Fanboy Dan Rafael scores it for Hopkins

[Scott9945]

He had it 114-113 for Hopkins. How the **** can anyone score a fight that badly? Hopkins' entire strategy was trying to neutralize Joe instead of actually winning. I have almost no respect for that fat clown.

[The Hammer]

Dan Rafael is an ugly, fat pile of **** who can't see past his biases.

[oldgringo]

I thought Joe won more rounds and he beat Hopkins at his own game a bit at the end of the fight. Hitting him low, rabbit punching, etc. Joe wasn't necessarily effective, but the right man got the decision.

The first few rounds looked very bad for Calzaghe. He was feeding right in to what Hopkins wanted. It's cool that he stayed with it though and didn't collapse mentally.

I agree with what Kellerman said and with what you said here, Hopkins did enough to not lose badly, he did enough to try neutralize Joe. He couldn't play the right hand/fall in card all night.

[GattiFan]

That fat gutsack knows very little about the sport.

He irritates the piss out of me.

[Jim Jeffries]

He had it 114-113 for Hopkins. How the **** can anyone score a fight that badly? Hopkins' entire strategy was trying to neutralize Joe instead of actually winning. I have almost no respect for that fat clown.

I can't bring myself to read a thing that guy writes, or pay attention to anything he says, after seeing him score ZERO rounds for Pavlik in the first Taylor fight. I'm honestly not suprised by his scoring here.

[Dirt E Gomez]

He had it 114-113 for Hopkins. How the **** can anyone score a fight that badly? Hopkins' entire strategy was trying to neutralize Joe instead of actually winning. I have almost no respect for that fat clown.

He chose to look solely at clean, effective punching. Something Calzaghe did for about 5 punches the entire fight. If that was his basis of scoring that fight, as I'm sure more than a few did, Hopkins winning on their cards is not surprising.

Also, to say that he scored it so "badly" is ridiculous. Badly would've been him having Hopkins won in a landslide. Having Hopkins win by 1 point with a lot of swing rounds simply means the close ones went Hops' way.

[kayjay]

I thought Joe won more rounds and he beat Hopkins at his own game a bit at the end of the fight. Hitting him low, rabbit punching, etc. Joe wasn't necessarily effective, but the right man got the decision.

The first few rounds looked very bad for Calzaghe. He was feeding right in to what Hopkins wanted. It's cool that he stayed with it though and didn't collapse mentally.

I agree with what Kellerman said and with what you said here, Hopkins did enough to not lose badly, he did enough to try neutralize Joe. He couldn't play the right hand/fall in card all night.

That's the thing. No one, even Hopkins, had any expectations that Hop would win cleanly. He was fighting not to get his ass kicked. He succeeded, and some mistake that for actually winning

[Kball15]

Thats a fair score IMO. It was a close fight.

The REAL joke, is ****ing HOWARD LEDERMAN, who is clueless when it comes to scoring a fight and is SUCH a *****.

He doesnt wanna be badmouthed by JIM and Co. so whatever they are leaning toward during the round is who he will give it to.

[Addison]

Rafael picked Calzaghe to win. Some fanboy.

[Cobrita]

Rafael picked Calzaghe to win. Some fanboy.

I was going to point that out. Calzaghe's bitches are very sensitive