe though, I still have him winning that fight by a point, but it was close. Closer than the Taylor fights :yep

 

I had Hopkins winning too, but I have never made an issue of it. It's damn hard to award rounds when one guy doesn't land a single meaningful punch, and the other throws like 15 punches per round.

 

I thought Calzaghe won by 3 rounds (I'm not a JC fan BTW), Hopkins just didn't do enough in my book. You've got to at least put a few punches in if you want to win a round on "ring generalship" IMHO.

 

Agreed, I just base it on the fact that Hopkins won the first 4 rounds on my card, and maybe the 5th too, and with the knockdown that makes him pretty much un-catchable. Calslappy didn't win the last 7 or 8 rounds from what I remember, he lost one or two of those rounds as well. I had the fight to Hopkins by a point, maybe 114-113 or something like that. The scorecards were a ****ing joke that night, didn't one judge have Calslappy winning 116-111 or something? Bull****.

 

If you have a fighter winning by a point then you can hardly scream "robbery" IMHO. I had Calzaghe by more than that, I'll rewatch it and score it again before the next lot of fights.