Quote Originally Posted by Fenster View Post
Hopkins did have an amateur career, 100 fights as a junior before he went to prison, won trophies and what not. When trying to sell an unknown fighter, the badass prison stuff makes for a much better tale though, especially for TV.

Notions like "prime" are used in a very hypocritical way in boxing. Guys like Hopkins show prime should never be based on age, however, ten years later when he lost he was called "old."

Very inconsistent cherry picking.
Very true, just to think that in another ten years after that he was running with top level or smacking around a couple fellow trinket holders. Whatever we think of him Hopkins knew adaptation.