Hopkins will never get the credit he truly deserves

[jas]

"He is cherrypicking"
"He is ducking"
"He is boring"
"He fouls"
"He is taking PEDs"

He is damn near 50 years old and yet posters continue to discredit the ageless wonder.

[4Corners]

Shumenov isn't exactly a world beater but you gotta respect what Hopkins is doing. He's closer to 60 then Floyd is to him......crazy

[Hougigo]

Dude's a year younger than my dad. I respect that what he's doing at his age is incredible... but Shumenov isn't even the best WBA champ.

Honestly, he went into this fight with the same Campillo gameplan. Get your ass beat and hope you somehow pull out a SD....almost worked

[Chris Collins]

He is a great fighter, a very skilled, crafty, veteran of boxing who has faced and beaten world class competition for much longer than, you would think, humanly possible. But of course that doesn't make some of the negatives about him untrue, no fighters perfect.

[jas]

[Hougigo]

Was listening to Mora talk about going out to eat with Hopkins.... dude is incredibly strict with what he eats....dude was on his down time too.

[jas]

Dude's a year younger than my dad. I respect that what he's doing at his age is incredible... but Shumenov isn't even the best WBA champ.

Honestly, he went into this fight with the same Campillo gameplan. Get your ass beat and hope you somehow pull out a SD....almost worked

Some of your analysis about Shumenov turned out to be spot on

[IronDanHamza]

What's this like your 7th thread alluding to the same thing?

[SN!PER]

No one is gonna beat his records until genetically engineered athletes take over.

[bklynboy]

"He is cherrypicking"
"He is ducking"
"He is boring"
"He fouls"
"He is taking PEDs"

He is damn near 50 years old and yet posters continue to discredit the ageless wonder.

Hopkins is going to get the credit he deserves - if not now then in a few years. He doesn't cherry pick. He, for the most part, cleared out the middleweight division and has had a good run in the light heavyweight division. The fact that he beats ranked fighters (and beats them easily) while in his late 40s gives him a lot of ATG props. He will be ranked highly just as Archie Moore, Ezzard Charles and Joe Walcott are - and for the same reason: they became masters in their late 30s and 40s.