Hopkins win over Pascal makes Calzaghe look even greater!

[studentofthegam]

Zags is a great fighter. You can try to discredit himif you must but results dont lie. He beat Bhop, Jones and was the first to beat Kessler. Sure its a few more fights he could have taken but I'm proud of him for not letting the sport retire him. As we see the Roy Jones route is a very sad one.

[dde91]

Hopkins loses from Taylor and Calzaghe are all Disputed. I think Hopkins won one of the Taylor fights and to me i think he won the Calzaghe fight with clean crisp punching. Calzaghe was just throwing garbage punches hitting his arms 90 percent of the time.

[Who are you?]

All these wins that Hopkins is piling up at 46 years old while Calzaghe is snorting coke is gonna cause him to go down as a greater fighter than Calzaghe in the history books. Maybe a thread needs to be made pointing that out.

Maybe, but lets not forget that in terms of a direct result (ie Hopkins VS Calzaghe) Calzaghe won.

Lets also not forget that losses have a significant affect on a fighter's legacy. Calzaghe has none, BHOP has 5, two of which were to Jermain Taylor. His losses take the lustre of his career by quite a margin.

[Mr. Philadel]

All these wins that Hopkins is piling up at 46 years old while Calzaghe is snorting coke is gonna cause him to go down as a greater fighter than Calzaghe in the history books. Maybe a thread needs to be made pointing that out.

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[Iceta Lives]

Maybe, but lets not forget that in terms of a direct result (ie Hopkins VS Calzaghe) Calzaghe won.

Lets also not forget that losses have a significant affect on a fighter's legacy. Calzaghe has none, BHOP has 5, two of which were to Jermain Taylor. His losses take the lustre of his career by quite a margin.

He should only have one loss if truth be told and Calzaghe should have two including the one to Robin Reid.

[Bushbaby]

That may have been true,IF JC beat Hopkins decisively.But the truth is that the fight was close & could have gone either way.

[joseph5620]

Calzaghe's legacy continues to grow!!!!!!

With that logic Jermaine Taylor's legend should grow. He beat a younger version of Hopkins more impressively than Calzaghe did. Twice.

[luke1979]

I don't see how Calzaghe looks better on account of what Hopkins has achieved since they fought. I don't see how Hopkins looks any better either. They fought and Hopkins lost because Calzaghe was a better boxer.
No amount of rationalising favoring one or the other will change that. Joe Calzaghe was better than Hopkins end of story.

[KingTito]

I disagree. The fight wasn't that great, and I actually thought Hopkins won. They should've had a rematch.

[deuce_drop]

Bernard Hopkins is the reason why Joe Calzaghe is still retired. He know he owe Hopkins a rematch. Instead of coming back and face Hopkins again, he prefer to stay at home. We know why...

yeah, this does nothing for calzaghe, only makes him look like a guy who ran from a rematch with hopkins...........

he eeked out a SD win, which was highly disputed, then avoids a rematch like the plague, citing that it was a boring fight, which it wasn't, then he goes on to have a REAL boring fight with roy jones, and then retires, when in reality there is unsettled business to dealt with in a rematch with hopkins and joe prefers to retire and do ******* with dr rockso the rockin roll clown, who does *******. ............