The monstrous hook Calzaghe landed on Hopkins...

[larry x]

damn..it looked like a hard shot in the picture....lol

[Pullcounter]

Calzaghe >> Hopkins.

in the UK not anywhere else

[Dan Cohen]

Calzaghe Outworks Hopkins for Win

Sunday April 20, 2008

Super middleweight champ Joe Calzaghe moved up to light heavyweight and outworked Bernard Hopkins over 12 mostly ugly rounds and was awarded a majority decision. Hopkins scored a flash knock down in the first round when he landed a perfect short right hand but he simply didn't throw enough punches to win rounds the rest of the way - electing to throw one punch at a time and initiate clinches whenever possible. Calzaghe slaps his punches so there was never a chance he would hurt or knock out Hopkins, but his conditioning - as always - was superb. [B]Hopkins, as expected, led with his head and hit Calzaghe with low blows whenever the vision of referee Joe Cortez was obscured. Yet it was Hopkins who acted badly hurt by a couple of marginally low blows late in the fight - a desperate attempt by a tired fighter to get a point deducted from his opponent. Good job by Cortez not to take the point away.

The judges who watched the fight scored it 116-111 and 115-112 for Calzaghe; Judge Adalaide Byrd inexplicably scored the bout 114-113 for Hopkins. Hopkins did well for a 43-year-old ... but he most definitely did not win this fight. HBO's Harold Lederman had the fight right at 116-111.

Punch stats: Total Punches: Calzaghe - 232 of 707 (33%); Hopkins - 127 of 468 (27%). Jabs: Calzaghe - 45 of 224 (20%); Hopkins - 11 of 93 (12%). Power Punches: Calzaghe - 187 but of 483 (39%); Hopkins - 116 of 375 (31%).

[Shattered Jaw]

in the UK not anywhere else

No, everywhere but Hopkins' mind and the deluded minds of the American boxing community.

[Ivansmamma]

I hate Calzaghe but he beat Hopkins.

[The Hammer]

damn..it looked like a hard shot in the picture....lol

It's not the same punch as in the photo.

[Pullcounter]

No, everywhere but Hopkins' mind and the deluded minds of the American boxing community.

false

I hate Calzaghe but he beat Hopkins.

Calz got a decision against bhop... he didn't beat him in my book.

[Ryn0]

Is there any proof that its the same punch? Out of interest?

It doesn't look like it landed in the video at all, it obviously did in the picture...

Calzaghe definately won that fight pure off activity. Hopkins stopped fighting after round 4.

[The_Demon]

false



Calz got a decision against bhop... he didn't beat him in my book.

still cant accept it
thats a bit sad

[βetamax]

It's not the same punch as in the photo.

You really take blind nuthugger to a new level. Your seriously going to sit here and tell me that second pic is not the exact same moment as the first? Show me ONE inconsistency.