He's not better than when he was younger. He did kind of refine his style as he's gone on but it basically was there in the Tito fight.
I mean I don't see how you can't respect him. Its amazing that he was the fresher fighter at the end of the Winky fight. At 42. He's amazing, Hopkins and Toney have always been two of my favorites and it just shows what a fucking wasted career Toney had. Not that he didn't have some great moments, but if he had half of Bernard's discipline outside the ring he could have done even more considering I think he's more naturally talented than Hopkins. Nobody seemed more comfortable inside the ring than Toney, nobody. But he wasted a lot of it, unlike Hopkins.
That being said, I almost can't watch Hopkins' fights anymore, that coming from a fan. I became a fan before the Tito fight, he fights nothing like he did then. That's not a knock really, he's 42, he couldn't fight like that anymore. But its still a bit hard to watch at times.
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