Re-Watched Calzaghe-Bika

[Cutthroat]

You lose all credibility when you say that bull**** in the 10th was a clean knockdown. I suggest you get your eyes checked and learn how to score fights. Even 4 rounds to Bika is generous unless you consider rabbit punching, wrestling, and head butts as scoring blows.

That goes for you and any other clown trying to convince themselves Bika even came close to winning.

If your fall was caused by a punch that's a knockdown in boxing, Calzaghe was off balance but that doesn't matter. Calzaghe was the one initiating most of the clinches/holds lol, if you're going to complain about Ward's holding, hold Calzaghe to the same standard. At least Ward beat him much more convincingly than Joe, took almost no damage aside of 2 cuts caused by headbutts from Bika.

At the very minimum this fight should've been a draw.

Bika was landing hard shots on the inside, that's where he was doing some of his best work.

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[The Akbar One]

This fight was close as hell and Bika should've won, wow. I remember watching this fight live and thinking Calzaghe had dominated him, agreeing with the wide scorecards, but after watching it again it was obvious who the real winner was.

Calzaghe was getting credited for a ton of ineffective aggression, he would throw 10 shots and land 3 but would get credited for landing most of them, it was a joke. The crowd went crazy with every punch he threw. He did occasionally land some hard lefts, but Bika was landing the harder, cleaner shots that kept stunning Calzaghe, especially the 2nd half of the fight. Bika even got robbed of a knockdown in round 10 that was ruled as a slip.

It's best to mute HBO's biased commentary, they were all over Calzaghe's knob, they acted like Bika was getting dominated, probably fooled by Joe's phantom punches:




In the corner before the start of the 12th round (a round I gave to Bika) Joe was even asking his father what he should do, even he knew Bika was arguably winning the fight.

Did Bika even land punches?

[robertzimmerman]

To me he was beautiful to watch. But like I say, that's my taste, it's subjective. He may have overwhelmed opponents with volume, but just because he didn't sit back and pick every punch doesn't mean he didn't have great timing. Watch the Lacy fight again, Bobby.

The performance against Lacy was great. I think it was his best one. Maybe not his best win, but definitely his best performance.

Again, he was exciting to watch, and it's shame he was plagued with injuries throughout his career. It was also a shame that he didn't move up to LHW and go to the U.S. sooner than he did.

[-Antonio-]

hmmm and calzaghe didn't miss kessler a lot? the crowd made the same noise whether he landed or not so i guess it didn't really matter.

Calzaghe actually even hurt Kessler in this fight. Kessler was very good in the beginning of the fight then Calzaghe just started showing his class. Outclass is probably too strong of a word. But he won comfortably.