How does last night's outcome affect Calzaghe's standing?

Wow, again, Hopkins has a very LONG HISTORY of not throwing enough punches and fighting overly conservative at different points THROUGHOUT his career. Hopkins didn't let his hands go enough against Calzaghe - AGAIN, yes, it happened AGAIN. NOT FOR THE FIRST ****ING TIME. Calzaghe was extremely fortunate that Hopkins did it AGAIN. There was NOTHING that Calzaghe did to limit Bernard's output. Bernard himself limited his output, AGAIN. Calzaghe was very very fortunate.

 

Absolutely.
Calzaghe's stock goes up after last night.
It is also Calzaghe's best win.

 

Yes... I always said it was a fight between two fighters at 100%. The last 4 rounds are so overlooked that it hurts. Calzaghe took away B-Hops key weapons and was able to find more and more room for his own. No one since Roy could outsmart him. In the end, he just did that. But everyone remembers how Hopkins knocked Calzaghe down... well... you can't blame them, I mean 10 minutes later, you couldn't fight a crisp Hopkins right hand anymore.

 

Yeah, puts Hopkins as his best win above Kessler, Eubank, Reid and Lacy. It also validates his reasons for not fighting Pavlik instead of Jones Jr.

Realistically, you could argue the case that with Calzaghe beating Hopkins who was a Top 5 P4Per, then Hopkins beating Pavlik who was a Top 10 P4P, both Hopkins and Calzaghe should be Top 3.

Pacquaio "beat" JMM and that's what keeps him at number 1, but if Calzaghe comes out and beats Jones Jr, then I think you can throw him at 1.

 

Gotta agree. As great as Hopkins is, he does NOT fight the same in every fight. Of course, it is just easier to say it was ALL because of Calzaghe and taylor's superiority to Hops I guess.

 

It doesn't affect Calzaghe's standing at all. Calzaghe looked sloppy against Hopkins and ate pretty much all of the clean punches that were thrown in that fight. Calzaghe won that fight based on activity. Hopkins simply wasn't throwing punches. Calzaghe was walking into the same punch for 6 rounds. I give him credit for not getting discouraged and staying active, but the win is the same as it was before the Pavlik fight.

 

Thank you reg! :thumbsup

 

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it definitely improves the status of his win over hopkins by 2-fold. hopkins could not find a way to beat him, but calzaghe adapted and dominated down the stretch.

with calzaghe, hopkins was in with a fighter at least of his stature. against pavlik, as it turns out it was a woeful mismatch.

 

Much agreed, well said.

 

Oh shut the **** up. Bhop did not throw alot against Tarver, Jermaine Taylor twice and Winky. And to end the note, when Calzaghe so called suffocated Bhop he is the one that got the worst out of every single exchange. Calzaghe did not land hardly any meaningful punches. Show me proof of him landing punches, show me a highlight or something. You CANT. B/c it did not happen. Calzaghe just threw a lot of slaps. That is all.

 

You disagree strongly? GREAT. Let me tell you how I feel about this; ^ BULL****. Calzaghe couldn't lay a glove on Hopkins. Hopkins couldn't miss Calzaghe. GTFOH. If you want to make a claim - have some BASIS for it.