Bernard Hopkins continues to drink from his own, ever-trickling fountain of youth and demonstrated to the world yet again tonight that he can turn back the hands of father time as defiantly as he does the fists of middleweight title challengers. "The Executioner", at age 40, wielded a swift and precise axe this evening while showing he is still in top form despite nearly 17 years as a practitioner of prizefighting. Hopkins showed little sign of wear and sent Guyanese born Howard Eastman down to the guillotine while chopping up his 20th consecutive middleweight title defense with an economical twelve round unanimous decision. [details]