CompuBox: Hopkins Blunting The Offense of His Foes

BERNARD HOPKINS (8 fights @170-plus lbs.)

(Hopkins’ opponents: Jean Pascal I & II; Roy Jones, Enrique Ornelas, Kelly Pavlik, Joe Calzaghe, Winky Wright, & Antonio Tarver.  All were current/former champs except Ornelas.)

8 Opponents Punches Per Round (previous 4 fights) - landed 19 and threw 57         

8 Opponents Punches Per Round (vs. Hopkins) - landed 10 and threw 39

Light Heavyweight Average - 18 landed per round and 54 thrown per round 

Hopkins (8 fights @ 170-plus lbs) - 13 landed per round and 42 thrown per round 

(Hopkins’ opponents: Pascal I & II; Jones, Ornelas, Pavlik, Calzaghe, Wright, & Tarver.  All were current/former champs except Ornelas.)

Hopkins’ defense is his offense.  Opponents landed 47% fewer punches vs. Hopkins than in their previous four fights, throwing 32% fewer.  Sufficiently gumming up the works, Bernard needed to throw just 42 punches per round-22% fewer than the weight class avg.  Hopkins landed 28% fewer punches (13 per round) than the weight class average.