Why are people underestimating the speed and workrate issues???

Yeah ... its not all about speed and in and out movments ... these guys are way past that level where one persons physical attributes will carry them to victory.

B-Hop has fought fast fighters before ... He's fought physically stronger fighters than him ...

Calzaghe has been head and shoulders above his competition throughout his career. He's never seen a fighter like Bernard Hopkins live and in person. Never even in sparring ... he's never faced a defensive minded fighter, combined with percision punching and anything it takes attitude.

 

I don't know who will win but a person has to be ******ed not to see this is the gameplan. Maybe for both guys which makes it even worse for us.

 

Twice as much would mean Hopkins isn't holding on. Which you know is not going to happen. There is a good reason why GBP has this fight happening in the states. And Cortez has already proved he will not go against a US fighter.

Besides just on a purely technical level? Hopkins is better than Calzaghe. His judgement of distance and how to step back and step into a right hand makes him just better in that regard. Joe's physical advantages will be moot and really his best chance to win this is to fight fire with fire.

 

Easier said than done. People just assume it's easy to avoid the clinch. In reality it isn't.

 

Because everyone knows that its only b-hops strengths that will matter in the fight. Calzaghe is so stupid he will just fall into B-hops traps and forget how to fight. Calzaghe is so green its unreal. Yada yada b-hops rules, he beat trinidad a geniune cruiserweight...... Joe beat nobody, home fighter, cant box, slaps, no power. yawn :dead

 

Remember and vote me best analyst for the fight :rofl:nut

 

Not just the speed and workrate....

The jab, the in/out movement, the accurate odd angles shots, the body punching, the endless stamina, the chin.

I mean... come on. Prime for prime this still goes to Calzaghe.

Not to mention, but Calzaghe's looked even better in sparring than in any recent time.

 

The Hopkins crew seem to have convinced everybody around here otherwise, and while Hopkins looks in his best shape in a while, no doubt there, the fact remains that we're dealing with Joe ****ing Calzaghe here....

Calzaghe fans have no reason to feel otherwise that Hopkins won't get dominated at this point.