Compu-Box stats say Hopkins got tanned by leather more than any other of his fights,suck on those sweeties chum
If they didn't know, why the most obscene scoring then? Noway can someone give Hopkins a win in that fight.
As an ex-middleweight champion once demonstrated to me, wet leather being slashed across the skin of your face can do some significant damage. As can the laces on the inside of the glove as Calzaghe's opponents often find out. At 1:52 of that YouTube clip it appears as though Calzaghe is rubbing his head into the fresh cut above Roys eye. To be honest I find Calzaghe fights particularly frustrating to watch. This was even more worse during Jones vs Calzaghe in which I was literally shouting at the screen, imploring Roy to throw something, anything! Calzaghe's comically oversized head often seems a fairly easy target but Roy just didn't pull the trigger. For the record B-Hop>Calzaghe and based on current form would take him to school should a rematch ever happen, which it likley won't.
That is a superb avatar picture! Love it!** **Disclaimer: At the time of writing said avatar was Holyfield vs Valuev - just in case it ever gets changed to a bag of cocks or something!
As I said, its easy to cut someone on the eye with those type of punches as I have done so in sparring and in my first fight.
It was but you know what is even worse? The idiots who say that the same result would have happened prime vs prime...:-(