The Final Word On Calzaghe V Hopkins...

I have this fight downloaded via torrent too, and I've watched the fight just about five times or so. This is what I thought: Calzaghe didn't land clean solid blows, but you're lying to yourself if you're saying his punches didnt land. Theres a big difference between those two statements. No one's saying here that Calzaghe was the cleaner puncher that fight. But it depends on how you judge the fight. I felt that Calzaghe won some rounds based on the fact that he pushed the action and came forward looking to exchange, whereas Hopkins just laid back and looked to counter all night. Now sure, in some cases the clean counterpuncher takes those rounds against the busier, less accurate man. In the case of this fight though, Bhop simply just didn't land enough. I felt that you couldn't give rounds to Bhop in which he landed say 2 clean solid counters, whereas Calzaghe worked the whole round and got in his own shots (even if they were more grazing shots). Also, in the later rounds Calzaghe started to develop his rhythm and started taking control turning it into his fight. I felt this took a lot of ring generalship just to be able to steer the fight into his tempo (especially against a guy like Bhop who refuses to). I posted this in another thread.