Joe Calzaghe vs Bernard Hopkins ~ Press conference face off!!! Enjoy!!

thanks for the post

I think Joe C looks pretty cool and chilled.. He was just laughing along, even at some of B-HOP's comments. I think all this crap about getting into his head is rubbish, i just think hes one of those characters that has 100% belief in himself and NOTHING can shake him from his goals. Saying that i think B-HOP is talking a good game, if i was fighting him (which i should lol) then i reckon he would get to me...just a little. He looks in amazing shape as well, not to many signs of nerves either... I reckon this is gonna be a good one :banana:

Nah your just ashamed of being welsh thats all, You think you can deny your roots by plucking all those sheep pubes out your mouth? :lol1: And where the fuck are you from?

come on b hop dem dudes are boardering on disrespectful

Look at my location clown, where does it say i am welsh???? i am scottish you dumb cunt :lol1: Nah your just ashamed of being welsh thats all, You think you can deny your roots by plucking all those sheep pubes out your mouth? :lol1:

Calzaghe is welsh, if its just 2 nations then its usa and wales, ffs get a geography leason. :ugh: Did you forget your Ready Brek this morning? Richard Schaffer thought calzaghe was English, thus he called it England vs America. Secondly, you mean lesson spelt L-E-S-S-O-N. I know its not easy being scottish, but its even harder when you are scottish and illiterate. Take Note. :lol1:

Schaffer's comments about the England (UK) vs USA were totally irresponsible, you'll being seeing a million mindless cretins on youtube actually buying into this fight showing supremacy of one of these nations over the other. Thats said, Hopkins was very calm, if he wins this is gonna be his last fight, or maybe he will do a homecoming fight, but hes serious about calling it a day. Calzaghe will fight scared like he did against lacy, that night you could see the fear in him when he was having his hands wrapped before the fight, and it brought the best out of him. Hopkins is a completeley different story though, both as a fighter and as a human being. I dont think the actual fight will live up to the hype, but the more and more i see hopkins, the more i think he's gonna pull this off. Its a pick em fight, but calzaghe has alot more to lose and i got a feeling the fight being in america might just be a factor. Nazim richardson told you what hopkins is gonna do, he talked about 'accuracy' over workrate. I think hops is gonna use the right hand alot, when he throws it, he ducks low and then smothers to stop the opponent countering. He might not use the jab, he might just parry it and then lead and hook to the body. Gonna be an intriguing rather than great action fight i think, head still says Calzaghe, heart says hopkins.

Joe Calzaghe and his British fans are going down!! :owned: Joe has more than British fans and I think you just owned yourself.

Again, Calzaghe looks calm as per usual nothing is bothering him and he is ready to go.... Calzaghe is his usual self, im daring to say he knocks bernard hopkins out in the later rounds of the fight...

Let's GET IT ON!!!!!!!

Hopkins is going to sleep on Saturday. I agree... peacefully....after he taxes that ass

Hopkins is definitely a couple of inches taller.

You say Jermain Taylor like the guys a bum. He was undisputed middleweight champ. He's only lost to 1 fighter. Styles make fights. Bernard's style didn't mesh very well with Taylors. Jermain fought very cagey in both fights and actually fought technically brilliant fights (though Hopkins weared him out both times and won both fights IMO), but Calzaghe presents a more appealing style to Hopkins. He's an open book. B-hop stop talking about yourself in the 3rd person, you sound like a dick! A special catertgory in pound for pound just for him......he lost to JERMAIN FUCKING TAYLOR twice, a B+ above average HBO fighter! What is he on.... Nice to see Calzaghe with a charachteristic calm. Roll on Saturday.

Props for posting. Shaeffer is quite a funny guy.."for those of you who didnt understand what Enzo said I'll translate.." Quite disrespectful to erroneously refer to Calzaghe as English as well. Hopkins is a superior fighter in my opinion. He's what, 12-0 vs southpaws? Age is only number and he proves it. He fights efficiently and conservatively anyway, his punch output his economic and accurate. He doesn't slap. If Calzaghe comes to throw 1000 punches he's gonna get countered badly all night. This is style vs energy, age vs youth. I just think Hopkins is gonna put on a clinic and Calzaghe will be overeager. I also don't think the weight increase will help him as much as he says. Hop has really grown into the lt-heavy mark.

