No in all seriousness, Hopkins by UD or Calzaghe by controversial Decision. However, I am leaning much more towards Hopkins.

Now a playing of "O Canada"? Man, come on. Let's fight. I'm stoked that Hopkins and Calzaghe decided to not play the anthems. I mean, I get it and all, but it really has nothing to do with anything.

First half of the round is very much a feeling-out process. Henry wants to jab, and then go to the right hand, and Diaconu looks like he wants to work OFF of the power shots. Diaconu with a nice flurry, but Henry survives just fine and fires back with a good right hand.

Chopping right by Henry misses, and two more rights miss after that. Diaconu misses a couple. Once someone really lands some of these shots that are being thrown, it's going to blow up.

Henry's boxing out-did Diaconu this round.

Henry 10-9

Nice right from Diaconu, and Henry comes back with one. There's some more from Diaconu including a good body shot. There's a right from Henry over the top, and he goes back to the jab. Diaconu has a mouse under his right eye.

Body shot from Henry follows a shot upstairs from Diaconu. Henry eats a very solid right hand and that one might have hurt him a little. Shot to the body. Henry with a nice jab.

Diaconu with a low shot, borderline, and gets a warning. This one was Diaconu's round, clearly.

Diaconu 10-9
19-19

Oh right, this fight has the dreaded open scoring. Ugh.

Jab, jab, right hand misses by Henry. That was his corner instruction. Jab and throw the right hand or the uppercut. Henry is doing the stalking in this fight. Diaconu with a hard right hand that hurts Henry, and "The Shark" smells blood. Henry survives again. One of those rights that he's getting hit with are going to put him down if he doesn't adjust. Diaconu has landed that same punch two or three times, and that time was big.

Diaconu 10-9 -- not just the bigger punches, but he neutralized Henry for most of the round
Diaconu 29-28

Diaconu flurries again with some good shots, totally outdoing Henry, landing square shots with power. Wild right misses for Diaconu. His round again.

Diaconu 10-9
Diaconu 39-37

Henry caught with a counter left and stopped in his tracks again. I don't know why Henry isn't trying to adjust yet and get something else working. Maybe force Diaconu to come to him and try to counter-punch the way he was doing in the first round. Diaconu, of course, probably saw that himself and adjusted. But Henry is losing this fight right now, and the undertow that's pulling him down isn't slowing.

Well, there's the uppercut, finally, and Henry is starting to catch him. Lots of booing from the crowd, which only means that Henry is winning the round, really. Diaconu complained about low shots, I think. Nope -- behind the head shot.

A Henry round. Inching closer to even.

Henry 10-9
Diaconu 48-47

Heads collide, doesn't look like anything comes out of it.

Henry goes to work to the body, pinning Diaconu against the ropes. Good body shot when they get back to the center of the ring. Diaconu warned for a low blow now.

Left hook and a right to the body by Diaconu. Henry missing straight rights, and now Diaconu loads up on two rights upstairs. Mostly blocked, by those are big shots anyway. Heads collide again slightly. Again, nothing big.

Digging right to the body by Henry, and some uppercuts that mostly miss. Diaconu fires back, and these two are FIGHTING this round. That early Diaconu shot turned this round into a brawl.

Diaconu 10-9
Diaconu 58-56

Bob Sheridan tries to explain the light heavyweight title picture to us, which makes him sound bad because it's all pretty stupid, and at no point have they mentioned Bernard Hopkins.

Henry is chipping away at Diaconu and may have hurt him, because Adrian isn't fighting as hard right now. Holy Lord, Chris Henry swings with a massive right hand and misses.

Henry fights back with another good round and keeps this one close. He needs to put together round after round.

Henry 10-9
Diaconu 67-66

I think Bob Sheridan and myself have the same exact score, which is a big improvement on his Spinks-Phillips card.

45 seconds to go and Henry would need some huge shots to win this round. Instead, Diaconu tags him with a wicked left to the body and a searing shot upstairs. And again, he steals momentum right back from Chris Henry. Two big rights and a flurry send Henry staggering into the bell.

Whoa, Diaconu nails him a couple times after the bell, but I don't think you can blame him. Griffin didn't get proper control of the situation, and I doubt they heard the bell over the crowd.

Sheridan thinks it was a 10-8 round. I can't say the same, but I could see it. And I'm liberal with my 10-8 rounds.

Diaconu 10-9
Diaconu 77-75

The one thing I don't like about The Colonel is he tends to call a fight based on nothing BUT his scorecard. Which is why he had such an awful night with Spinks-Phillips. He was seeing a fight that apparently no one else did.

