Hopkins Robbed.........Calzaghe Overated

9-3, or 116-111, for JC.

 

Shouldn't Calzaghe be credited for beating Hopkins at his own game once he adjusted? Hopkins didn't land near as cleanly for the last 3/4 of the fight as it gets made out to be.

 

I think the problem with this fight is that there were quite a few close rounds, and much depended on what you favor more: making the fight, landing more, or landing fewer punches but accurate and hard ones while holding on all the time.

I don't think 116-111 is an unreasonable score, but 9-3 almost makes the fight sound incompetitive. This was a competitive 9-3. An incompetitive 9-3 is for instance Lewis-Holyfield I. I think that's what is bothering a lot of people. However, i still thought it was a clear win for the Welshman.

 

Well, if there are about 4 or 5 rounds that are very close in any given fight, with 7 or 8 slightly easier rounds to score split roughly equally among the two fighters, then it could go either way, and there's nothing clear about it.

The HBO card explains a lot of the perception being spouted in the general forum ("Only a BHop hugger, and Calzaghe hater can score this for Hopkins!" Etc. Bull****), because most fans are sucked in by the TV people. That's not to say 9-3 Calzaghe is dead wrong or impossible, but it leads the imbeciles to believe this fight can only go one way.

I'm a Brit, and a Calzaghe fan and generally not an admirer of Hopkins, and I scored it for Hopkins by a point.
I agree with Ted Spoon's points, I cant reward busyness and effort if it's blatantly ineffective. A lot of those close rounds I have BHop nicking with maybe a clean punch, or two. That's how close it was.

 

Well my rough count for support in this thread goes 25-15 for Calzaghe. That's some decent support both ways with plenty of big name Classic posters on both sides of the fence.

 

I scored the first four rounds to Hopkins and also had him taking the tenth round cleanly, in between that there were a lot of close rounds that were very subjective. Either way i wouldn't have been hugely surprised. Although i do tend to favor clean punching. Hopkins by a point for me.