What's next for B-hop?

Kelly went up 10 lbs to 170, Hopkins went down by 5 lb's to meet him. That was not LHW, it was 2 lb's over SMW, which is 1 division above Pavlik. Still a smaller fighter, which is my point. Cat made a career out of overpowering smaller men outside of jones, taylor, calzaghe, and a part time movie star named tarver. Whats the problem with fighting 175 lb fighters since he is one, or is that too much to ask of a natural lightheavy who has fought middles most of his career. Retire Hopkins please.

Dawson is basically the only fight I can see if Calzaghe refuses a rematch (which he basically already has). Maybe a third Taylor fight might have some appeal to him from a personal standpoint.

Dawson is very unlikely as I said because he has a strict rematch clause with Tarver. Hopkins wants to fight no later than March. Taylor is also unlikely, Hopkins is a clever man and realises to some extent now, Taylor just has a style, skill and work rate to do the same to him, and it's a risky but predictable 3rd fight. Taylor is also focussing on SMW, and kinda wants a belt. It's a risk for him too when he's finally trying to get going afresh in a new division. Valuev. Very unlikely. A small circus show Hopkins could do, but a huge circus show like this, I actually think Hopkins has more dignity and style than that. For obvious reasons this fight is also a no. Take a look at any of the belt holders at SMW CW and that is a great final win and addition to his legacy imo. He'd beat any SMW for one thing. Though he has critiqued Kessler before with his anti euro stuff. If Pascal woulda beaten Froch, nabbing that belt woulda been a good finale for him. He sure as hell aint coming to the UK to fight Froch.

Dawson, Taylor or Valuev

Chad Dawson would be an great fight, i think B-hop would win too.

Some peeps still real upset over the Pavlik loss huh. Kelly went up 10 lbs to 170, Hopkins went down by 5 lb's to meet him. That was not LHW, it was 2 lb's over SMW, which is 1 division above Pavlik. Get over it.

Hopefully retirement being that he is only looking to fight cats who are two or three divisions smaller.

roy right now is not a big scalp for hopkins, b-hop is very smart and very shrewd he has a very calculating mind. imo he will wait till zaghe retires then go and after dawson, a win over dawson will zaghe is still around will mean that he can't say hes the no.1 light heavy. imo he has the all the tools necessary to beat dawson, he has a mastery over southpaws, can time quicker opponents and his inside fighting will cause problems for dawson. like i isad though he will wait till zaghe retires and then go after him, if zaghe is still around then a win over dawson doesn't mean all that much and doesn't give him the no.1 status he wants. Dawson has a pretty strict mandatory re match clause with Tarver, and I also heard would have one against Cloud, only the latter possible to get out of it Cloud takes a step aside. So that fight is very unlikely considering Hopkins wants to fight no later than March. I think a SMW/CW title is a nice little ender for him.

roy right now is not a big scalp for hopkins, b-hop is very smart and very shrewd he has a very calculating mind. imo he will wait till zaghe retires then go and after dawson, a win over dawson will zaghe is still around will mean that he can't say hes the no.1 light heavy. imo he has the all the tools necessary to beat dawson, he has a mastery over southpaws, can time quicker opponents and his inside fighting will cause problems for dawson. like i isad though he will wait till zaghe retires and then go after him, if zaghe is still around then a win over dawson doesn't mean all that much and doesn't give him the no.1 status he wants.