Quote Originally Posted by superheavyrhun
I can see where you're coming from Mick, in as much that Hopkins isn't turning in the sort of performances that he did earlier in his career, but the fact of the matter is that he is still winning fights against big-name opponents in sold-out shows, and although he is, of course, trading on his reputation, he has adapted his style to negate the natural diminishing of the human body as it gets older.

It isn't pretty, but it's sure as hell been effective in his two most recent fights. And you can't tell a dude to retire because his style isn't great to watch, otherwise we'd have about four fighters in the heavyweight division at the moment.
Yeah! you understand what I'm saying SupHeavy... Like I said in the post above I guess I'm just not interested in seeing two grown as men hugging for 12 fucken rounds. That's why I'm rating the performances that way, of course Hopkins cant do it like before so hes finding other methods to get wins and its working for him I'm just not at all interested anymore. I can appreciate smart boxing and I can appreciate a patiend boxer who breaks down opponents but I don't know it's just not for me. Also like I mentioned when theres more hugs in a round then punches theres something fucken terribly wrong there.