What Is This? The Amateurs?

[Addison]

Cant stand hopkins, he bitches, he fights dirty, and he's boring. He also has the worst nut-hugger fans by far.Im glad he got out-slapped.

WALES FOREVER BITCHES.

Justice prevailed. The racist, former felon got his pride smashed.

[tyson]

Cant stand hopkins, he bitches, he fights dirty, and he's boring. He also has the worst nut-hugger fans by far.Im glad he got out-slapped.

WALES FOREVER BITCHES.

Is this a reference to me, Addison and J?

With our combined intelligence, we have come to the conclusion that you are a joke.

[Mech.]

Is this a reference to me, Addison and J?

With our combined intelligence, we have come to the conclusion that you are a joke.

Didnt you say you didnt watch the fight?

[tyson]

Didnt you say you didnt watch the fight?

Yes. Where have I commented on the fight?

[Mech.]

=nuthugger................

[oldgringo]

Didnt you say you didnt watch the fight?

sick burn rudy.

[Addison]

I want to know if I get paid extra for all the people who read my posts in other people's threads also.. That's what I want to know.

[Clegg]

The very technical aspects in boxing are starting to be overlooked and unappreciated by both judges and fans.

It seems like fans today see Hopkins turn nearly sideways away from a punch because of fear from getting hit, when in fact he purposely turns his shoulder to block the punch with the force of his bodyweight.

Sometimes he use techniques like that to smother, other times to hurt the opponent's hand and some times just to block incoming fire.

I don't think that this affected the scoring at all. It certainly didn't in Woods-Tarver, and Tarver did it a lot more than Hopkins.

It takes a highly trained eye to see the difference in those things, and it takes an even higher knowledge of the sport to appreciate such advanced skills.

Instead of accepting that this kinda thing is subjective, and that people have a different opinion to you, you act as if your opinion is superior by claiming that it is the result of "a highly trained eye" and because of "even higher knowledge".

At least your post about wanting to be gang****** by men with big ****s wasn't condescending.

[tyson]

I want to know if I get paid extra for all the people who read my posts in other people's threads also.. That's what I want to know.

You should.

[Miburo]

Previously Calzaghe's style appeared more "cute" than flawed - everyone acknowledged he was a slapper, but he usually managed to tee-off and overwhelm opponents with it. Hopkins never allowed this to happen, didn't buckle at all in the face of Calzaghe's rushes and gave back harder and more accurately than he got (albeit more sparingly). Calzaghe figured Hopkins out enough to make his pressure appear the more crowd-pleasing in the middle rounds (after what I thought was complete domination in the first four, at which point I had Hopkins leading by 5 points with the knockdown). One has to give him some credit for being able to do anything at all, I thought Hopkins was going to work him throughout after witnessing the early-going, but he adjusted in the only way he could. I'm really bewildered how Calzaghe's performance can be praised for anything other than determination and awkwardness- even in the eyes of fans and everyone who had him winning he should have appeared to lose stock (he accomplished nothing of the grandiose claims his ardent supporters prophesied, other than a decent workrate after the early rounds).

The main point this fight proved is that for most fans a notch in the win column is much more important than the actual abilities a fighter shows. There was nothing impressive about any round Calzaghe won that showed he had elevated his game to the level everyone praising him as the new P4P king are claiming (something Mayweather, despite all the bull**** he has pulled, does show - superior ability).

My main criticism of Hopkins (despite it being a well-calculated move) was the debacle with the second low blow, which was a bit dishonorable if indeed he exaggerated.