Why did Hopkins "PRETEND" he was hit below and hurt.?

Question

When all the old man wanted was a rest.!!

Answer 1

LOL go back and look at the video. can CLEARLY see calzhaghe hit him below the belt, i dont think it was intentional, but he did get hit. you try taking a punch and see how you feel idiot

and hopkins got robbed AGAIN. he landed all the cleaner punches....calzhaghes compubox numbers were only so high cuz he landed some very ineffective jabs

Answer 2

The Fact is that the video replay clearly showed that the punch was at best one inch below belt level---Bernard is a dirty fighter who always uses every trick in the book & this was just another one of his stall tactics to attempt to stop what Bernard knew was his inevitable loss--- Hopkins was clearly beaten & although he refused to admit it as usual-----in reality EVERYONE ( including Bernard ) knew he lost.

Answer 3

pretend, are you crazy, eveybody seeing that hopkins got shot by a sniper in the crowd,

Answer 4

hopman ran out of steam early into the fight...he could not keep up with a moving target. hopman got tired of holding Calzaghe. i predicted this fight the way it developed. I knew that hopman was going to headbutt hold and use dirty ghetto tactics to disc urge Calman, but Cal is a great boxer that is going to be hard to beat.

Answer 5

Looked to me like he was hit below the belt, but he was playing it up to be more than it was.  Look at it this way, if the judges thought he was hurt and he came back and fought well, it would've looked even better for him.  If he lost, which he did, now he has an excuse.  I didn't think Calzaghe would win though.  Give him some credit.  But I also don't know what that judge was looking at who scored it 116-111.

Answer 6

The video showed that he was hit you idiot!

I have a question. Why did Calzaghe get dropped in the 1st Rd by a 43 yr old that doesn't have a respected KO ratio!

Answer 7

the American boxer Hopkins done that to waste time to recover from Joe's onslaught....

the video shows it was only a little slap...

the padding down stairs is so strong Hopkins would not pf felt anything...

he a bottle job

all he done was hold  hold   hold

and he kept trying to headbutt what a loser....

and also the referee was a disgrace...

Britain kicked Americas butt...

and next on the list is Roy Jones,,,

Answer 8

Watch that video, he wasn't hit any were near his testicles. If that shot hit him in the testicles then I feel really sorry for his old lady.

All he was trying to do for the whole fight was take a rest.

Diving in for the clinch and locking arms to hold the clinch as long as possible. I think they should have broken out a pre-school nap mat and let him take a 5 minute nap between rounds lol

Answer 9

He wasn't pretending, Joe hit him low, and cup or not, it hurts.  Of course he wanted a rest, have you ever been in the 10th round of a tough fight, if your 23 years old you want a rest, at 43 just watching on TV makes a lot of guys breath heavy, but fighting at the level at 43 is no picnic.

Answer 10

Hey, enjoy the fact that he won, but don't kid yourself, he was hit below the belt! It was obvious! And how can you judge how solid or how bad he was hurt?

I'm don't know about you, but you don't have to hit me hard down there, to put me down! With or without a cup! You just have to graze those things, and it hurts!

Answer 11

he wanted to rest and he wanted to stop joe calzaghe from throwing all those punches.If u look at the replay calzaghe did touch his balls but it was more of a tap or a hold, no way was it so powrful that Bernard had to take a 5 minute rest. And u could also tell he was faking cause he was walking around the ring fast. When u get hit in the balls r u moving around fast? jim lampley pointed that out. Bernard cheats alot. Jermain taylor said after the first fight he had with him that B hop uses his head as a 3rd hand