Hopkins is having a complete mental breakdown

[215Chaingang]

I think Calzaghe has a better offense than BHop thats why he will win.

And since when has BHop had more power than Calzaggie? The last time Bhop knocked out a middleweight was in 2002. 6 years ago...

calz has alot offense and no damn defense..... i sorry to inform you but in every sport defense win championship.
don't get me wrong i not a calz hater i think he is a very good fighter but everything people keep saying is his damn offense that tells me he is lacking something. hopkin can fight inside and outside, offense and defense, know every damn trick there is and he can frustrate you inside and outside the ring

[215Chaingang]

Eeek. I won't sit here and try and act like I'm a pro on things about Calzaghe. But it seems to me if he had very bad balance, he would have went down against Kessler. I'm don't think he even stumbled.
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if we watched the same fight joe overwhelmed him with punches kessler could not adjust. the thing with kessler is he fooled people just like lacy cause he was KOing people but neither knew what to do the people was not going anywhere. prime ex. edison mirada also winky has bad balance it hard to notice

[Konstantin]

calz has alot offense and no damn defense..... i sorry to inform you but in every sport defense win championship.
don't get me wrong i not a calz hater i think he is a very good fighter but everything people keep saying is his damn offense that tells me he is lacking something. hopkin can fight inside and outside, offense and defense, know every damn trick there is and he can frustrate you inside and outside the ring

You can have a great defense but if you don't throw, you're not going to win fights. Calzaggie may not have the best defense but he has great footwork, he move in and out of range very well. If he's in range he will be throwing, and lets face it Hopkins is no PBF, and landing.

If it was as easy as just looking at the better defensive fighter BHop wouldnt have lost the two Jermaine Taylor fights.

[ИATAS]

if we watched the same fight joe overwhelmed him with punches kessler could not adjust. the thing with kessler is he fooled people just like lacy cause he was KOing people but neither knew what to do the people was not going anywhere. prime ex. edison mirada also winky has bad balance it hard to notice

Also, I'd like to point out that I thought Kessler was doing a pretty damn good job for the first 4 or 5 rounds or so, and possibly was winning the fight. Then it seemed all of a sudden he lost all confidence because he didn't hurt Joe or whatever and everything went down hill from there. I actually felt like if Kessler was more experienced, or had a plan b or c and adjusted in the ring, he could have won. Joe looked really shaky to me in the first quarter or so of the fight. But that's just me.

I don't think Hopkins can get frustrated if he doesn't hurt Joe. That's probably expected and hopkins like you said is great at making adjustments in the ring.

[215Chaingang]

You can have a great defense but if you don't throw, you're not going to win fights. Calzaggie may not have the best defense but he has great footwork, he move in and out of range very well. If he's in range he will be throwing, and lets face it Hopkins is no PBF, and landing.

he do throw not as much as you like. "and lets face it Hopkins is no PBF" what do you mean by that? cause neither one of them throw a lot of shots but when they do they make it count

[Konstantin]

he do throw not as much as you like. "and lets face it Hopkins is no PBF" what do you mean by that? cause neither one of them throw a lot of shots but when they do they make it count

No he gets hit more.

[215Chaingang]

Also, I'd like to point out that I thought Kessler was doing a pretty damn good job for the first 4 or 5 rounds or so, and possibly was winning the fight. Then it seemed all of a sudden he lost all confidence because he didn't hurt Joe or whatever and everything went down hill from there. I actually felt like if Kessler was more experienced, or had a plan b or c and adjusted in the ring, he could have won. Joe looked really shaky to me in the first quarter or so of the fight. But that's just me.

I don't think Hopkins can get frustrated if he doesn't hurt Joe. That's probably expected and hopkins like you said is great at making adjustments in the ring.

i agree with you but what made it so hard to score in the first couple rounds was that damn joe kept doing them slap flurries. i think kessler should have and could have won but didn't keep working the jab and double jab with the uppercut behind it... the fight remind me of the last fight i went which was cotto vs. zab zab had everything in the arsenal showed flash but couldn't capitalize on it

[215Chaingang]

No he gets hit more

i give you that but whats crazy is if watch that hatton fight watch it closely cause mayweather pulled a page out of hopkins book in that fight

[ReadyUp]

Hopkins isn't intimidated at all. Calzaghe seems very confident too.

I love it!
"Nobody trash talks like the Americans."
Kick his ****ing ass B-Hop!

On another note, during the Mayweather/Hatton fight I had a house full of people and I would say of the 30 people there of all ages and races...maybe 3-4 were Mayweather fans. But when they boo'ed our anthem and the fight initially appeared close (mostly because of Lederman's card), when Floyd closed the fight everyone in the house cheered because through the course of 1 fight they became Mayweather fans. And I don't expect the B-Hop/Calzaghe fight to be any different.

[Konstantin]

i give you that but whats crazy is if watch that hatton fight watch it closely cause mayweather pulled a page out of hopkins book in that fight

I still need to see the Hopkins Wright fight. That will obviously give me a better assessment as to how he will do. Especially since Winky sort of turned into a volume puncher recently.