Hopkins is athletically gifted and in tremendous shape for 40+ but a deteoriated fighter from a pure skill standpoint, he has supplemented his waning skills by using questionable tactics and is nothing more than a hold and hit fighter who resembles MMA clinches more than boxing matches.

He should have retired after the 2nd Taylor loss. Then he moved up to 175 to fight Tarver and really started to employ the over excessive hitting and holding tactics.. No one really cared because it was Tarver and everyone hates the guys guts..The Winky fight really had me hate Hopkins and his boring 5 punches a round and only 2 are legal. He uses these tactics now since his skills arent there anymore...

I really hope Calzaghe takes him to the woodshed and beats the ignorance out of him