Calzaghe admits punching Hopkins low was deliberate

[squealpiggy]

I can't believe he told the "London Daily Mail" that. If I were him I'd have told a real paper that actually exists.

[rusticraver]

Lol Hopkins was using his head ALL night.

He gota take it if hes going to dish it

[squealpiggy]

For ****'s sake can't anyone see that this was made up! There is no such paper as the London Daily Mail! There is the Daily Mail, but there hasn't been a London Daily Mail for about a hundrd years!

[Ras44]

What so you're saying you wouldn't relish the chance to take on the p4p number one?

He didn't have to step out of his comfort zone, he stepped up to the challenge something Calzaghe is only just starting doing.

Of course the money would have eased the pain a bit, but at the end of the day it weren't about that.

Ricky lost his 0 and has deeply upset after, even crying?

So think before you spout bollocks about he only took him on for the money.

I never said he took it "ONLY" for the money. However, Mayweather and Hatton were both fighting at 140 in 2005. Floyd decided to move up, Hatton stayed at 140. The fight could have happened in 2005, after Floyd defeated Gatti and Hatton defeated Tszyu. Hatton has no business whatsoever at 147, with neither Floyd nor any other top 147 guy. Chasing Mayweather to 147 was a bad decision, specially when critics would have probably never called Hatton the top P4P guy in the sport even if he defeated Mayweather, they would have ranked Mayweather down from #1, put in either Pacquiao or Calzaghe, and would have still ranked Mayweather on top of Hatton and called it a fluke, which it probably would have been.

So yes, I do think that Hatton fighting Floyd at 147 was a big mistake for Hatton. And everyone who thought he had a remote chance after witnessing his performance against Collazo, or even worse, put their money on Hatton, are not boxing fans, maybe they are Hatton fans or English fans, but not boxing fans.

[Kris Silver]

Even if he did mean to hit low, it wasn't with much intent. Hopkins cheated more in that one fight then Joe has his whole career.

Also, there is no London Daily Mail. I'm also pretty sure this article is a farce. It's not like Joe's wording, I read UK papers and few if any have such personal interviews. Joe's on bloody holiday already aswell isn't he?

Thread starter, please link, list, name your source. Googling any kind of such words brings up NOTHING, when news sources alone would be over it. No London Daily Mail, no other papers, no other sites, no digg, no forums except you one here. Zero, zilch, that's almost unheard of.

Are you even in London to be able to read this made up London paper?

You should at least be able to prove this article to be true, otherwise it's presumed false and made up on your behalf, which would be very lame.

[baya]

why would he admit to it?

just to further own hopkins.

"i'll never lose to a white guy"

not only did you lose, Bernard ... you were emasculated and THEN on newspapers across the world, it is printed now that you weren't respected enough, Bernard, to risk disqualification to just be down-right ***** slapped in the form of a blatant infraction, in the face of authority in this case manifested by Joe Cortez.

baaaad, coming-of-age fight for Bernard, real bad.

[Pullcounter]

From the London Daily Mail:

"WBC/WBA/WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe admitted to the London Daily Mail that he intentionally hit Bernard Hopkins low in the second round of their fight Saturday, but says Hopkins was faking it in the tenth when he went to the canvas from an apparent light shot below the belt from the Welshman. "What a crap actor," said Calzaghe. "He looked like he'd been shot in the balls, not hit. When I hit him there in the second round, that was proper deliberate. He'd knocked me down in the first so I had to give him a dig, didn't I? But the tenth — that was a lie, that one.....he's a cheat. He took three minutes off when I didn't touch him and he needed a rest. Joe Cortez should have been firmer. Hopkins is just a spoilt little girl, isn't he?""

Just to reignite discussion.

Hopkins did what he had to do to try and win.

[kayjay]

You made that quote up, no?


I'm not saying the punch wasn't intentional, jus6t that the quote didn't sound like his

[dustybin]

Hopkins did what he had to do to try and win.

And in the process destroyed his reputation

[SHB]

The only articles I can find on the Daily Mail website are the following:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1781
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1781

This thread is therefore bull****.