Buy 200 level corner seats for $50 and slide over to the middle to the $100 seats during the undercards.
Did this at Gatti fights over the years, and Gatti fills more seats in AC than Pavlik will, so you should find seats easy. Don't overspend for the Pavlik fight.
I recommend checking out the Philly venues or the smaller NY/AC fights. Ringside for cheap, better crowd, smaller venue, hungry fighters, and overall better time.
Although Calzaghe was not particularly impressive, he controlled the fight the last 8-10 rounds, and that is important in the swing rounds that can go either way. Hopkins got too comfortable after the first round and Calzaghe slowly took him out of his comfort zone and screwed up his premeditated gameplan.
Hopkins was constantly getting backed into corners, and spent about 90% of his time not punching. Too much defense, relied on counterpunching, clinched Joe like an old man. I dont care if Hopkins was the title holder during the fight, he still had to fight, and he got outpunched by Joe even if Joe missed many of his punches.
Most certainly don't want to see a rematch.
Agreed.
Maybe Calzaghe did not win convincingly. But Hopkins definitely lost and needs to shut up and go home.