Who do you guys think really won? Joe or Bernard?

Question

Hopkins is very hard to beat , as he has a bushel of tricks up his sleeve...Calzaghe gave it his all and looked as good as possible, given the old dog he was fighting and all his sly fox tricks. I'd call it a draw, or give a very thin edge to Hopkins, but I think the decision was honest.

Answer 1

Calzaghe easily. He dropped Hopkins in the eleventh round with a body shot and Joe Cortez had to tell b-hop that it was a clean shot so get up. The correct call would be to start counting and see if hopkins could get up. Hopkins also ran all night, faked a low blow in the 10th, and got out landed 2-1 in punches. Just because he complained doesnt make it controversial. The WHITE BOY beat him easy.

Answer 2

Well, I thought Calzaghe won a pretty close fight- I had it 115-112, but I could see why one judge (and many at ringside) had Hopkins winning.  With this fight, it came down to Hopkins' quality punches versus Calzaghe's quantity punches.  Hopkins landed the harder blows throughout and managed to drop Calzaghe, but Calzaghe outlanded him by over 100 punches.  When you get outlanded by that amount of punches, then I think that quantity outdoes quality, even though a lot of Joe's punches were open handed "slaps."  Hopkins was just looking for that one counter right hand, and he did land it quite a few times, but he did not land it enough to offset Calzaghe's workrate- if a 43 year old faded Hopkins can drop Calzaghe and make it a competitive, close fight with a great volume puncher, then I don't have any doubt that a prime B-Hop would have beaten him easily.

Answer 3

Neither man looked their best, Saturday. Anyway, I actually thought Calzaghe won the fight easily, despite being dropped in the first round. I just thought Calzaghe was the much active man and felt Hopkins during many occasions hurt his opportunities to score big each time to would lunge forward with his right into a clinch.

Answer 4

I had Calzaghe by one point.  Joe didn't LOOK good but then again Bernard can make anyone look bad.  Still even though I predicted Calzaghe by decision, The fight was there for Hopkins to win.  He just didn't do enough to score enough points to actually do it.  

Strangely I couldn't help but imagine what a fight between Gene Tunney and Jack Johnson would be like.  Gene's fast hands and footwork against Jack's "jab-n-grab" tactics.  

Joe was right in front of him.  He's the aggressor and throws the most punches.  Number of punches don't always make the difference.  Just ask one of Tyson's early opponents who landed about 10 punches only to find himself being scraped from the canvas with ONE punch.

Still with both fighters NOT being KO punchers the fight will likely go to whoever is busier.  That fighter was Joe Calzaghe.

Answer 5

I had Hopkins winning only the first round. All calzaghe after that. Hopkins' tactics were shameful to say the least. I would have DQ'd him.

Answer 6

Hopkins did more damage to Calzaghe then vice versa.  He dropped him and made him bleed.  If it were me I would have rather been Hopkins so I can say I dropped that fool.  Calzaghe may get the W,  but on the streets we all know Hopkins won.

Answer 7

Joe landed more punches but Bernard landed the harder punches. At 43 years old, it is a psychological win for Bernard.

Answer 8

Coming from a Brit, I thought Hopkins won it close but clear by about 3 points. I found Calzaghe really unimpressive, and I was surprised just how much more skill Hopkins had than Joe.

Edit: To the guy who said Hopkins isn't a KO puncher, He is the only guy to have stopped De La Hoya and Tito and he did both with one punch, he stopped a guy in 24 seconds for an IBF title defence and he brutally KOed (into permanent retirement) a promising undefeated fighter called Joe Lipsey. I would say he has KO power.

Answer 9

It wasn't even close. How is Hopkins supposed to win throwing one punch at a time? According to Compubox, Joe landed more punches against Hopkins  then anyone else ever including Roy Jones. And if everybody thinks Joe is such a light puncher then why was Hopkins afraid to trade punches with him. He ran away for most of the fight.

Answer 10

those who think hopkins should of won need to get real he is c**p he talked the talk but didnt walk  the walk witch im glad i cant stand that guy love joe think he is great.

Answer 11

Who really won???  Look on every single website you can find and I guarantee you, that Joe Calzaghe won the fight.  If youre asking who the public thinks SHOULD HAVE WON, thats another question.  Bernard is slick and is very very hard to look good against.  Ask great fighters like Roy Jones Jr, Winky Wright, Jermain Taylor, Oscar de la Hoya, Felix trinidad, Antonio Tarver, and Joe. Most of these guys will someday be in the Hall of Fame.  None of them really made BHop look bad.  You could say the same thing about Pernell Whitaker.  They just have ugly styles that are hard to fight against.  But trust me, when a guy lands as much as Joe did, he deserved the win, regardless of how hard his punches were.

Answer 12

i'm not a big b hop fan, but at first i thought he can handle joe c pretty well.....

but then, joe c unleashes and lands more punch than b hop and all b hop can do is act hurt on the crotch and what a lame act that is.....

very disappointing, big guy.....cry baby. he deserved to lose, and i thought it would be via unanimous decision.

Answer 13

b hop was on the ropes the whole time he landed 12 % of his punches

calzaghe threw lots of punches he landed 20% of his punches he was the faster more aggresive fighter who outclassed the champion.

calzaghe 116-111