So what does Bhop's win mean for Calzaghe?

Yey! another oppertunity for a half decent legacy missed. Well done.

 

last night adds to joe's legacy...he beat a great bernard hopkins..that was shown last night

 

This boosts Calzaghe immeasurably. Sensible posters have been proved 100% correct and justified at last. It's been a tough few months to support Calzaghe, but life is great now :happy

Calzaghe is a great fighter. A smart fighter that ALWAYS gets the job done no matter what.

 

It raises Joe's profile even more.

I know we can't do the ABC argument, which was disproved last night (Pavlik beats Taylor, Taylor Beats Hopkins, therefore Pavlik beats Hopkins??? NO!), but it has to be said that you cannot see Joe losing a fight to the Pavlik that fought last night. No one knows their way around the ring as well as Bernard or is possessed of so much "smarts", but Calzaghe is a great ring general himself, if not as defensively adept, and should be able to dictate the tempo of the fight in a similar way. Joe also has a much higher workrate.

Joe fights Roy next, and if he takes care of him were does he go from there:

Retire, Hopkins II or maybe Bad Chad????:think

 

Well it just means he gets more credit which he deserves and a Pavlik fight is totally meaningless now as he would school him exactly like Hopkins did last night. Him and his father have been saying for a while how overhyped he is and doesn't deserved a shot and they have been proved right.

After Jones there is only one potential matchup that would make any sense and that's Dawson and I'm not even sure on that one as I can't see it generating enough interest in the general public.

I would imagine he will retire after Jones now.

 

Its a great result for Calzaghe. All the haters who dismissed his win over 'old man' 43 yo Hopkins have been put in their place.

Hopkins was p4p top 5 after beating Winky and Tarver going into the Calzaghe fight, and hes proved hes still at that level after.

 

All credit to B Hop, he looked excellent last night, this adds plenty to joes stock and perhaps means he has not slipped when jones jnr thought he might.

for the record now, i think joe might do a proper number on RJJ

 

my reasoning for Hopkins to beat Pavlik was because of Hopkins performance against Calzaghe - anyone who can hold they own and make life tough for Calzaghe has got to be top class fighter - he took Pavlik to school

 

you picked this fight well son. i will credit you for that

 

Do you imagine for a moment that Calaghe would get any credit for a win over Pavlik?
Look how much he gets for the Lacy win.

 

This just shows how class Joe is. All the haters on the general will now need to find another way of discrediting Joe. I bet after the RJJ fight people will say Joe is ducking Dawson . I picked Hopkins to win but I thought it'd be more like an 8-4 UD-not a complete shutout.