Twas a mere tickle. Hopkins extracted urine.

Exactly.

He looks a helluva lot stronger since that rest. Intelligent.

This could get good. Calzaghe needs to KO. Hopkins likes a scrap.

This last round is going to be superb. Hopefully they are going to go toe to toe.

Sounds as though it's Hopkins fight

Richie Woodhall reckons its too close to call......

Wouldn't like to call it - for me Calzaghe was the more energetic but landed fewer quality shots.

Hopkins played that perfectly. It depends on how the judges saw Calzaghes' punches. He landed more but were they worth it?

Tentatively - Hopkins. Hoping, just enough - Calzaghe.

Well i'm £10 down after backing him to win by KO.

Judge 1 scores contest 114 - 113 Hopkins

Judge 2 scores contest 115 - 112 Calzaghe

Judge 3 scores contest 116 - 111

Your winner by split decision

Jooooooooooooooooooooooooooooe Caaaaaaaaaaaalzaaaaaaaaaaghe

Fookin well done lad. Though where that 116-111 came from only Tom Jones knows.

Result.

I win £45 for that though

thought joe just won it but that 3rd judge

Not a classic by any means, but went exactly how I imagined it would do (barring the knockdown in the 1st)

I had it to Joe by three, even though he struggled all through the fight to get quality shots off, that's Hopkins all over though.

Well done Joe for coming through a difficult night's work.

Watching the Hopkins interview it's hard to believe he lost. Not a mark on his face. Looks like he's just done a 30 minute training session with Dwaine Chambers. For me Hopkins made more impact in that fight, although Joe landed more technical hits.

Calzaghe, you are one lucky if hard working barstard.

Watched it on HBO and they had it exactly the same, 116-111.

Hopkins started well but went into Judo mode for second half of the fight.

Milked a low blow for all it was worth as well.

He was hanging on from round 8 onwards I think.

Even allowing for the knockdown I had Calzaghe by a couple of points.

Yeah, not that surprising to me either. Think John Rawling and Richie Woodhall fell into the trap of giving rounds to Hopkins purely for the fact that they thought the judges would favour Hopkins being the home fighter if you know what I mean?

He may have been the home fighter, but you can't win a big fight like that doing as little as Hopkins did IMO. Anyone who takes 2 minutes to recover from the softest low blow I've ever seen deserves exactly what he got.

i had calzahg with 2 just got home mow never felt so good



theres only 1 joe calzahghe lol

damm, Audley Harrison won his comeback on the Calzaghe undercard

Classic Hopkins really. Only one person wanted to fight there and that's got to be how Chuck Giampa saw it to come up with a 6-point gap.

Joe Cortez.... Get rid. He's a Golden Boy ref who allows the Golden Boy fighter to do what he wants.

Listened to it on Radio 5 live and was slightly confused by the guy describing the action sounding like it was all Calzaghe then Duke "I know I'm a three weight world champion but I'm as daft as a brush" Mackenzie would say how much Hopkins was on top.... I decided to watch the fight for myself on HBO with Manny Stewart et al and yes they had him winning 116 - 111 quite rightly so, Hopkins was defensively great but didnt do anything really except hold and look for the odd right hand. Duke seemed to have difficulty seeing the fight properly with his head so far up BHops BHole

I listened to 5live as well and was convinced by their comments that Hopkins had won comfortably, very odd commentry, Mckenzie seemed to have Calzaghe behind by at least 2/3 rounds.

Agree 100%, although Hopkins spent most of the fight cheating, Calzagie spent his time tip-tapping away to a points decision akin to and ameture fight.

Both fighters are cr@p and gave poor entertainment.

Roy Jones will smash Calzagie easily...

Don't be daft.... Roy Jones is washed up and chinny

Wouldn't want to see him take on Roy Jones as he's another who's way past his best IMO and beating a past it Jones would be no better than beating a past it Hopkins.

The fight I'd like to see Joe take would be Kelly Pavlik, someone who's a big puncher and in his prime. If Joe were to come through a fight like that with his unbeaten record intact, then that would more than cement his legacy IMO.