Who is the greater fighter? Hopkins or Calzaghe?

I watched Calzaghe live as an amateur and make his pro debut.

 

Hopkins easily. as the poll states

 

Yeah, I agree that in terms of overall greatness Hopkins is higher than Joe's tremendous career. Hopkin's career may eclipse everyones if he keeps winning significant fights like Dawson or even Adamek as he approaches age 50. That's just weird. I argued, as you noted, that head to head Calzaghe with his ungodly workrate, toughness and catlike reflexes outboxes any version of Bernard Hopkins. Only disagreement. I've got Vitali about 15 now of top heavy's. The guy is ruthless and as Chris Arreola has said just adjusts to anything his opponents bring at him. Chris was shocked at how well Vitali could fight of his back foot when he charged after Vitali in the middle rounds of their fight.

 

:good

 

pudwill was a late stand in for thomas tate. sheika at the time was a prime, solid, and dangerous contender who gave it his all but still got beat up and stopped.

obviously sheika isn't as great as a lot of hopkins defences were...

segundo - who knocked him down twice and was robbed of the win.
segundo 2 - it's alright, he beat this great the second time of asking.
andrew council
morrade hakar
carl daniels
simon brown - who lost every fight after. sheika included.
wiliam bo james
joe lipsey
steve frank

with hopkins defending his title against this lot, it's not surprising most are saying his resume is much, much better than calzaghe's....

 

NO!!! HE!!! DIDN'T!!! hopkins at middleweight has one of the poorest resume's you can find. FACT! :deal

 

no one's suggesting he beat hopkins. it's a fact he did. big difference between the two.

 

don't say that to them, they'll type abuse at you.

 

calzaghe although knocked down, was never hurt.

who gives a **** what the BBC say?

joe's corner were worried because it was away from home.

he had to have the rematch with veit because he was the NO.1 contender. either that or lose the belt.

he didn't take the offer for a rematch with hopkins because he was retired. RETIRED!!!

he didn't get the chance to fight for the other title's because everyone who had the other title's refused to fight him.

the fight with reid wasn't a gift decision. i had it 116 - 112 for calzaghe. what was your score?

oh calzaghe definitely struggled with jones....:rofl:rofl:rofl

you don't know much about joe do you? so shuuuuuush.

 

can you say that in ENGLISH please.

 

great post. the bit about calzaghe making jones look like a jam sandwich was very funny.

 

that was a well said post.:good

 

nezeem was also confident that mosley would beat mayweather and pac. of course he was going to say hopkins in the rematch. he's his trainer. it's his job to talk up his chances. atsch

 

:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl

 

this is why calzaghe fans are second in stupidity only to *******s.