Boxing fans stiffen up after a close fights ends, worried that the judges will drop the ball and award the win to the wrong guy. It happens on a monthly basis, it seems, and so watchers at Barclays Center and on HBO sat prepared to hurl unkind words toward the ring or a (hopefully soft) object at their television while the cards were collected and tabulated for the Bernard Hopkins-Tavoris Cloud main event Saturday night. Hallelujahs instead were exhaled, as the scores -- 116-112, 116-112, 117-111 -- were read by Michael Buffer, and the 48-year-old Hopkins was rightly awarded for his superlative ring generalship, a variety which has to put him on a short list, or maybe at the top of that short list of all-time technical wizards.
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