Good anti-Hopkins stuff from Enzo Calzaghe

dondada · Post by **dondada** » 18 Apr 2008, 03:38

http://www.britishboxing.net/news_3360- ... pkins.html

You can just imagine the wee man kicking off!

nickd · Post by **nickd** » 18 Apr 2008, 04:55

Enzo is clearly bringing the fouls thing out in public before the fight in the hope the referee clamps down on them fight time a little more. I knew he would.

MightyWarrior · Post by **MightyWarrior** » 18 Apr 2008, 05:31

Good ol Enzo

Hopkins has riled him with his comments yesterday, saying Enzo forced his son to box as he was a failure himself....get the impression Hop really likes Enzo though, he can't stop himself grinning ear to ear when Enzo gets going.

nickd · Post by **nickd** » 18 Apr 2008, 05:34

MightyWarrior wrote:Good ol Enzo

Hopkins has riled him with his comments yesterday, saying Enzo forced his son to box as he was a failure himself....get the impression Hop really likes Enzo though, he can't stop himself grinning ear to ear when Enzo gets going.

Yeah I got that impression myself. It will be all smiles after the fight I am sure.

Eraserhead · Post by **Eraserhead** » 18 Apr 2008, 06:43

Enzo Calzaghe's getting very jittery, in my opinion. He knows that if Joe loses this one, reputations will be ruined all over the shop. Enzo C has already been exposed in recent months and if Joe goes the same way, then people will start to realise that those 28 straight world title wins were more to do with the matchmaker (and phony world titles) than the trainer. Still got to favour Calzaghe on points, but the presence of Enzo C (in training and during the fight) gives Hopkins a GREAT shout of pulling the upset.

Asterix · Post by **Asterix** » 18 Apr 2008, 07:39

Eraserhead wrote:Enzo Calzaghe's getting very jittery, in my opinion. He knows that if Joe loses this one, reputations will be ruined all over the shop. Enzo C has already been exposed in recent months and if Joe goes the same way, then people will start to realise that those 28 straight world title wins were more to do with the matchmaker (and phony world titles) than the trainer. Still got to favour Calzaghe on points, but the presence of Enzo C (in training and during the fight) gives Hopkins a GREAT shout of pulling the upset.

I couldn't disagree more.

Hopkins will be out to spoil, spoil and then spoil some more. My worry is that this fight will be as much of a mess as Hatton vs Mayweather.

overhand_right · Post by **overhand_right** » 18 Apr 2008, 07:50

Enzo being in Joes corner and training him is a huuuge advantage to a guy like Hopkins, who knows everything himself & has John David Jackson in his corner.

tonyevs · Post by **tonyevs** » 18 Apr 2008, 08:15

Eraserhead wrote:Enzo Calzaghe's getting very jittery, in my opinion. He knows that if Joe loses this one, reputations will be ruined all over the shop. Enzo C has already been exposed in recent months and if Joe goes the same way, then people will start to realise that those 28 straight world title wins were more to do with the matchmaker (and phony world titles) than the trainer. Still got to favour Calzaghe on points, but the presence of Enzo C (in training and during the fight) gives Hopkins a GREAT shout of pulling the upset.

`Enzo C has already been exposed in recent months `
How do you come up with that one?
Enzo is the trainer .. nothing else

How many `great trainers` take a guy from school-boy and into British/Commonwealth/world class .. there aren`t many .. and Enzo is one of them

Just can`t understand your logic to how the presence of Enzo gives Hopkins any sort of advantage

Enzo has always had alot to say .. just so happens he is now getting more oppurtunity for it to be aired

banjo · Post by **banjo** » 18 Apr 2008, 08:21

Not a very nice man is he?

whiskey · Post by **whiskey** » 18 Apr 2008, 08:37

He does seem to be getting hot under the collar a little (Enzo) but that's just the way he is at the end of the day.

Freddie Roach is the exact opposite.

Chambers2 · Post by **Chambers2** » 18 Apr 2008, 08:45

Enzo has some similar attributes to his countryman Craig Bellamy "He could start an argument in an empty room"

I watched some of the Setanta build up stuff last night, they had a decent interview with Joe on it, I thought he looked very relaxed and seemed to have his head in the right place, although externally doesn't necessarily reflect what's going on internally. I felt more confident about the fight after listening to him anyway, him and Enzo seem all business

Max Molyneux · Post by **Max Molyneux** » 18 Apr 2008, 09:33

Eraserhead wrote:Enzo Calzaghe's getting very jittery, in my opinion. He knows that if Joe loses this one, reputations will be ruined all over the shop. Enzo C has already been exposed in recent months and if Joe goes the same way, then people will start to realise that those 28 straight world title wins were more to do with the matchmaker (and phony world titles) than the trainer. Still got to favour Calzaghe on points, but the presence of Enzo C (in training and during the fight) gives Hopkins a GREAT shout of pulling the upset.

Exposed because two fighters lost?

Rees and Enzo wouldn't of won world titles without him.

Another trainers wouldn't of got Rees to outwork M'Baye and take advantages of the laziness and Rees probably would of lost under another trainer.

He turned Enzo Into a boxer when he used to be a puncher.

Doubt he's jittery, Enzo always talks with that attitude.

DG. · Post by **DG.** » 18 Apr 2008, 09:47

MightyWarrior wrote:Good ol Enzo

Hopkins has riled him with his comments yesterday, saying Enzo forced his son to box as he was a failure himself....get the impression Hop really likes Enzo though, he can't stop himself grinning ear to ear when Enzo gets going.

I think the reason why b-hop smiles at Enzo is because he can not understand a word he says, I can't!

Rocky Balboa · Post by **Rocky Balboa** » 18 Apr 2008, 12:40

I can imagine Enzo ranting & raving at B-Hop, then B-Hop smiling & thinking in his head, if you were saying all this shit back in Philadelphia, the locals would be taking this piss out of you!

Enxo keeps on & on & on.... the guy never stops. After Macarinelli was outclassed by Haye, Enzo Calzaghe never gave Haye any praise whatsoever. That showed a sore loser right there. It would have been a class thing to do to admit Macarinelli got hammered, clobbered out of there, that Haye was the better man on the night.

Citing the alleged fouling by Hopkins is a way of Enzo making a bigh thing out of it, to try to get Joe Cortez to favour Calzaghe & be really strict on Hopkins. If Hopkins wins, I bet Enzo says something like: "He fouled Joe non-stop, remember, I told told you he would before the fight"!