Now, heres' my analysis of calzaghes punching power !!!!

he fell due to being tired not from a hard punch stop that you got 2 eyes like me don't be biased you know the man slaps

 

nah. calzaghe even when he was younger didn't prove he had elite punching power with the low level of opposition he faced. the best fighters he KO'd were B-level opponents at best. kessler was probably A-level but not elite and he was able to take calzaghe's punches.

 

A younger Hopkins facing a younger Calzaghe with healthy hands would have lost more handily than he did on Sat. night.. Every Calz. detractor brings up younger Hopkins but never a Calz. with healthy hands. It goes both ways.

 

then Bernard should have walked right through them then.

 

if bhop would've been a bit younger, he definitely could've. after all, he is 43.

 

why didnt Kessler or Lacy?

 

kessler and lacy aren't elite fighters... calzaghe doesn't have elite punching power but it was enough to bother them and KO his lower level opposition. like i said, calzaghe's power is enough to KD or KO B, C, D-level opposition but certainly not A-level, much less elite opponents.

 

Were you saying the same 6months ago after the Kessler fight?

 

you will never know as Calzaghe is about 4 years past his best and you americans only jumped on board at the arse end of his career

 

yes I said thsi before the Lacy fight, its ashame the posts/threads have bene wiped.

 

Calzaghe, couldnt punch out a whole in a piece of paper, let alone an elite fighter, name one fighter he knocked out that was B class or better? You cant, because he never knockout anyone worth a ****, not even in his so called prime, when he was defending the WBO belt, fighting guys who just came out of the local pub in Wales.

 

he did!!! he was never hurt by any of those slaps but yes hopkins did fight the wrong fight to much movement and 1 punch at a time when hopkins lets his hands go he gave joe problems just with his age he couldnt maintain the pace

 

You do realize that Hopkins coming out party was when he was 36 years old? So in that regards they are quite similar. Thing is, Calzaghe had the big promoter and financial backing to get the big fights back then, Hopkins didn't.

 

if hops was 37 he wouldve gotten a wide ud at 27 the fight wouldve gone 6 rounds

 

The punches aren't really slaps, his hands are closed. But, they are thrown almost from the elbow, instead of the shoulder, giving them a slapping motion. Calzaghe used to be able to punch, just look at how ****ed Byron Mitchell looked!