Bernard Hopkins: "Calzaghe is No Ricky Hatton"

[Drunk Punch]

I think it's a real shame Joe waited till he was 36 before coming stateside. Don't get me wrong, he's still very good, but I get the feeling he'll be ridiculed for beating Hopkins (even though it's two P4Ps getting it on).

Now if he fights (and beats) Pavlik, that could the respect he deserves.

[The Mirror Man]

Shut up bernard popkins

I cant belive one man can talk so much crap as this. please do us all a favour and shut the hell up. you dont have to sell the fight the fight sells itself.

We all know your boxing skills are junk so you have to play these joker mind games please mary popkins your not going to win its a mismatch

And the brits will proberly boo the usa anthem but we boo everybodys i dont agree with it but what can you do

ALL IN ON JOE CALZAGHE

[squealpiggy]

Cals resume is poor with only Lacy C-B grade , Eubanks very faded A grade , and Kessler A- grade , thats it , no one else is worth a **** when Joe fought them only Bika but he is C+

Thanks for the report card Principal Nimrod.

Is anybody else supremely irritated by no-marks talking about fighters being "A+" or "C-"?

[steptwome]

please joe,send this clown to retirement!!

....that's good old supportive and wishful thinking, but it won't happen

[Kilrain]

What I find ****** is how Calzaghe keeps discrediting Hopkins due to his age. It's making himself look bad. It's making victory redundant. "Father time has to catch up with him some time". It's like Joe is saying yes he will win but he will need some help from father time.

Joe is a very silly boy. He should be hyping Hop up as a LIVING LEGEND and far from being over the hill he just came off 2 of the biggest wins of his career. Instead he's calling him an old man. That begs the question, 'Why are you fighting an old man?'

Hopkins wins on Saturday night, for my money. Too clever. Calzaghe only knows one way to fight. Very rarely have I seen him strategize. though in the Kessler fight he did make a welcome adjustment after the first third of the fight to negate Kessler's power and strength. But against Hopkins hows he gonna negate technical mastery and pot shotting? He can't.

[FLY TY]

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.

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exactly!!!! as a matter of fact, i hear analysts say it all the time, "joey c doesn't get the respect b/c he's in a division where there are no great fighters....." so cleaning out the super middles aint no accomplishment, and mikkel kessler hasn't fought bute. won't even fight miranda. kessler is not a "great fighter" once and for all,calzaghe hasn't beat any, and that's the GOD honest truth. even his fans gotta start admitting that.

[DuttyAlacrity]

Your an idiot for thinking Kessler and Bernard hopkins are any where close to the same caliber fighter. He has fought the best and is Hall bound. Name a fighter of the Decade Joe has fought. Matter of fact before now Name me one top ten pound for pound fighter ever joe has fought.

THANK YOU!!!!
THat's what i'm saying

[Rkicards]

A 31 year old Chris Eubank is a tougher fight than a 43 year old Hopkins any day of the week.
Hatton is just an english hype job, a fraud that's made a ton of money. Never seen so much press propaganda from the english limies over 1 fighter. Calzaghe and other big UK fighter like steve collins didn't get this level of press propaganda 'cause they're not english.

[Alec900]

maybe hopkins should fight hatton,after all he likes his opponents smaller

[deuce_drop]

* Joe should have jumped ship, he knew he wouldn't get the fights HE wants fighting under Frank Warren.

* Being with Frank Warren means negotiating goes out the window, Frank wants his fighters to get the better deal or no fight and then he flips it to make out the other fighter turned down a good deal, They should have compromised to make the big fights happen, But they didn't.

* I reckon Joe wanted to go to the staes earlier in his career to get the big fights but Frank Warren wouldn't let it happen cause he didn't want his prize fighter to go to the states and risk getting beaten on the biggest stage FACT!

Frank Warren's a ****!!!!!!!!

thats what i've been saying for ages now....................i couldn't agree more...........

the old man hopkins is going to put a lesson on calzahge...........bhop wins the fight.....