I agree that Calzaghe won the fight in a close affair due to his workrate, especially while Hopkins slowed toward the end, but he definitely did NOT win that exchange.
****. Now I see it. If you play Hopkins second best exchange of the fight over and over it somehow changes the fact that he did **** all for 9 rounds of the fight. I never realised you had to score a fight based on 3 seconds of one round, silly me was thinking you scored it round by round on the performance over the whole 3 minutes of each round. What a silly boy I have been.
The thread starter also believes that if a fighter scores a knockdown, the other rounds become irrelevant! lol
I think that exchange was pretty even, both landed one shot. Joe won the fight over the 12 rounds though.
Wow, it's amazing, the video clip is right there, yet it's like Calzaghe-huggers are watching something else completely. Amazing.
Defense, Ring Generalship, Clean Effective Punches = Hopkins Most Punches Landed, Aggression = Calzaghe all depends on what you look for as a judge......
You can't give points for random swinging of the hands. They have to hit to count. You know what winning on activity looks like? <----- Notice how Taylor ACTUALLY lands those shots. Not powerful shots but he actually lands them despite getting hit with harder shots. The scores were ******ed. I only remember Cal landing a handful of actual punches. B-Hop won for sure, it seems that now that the time has passed people have came to accept this robbery.
Unfortunately B-hop just didn't throw enough. And there were exchanges when Calzaghe landed some harder shots than that. HE beat B-hop fair and square. End of story.
That's the reason Hop lost to Taylor in the first fight. He didn't even start to participate in the fight until round 6 or 7 from what I remember