How did you score Calzaghe/Hopkins??

[The_Visitation]

Calzaghe was the aggressor, controlled the pace and totally outworked Hopkins

Calzaghe UD 116-111

I scored another round to B-Hop but I agree with the sentiment. Hopkins may have landed 'cleaner' and 'harder' punches but with Calzaghe landing nearly twice as many that doesn't mean **** unless they are clean and hard enough to get a KO.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Oh by the way.. WTF??

Yeah Ive noticed that too. A lot of people have changed their winner to Hopkins as time has gone by. Wonder why...

[Dirk Diggler UK]

I thought Joe hit Bernard pretty good to the body throughout.

Yeah I think people overlook that Calzaghe actually did some decent body work which slowed Hopkins down. People focus on the headslaps and come out with "Hopkins didnt have a scratch on him". When Hopkins has never really been busted up badly anyway.

[fightnews55]

You have to score it for Hopkins unless you score slaps and punches that hit air.

[daggum]

I scored another round to B-Hop but I agree with the sentiment. Hopkins may have landed 'cleaner' and 'harder' punches but with Calzaghe landing nearly twice as many that doesn't mean **** unless they are clean and hard enough to get a KO.

see that's where you go wrong. you must not have watched the fight. calzaghe missing nearly twice as many is accurate. if you wanna score on that then go right ahead. you could probably make it as a pro judge after all.

[daggum]

Yeah Ive noticed that too. A lot of people have changed their winner to Hopkins as time has gone by. Wonder why...

cause they watched it?

[daggum]

You have to score it for Hopkins unless you score slaps and punches that hit air.

correctamundo!

[P4P Opinion]

115-113 Calzaghe

Hopkins had the fight under control for the first half of the fight, but Calzaghe managed to not only outwork him but outland him in the second half and no, I'm not even talking about the 'slaps'. In the second half of the fight he lands a lot of straight lefts and jabs. His work to the body is also underrated in the second half of the fight, especially considering that Hopkins can be heard to complain about it in his corner. Calzaghe changed his tactics to jabbing, then retreating, drawing Hopkins out to land the straight left. I'm not saying the tactic worked perfectly (partly because Hopkins hugged straight away and partly because Hopkins often counters with the right hand) but it worked well enough for Calzaghe to outland. I think a combination of this tactic and Hopkins tiring won him the fight. I had it level going into the final two rounds and I felt Calzaghe won them.

[SonOfCuba]

had bhop winning.

[The_Visitation]

see that's where you go wrong. you must not have watched the fight. calzaghe missing nearly twice as many is accurate. if you wanna score on that then go right ahead. you could probably make it as a pro judge after all.

Yup, he missed with twice as many for the same reason he hit with twice as many... he threw twice as many. And, amazingly enough, its the ones that land that count. Not exactly rocket science, is it?