I can't believe people are even discussing this fight, Hopkins is an old man who had his best days at MW, Haye is a genuine HW who spent too long draining himself to make CW but I know he wanted to emulate Evander by unifying both divisions so fair play to him on that. But Haye is close to prime now and I think next time out providing he gets a good training camp in (he hasn't sparred for 4 weeks due to a cut in training this time around), he will look awesome, last night he was good but made defensive mistakes and was caught with jabs that showed a lack of sparring.
Back to the point though, Haye would crush Hopkins, too big, too strong, too fast and far too heavy handed. Hopkins has only just filled out to a genuine 175lbs fighter and to imagine him any heavier than 185lbs is beyond me. I don't think he is big enough for CW let alone HW.
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