Who do you think really won? Calzaghe or Hopkins?

Calzaghe won but I think he lost the American audience in the process.

It was a night that boxing purists might understand (unsatisfying but understood) but is lost on the guy that watches a few fights a year.

 

This runs pretty much contradictory to the statements prior to this fight, whereby many US people never even knew who Calzaghe was.

Calzaghe never had the "few fights a year" US viewer in the first place.

 

joe clearly won the fight. hops badly gassed in the second half of the fight, even with his pacing.

 

Maybe I wasn't clear on that post.

I agree he never had them. He did have the "few fights a year" fan attention for one night and he didn't gain them in the process.

 

You can't win by throwing 3 punches a round, and backing up the whole fight. Hopkins lost the fight by not jumping on Calzaghe after the knock down.

 

Calzaghe shaded it
Hopkins landed the more telling shots but not enough of em
was an ugly fight whether ur a purist or not

 

1: 10-8 Hop
2: 10-9 Hop
3: 10-9 Hop
4: 10-9 Calz
5: 10-9 Calz
6: 10-9 Calz
7: 10-9 Calz
8: 10-9 Calz
9: 10-9 Calz
10: 10-8 Hop (round and PD)
11: 10-9 Calz
12: 10-9 Calz

114-112 Joe Calzaghe

 

Same as Lederman and one of the judges at ringside 116-111 for Joe.
Joe just took over the fight after the 4th round with his increasingly
accurate right jab and by shortening up his left hooks. He threw flurry
after flurry to Hopkins head and body and had the old man fighting off the
ropes and at time cowering in the corners waiting for the next assault
from the Welshman. As Lederman said after the 4th round this was an
easy fight to score.