What Is This? The Amateurs?

[Miburo]

Yes. It is also mad funny. Clearly we can see where Calzaghe found his punching technique from

Those slaps are coming from all angles!

[Miburo]

I can't believe this thread has lasted so long as a forum for those who rationally analyzed and critiqued this fight in the minority opinion. Maybe the title is throwing off the chaos-children tonight.

[Addison]

I can't believe this thread has lasted so long as a forum for those who rationally analyzed and critiqued this fight in the minority opinion. Maybe the title is throwing off the chaos-children tonight.

I think so, Tengoshi.

[TommyGunn.]

The fight was ugly like i thought it would. Bernard is a cagey fighter who is impossible to look good against.

It pretty much went the way i thought it would, close for 6 rounds then Calzaghe steps on the gas. Did Bernard even make contact after the 6th round? Seriously, the holding was all he was doing. Calzaghe never landed many power shots but he was winning the rounds after he picked up his pace. Again, the jab was the key factor.

116-111 Calzaghe, i predicted 117-111 and if it wern't for the knockdown id have been almost right. LOL!

[abadger]

I like this thread! It's like everyone else is talking about OK, Joe didn't look brilliant but he did enough to win, and over here are you guys in your own parallel universe where Hopkins won the fight and the whole sport of boxing is in shame because of the injustice.

Actually, I know I sound sarcastic, but really I respect your opinion. I thought the fight was much, much closer than it is being made out to be, and I think calzaghe was lucky the judges did choose to reward his workrate. However, although Hopkins did land the harder shots, are you really sure he landed the cleaner ones? In total, who would you say actually landed more clean shots, hard or not. For me that was Calzaghe, and I don't see how judges can be expected to legislate for the power they perceive a shot to have. It's completely subjective and impossible for them to know. It would also unfairly punish the weaker fighter if they scored like this.

As Tyson already knows, I was much more impressed with Bernard than I was with Joe in terms of what they achieved in the fight, what they did relative to what we thought they could do, but I still think Joe deserved the close victory.
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Ass round

[raysan]

Joke Calzaghe is the Pound for Pound greatest fly swatter of all time, i just didnt know swatting at the other fighter could win you a decision. We, as well as Joe, really know who won that fight.

[Killa Cam]

my thoughts were by tha look of b-hops face, all those extra quote unquote punches zakghe landed wadnt ****.

[-Antonio-]

Ha, Calzaghe looks amateurish at times. In fact amateur probably isnt the right way to put it. He looks ******ed.

But it lands. You still have to score ugly punches. Not only that, but his jab was landing plenty, and he adjusted to the right hands later in the fight, while landing straight lefts of his own. You dont score a round for a guy who lands one big flush punch as opposed to 20. No way I can see Hopkins winning that fight.

[Left2body]

Calz should hire this guy as his trainer.

[abadger]

Ha, Calzaghe looks amateurish at times. In fact amateur probably isnt the right way to put it. He looks ******ed.

But it lands. You still have to score ugly punches. Not only that, but his jab was landing plenty, and he adjusted to the right hands later in the fight, while landing straight lefts of his own. You dont score a round for a guy who lands one big flush punch as opposed to 20. No way I can see Hopkins winning that fight.

Dunno if he looks amateurish, but you're right about the punches landing.
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Chris ****le