Did Joe really beat Hopkins?

[DeltaSigChi4]

Calzagirl didn't impress anyone besides toothless brits.

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[Wiley Hyena]

Are you smarter today then you were yesterday?
Have you learned much about boxing since yesterday?
Bought some new glasses since yesterday?

Well then, I'm absolutely SHOCKED that you saw the same fight as you did yesterday.

LOL....
Well, after listening to all the naysayers (Addison), I decided to give it another re-play. It ends the same way everytime.

[MikeBrew328]

The Compubox scoring system is the root of all scoring evils. It's even worse than the Olympic system because sometimes the counters just guess and before you know it, Joe Calzaghe is landing over 200 punches on Bernard Hopkins yet B Hop doesn't even have a damn scratch. I wish they could show the entire fight in slow motion, it might just amaze some people.

[El Chicano]

The Compubox scoring system is the root of all scoring evils. It's even worse than the Olympic system because sometimes the counters just guess and before you know it, Joe Calzaghe is landing over 200 punches on Bernard Hopkins yet B Hop doesn't even have a damn scratch. I wish they could show the entire fight in slow motion, it might just amaze some people.

I agree, Compubox is a load of ****, 200 punches??? Compubox is negating and damaging the original Association of Boxing Commission scoring system, which says that Clean and Effective punching is the most important factor in scoring a round. This is the biggest discriminator in deciding who wins or loses a round. Taps, slaps and punches from all sort of weird angles with no power should not be counted over a clean hard shot which was correctly turned over and causes sweat to spray off an opponents head. I'll take one correctly thown shot over five sister slaps any day when scoring a round.

[Mozza]

Calzagirl didn't impress anyone besides toothless brits.

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And you think petty, unimaginative insults like "Calzagirl" impress anyone?

[Burner]

Joe won the fight for the judges, but didn't beat Hopkins. Based on the hoopla and trash talking, both men promised to dominate the other, but neither did. It's a win, but IMHO, if it's not a convincing / undisputed win, you should be pretty humble about it. Although I feel Calzaghe won the fight, it was close enough to where I understand some seeing it the other way. But with that said, Hopkins can't ***** because he didn't work to make it convincing for himself either.

And then Joe called himself the legend killer...GTFO...Hopkins was 43.

[Mozza]

I agree, Compubox is a load of ****, 200 punches??? Compubox is negating and damaging the original Association of Boxing Commission scoring system, which says that Clean and Effective punching is the most important factor in scoring a round. This is the biggest discriminator in deciding who wins or loses a round. Taps, slaps and punches from all sort of weird angles with no power should not be counted over a clean hard shot which was correctly turned over and causes sweat to spray off an opponents head. I'll take one correctly thown shot over five sister slaps any day when scoring a round.

You are making yourself sound silly by claiming that all or even the majority of Calzaghe's punches can be discounted because they were slaps, taps or from weird angles. I don't quite know why the angle a punch comes from would make a difference to scoring and you probably don't either.

[Burner]

I agree, Compubox is a load of ****, 200 punches??? Compubox is negating and damaging the original Association of Boxing Commission scoring system, which says that Clean and Effective punching is the most important factor in scoring a round. This is the biggest discriminator in deciding who wins or loses a round. Taps, slaps and punches from all sort of weird angles with no power should not be counted over a clean hard shot which was correctly turned over and causes sweat to spray off an opponents head. I'll take one correctly thown shot over five sister slaps any day when scoring a round.

You just said whats been on my mind since the fight ended...great post.

232 punches..GTFO.

Then ***** ass Max Kellerman" Calzaghe landed the most out of any fighter aginst you Hopkins"

[Wiley Hyena]

The Compubox scoring system is the root of all scoring evils. It's even worse than the Olympic system because sometimes the counters just guess and before you know it, Joe Calzaghe is landing over 200 punches on Bernard Hopkins yet B Hop doesn't even have a damn scratch. I wish they could show the entire fight in slow motion, it might just amaze some people.

I watched the re-play 3 times. What amazes is the quickness of some of Calzaghe's shots, especially when he's moving in and out of range. Just a flick and sweat flies from Hopkins' head. Calzaghe really is amazing with his hand speed.

[Scoooter]

Judges don't use Compubox to score fights, do they?