Be fair - calzaghe was also dirty in the fight, he low blowed on several occasions (he even went on record and admitted in the 2nd round he low blowed as to get back at hopkins for knocking him down) and also rabbit punched (see the below example).
Bottom line is it was a dirty ugly fight and both parties were guilty (hopkins guilty of most of the clinching, calzaghe did the above mentioned fouls and face it, neither of them put on crowd pleasing show).
It could have been age and/or his thyroid condition in which they had a hard time controlling before the calzaghe fight, which makes sense because fatigue is the main symptom and that is the first and only time out of all of bernard's fights that he's ever tired like that.
Yep, credit must be given to joe even if you don't like him (me being one of those people). He's a great and it's his career so if he doesn't want to rematch hopkins, that's his decision and only his to make. They will be forever linked because of this fight and like it or not, they are similar in many ways because of their accomplishments (both have records for longest title defenses, longest reign, etc.). The main difference of course is bhop faced the bigger names overall but regardless, they will both go down as ATG.
good **** natas ......like I said many times before here......Bernard Hopkins doesn't give his fans reasons to feel insecure and ya post is evident of that!!
A nobody -------------- like all the none US heavy weights fighters back in the 60-70 and 80. Back then where US rolled boxing fighting them self.
Sure US is the Boxing Mecca - but "Mecca" in the wrong way......
The rest of the world tries to live in 2009.
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......like I said many times before here......Bernard Hopkins doesn't give his fans reasons to feel insecure and ya post is evident of that!!
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