Hopkins gave too many rounds away on pure inactivity .... Joe's Pressure, Stamina , speed and workrate won... even if most his punches didn't land clean... He was able to keep Bhop from punching... and you win fights by landing punches
Calzaghe -8---9---9--9--10-10--9-10-10--9-10-10---113 Hopkins --10-10-10-10--9--9-10--9--9--10--9--9----114 Basically 6/6 with the knockdown being the difference. My scorecard was similar to Richie Woodhall's spare rounds 2, 3, 6 and 7, which he scored Calzaghe, even, Hopkins and Calzaghe respectively. He seemed to give Calzaghe round 2 for merely plodding forward and Hopkins round 6 for a couple of neat shots, but they negate each other. I, for the life of me, cannot figure out how anyone could score round 7 for Calzaghe. From distance Calzaghe scored with volume, Hopkins Mauled on the inside. Calzaghe was winning the round until the last seconds, but not winning big. Basically, after the 10-second warning sounded, Calzaghe threw an air-ball flurry, the fighters heads clashed, and Hopkins whacked Clazaghe on the chin with a big right hand that caused Joe to do a pretty damn obvious chicken dance. In my eyes it easily negated Joe's thin advantage of workrate. He also shook him (Slightly) at the end of round 8 but Calzaghe tried to disguise it by doing some weird side-to-side spack walk taunt on the way back to his corner. :blood Having said that I still scored it 10-9 for Calzaghe. In a nutshell: Hopkins scored with the cleaner shots, Calzaghe scored volume. Most of us seem to agree on this. But this is professional boxing; we don't count punches, we count damage. And although there were a couple of instances in the championship rounds when Calzaghe seemed to buzz Hopkins (They were acknowledged on the scorecards) Hopkins clearly got the better of the latter.