Open scores: 78-74, 77-75, 78-74 all for Diaconu. God I hate open scoring.

What I'm saying is that Sheridan is harping on the idea that Henry NEEDS to knock Diaconu down. Not really. It'd certainly be a good idea, but Bob thinks his 77-74 card is definitive.

Diaconu hits the mat on...something. This is getting pretty sloppy on his part. Honestly, he looks pretty tired. And I think Henry took this round in a nice comeback. End of the round, Henry comes on strong.

Really crap round for Diaconu. I'm wondering about his conditioning to be frank. Henry does hit hard enough to knock him out.

Henry 10-9
Diaconu 86-85

Time called to fix Henry's glove.

And with that, the stream goes black.

Guess we won't be finishing Diaconu-Henry.

Not a great day for production.

Come the fuck on. I understand a webcast, but this is bush league.

And I'm a big Adamek fan too. Bummer.

Feeling out for a minute, both guys look loose. Right to the body from Bell. Right-left combo from Adamek, Bell hits the canvas! His knee touched, and there he went. Being out for a year could have something to do with that.

So that's a knockdown for Adamek, but Bell not hurt much.

Big right from Adamek, he seems by far the sharper of the two right now. Bell doesn't look comfortable offensively.

Adamek 10-8

Now they mix it up a little with Adamek going to the body. Adamek with a left hook, Bell counters with a right. This hasn't popped off yet, Adamek is controlling the pace of the fight with a more refined style. Right from Adamek. He's totally dictating this fight. Bell isn't getting anything going at all. I still like his power, but he's going to have to land it.

Bell tries to load up with Adamek against the ropes, but nothing big. Bell looks flustered.

Adamek 10-9
Adamek 20-17

There they mix up, and Bell lands what I see as the harder blow, a shot between the gloves that countered a good body shot from Tomasz.

Much more chess match-y than I expected and hoped for, but this matchup is still volatile. Bell will eventually press hard. After a year off and some bad business moves, he badly needs this win.

Bell is taking this round before Adamek lands a sharp left hand, then pops him with a right. Close round, and Bell finally looked like he got a sense of himself in there.

Bell 10-9
Adamek 29-27

Adamek slips, back to their feet.

Adamek picks off a left hook, and hits Bell with a couple of decent shots, including a stiff jab. Body shot from Bell near the ropes, but that's all that comes of it. Bell with a long right that doesn't quite get home.

If this keeps up, Adamek is going to wind up running away with this fight on the cards. He's boxing very well from a tactical standpoint, and he's actively keeping O'Neil Bell out of the fight.

Adamek 10-9
Adamek 39-36

Adamek eats a right, but lands two very good left hooks. Bell again tries to get aggressive, and Adamek quells his advances. Right from Bell as he gets backed into a corner, and Adamek wisely gets away.

Adamek isn't boxing scared of Bell's power. It's not that. He's just completely taking it out of the equation. Bell has not landed one BIG punch in this fight. This is good stuff from Tomasz Adamek. I wasn't sure if he'd really work at cruiser, but if this is any indication, he'll be just fine.

Adamek closes a round he was winning with another good right hand. Bell will need to find answers, and fast.

Adamek 10-9
Adamek 49-45

Adamek with an uppercut. I was reluctant to say so, but after that uppercut and then two left hooks, he is just outclassing O'Neil Bell right now.

Body shot from Bell, but that's all he gets. Adamek stumbles again, then comes back out and keeps ducking long, slow punches from Bell. Bell is starting to just look bad against Adamek. If this keeps up, it's back to the drawing board for Bell, who's not a young man anymore and has singed if not burned a few bridges in his day.

Adamek is winning this with genuine ease. He's not getting hit, scoring with his punches, and keeping Bell from doing a single thing of note.

Adamek 10-9
Adamek 59-54

Honestly, I can't figure out what Bell and corner are hoping to do with this. They have to do something different, because Adamek is running away wtih this thing.

Adamek with more nice shots, right to the head and a left hook. Adamek wins another round. This was a great round for him.

Adamek 10-9
Adamek 69-63

He has just quit. He wouldn't even look the referee in the eye.

Terrible, terrible fight for O'Neil Bell. That might be the end of the road for him. This was a horrendous performance by Bell.

He was considering moving to heavyweight -- that might be his only route anymore.

Tomasz Adamek TKO-7

I've been a big fan of Adamek's since Kevin and I watched him with his Polish fan base at Rosemont in Chicago on the Valuev/Barrett undercard. The energy was contagious, and the fight far outshone the main event, a predictable KO for Valuev. Adamek was outstanding, a warrior's balance of heart and technique, with credible power and good work rate. Kevin and I both walked out new fans, so I'm glad to see him back in the saddle with this big win. Here's hoping the Dawson fight was a fluke. Go Adamek!

