Who In Your Opinion Won. Joe Calzaghe Or Bernard Hopkins?

calzahe edged it out but didnt look good doing so. Maybe but lets keep in mind many of Calzaghe's punches didn't even land....

Now then... Horrible, horrible fight. Part of my beef with this fight is that I got up early on Sunday morning (I was living in Asia at the time) to watch it, dragging myself and a severely hungover friend out of bed. Part of that is down to Bernard Hopkins but I should have known...how many of Bernard's fights are classics? On one hand you've got a guy (Calzaghe), who at this point in his career couldn't KO a straw weight...and on the other you have one of the dirtiest fighters in the sport. Calzaghe out-worked him, but who hurt who more? As far as I could see, neither guy got hurt. Yes, Calzaghe was stunned in the first round but he wasn't badly hurt. Just stunned. He came back and out-worked B-Hop, threw more punches, did more for the judges and won the fight. In the end I give it to Calzaghe (by two rounds) but I can understand B-Hops grievance. Just a horrid fight to watch, score etc

also, the crowd might have swayed the judges, just turn the volume low and watch it calzaghe wins just the same kid

Any one who thinks Bhop won this one doesn't know shit about boxing.

i thought hopkins won, scored it 115-112. there are alot of ppl who dont know first thing about scoring fights, those ppl would think calzaghe won. dont get me wrong, ppl who know how to score fights can also have had calzaghe winning. but basicly i hear alot of ppl talking about outworking and oponent but not understanding the proper meaing of outworking someone. they could have got it mixed up in this fight. if two fighters both land at the same percentage and one just throws more, thats being more busy and outworking someone. simply throwing punches in bunches isnt outworking someone bcuz if u miss a large number of them, not only does simply throwing and missing punches not score u points. it acctually scores points for the oponents, defense. alot of mainstream fans dont score defense and ring generalship, which is half of the scoring criteria. they also score plain aggression, which doesnt count as shit unless its effective aggression. thats why u have ppl saying calzaghe won big, in reality it was a very close fight. couldve gon eighter way, too close to call a robbery and certainly not a clear win for eighter fighter.

I thought Calzaghe won, it was relatively close but definately not a disputed decision in my opinion. Hopkins as many older fighters do(legs!), spent too much time on the ropes.

how is he an idiot???? only idiots dont know why burner is an idiot :lol1:

Hopkins 114-113. heres one of the many reasons why i cant take this idiot seriously :lol1:

Well??????? i was rooting for hopkins but joe clearly won that fight

Calzaghe won fair and square imo.

imo It was very close depending on how you scored the fight. I feel Bhop did enough 4 tha win but i'm not disputing it since it was that close. besides, very ugly fight

Calzaghe won easy!!! hobkins got owned!!!! Lol yeah right.

he won the round where he almost got floored again comfortably? and the 10th round was clearly hopkins. in fact calzaghe only won 1 round in the fight "very comfortably" that was round 9. all other rounds he possibly won were very close. A matter of opinion purely.

calzaghe was sloppy but he threw so many punches. thier were times where bernard just layed ont he ropes without throwing back

Hopkins 114-113.

Utterly disgraceful and shameful performance by Hopkins. I hold Bernard's skills in very high regard, and he has always been a dirty fighter, but his antics in this fight were really beyond pathetic. Running, holding, headbutting, faking injuries multiple times, etc. basically everything and anything he could do to sneak his one shot in at a time before using whatever illegal tactics to get the ref to separate them. It was all for naught anyways as Calzaghe eventually figured out that by properly feinting and then countering he could bring Hopkins out of his shell and then swamp him in activity. I think I scored it 8-4 in rounds for Joe with the 10-8 round 1 for Bernard.

I scored it 3 rounds apiece for the first six, giving Hopkins a 10-6 for the flash KD, but then Calzaghe turned up the steam and won the last six rounds very comfortably, making a fool of Hopkins who was only floundering for most of that period. Thus 116-111 for Calzaghe. he won the round where he almost got floored again comfortably? and the 10th round was clearly hopkins. in fact calzaghe only won 1 round in the fight "very comfortably" that was round 9. all other rounds he possibly won were very close.

Calz won a close decision. There should have been a rematch. That fight was horrible.

I scored it 3 rounds apiece for the first six, giving Hopkins a 10-6 for the flash KD, but then Calzaghe turned up the steam and won the last six rounds very comfortably, making a fool of Hopkins who was only floundering for most of that period. Thus 116-111 for Calzaghe. Sorry for the misprint, it should be 10-8 for the flash KD.

I scored it 3 rounds apiece for the first six, giving Hopkins a 10-6 for the flash KD, but then Calzaghe turned up the steam and won the last six rounds very comfortably, making a fool of Hopkins who was only floundering for most of that period. Thus 116-111 for Calzaghe.