Bernard Hopkins: "Calzaghe is No Ricky Hatton"

[thegreatone1]

And who actually fights at 168 lbs. Nobody! Nothing to clean up. Kessler is good and I ganrantee he will not fight at 168 for long. Its no money in it. I mean Joe is going to square up and get hit often straight down the pipe. To compare the two resumes is crazy to me Hopkins resume after 40 is better thans Joes whole career.

I will say that currently 168lbs is the second deepest division.

Calzaghe
Kessler
Bute
Inkin
Froch
Mundine
Andrade
Lacy

thats deep.

[bundy7]

Yea curse and what ever. Thats cool act like a child but I know you know that this guy will come hear and the class will show. You probably thought Hatton would knockout floyd to didnt you. His Claim to fame is Kessler, Eubank, and Lacy. Ha Ha get serious You bums will listen to anything. He is a good fighter but Hopkins is one of the top fighters in the last 50 yrs. Aside of that he has beaten some of the top fighters in the last 50 yrs. Look at a list of the top fighters the last 50 yrs. Hopkins will be on there and people he has fought and defeated will be on there. Know your sport if you comment on it.

[bundy7]

Are you serious second deepest what about 154, 130, and 147's. 168 has some great fighters. But the great fighters of the sport are in other divisions.

[kayjay]

Calzaghe is a much better boxer than Ricky Hatton.

[Rocky Katsidis]

Yea curse and what ever. Thats cool act like a child but I know you know that this guy will come hear and the class will show. You probably thought Hatton would knockout floyd to didnt you. His Claim to fame is Kessler, Eubank, and Lacy. Ha Ha get serious You bums will listen to anything. He is a good fighter but Hopkins is one of the top fighters in the last 50 yrs. Aside of that he has beaten some of the top fighters in the last 50 yrs. Look at a list of the top fighters the last 50 yrs. Hopkins will be on there and people he has fought and defeated will be on there. Know your sport if you comment on it.

your a funny guy

I bet you an avator bet, if calzaghe wins i pick your avtor for a month, and if hopkins wins you pick mine????

[thegreatone1]

Are you serious second deepest what about 154, 130, and 147's. 168 has some great fighters. But the great fighters of the sport are in other divisions.

Ok name the fighters at 130 and 154lbs and see if they stack up to 168.

[ElGranLuchador]

joe doesnt need the usa hes making millions fighting in europe

[Kris Silver]

Mister Im listening to what the media is feeding me.

There's part of the problem.

[johnm is...]

168 has some great fighters. But the great fighters of the sport are in other divisions.

Contradiction is a must.

[ßringer]

Calzaghe cant win either way.
When he spanks Hopkins on Saturday the excuse that Borehard was ancient will be the excuse.
Truth is Calzaghe has spent his career beating big men his own size while Hopkins made his name beating little men then losing to the only talented guys near his own size.
No matter what the yanks love to believe the Hype that is Bore hard.
If Calzaghe had beaten Tito & oscar he would have been ridiculed for being a big bully.

That's absolute horse**** and you know it. Oscar De La Hoya and Felix Trinidad were the only Welterweights who Hopkins' defended his Middleweight crown against, a total of 2 guys out of 20. You make it seem like he defended against 20 Welterweights, and that's horse****.

And Trinidad wasn't even that blown up, he moved up to Middleweight and steam rolled a damn good, natural veteran Middleweight in William Joppy. A guy who's record was 32-1-1 at the time Trinidad beat him. Not to mention that every major boxing writer in the Country had Trinidad pegged to beat Hopkins and unify the division.

It wasn't until Hopkins beat him that everybody cried this whole "blown up" bull****. Oscar I'll give you, just look at the Sturm fight, but Trinidad? No ****ing way.

And what about Hopkins defenses against Joe Lipsey, William Joppy, and John David Jackson? Not to mention knocking out a prime Glen Johnson, and I'm sure you saw what he did to Chad Dawson this past weekend.

As for title defenses, Joe has been in the same boat as Bernard for most of their careers : Highly talented fighters who never got the respect they deserved because of the lack of overall amazing competition in their divisions.