Here we go with the announcements.

Oh, man, I thought they were going to not do the anthems?

Although the lineal connection is debatable. Technically Zsolt Erdei has that.

Ref is, of course, Joe Cortez. Good team.

Hopkins comes in with his head down to shoot at the body, and he does it again. They tie up violently and scrap before Cortez breaks them up.

RIGHT HAND BERNARD HOPKINS

JOE CALZAGHE GOES DOWN

Right on the button. Wow!

Joe will need to keep his head. We've seen that before from Joe, as Max and Jim note.

Joe is not getting off at all. ANOTHER quick, straight right hand from Bernard. Joe misses a lunging left hook. Calzaghe is just not punching much at all. They tie up again.

More dancing, Joe throwing a punch at a time, and again they clinch. Blood on Calzaghe's nose.

Well -- that told us something, didn't it? Manny says Calzaghe might've won the round without a knockdown. He wouldn't have.

Hopkins 10-8

Another clinch that Cortez has to break up.

Left from Calzaghe, Bernard fires back with a right, and they tie up again.

And they tie up again.

Hopkins pops Calzaghe, another straight right, and they tie up again.

Left from Joe, right from Bernard, and now they trade some. They tie up again. This is getting ugly. It's not fightless clinching, but it's a lot of clinching, as one would expect. Bernard wants nothing to do with a punch trade, and I'll tell you what, Joe is winning this round.

Joe gets warned for a low blow. Looked very accidental since it came from Hopkins aggressively forcing a clinch.

And they clinch again. Bernard is not letting this be a fight. That's Bernard Hopkins. One of Calzaghe's missions in beating Hopkins is finding a way out of that.

Calzaghe 10-9
Hopkins 19-18

Hopkins with three rights to the body before Cortez intervenes on the clinch. It's going to be tough for me to score these rounds for Bernard with the way he's fighting. I mean, I know that's him, but Calzaghe is trying to fight him, you know?

Hopkins is landing better punches, though. He got in an uppercut in another clinch, and every time Joe starts letting the leather fly, Bernard cuts him off with a hug if he has to.

Calzaghe throws some stuff, Bernard goes to the body a couple times, and they tie up again.

And they tie up again.

Lead right by Hopkins misses, they tie up again. What I'm seeing here is an even fight, a totally mental fight, that is slowly starting to lean Calzaghe's way.

Hopkins eats a couple lefts in the clinch, and Cortez warns Joe. Now both land in a short exchange, Calzaghe getting the better of it.

Even through three on my card.

Calzaghe 10-9
28-28

Lead right from Bernard doesn't land. He comes in again moments later and eats a flurry to the body from Calzaghe before again clinching and disrupting the rhythm.

Joe with some more hand speed stuff, and I think he's starting to find his swagger a bit.

Calzaghe tied up again, and there's the rough stuff. Joe Cortez stops the fight momentarily to read both the riot act and threaten DQs.

Calzaghe drops his hands to dare him to come in. Getting Bernard overconfident mgiht be the best thign Joe can do.

Hopkins comes off the ropes with counter punches, Joe lands some slapping stuff. Bernard is landing better shots. This is a really interesting fight.

Three punch combo by Calzaghe, and a Bernard counter right falls short. Now they're fighting a little bit near the corner.

Short left catches Hopkins at the bell. Another close round, and I still like where this is gong for Calzaghe. He's landing more punches. A lot more, in fact.

Calzaghe 10-9
Calzaghe 38-37

Couple of quick shots by Calzaghe. Three punches in the corner, and then a shot with Hopkins against the ropes, a nice left hand.

Calzaghe's speed is starting to make a big difference. Bernard ties him up before it can get too bad, but when Joe gets a chance to throw those punches, they're landing, and they're scoring. Calzaghe is too fast for Hopkins. We all knew that.

Right to the body by Hopkins, but too little to win the round. Calzaghe's getting on a roll. He pops him with a hard left just before the bell.

Calzaghe 10-9
Calzaghe 48-46

Calzaghe's left is now pretty consistently landing to the head. Bernard with a quick flurry, but Calzaghe shimmies away from getting hurt by anything.

Calzaghe has all the momentum. He's scoring and Hopkins is not. Counter left from Hopkins.

Joe with a big flurry of leather toward the end of the round, and Cortez basically tosses him aside to pull him away at the bell. He was winning a close round and put emphasis on it at the end.

Man, Hopkins is breathing really heavy in the corner.

