Smoger has a nice short left hook

[Gandalf]

I used to like Hopkins and think he did beat Taylor (especially the first fight), but since then he has grown in weight and picked on smaller men, then sporadically beaten evenly sized opponents with a careful approach to who he fights. Dawson and Calzaghe showed that Hopkins is all smoke and mirrors these days when up against solid opposition and he should really retire. He's in it for the money, but he seems like one of these bankers who can never have enough and so it just goes on and on. Give it a rest, nobody cares how old you are.

I used to hate Hopkins and think that if Taylor did enough in the first fight to take it then Hop did enough in the second to get it back. What smaller men did he pick on after Taylor? Hopkins fought his career at middle and as a natural. The night of the fight he was within a few pounds of what he weighed in at.
The last guy to do that was probably Greb or Burley. Careful approach? He jumped two divisions at age 44 or whatever and smoked the man who beat the man. He then dropped down and embarrassed the next coming of Christ. You would judge the mans career on Calzaghe and Dawson? That is like me judging Calzaghe on Hopkins. Not all that enjoyable. Of course he's in it for the money. Larry Holmes fought Ali for the money. You disrespect a legend. Nobody cares what age he is. Are you serious?

His work beyond middleweight is smoke and mirrors. Pavlik, Wright, and Calzaghe were called upon to be sacrificial lambs to the charade. Unfortunately for Hopkins he got it wrong against Calzaghe and was easily beaten. Jones Jr rematch? That was even more of a joke than Calzaghe. Also fighters like Cloud and Pascal are average and thus I don't think they merit any special mention. Hopkins beat Tarver which is fair enough, but Tarver has only ever beaten an old Jones Jr himself. Even at MW Hopkins biggest wins were against former WW's. However, I do think he was a good MW fighter, but his resume is no better than anyone elses in that regard.