Re-Watched Calzaghe-Bika

[daggum]

if calzaghe had done this he would have beaten bika even easier.
look at the ref! he's literally 2 feet away looking right at him as he throws a 10 punch(slap) combo to his testicles...and he does nothing!

[baya]

if calzaghe had done this he would have beaten bika even easier.
look at the ref! he's literally 2 feet away looking right at him as he throws a 10 punch(slap) combo to his testicles...and he does nothing!

lol - one could make a 10 minute video of calzaghe bloopers

[billeau2]

IMO Calzaghe arguably lost to Bika, Reid and Hopkins.

The guy had an up and down war with Byron Mitchell for crying out loud.

Why anyone would rate him highly is beyond me.

Agree with no caveats. One of the more overrated guys imo.

[lazy]

I thought it could have gone either way.

[deathofaclown]

I had Calzaghe winning but Bike is an awful fighter to look good against.

[SilverMiles]

You can make better Rguement for Bika beating Ward than you can for him beating Calzaghe.

Fight wasn't really close. Bika just running in with his head down, head butting and throwing wild loopy shots. I scored it twice and both times had it 116-112 Calzahge.

[billeau2]

I had intended to watch this fight but the fvkin ref caused massive blood pressure flunctuations. ******azz ref must be Joe's cousin. Most of Bika's good work was with his free hand inside which Calslappy was trying to hold down and would complain when Bika hit with the free hand.

Sometimes the refs are right up there with the judges when it comes to corrupt officials and this guy was a corrupt ref.

[-Hyperion-]

It was close....Ward struggled with Bika badly too.....but every punch Bika landed was ignored too.

In truth, I'm okay with Bika getting a rough time by the ref, because most of his succes was because he was using his head as a third fist. Since Slappy was not a dirty fighter, he deserved that break. The fight camp 360 of this fight made me feel very lowly of Ward...for once he met a guy who was as dirty as him and the guy wanted to cry.

[elfag]

fight with hopkins was really close. I thought calzaghe won at the time only because of activity. Hopkins landed the cleaner, harder punches. Calzaghe throws all arm punches and the majority are not even connecting.

[daggum]

fight with hopkins was really close. I thought calzaghe won at the time only because of activity. Hopkins landed the cleaner, harder punches. Calzaghe throws all arm punches and the majority are not even connecting.

it was only really close if you aren't paying too much attention. fights like that are actually easy to score since only one guy was landing cleanly he must be the winner logically. the guy missing and getting hit with clean shots probably doens't deserve to win no matter how much ring presence he has. you said it yourself. if you aren't connecting punches and your opponent is how can you give it to the guy not connecting? how hard is it to miss a punch? not very hard. how hard is it to land a punch clean? a lot harder. the essense of boxing.