Bernard Hopkins was robbed in the Calzaghe fight ....Proof inside.

[edgarg]

Do you remember Hopkins and Morrade Hakaar....amongst others nearly as bad. {Hopkins' name should have been changed adfter this travesty to "Hokins"}

The Hakaar "fight" was much worse than ANYTHING perpetrated by Jones. At least Jones, no matter HOW good his opponents were, and some were VERY good, made them ALL look like beginners he was so superior.

Hopkins was never in the same class as Jones. Not even nearly.

Of course I mean "Hokums".

[daggum]

anyone who wants to accuse hopkins of "cheating" or using "dirty tricks"

Rules of Boxing

You cannot hit with an open glove, the inside of the glove, the wrist, the backhand, or the side of the hand.

every punch calzaghe throws is illegal but then again hopkins took too long after being lowblowed what a cheater!!!!!!!!!!!!

[edgarg]

Scoring. learn it.

I was a judge for nearly 5 years, amateur it's true, but in those days we fought like pros, no head guards and that phony refereeing junk, nor glove markings to make sure the "punch" is legit . I also fought for years and had a very good record.

So don't tell me how to do this or that, I was doing it all before your father was born.

[edgarg]

Chris was pretty shot at that point. Obvious to anyone who is not a Joe fanboy.

I'm ******, I really shouldn't bother replying to you at all.

[daggum]

I'm ******, I really shouldn't bother replying to you at all.

maybe eubank was rejuvinated like roy jones was when he fought calzaghe. eubank did just beat the 13-2 camilo alarcon. yeah he was rejuvinated alright.

[edgarg]

eubank was so finished i can't believe some people are trying to rewrite history. let's look at his title fights before fighting calzaghe.

ray close 1-should have lost a close fight
nigel benn-should have lost a close fight
rochigiani-close fight lots scored it for rochigiani
ray close 2-should have lost a close fight
costa-clearly lost
storey-knockout win
schommer-clearly lost
wharton-close fight some people scored it for wharton
collins 1-lost in a close fight
collins2-dominated

wow what a dominate fighter indeed. he only clearly won 1 out of his last 10 fights. some fights were close enough to give to him but he probably should have lost the majority of them. and calzaghe beating eubank coming out of retirement is a great win?

Talk about "rewriting" history, you should get a rewriting award.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Eubank was simply the best when Joe beat him.

[King Ghidorah]

Hopkins did not out land him, he may have landed harder shots but they were so few and far between.

What does landing cleanly have to do with aggression being effective? Joe's aggressive caused Hopkins not to throw, back away, and constantly hold.

Joe certainly was the ring general and commanding the pace from round 4 on, why else would Hopkins fake low blows because he was tired if he was controlling the pace?

A bit of an arrogant stance to take outright saying that all of these hardcore fans don't know how to score fights when they watch more boxing than 99% of ppl on the planet, don't you think?

And by the way that chick on your av is hot...

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Hopkins was robbed of the clear unanimous decision.....















....loss he deserved

[edgarg]

actually Eubank was unrated at 168, he had retired after the second Collins fight 2 years before he fought Calzaghe. He also had a really hard time making weight, as evidence of him moving up directly to Cruiserweight right after the Calzaghe fight.

not to mention Eubank at that point in his career had questionable decisions over guys like Ray Close and Henry Wharton(from what Ive heard from British fans that followed his career, havent seen the fights myself).

I'm sorry you are wrong, or at very least, not right...... Eubank took exactly 1 year off after his razor thin SD loss against Steve Collins, IN IRELAND YET.....it couldn't have been a home town decision.....could it?? .

Even today this is very commonplace. Mosley took 16 months off before he fought Mayweather.....remember....Huh??

And he then had 2 fights within the next 5 months, both at exactly 10 lbs over his weight for his reported weighin for Calzaghe less than 6 months later. Heds had only TWO losses, both razor thin and questionable, against the SAME guy, who "may" have just "had his number"...

So he was a good opponent, and was chosen by the WBO who's title he'd held for years, and lost just 2 years before. I don't see a "shot" fighter in these facts. Just wasn't as good as he had been. Who is after 47 fights these days?? Only Klitschko I think.

I'm going to bed, goodnight all.