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People seem to forget that when Joe faced Hopkins,Kessler,Lacy,and Jones he was far from his OWN prime.Joe had hand problems that took their toll on his power.I believe Joe would have embarrassed Hopkins if they metv10 years earlier when Joe was 25.As Hopkins has gotten older ,Id say since the last Taylor fight hes employed the old hit and Hold technique.The same move that Andre Ward,and Berto use,they use it because of weak whiskers Hopkins because he just cant fight 3 full minutes anymore and hes not quick enough to avoid shots ala Mayweather.So he throws a punch then holds,he decides to let go throw another then hold.It saps the opponent of energy is extremely cheap thats why its illegal just NEVER enforced.
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It is exceedingly strange to me that nobody even makes a suggestion that Hopkins's unchanging form is because he may be on steroids. He's never been asked to take blood tests.....why? I know he said that if it was in the contract he would (but that's merely a matter of going off them well before tests begin). Well, he didn't exactly say that, but said that he wouldn't take the tests because they weren't in the contract. (not exactly the same thing- more like a misleading comment) If he'd been taking them and stopped, he'd likely lose, but he's lost beore so isn't such a big thing, being that he's so close to retirement.Comment
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He had great potential but wasn't able to get the big fights early enough, due to the fact that he preferred to remain in his little village in Wales than to move to America with his entourage like pretty every succesful superstar non-American fighter did (Khan, Pacquiao, the Klitscho's Lennox Lewis, Bute, the list is long...).
That's how the world rolls: if you want the big fights, you must be in America: out of the USA, out of the WBC/HBO/Showtime/Arum fellowship=out of the real deal.
Apart from that, Calzaghe is probably the most talented boxer of the last decade.Comment
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