Why is Calzaghes win over Hopkins so underated?

[Russian Crushin]

Where's daggum when you need him

[Money Team.]

Originally Posted by pturtle

for the same reason all these other poster said, calzaghes best win is kessler, he had no prime atg on his list and the 2 legends he has on his list were on their last legs.

how was hopkins on his last leg???he was just the damn lineal champ 1 fight ago

[Money Team.]

Originally Posted by House of Stone

because the way he 'won' it looked like he would have lost to a younger version of Hopkins. I'm not saying hopkins was shot, he certainly wasn't, but neither was he prime, Calzaghe was prime and won thru sheer work rate, Hopkins looked like the more skillful fighter and landed the cleaner shots all night long. imo i had hopkins edging the fight.

Joe was not prime he was 36 with brittle hands

[letsgobrady]

non american fighters especially european fighter don't get that much respect

[Hardasnailz]

Because haters gonna hate.

[A-Wolf]

Calzaghe really shouldn't have been awarded the decision. Then he went way out of his way to avoid taking a rematch with Hopkins. Nobody wanted to see it again, but if Calzaghe was at all interested in securing his legacy he would have had the Hopkins rematch, and possibly taken on someone like Chad Dawson before riding off into the sunset. As a Calzaghe fan I was massively disappointed at the way he ended his career. It isn't unlikely he could have beaten Dawson, although I doubt very seriously he could have ever beaten Hopkins.

[Roy Jones Jnr]

Well im from the UK so none of this European BS(although i do agree it certainly does exist) coming from me but i had Hopkins winning...just.

[House of Stone]

Originally Posted by larryx1950

Joe was not prime he was 36 with brittle hands

he was pretty much at his peak during a 3 or 4 year period around then.

[bojangles1987]

Roy Jones made Hopkins not want to fight. In the rematch. It wasn't exactly hard at that point to make Hopkins not want to fight.

Both fighters were awful. It's hard to give either fighter much credit.

[letsgobrady]

calaghe clearly won the fight as the fight went on calzahe lands more and more and i know people gonna say he slaps but whatever if you watch that fight calzaghe lands a lot of straight left hands they just didn't seem tp phase bernard especially early in the fight but that doesn't mean it shouldn't count.
what did bernard do to win that fight?dropped calzaghe in the 1st and land a counter in the 5th that made calzaghe stumble?you don't win a whole fight for what happened in rounds 1 and 5 and 5 could of went either way but calzaghe is some white euro with an awkward style that alot of people don't like so of course most people will hate, i guess calzaghe should of fought a bunch of blown upp welterweights and jr middleweights maybe he would get more respected