Was it a good run when he went on that decade long undefeated streak at MW? What were the quality if his opponents like? What were his best wins? Did he fight everybody that he could have?
Of post-Hagler era Middleweights, His resume is only 2nd to Toney IMO. He inherited a pretty shitty Middleweight division after Jones, McClellan, McCallum, Toney, Benn, Eubank, Collins, Johnson (Reggie) & Nunn moved up. But utterly DESTROYED the remaining contenders left in the division from '95-2004. Most were rated in the top 10. A couple were HOF'ers/ATGs. And there were really no elite fighters present during most of his Middleweight reign (due to all of the elites moving up in weight) the division was completely barren in the mid-to-late 90's until Trinidad entered the picture. But for the most part, he fought everybody who he was supposed to face, and would eventually go on clean out the division. One of the rare, less than handful of boxers in contemporary times to completely clean out their division.
Behave now. :nono Too bad Simon didn't move up sooner. Dicked about too long at 154. He's a heavyweight now...there is still time for a CW bout!
Sturm in those days would be a pretty good opponent for Hopkins, no doubt. Would be interesting to see how Hopkins would deal with a guy that had such a good jab.