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Hop is on borrowed time. He may think he's going to cagily counter and pick off Joe for a points win, but he's very used to doing this tactic at his own pace, and he's not going to get that luxury against Calzaghe.

Joe will be moving around him jabbing and slapping him silly all night long, and occasionaly throwing a few full weight shots in there too.

Calzaghe is a born winner, and BHop is going to get a beating.

It'll be a pleasure to see the mean old bastard get a whooping too

STP wrote:Well, Sky and Warren dug into their pockets for 10 years and Calzaghe has A LOT to thank them for. He made around £6million pre-Lacy, for fighting once a year against Tocker Pudwill in front of 1,700 people at Cardiff Ice Rink.

Like to know where you're getting your figures from. You think Warren is going to throw money at a non-ticket seller?

Subscription TV is where the money is, my friend. Not in tickets or fame. The combined shared purse for Benn and Eubank in their rematch was £1.85million - and that's including American TV money - and over 45,000 were there. 18 months later, they were going to get £3million each for a Wembley third match, just because it would be on Sky, (but Benn didn't want to 'help Eubank out').

Do you really think I don't know that TV money props up the sport.

My point remains. Calzaghe, as unknown as he was back then, was still going to bring in 2 million dollars to Hopkins, and no doubt a similar amount for himself.

Hopkins turned the fight down, so he's to blame for it not happening sooner.

They've both had their share of easy fights, check this 10 sec "world title" KO for Hop

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ddDMkOdzybg

Does show you how hard he can hit with that right hand though.....