Quote Originally Posted by ruthless rocco View Post
His devastating KO loss to Kovalev will be largely ignored as well.

If he wants attention he should submit himself to drugs testing. I'm sure people would love to know the truth about his longevity in the sport. I guess that's not the kind of attention he wants tho.
In fairness I think that's a leap. You cant assume that because he's fought for 26 years he is taking Peds.Its not all that uncommon for technicians to have long careers and in some cases even technical/scrap savvy guys like Duran. Pep fought for 26 years and fought close to 250 times. Moore for 28 years and 220 fights. I dont think I've ever seen Hopkins get beat up and hurt bad. Safety first counter punchers like Hop preserve well. His last few years have been testimony to that as his punch count and over all look has shown some major decline.

Another thing to consider is that he has not knocked anyone out since that love tap on Oscar. If he's taking roids then he needs to change dealers.

Lastly although I think he can be a narcissistic, self righteous, racist, delusional dip shit, he's one of the last guys that I think would juice. During his middleweight run he was routinely close to the same weight on fight night as he was at the weigh in. That is no easy task when you started at 175. The guy quite literally lived at the gym. He did do it the hard way and it paid off. I just dont see him turning his back on all those things he taught his kids. I dont see him gambling with that shit at this stage in his life. He'd rather stink the place out and pull off the win.