I ordered the Hopkins-Taylor fight, mostly because I was looking forward to the prospect that there actually may be a new champ in the middleweight division, and partly because I was hoping to make up for the MAJOR disappoinment of Gatti/Mayweather (that whole card was bothersome -- way to go Vivian Harris, what a punk). I agreed with the decision simply because I saw Taylor outwork Hopkins for the first 8 rounds. While I agree that Hopkins clearly dominated the last four rounds of the fight, I didn't see any of those as 10-8 rounds.

I just don't understand how boxers haven't learned a lesson from the De La Hoys vs. Trinidad fight. You can't backpeddle and sparcely counterpunch and expect to win rounds when the other fighter is clearly being the aggressor.

If Hopkins starts "fighting" a couple of rounds earlier then I would have given him the fight, but I can't complain.

I do have to say that I was really disappointed with the way Hopkins carried himself prior to the fight. To tell Lou DiBella that he was going to make him "commit suicide like his brother" shows no class whatsoever and made me lose a lot of respect for him as a person.