Credit to Bernard he tried everything. Honestly the knockdown, excellent punch. Bernard still showed he was the defensive master. But where DLH, Trinidad, Wright, Tarver and Taylor failed - Calzaghe suceeded. Calzaghe fought fire with fire and eventually outlanded, outworked, outboxed Bernard. I scored the fight round 1 - Hopkins + knockdown round 2 - Hopkins round 3 - Calzaghe round 4 - Hopkins round 5 - calzaghe round 6- calzaghe round 7 - calzaghe round 8 - calzaghe round 9 - calzaghe round 10 - calzaghe round 11 - calzaghe round 12 - calzaghe A lot of the rounds WERE CLOSE, but Calzaghe landed more and CAME FORWARD. In the end for me, after a VERY shaky start from Calzaghe he adapted after round 4 exactly the same as in the Kessler fight and then took control. It was a close, but clear decision for calzaghe. and to be honest - no one should have thought any different as no one was gonna dominate eachother as this is calzaghe and hopkins we're talking about. 2 of the best fighters of our generation. The standard of actualy boxing tonight was as high as it gets. Tonights fight we had the 2 best fighters from 160-175 fighting. Regardless of what Kelly Pavlik fans think. I predicted a 115-113 decision win for calzaghe tonight which wasnt that far off. I'd predict a WIDE 118 decision for Calzaghe over Pavlik. Same for Hopkins. PROPS.