Calzaghe 10-9
Calzaghe 58-55

Right hand from Joe. He's taken firm control of this fight. Max touched on it, too. Let's not forget this is a 43-year old man. A 43-year old man.

Calzaghe eats a quick right hand that knocks him off balance, but it's in the midst of a Calzaghe flurry. And Joe wins another round.

No one's saying either man is a pretty fighter. But both are great.

Calzaghe 10-9
Calzaghe 68-64

Stiff left hand from Calzaghe catches Hopkins, and Hopkins comes back moments later with a lead right, but it's not the same lead right he had early in the fight.

He's tired. He's old.  He's getting made to circle the ring all night. He eats a couple more shots from Calzaghe, but he's throwing some OK counter stuff. I don't think it's the same level of counter shots he had earlier in the fight, though. They don't have the same zip behind them.

In the corner between the rounds, Freddie was instructing Hopkins. Hopkins asked for a cold towel.

Calzaghe misses a few punches. Hopkins just can't do this pace.

Calzaghe showboats at the end of the round. He's got his confidence. He thinks he's in control. I do, too.

Calzaghe 10-9
Calzaghe 78-73

The tempo of the fight is all Joe Calzaghe. He hasn't forced Hopkins into his fight, really. Hopkins is fighting his own fight. And he's getting beaten very soundly, in my estimation.

Calzaghe is starting to punish Bernard. I don't know that he's HURTING him, not in any major way. But Calzaghe is out-landing and now landing the harder shots. Hopkins looks gassed. His arms are down, he's being made to defend all the time, and he's getting slapped around.

If you're scoring this for Hopkins, I just don't know what you're seeing. A 43-year old man is finally looking like an old man.

Calzaghe 10-9
Calzaghe 88-82

Bernard gets five minutes to recover. Part of me wonders how much of this is Bernard comparing a complaint. You never like to say that, but...

OK, well, Calzaghe was punching and Hopkins pulled Joe's head down. Manny and Max both don't think it was a big deal at all.

Lampley wonders if this is Bernard choosing to disrupt Calzaghe's rhythm. Calzaghe is showboating and playing to the crowd. Now he's telling them to get ready. Hopkins is staggering around, limping, grimacing.

Back to action after a good-sized break, and Bernard comes back throwing more leather than he has since the first round. There's the sneaking lead right from Bernard, but Joe got away from the impact.

Hopkins is now throwing punches, which definitely makes this more interesting. Calzaghe with some good stuff, Hopkins fires back, and Hopkins throws two low blows where the referee can't see them. Maybe just little mind games from Hopkins. Not like he was trying to hurt him, it didn't seem.

I think it's past too late for Bernard to win this fight on the cards, but who knows?

Once we got over Daniel Day-Hopkins' performance, this turned into a good round.

Hopkins 10-9
Calzaghe 97-92

Quick left hands from Calzaghe, Bernard ties him up. We're back to the familiar: Calzaghe stalking Hopkins, landing a couple, and Hopkins tying him up. Very occasionally, he gets in a counter shot.

Calzaghe backs Hopkins down on a flurry trade.

Hopkins is claiming another low blow. No one saw it. And I don't buy it.

This is sort of sad, really.

Calzaghe comes at him hard, and Hopkins is THROWING. He's mad -- he's at last resort, really. I think he knows he's losing this fight, he's preparing excuses, and he's going for broke when the excuses aren't working.

Calzaghe 10-9
Calzaghe 107-101

Calzaghe with more lefts, Hopkins tries to land on a combo but doesn't get anything that lands effectively. They're throwing their hands this round, I'll give them both that.

We've seen yet another masterful performance from Joe Calzaghe, I believe.

Calzaghe's balance is better at this point, and very much so. He's the younger man at 36 years of age, and it shows.

30 seconds to go.

Calzaghe takes one more round, chasing Hopkins until the final bell, both men throwing all the way.

I think Joe won this fight convincingly. This was no closer, in my view, than his win over Mikkel Kessler.

If he loses this fight, it won't make any sense to me.

Calzaghe 10-9
Calzaghe 117-110

JOE CALZAGHE VIA SPLIT DECISION

Adalaide Byrd is off her nut.

Congratulations to Joe Calzaghe. He earned this beyond any shadow of a doubt.

I got it tied on the 8th. Tables changed I got it 114-111 at the end-Calzaghe.

Not for nothing but I thought if Hopkins lost, just to leave the ring and train other fighters. But from the looks he had and moves he made in the ring he looks like he has at least and don't quote me on this at least two more fights under his belt. That was impressive I was not expecting that. One of the top 20s so far that's for sure.