How controversial was Calazaghe's split decision win over Hopkins?

[I Love Jesus!]

Not controversial at all,the only people that still cry about it are hopkins nuthuggers or the anti-european yanks,either way their fighter got beat by a white boy

Actually the only people who cry about it are the few Calzaghe fans who bring it up every time Hopkins gets a big win so they can try to legitimize him but the verdict comes back the same every time. He's still aN over protected slapper who fought no one his whole career and was already long forgotten the day he retired.

[I Love Jesus!]

I've only watched the fight once I had Hopkins winning sorry but Calzaghe punches like a girl. Arm punching through 12 rounds is not what I call EFFECTIVE punching nor was it clean. B-Hop landed harder shots and the cleaner ones and came out the fight without a scratch that says something about Calzaghes punching power since he "landed" so many. Say what you want though about B-Hop getting beat by a white boy and put in his place. I didn't appreciate his comments but he won that night. At the end of the day B-Hop is still here making history after this fight while Calzaghe went on to be a coke head so who's really winning?

Exactly his few fans just want to legitimize his shallow career full of fake stoppages off Hopkins who got robbed

[crold1]

Cool, thanks for weighing in Cliff. How did you score it at the time?

Calzaghe 115-112.

[BennyST]

It wasn't controversial at all. It was a very close fight no matter which way you look at it. Both guys fought their own fights pretty well, and both are excellent spoilers. Calzaghe simply had the consistency and work rate to take a very close decision. However you look at it, if you had Hopkins winning it was usually by one, maybe two points max.

A lot of people, the majority at the time at least though it certainly doesn't seem that way now, had Calzaghe winning by a clearer margin than that.

It wasn't controversial. Just a close, scrappy win that Calzaghe nicked.

[LeG00N]

Thought it should've been a UD for Calzaghe

[A-Wolf]

Not controversial at all,the only people that still cry about it are hopkins nuthuggers or the anti-european yanks,either way their fighter got beat by a white boy

lol WTF is a "Hopkins nuthugger? Or an "anti-European Yank?" You should go make a thread about Andre Ward's headbutts or something.

[daggum]

i don't think i've ever seen this fight. was it good?

[gauze]

116-111 hop, 115-112 at the closest on my card

[Drunk Punch]

I was only surprised he didn't win by a bigger margin. BHop's play acting and dirty tricks deserved at least a couple of points deducted. Horrible, ugly fight.