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

Hopkins Is an augmented Light Heavy while Joe Is a natural Light heavyweight/Super Middle too.:smoke

Joe will bring on the pain, Hopkins should be honoured to share a ring with Britains greatest boxer.

 

What do you mean by augmented light heavy? Hop has been middleweight-LHW his whole career. What pain will joe bring? His brutal slaps? I have no comment on you last sentence b/c i don't want to offend my European counterparts.

 

Why did he weightlift to LHW then?

 

to put on more muscle and get stronger.... Ever heard of training? BHop probably walks around at 175-180 inbetween fights. Cutting weight was an important task for him when he was a middleweight. Him moving up to LHW took the emphasis off of cutting weight to get down to 160. It obviously gave him room so he could get more solid and burn the 'fat' so to speak by weightlifting.

 

Get stronger yet has a close fight with Winky who was blown up by holding and fouling.

Hopkins Is out of his depth here.

 

What was close about it? Ugly, yes. Close, no.

 

Technically, Winky beat him. Just look at the punchstats. It was a very close fight and should have been called a draw.

 

at this point in his career, he can't be exposed ... he can be beat, but not exposed.

i don't see Hopkins doing anything different to Joe than any other opponent has done.

I think he can be exposed for not being able to handle the US spotlight.

but on the boxing aspect -- there's nothing that hasn't been anything that Calzaghe has seen besides defeat. He also hasn't seen a fighter as grimy and as dirty as B-Hop.

 

Did anyone notice when Joe came out with Enzo Maccarineli at the Haye fight, he looked quite taken aback with the hostile reception from the English fans.
I really wonder wether the lack of a home crowd will have some effect.

 

Calzaghe's not going to knockout Hopkins ... If someone gets knocked out it will be Calzaghe. Not from a punch but from the accumulation of punishment or cuts. (Hopkins will follow up a punch with his head) I can see Hopkins in Joe's chest all night and making him fight the fight in close quarters. Hopkins isn't going to let Joe tee off on him -- he will clinch, and bring out dirty tactics to throw Joe off his game.

Yeah Calzaghe has all the positive advantages, but Hopkins has been in there with southpaws and has defeated everyone he's faced.

I see Hopkins having the more concrete advantages ... Yeah Calzaghe might and thats a strong might have the size advantage, but being his first fight at LHW ... who knows how it will officially effect Joe's body. He's fast for sure, but his chin hasn't been tested to the degree where there's solid proof.
Hopkins is aware that Kessler hurt him with a right uppercut and will bring that weapon out sometime during the fight.

Hopkins is one of the best non HW right hand punchers ...

We'll just have to see - but I don't think that Joe's going to blowout B-Hop like most bloggers think... he has more respect for B-Hop than B-Hop has for him.
He showed Kessler sooo much respect the first 6 or 7 rounds ... B-Hop knows that he's not going to get knocked out and will take more risks than Kessler did.

 

Yeah ... he just lost ... it wasn't his night ... both of these guys are proven to be good fighters ... they fought good competition on both ends and accomplished alot. I would say that if these guys weren't in the league since the early 90's and were in their first 5 or so years in boxing then there's room for exposure. But not these two ... they've already been through alot.