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

[letsgobrady]

Hopkins was doing damage on the inside landing short hard punches scoring blows that the judges ignored

how you know the judges were ignoring blows?most people seem to ignore the fact hat calzaghe was actually landing punches in this fight and calzaghe landed his fair amount of body shots as well but calzaghe is so awkward and his punches come off as slapping alot so it seems like he doesn't get credit for touching his opponent to alot of people.
after watching this fight earlier i still don't see bernard winning and alot of his inside work he was holding the right arm and hitting calzaghe

[gauze]

only thing controversial about this fight was calzaghe's ********** antics when hopkins was bent over. close fight that could have gone either way depending on what you like.

i havent watched the fight since it aired live and i don't remember who i had winning

[A-Wolf]

You must have a very loose definition of punches. Actually these are the gloves Clazaghe used to train for the fight....

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Grant Calzaghe's limited adition

lmao!!!!! ..........

[atomicsad]

When I watched it it looked like Calzaghe won a close decision. Sloppy fight though.

[thuggery]

It wasn't controversial at all.

At the time even the yanks didn't dispute it , they used the "Hopkins is shot " excuse instead

But since that's been disprove they are now calling it a robbery

All because he lost to a white boy

Yup, they're still bitter about it.

[UTEP]

Joe landed the most punches anybody has ever landed on Hopkins, including the first Roy Jones jr fight.

Joe also landed a whopping 115 more punches then Hopkins did, 232 to 127.

Karma is real people. Hopkins disrespected an entire race of people with his racist remarks and as a result he got his ass kicked. Happens to the best of them. I think Hopkins learned from this experiance though, I haven't heard 1 racist remark come out of his mouth since, good for him.

[DreamFighter]

the only controversy is why it didn't happen 7 years earlier when Bhop was in closer to his physical prime.

[The_Demon]

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

[The_Demon]

the only controversy is why it didn't happen 7 years earlier when Bhop was in closer to his physical prime.

I think you will find the fight was signed too happen in 2001,but Hopkins pulled out and chose to fight Hakker instead,for half the money me would have got for the Calzaghe fight

[RVABoxer]

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?