Hopkins Speaks on why he's fighting Tarver

Just heard Hopkins on the radio speaking about the fight. My issue, is that despite thinking Bernard narrowly won both Taylor fights, it's clear that at his age he's only capeable of throwing so many shots a round. It was clear that he makes up for that by using ring savvy, clinching, and slowing the pace of his opponent. Tarver imo is over rated, and not very special. But he's bigger and younger than Hopkins, and he takes a good shot. The way to beat Tarver is to out work him, wear him down, and win more rounds. This sounds like everything that Hopkins isn't capeable of doing at this point late in his career. I wondered why he would take this fight, which I don't see as very win-able for him, and he was asked that on this radio show. He said straight up that he's weighing 165 right now, and that he needs to put on 10lbs which won't be a problem. He then said he has very good sources telling him Tarver is as high as 210 - 215 lately, and he feels Tarver is going to kill himself (ala Jones) to make the 175 lb limit. He said he feels this really evens out the playing field, and that he's motivated to win the Lt Heavy title as his swan song and exit fight. I hadn't thought about this. Does Nard have a chance here?