Mayweather exposes Hatton: Next up, Hopkins shall expose Calzaghe!

yeah because joe can't box can he rummy, only goes toe to toe. :roll:

i take it you missed him jabbing kesslers face off, a guy regarded as one of the best jabbers on the planet. that certainly wasn't "crowd pleasing" but was just another example of calzaghe adjusting his style.

like kessler said, calzaghe takes your boxing away. he has loads of little tricks that upset your rhythm. calzaghe's own spoiling skills and ability to make his opponent look bad are being grossly underestimated heading into this fight.

 

Um, get your **** straight, Hopkins beat Tarver and lost to TAYLOR twice (both which were controversial decisions).

:smoke

 

exactly, he struggled twice with jermaine "average is my middle name" taylor and a blow up winky wright doll.

but now apparently he will outclass and expose calzaghe. best of luck with that old man river.

 

uhhhh, overwhelming his opponents with a thousand punches isn't a style in itself, it's part of his style. calzaghe can beat you from the outside using his southpaw jab, neutralising your own jab or lead right with his outstanding footwork.

...and if he wants he'll stand toe to toe with you and beat you to the punch with his blistering handspeed.

he'll happily dart in and out on you all day, attacking the body.

calzaghe is far more versatile than you seem to think.

figuring out hops might not be so easy, but hopkins looked tired in the second half of the winky fight and looked awful down the straight, here i expect calzaghe to pour it on, utilizing his vastly superior stamina.

that's right, you keep telling yourself that. you stay in denial and pretend to yourself that calzaghe is the one dimensional, easy to be worked out slugger that you like to think he is.

:smoke

 

we'll see mate.

what will your reaction be once joe has dominated old man river?

 

gotta agree with you here. great examples both of them of how to look after yourself and have a long, successful career.

 

whats clear on this thread is that when hopkins fights a fellow american fighter he is a good but boring punch /headbutt and grab fighter who most do not want to know about.

fighting an overseas fighter hopkins has suddenly become the most loved american fighter on esb and everything previously said about him was a lie and in reality we worship the ground he stands on.

his form from his previous 6 fights or so never happened and he now cannot now be touched by the foreigner and will win in such style , he will hardly have a punch land on him , while toying and teeing off on offense will ko this foreign bum.

it has to be an anti foreigner thing , because hatton was absolutley despised and loathed a month ago for his hit and then hold style, everyone stateside could not wait for him to lose .

now we have hopkins who similary throws a punch and then grabs and mauls as hatton does ,be held up as some kind of boxing messiah who the same posters are desperate to see win.

 

:yep

 

I bet you'll call B-Hop 'too old', 'ring rusty', 'too heavy' and things like that if Calzaghe will dominate him.