I think Calzaghe is just the wrong type of guy for Hopkins, unless Calzaghe starts trying to exchange... Jermain Taylor doesn't get the credit he deserves in his fights with Hopkins, but he did well in the exchanges with Hopkins a lot of the time, he took Hopkins' hard right hands, and he didn't get lured into the fight Hopkins wanted. Say what you want but both fights were really close, and IMO Bernard Hopkins' fight with Winky was really close as well. People say he has been finding ways to win, but Taylor is no Calzaghe, and Winky is far from the guy he was at the lower weights, and still they gave Bernard all he could handle. Getting back to my first point Calzaghe in and out style when he is focused is a little too fast for Bernard at this point in his career... 5 years ago Calzaghe is getting countered by bombs, but at this stage Bernard will be forced to move away and way for an oppertunity to get inside which Calzaghe's high output will make difficult. However Calzaghe was having a hard enough time hitting Kessler a whole lot and he was getting countered by the Dane a lot which gives me some hope for Hopkins in that perhaps his great footwork will really limit Calzaghe's output and that Calzaghe is very easy opponent to counter punches because he doesn't fight fundamentally.

Also about the age... Its not that HOpkins is 43 its that he looked older against Winky than he did against Tarver, not that his opponent was better but he was slower and he was less sharp, and against Tarver he still looked slower than when he fought Taylor. While Calzaghe has still maintained most of his speed, and his always improving technically... I mean he is only a year or two older than Bernard was when he fought Tito and that was in 1999.