Hopkins always said he takes away his opponents' best weapon. What is Calzaghe's?

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Gavin Rees is lightweight at best, it's a miracle he has any sort of title of 140

I'm not a big fan of Macca, but he was nothing but a one handed brawler a few years ago. Now he is actually a respectable looking boxer, with sound fundamentals. He has been transformed

Then there is Joe Calzaghe...

A lot of this is down to Enzo Calzaghe

 

If Hopkins is forced into pressing the action, Calzaghe will be in his element.

Arguably, Calzaghe's best weapon is his boxing brain, he naturally adapts to what's in front of him. He's switched gameplans when something hasn't been working. For evidence of this, watch the Bika, Kessler & Woodhall fights for the best examples. His speed is obviously an advantage but you have to know how best to use it. This fight will be the one to use that speed to get in, unload quickly and get back out again. Joe also has a much underappreciated jab and uses it very well to pick up points and keep his opponents on their toes.

Hopkins is currently in the process of trying to mess with Joe's brain. If he's able to get to Calzaghe then that could manifest itself in the ring by Joe making poor decisions.

 

Nah, Hopkins would prefer Joe to come forward all guns blazing, throwing 80 punches a round

That gives him the chance to counter with that right hand. If Joe fights cautiously behind the jab, Hopkins will have no choice but to come forward and fight, which I don't think he'll be comfortable with at his age. He wants to fight on the backfoot

Unfortunately for him, Joe can do both, and he'll decide when the time is right to throw 80 punches a round

 

Calzaghe is too good -- he's light on his toes and throws quick combo's. Hopkins at 175 is not as mobile and more setintary. Calzaghe does have a dominant right jab and quick right hook. I think Joe will be on the top of his game and prove that he's the best out there. He didn't make any mistakes against Kessler or Lacy when everything was on the table Calzaghe brought out his best.

 

Agreed:good Calzaghe throws tons of punches but does not have the power to hurt hopkins. If he wins it will strickly be one points. But Hopkins has the ability to hurt calzaghe with his power and bully tactics. JC just has to ot work Hopkins and make sure he doesn't get hit with a over hand right counter or it could be lights out.

 

hopkins hasn't knocked anyone out in nearly four years and even then it was on a small DLH.

calzaghe has an iron jaw and has never been stopped and has been on the canvas the same amount of times as hopkins in his entire career, twice.

please tell me how on earth you came to the conclusion that hops will put joes lights out?

atsch

 

How does Hopkins have the power to hurt Joe? :?

It hasn't been in evidence recently. He hasn't knocked anybody his own size out

 

Hopkins is going to try to neutralize Calzaghe's output by tying him up repeatedly - REPEATEDLY- and catching him with counters. Hopkins owns southpaws, so he's certainly going to know how to neutralize that potential advantage. He's a great strategist, so he wouldn't have taken this fight without thinking that he knew how to beat Calzaghe. Whether he's correct is yet to be seen. Personally, I think it's going to be a very close, dirty, boring, drag-out, with Hopkins tying Calzaghe up 7,000 times and resulting in a SD for Hopkins, and possibly coming after a premature stoppage for cuts, most likely from a headbutt.

 

The same people who said that PBF would Never ko Hatton are saying Hopkins will never ko Calzaghe. It's not about power. It's the right punch connecting at the right time on the right part of the head.

 

then there's the fact that calzaghe is a vastly superior fighter to hatton and hopkins is not operating on the same level as floyd but hey, whatever floats your boat....

hopkins ain't knocking calzaghe out.

 

atsch

 

I dont think Joe can be figured out , he is not a one dimensional fighter , i can see B-hop trying to slow the pace , holding , etc , but this wont win him the fight.