Joe vs Hopkins score cards?

Calzaghe 8 rounds to 4.

No way did hopkins win that fight

 

I love how Calzaghe dances behind Hopkins and all you can see is Simon Cowell laughing his head off.

Aaah the best of british hey

 

That was funny as hell. . .

Also how Joe gave Roy his just desserts for taunting, and humiliating all those inferior fighters. . . Karma. . . Karma. . .

 

114-113 for Joe C. Close but clear victory IMO.

 

Liar

 

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Calzaghe did a better job decieving the judges, thats what makes him the real winner. Official and unofficial.

A few years from now people will have forgotten how shitty the performence was, and it will give his legacy a great boost.

 

Don't you think that it was Cazlaghe's workrate after round 4 that stopped Hopkins being able to do that?

 

Pretty much. . . . But I do think Hopkin's age came into play as well.

Taking nothing away from Joe, because obviously Hopkins still had plenty left, but he was 43. . . Joe was no spring chicken either; what was he, 36?

I think Hopkins would have been able to inhibit Calzaghe more if he was 5 years younger. . . But that's one of those "if, maybe" things, and it's not really fair to speculate. . It is what it is - Joe clearly beat Hopkins.

 

It was really a tale of two halfs.

Hopkins outboxed Calzaghe, he being a superior boxer, in the first half (really up to round 5 no more)

Second half, round 6 onwards, Calzaghe outworked Hopkins since his stamina was vastly superior to a fortysomethings.

Bernard let Joe flail away with his remarkably low hit rate for the rest of the fight, which because of its high volume, meant he landed more than the tired grandfather could manage - although BHop still had a superior PERCENTAGE hit rate for most of the rest of the fight. Thats probably why people think Bernard was robbed, but the truth is that he simply could keep the pace at his age.

Obviously prime Bhop KOs Calzaghe at LH early on.

 

115-112 Calzaghe
8-4 with the -1
I've got the fight on dvd.
I have seen it about 7-8 times and pretty much always come up with the same score.

 

Kind of lame considering Jones was shot ! But hey Karma is a *****

 

Dunno why everyone finds the fight boring, I think it's oddly entertaining due to the antics of Hopkins. He was basically using every dirty trick in the book -- combining the straight right with a headbutt as he came in, pushing at Calzaghe's head with his own in the clinch, sneaking in little shots in the clinch on the blind side of the referee, faking low blows to regain stamina, and smothering/spoiling most of Calzaghe's work on the inside with constant holding. He exploits absolutely everything to try and win.

It's also interesting to watch due to the fact that Calzaghe was rarely challenged in his career, and this fight was one of those rare occasions where he was frustrated and his opponent was competitive enough for the match to go either way.

 

True, if you only focus on Hopkins art of fouling it is actually a bit funny ...

 

Funny how these people think Hopkins stamina was the problem against Calzaghe yet against younger fighters in Wright, Pavlik, Pascal it never became a problem