Does Hopkins' Victory Say More About Hopkins, or About Modern Boxing?

Both.

Cloud is mediocre at best.
Just a puncher-plodder without much skills in a shallow division.


Hop can't deal with certain styles anymore, he can't beat elite fighters anymore, he's not a great light heavyweight.

But he is still good at spoiling, outboxing and beating limited opponents.

Hop's longevity is outstanding.

 

Hopkins is a legend. Bow down.

 

Hopkins a G

 

How old is Randall Bailey? He beat Mike Jones

 

experience is underrated and Hopkins maintains condition like Vitali and Vlad so the body is always in condition to get into condition I think this adds up to longevity which allows an older fighter to have the physical necessities to exhibit the vast experience they have....very few have been able to maintain...Hopkins really did not have many wars early on either but the answer to your question is both

 

38. Hopkins is 48.

 

Lester hit the nail on the head. A bit of both.

 

Both. But put Hopkins in another era and you'd cut several years off that career. Taking the BHop route by fighting once a year against mostly less than imposing opponents would have resulted in Archie Moore knocking guys out well into his 50s.

 

As others have said, it is a combination of a transitional division, and Hopkins realy being that great.

Another factor is that Hopkins is realy good at identifying the key contenders that he can beat.

Since he lost the middleweight title he has moved about picking the titles that fell into the right hands. He made a miscalculation with Calzaghe, but apart from that he was right on every single one.

 

Hopkins would school Moore at a catch of age 47.

 

do you think he believed he could beat dawson or that he was simply forced into that one?

 

I know you didn´t ask me, but I think he believed that he could beat Dawson.....

 

Cloud is an entertaining pressure fighter and solid puncher, but he's limited as some posters have already said. Hopkins was the superior technician and out thought him.

By all rights he's not even world champion anymore, because Campillo schooled him a while back and got robbed. In saying that I cant think of another who' been able to perform the way Hopkins has at his age, not even the great Archie Moore.

Even if Cloud would have been no more than a mediocre contender in stronger light-heavyweight days, Hopkins performances are awe inspiring, and they deserve a lot of credit. We'll never see the likes of him again.