"Calzaghe only slapped against Hopkins"

Calzaghe usually doesn't "slap" when he throws a 1-2. He just doesn't have much power, especially when fighting Hopkins in a Light Heavyweight fight.

When Calzaghe does his flurries and combinations (with more than 2 punches), he tends to get slappy.

Regardless, Calzaghe never hurt Hopkins, never showed any ability to "slap Hopkins around" as that video title indicates, and in fact many of the punches on that clip were rolled by BHop.

 

Calzaghe doesn't sit on his punches, as they would break - he hurts people by accumulation. Move along...

 

Agreed. But he also never came remotely close to hurting Hopkins.

 

He stung him and made him grab on a few times, but he never really shook him up. I still think he would have stopped Hopkins on accumulation if Hopkins hadn't have had that rest.

 

When Hopkins held on, it looked more like a matter of strategy than it did him being legitimately stung...

I think Hopkins landed the more effective punches in the fight. He just didn't throw enough, and tried dirty tactics instead of the type of fighting that made him great...

There is also NO WAY that Joe Calzaghe was stopping Hopkins. If Hopkins fought more like he did against Pavlik, where he struck first and put together combos, he'd have a chance to stop Calzaghe.

Calzaghe was more beat up, Calzaghe hit the mat, Calzaghe was hurt more.

Calzaghe flat out doesn't have the power to stop Hopkins...

 

Hopkins could allow Calzaghe 10 unanswered punches to his skull, and he wouldn't even floor Hopkins never mind stop him. Joe's power is long gone. He landed literally hundreds of flush shots on Jeff Lacy and never stopped him. His fans love to come out with their woefully inaccurate statistics about how Calzaghe 'landed' over 200 clean shots on B-Hop in their fight: well if that's true then surely they are admitting Joe has absolutely zero punch power then??? As he did not make Hopkins flinch even once!

 

I can remember him landing some pretty clean shot's as that fight wore on I was about to say that actually but it seems this is what this thread is saying.

 

Calzaghe blatantly hurt Hopkins which is a hard thing to do and he nearly KO'd Kessler who has never been down pro or amature. Hopkins would have been stopped if it was not for all that fake **** he pulled and people on here know that. Why on Earth would he have done it otherwise. He cheated in that fight. Don't tell me that he was hit hard below the belt and don't tell me he would of pulled a stunt like that against Kelly Pavlik when he was the one who looked like getting a stoppage. How emmbarassing would it be for the so called ATG to be TKO'd against a feather fisted guy like Calzaghe. At least kessler admitted he was badly hurt against Calzaghe when he came to the press conference with a massive black and as for Lacy that fight could have been stopped a number of times and in my opinion should have been as Lacy's career since has shown he is now damaged goods besides who else bar Calzaghe has knocked him down???
P.S if Hatton had of pulled a stunt like that against Mayweather I think it would have went the distance as well.

 

Agreed.

Calzaghe also wasn't hitting Hopkins cleanly on most of those shots. Hopkins was rolling punchers, taking partial shots, etc.

The nuthuggers think when a guy throws a straight left that it is by default a powerful punch...

 

Ummmm...I don't recall a point where Hopkins looked like he was about to be stopped...

Also, dirty tactics don't mean that you are about to get knocked out.

Maybe Hopkins thought he was losing, and tried to make up for it...

Maybe Hopkins was tired, and needed a rest...

Maybe Hopkins was just trying to anger Calzaghe into doing something stupid...

I'm not defending Hopkins. I thought his actions were dirty and stupid. However, at NO POINT in that fight did Hopkins appear to be hurt or near being knocked down/out.

Calzaghe hit the mat from one punch in the first round, and you guys are talking about Hopkins being hurt??? He was never even shaken by a punch. There is no evidence to suggest that Calzaghe hurt Hopkins...

 

When did he blatantly hurt Hopkins? I have the fight on dvd, give me the round and time, and I'll check it out, as I've watched the fight numerous times and I have never seen the slightest evidence that Hopkins was even remotely troubled by Calzaghe's punches at any point. Round and time please.

 

People seem to forget Hopkins could not fight the way he did against Pavlik because he was in with a much better opponent. There was no way in hell he was going to land a combo against Calzaghe and that is why he did not throw many to make sure he did not leave himself open much. If anyone had an off day in that fight it was Calzaghe.

 

exactly, i agree with every point you've made

 

Everybody on here agreed that Calzaghe won that fight fair and square until Hopkins beat up Pavlik. Then all of these people sprung out of no where with all this **** about how Hopkins should of beat Calzaghe and they always had him over Pavlik. I was one of the few who had him over Pavlik and I made a fiver on that but he did not deserve to beat Calzaghe. That ref cheated and the American's know it. He would not let Hatton get away with any inside fighting even when it was clean and he let Hopkins get away with all sorts.