i want everyone to observe the posters who think hops won...

AMEN! Let this be the end of this dumb argument!!!

 

agreed totally

 

Hops fought well for four rounds and then got outworked and outclassed. BTW who is that guy in your avatar? I gots to know.

 

Thank god...a voice of reason!

 

The outrage over this fight is not anything like it was after the taylor fights. There was a lot more people on hear crying robbery after those.

 

Smart guy. I respect BHOP for his genius but I want entertainment and throwing a couple of punches each round and then headbutting followed by holding just aint gangstar! JC came to fight and wanted to trade. BHOP came to fake low blows becuase he was tired from JC workrate.

 

I didn't read all of your post, but I though Hopkins won against Taylor in the second fight, but lost to Calzaghe. I didn't see the first Taylor fight yet.

 

I don't think Hopkins ever got outclassed. He's a great champion, but he definitely got out-thought. I think he underestimated Calzaghe's ability to adapt. The first few rounds were rough for Calzaghe, but just like the Kessler fight, he adapted and loosened up, and it was his fight from that point on. Hopkins looked frustrated and, I thought, kind of perplexed, like he didn't understand how the fight had shifted from his fight to Calzaghe's fight. The 'cup' episode was a pretty desperate attempt to get Calzaghe out of his rhythm, which worked, but only for that round.

 

I agree with most of what you said....but Hop isn't a pretty kind of fighter...He is a technican and he may not be a busy fighter but given his age I'd say he is pretty active. In his hay day Hope threw a lot more but with his advanced age he's slowed and conserved a bit more. Did he beat Joe....NO!:-( But he did make it a very close competive fight and he had Joe on his ass. I agree that Bhop isn't a crowd pleaser but he is a very intelligent fighter and it showed against Joe. He really did have Joe out of his rythm and working on figuring the old man out. This was a TRUE CHESS MATCH. You can see both men working on figuring one anther out during the fight and the subbtle ring tactics were all worth my 1 and a half. Most thought the fight was boring but I saw true science by both men.

 

Hopkins has the type of style where if you watch him only once, you think he isn't doing that well. But watch his fight a 2nd or 3rd time and you start to see what he means when he says, "I was the better fighter".

Really, the fight was close. Hopkins threw less but he landed the consistently harder shots. That's not to say Calzaghe didn't land some flush shots as he clearly did later in the fight, but Hopkins was consistently landing the cleaner and harder shots in a fight where there weren't too many clean punches.

And oh yeah, i think i might know why Byrd gave Hopkins the win. When Hopkins came in, he threw a lot of body shots and some of them were thudding. And then he would clinch. Kind of hard to notice in real time but watch it again and he got in some hard body shots.

As with the two JT fights along with the Calzaghe fight, Hopkins might've technically lost based on how boxing is scored but he was the better fighter from an overall perspective in all three fights.

 

Thanks. I'll hunt some of his performances down on Youtube.

 

I respect BHOP for his genius but I want entertainment and throwing a couple of punches each round and then headbutting followed by holding just aint gangstar! JC came to fight and wanted to trade. BHOP came to fake low blows becuase he was tired from JC workrate.