A Legendary 'Sore Loser'?

Reuters
Posted: 2008-04-25 22:51:14
Filed Under: Fighting
LONDON (April 25) - Joe Calzaghe has accused American Bernard Hopkins of being a "sore loser" after their light-heavyweight clash in Las Vegas on Saturday.

Unbeaten Welshman Calzaghe, the undisputed super-middleweight world champion, won a split decision after recovering from a first-round knockdown against the 43-year-old.


Hopkins looked stunned after two of the three judges gave the fight to Calzaghe, one of them by a large 116-111 margin, and claimed he won the fight.

"He should get over it," 36-year-old Calzaghe told the BBC on Friday. "He should watch the tape and accept that he lost.

"There were three American judges and he still lost. I don't need to find 100 excuses as I won. He's a sore loser."

Apart from Hopkins' straight right that floored Calzaghe for the first time in his career, neither fighter landed many telling shots in a scrappy clash of styles.

"I won the fight. I was the aggressor. I landed more punches. End of story," added Calzaghe, who stretched his unbeaten record to 45 fights.

"I don't mind if I don't see the guy again. To be honest, I've never been a Bernard Hopkins fan and never will be.

"You ask me about Roy Jones Jr. and I'll say I like him and love his style. I've got a lot of respect for him and he is a legend but Hopkins isn't."

Calzaghe said earlier this week that he would have one more fight before ending his career, possibly against Jones or fellow American Kelly Pavlik.

2008-04-25 22:47:54


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wiseryders 11:47:32 PM May 14 2008

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shawn112476 10:17:16 AM May 12 2008

Benards a loudmouth and I'm glad he lost,but I'm sure he'll blame it on the white man,they always do!!!

bbowens8 02:25:10 AM May 12 2008

CALZAGHE WOULD KNOCKOUT KELLY PAVLIK, IT WOULDN'T BE CLOSE ALSO PLEASE DON'T FIGHT WASHED -UP ROY JONES.

bbowens8 02:21:40 AM May 12 2008

willgcv 07:32:43 PM May 10 2008

Report This! A white man kicked Hopkins ass real good, ha, ha, ha.Its o.k for blacks to bring up the race card, but not whites, i say bull-****, I wish that the Welshman would have said, aint no black boy going to beat me. In closing it is easy to see who was the class of the two men.

HEY YOU GUTLESS A,,,HOLE DON'T BLAME ALL BLACKS FOR WHAT ONE BOXER SAID YOU DIPSHIT.

willgcv 07:32:43 PM May 10 2008

A white man kicked Hopkins ass real good, ha, ha, ha.Its o.k for blacks to bring up the race card, but not whites, i say bull-****, I wish that the Welshman would have said, aint no black boy going to beat me. In closing it is easy to see who was the class of the two men.

mike6164 03:24:47 PM May 10 2008

rocky marciano was italian forgot about him didnt you !retired undefeated beat ali in the computer fight when ali and rocky sparred ali couldnt lift his arms up for a week.rocky was 45 years old then! and he also knocked out alot african american like archie moore,joe louis,ezzard charles ,jersey joe walcott,so i guess he was the best,dont forget carmen basilio beat robinson,so did jake lamotta,graziano wasnt bad either all italians they i guess are supioer!!!!!!!!!

bippyearl 10:13:53 PM May 08 2008

olsonbabble; you really dont know what your talking about, hopkins is a joke and always will be, heres a little trivia for you, did you know hopkins in all his defenses when he was champion, never, EVER!!!!!, had a million dollar fight!!!!!!!!!!!! how bad is that, I dont blame any of the fighters abroad for not coming over, they never get a fair shake and always is at the short end of the stick as far as scoring, before mayweather knocked out hatton, did you know that every judge had mayweather winning EVERY SINGLE ROUND!!!! I saw the fight and it was close, and every round, come on, thats why they dont want to come over, remember the german kid came over kicke the crap out of delahoya and they gave the fight to oscar what a shame

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olsonbabble 09:11:33 PM May 04 2008

Hopkins isn't a legend? Really Joe? What does that make you? Because you've been talking about retirement for a while now, but you just fought a guy at least 7 years older than you, completely failed to hurt him at any point in the fight, allowed him to dictate what kind of fight it would be, and the only time anyone got even a little stung all night was when HE knocked YOU down in the first round! Yes, I agree you won (basically by volume punching like Kassim Ouma), but in completely uninspiring fashion. Jermain Taylor managed just as well as you did against Hopkins. Maybe you should line up your next fight with Taylor, you might be on the same level. You certainly don't have the kind of wins over impressive opponents that Hopkins has. Let's see where you are in 7 years, Joe. Somehow I don't think you'll be as successful a fighter as Hopkins in that regard. Take you bow for this win, but guess what... you didn't earn any fans with that halfassed decision. You just bored a l

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