I read this on boxingtalk.com re: the injury.

"SE: The main reason I'm doing this follow-up interview is because you sent me an e-mail you recieved from your friend who is in the medical field. Can you elaborate?:

JS: Basically my friend told me that Hopkins would have been in much more distress if he injury was legit. To me, Hopkins looked like he had a bad sunburn, with that face he makes. My friend also told me that the doctor gave that diagnosis from what Hopkins told him. Whenever you go to a doctor, they ask you a series of questions and from your answers they diagnose. It's no differenct then when you miss work, and you tell the doctor your symptoms, they diagnose you from what you tell them. In Bernard's case, his injury is supposed to have levels one through five. It's like having a broken arm. There are different levels to having a break. There are compound fractures, hair line fractures etc. Same thing here. We would need an MRI to really determine what happened."