Before you shoot me down this statement has a question mark. The arguments you could make are:

a.) What are Nard's best wins? Arguably Tarver, (who was favourite) Winky and Pavlik (best performance I've seen from Nard) People may argue, but who else did he fight that people thought would beat him as much as people thought those 3 would? (maybe Tito?) So he has arguably been at his best since moving up from Middleweight.

b.) Kelly Pavlik would’ve beaten all of these Middleweight opponents that B-Hop faced. I think Jermain Taylor would’ve too.

Robert Allen
William Joppy
Morrade Hakkar
Carl Daniels
Keith Holmes
Antwon Echols
Syd Vanderpool
Simon Brown (arguable)
Andrrew Council
John David Jackson
William Bo James
Joe Lipsey
Glen Johnson (arguable)
Steve Frank
Segundo Mercado


b.) The Hopkins of today would not lose to Jermain Taylor

c.) I have never seen B-Hop look better than Pavlik and I seriously think Pavlik is one of the best ‘Middleweights’ Nard has fought (o.k it wasn't at MW)


Now I don't really think he is at his best right now, but this proves how you can also use facts to suit your argument. Fact is RJJ, Calzaghe and B-Hop all have a lot of dross on their record - Fact (cheers Fenster )