PRIME B-HOP would WOOOOOP CALZAGHE

[!! Shawn]

Watch the replay. Decent punch, but that was a pushdown, not a knockdown. At no time in the fight was Calzaghe seriously hurt.

I agree. It was a punch that put him off balance, then Bernard pushed him down.

[letsgobrady]

calzaghe hit harder when he was younger but he has broken his hand and now they are fragile if this fight would have happened a couple of years back joe would of still won

[squealpiggy]

Prime Hopkins stops Calzaghe. A 43 year old Knocked him down and cut him

Hopkins lost the fight. You really ought to watch until the end.

If Hopkins was going after a knockout from the first round he would have been knocked out thanks to a million shoeshines from Calzaghe. There's a reason that Bernard didn't go after Calzaghe following the knockdown: He's a very clever boxer so he knew that if he went after Joe he was getting ****ed up.

[letsgobrady]

hopkins style is to not get beat up thats why alot of his fights are close and hard to judge but he definitely lost to joe

[Jim Jeffries]

What was Hopkins' prime? When he was younger he may have had better physical attributes, but he's never been smarter than he is now.

Exactly, every single one of Bernard's big wins have come after his 36th birthday. Two of his biggest wins (and arguably the only big names close to his size or the same size as him), came after his 41st birthday.

[TommyGunn.]

Wouldnt be close. KO 10 or earlier. Im talking about the Hopkins that went out there in round 1 with every intention of ending his opponents careers. The guy that fought Trinidad or Johnson. THAT hopkins beats Cal everyday of the week and twice on sunday.

thoughts?

What are you talking about? If Hopkins had fought Calzaghe 6 years ago it would have been even more one sided than it was tonight.

Calzaghe hasn't sat down on a punch in about 5 years because his hands cant take it. He's beating these guys with a jab.

[GTL]

Wouldnt be close. KO 10 or earlier. Im talking about the Hopkins that went out there in round 1 with every intention of ending his opponents careers. The guy that fought Trinidad or Johnson. THAT hopkins beats Cal everyday of the week and twice on sunday.

thoughts?

no doubt in my mind that a prime bhop wouldve annihalated JC..
u saw tonight that joe isnt anything special.. he won it on sheer activity just as i pridicted..

[dwidsid3d]

You think a PRIME hopkins would have laid back after that first round KD? He probably would have stopped him right there. But the chances of him scoring a first round KD if they fight again are little to none.



I thought Cal won too, he's just not that great of a fighter. period end of story

SO that means CALZAGHE is better than WINKY and would dominate TARVER,listen HOPKINS is a clown ,acts like he wants to trade and really g to war in that rin,with his prefight I'M ready to die i that ring,well apparantly he wasn't cause holdsall night he holds,hits and holds ,then HE decides when to let go again hit then hold again.I thought had they sat and REALLY fought HOPKINS BECOMES ANOTHER lacy,OVERRATED bum THAT POPKINS IS opening cuts with his head acting like he was shot by a tap on the cup,I GUESS JAIL or shall I say SOMEONE in jail SOFTENED HIM UP.I love it another WHITE CHAMPION ow how the cultural landscape is changing in boxing