Well not wanting to get into that kind of debate, many don't look upon such world ignorance favorably. I'm half Welsh/Eng and just travelled Asia and all sorts meeting many people, and didn't experience such basic lack of their globe. I think a factor that helps is Football and Rugby, to not so big American sports, are some of the biggest world sports. Wales do well in Rugby which is a big global sport, but not in America. Anyways, when your talking on the big stage, I don't think there's any excuse for not knowing and speaking with basic accuracy on your opponents nationality. I don't know many sports whereby one side refers to their opponent as being from one nation one minute, and another nation another. Especially with the flags being paraded left right and centre. It doesn't sit well with his Puerto Rico antics either, he knows how to make enemies. Perhaps if Bernard fully realised Eng is not the entire Britain, that it includes Wales (Joe, Enzo M, Rees, Pryce), and Ireland, Scotland, he wouldn't say the US are better fighters than the Brits. Compare with population levels and the facts don't back him up. Perhaps though it'd take Joe beating him, or perhaps he'll never stop making such ignorant broad and just odd insults, upon nations and their boxers.

But most Americans are like that, I spoke to an american girl once, telling her where i was from she replied "oh manchester in london uk!" But tbh this is boxing - it isn't a level geography is it?

The English/Welsh thing is ignorance. However, he's not alone. A lot of people outwith the UK see the citizens as English whether they are Welsh, English, Irish or Scottish. They can't see the difference between English and British.

It's forced ignorance. He makes the English remark, because it's a way of acting as if he doesn't care about Joe or where he comes from. I'm pretty sure by now he'd have heard. Even if he were SO DUMB, he didn't know the difference. I'm sure, he'd have been told about the difference by SOMEONE. It's a way of showing he doesn't care. That's a decent point and is probably somewhat true. Not completely though I don't think. When he thinks before he speaks, at a much slower pace is when he's actually engineering what he's saying, being tactical etc. He's demonstrated this before, and has been accurate on the geography. Increasingly this isn't the case, which is convincing me he is getting worked up, as slower well thought out wording occurrences are fading. He perhaps knows some basic facts that Joe is Welsh, as he's said so in slower interviews. But when he rants on pace without first thinking through his words, is when he makes slips up like English, and other in-accurate things. There's been quite a few slip ups which serve no good whatsoever, indicatory of just a big mouth whom slips us. It's like a mixture of bad habit, ignorance, and just not thinking things through at all, just waffling on in a desperate bid for attention, ala white boy comments.

Another striking demonstration of their different personalities there. Joe talks for a few mins, very quite, not much referring. He coulda found more to say even for him. Enzo on the other hand, christ what a liability lol, he needs to sort he speech out. Bernard was fairly calm and respectable by his standards, good to see. He still likes to rant about himself a bit too much though. He demonstrated his ignorance pretty well when he mentioned "all the Enlglish fans" which he's done before, someone in team Hop tell him it's Welsh, and British, perhaps they don't know either. You can't expect people to take his British fighter criticisms seriously when demonstrating a lack of understanding the most basic nationalistic, geography aspects. He's stood infront of a Welsh flag, and has had fans waving British and Welsh flags all over the place in front of him, what more does he need? A basic geography lesson clearly. It's forced ignorance. He makes the English remark, because it's a way of acting as if he doesn't care about Joe or where he comes from. I'm pretty sure by now he'd have heard. Even if he were SO DUMB, he didn't know the difference. I'm sure, he'd have been told about the difference by SOMEONE. It's a way of showing he doesn't care.

B-hop stop talking about yourself in the 3rd person, you sound like a dick! A special catertgory in pound for pound just for him......he lost to JERMAIN FUCKING TAYLOR twice, a B+ above average HBO fighter! What is he on.... Nice to see Calzaghe with a charachteristic calm. Roll on Saturday.