Fact or Fiction: Younger Hopkins...

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  1. Royal-T-Bag

    Royal-T-Bag Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    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.
     
  2. Pound4poundx

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    Agreed!
     
  3. Machine

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    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.
     
  4. pngo

    pngo #1Contender Full Member

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    H2H calzaghe would have beaten BHOP in a close UD.
     
  5. Bodysnatcher

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  6. Jeff Young

    Jeff Young Boxing Junkie Full Member

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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"