When exactly was Bernard Hopkins prime?

Around late 90's early 2000's when he beat antwun echols-keith holmes and felix trinidad to win the middleweight tournament

 

Indeed, he was in his physical prime!! But now he is in his mental prime!! So IMO he is still in his prime because he makes fighting these youngsters like literaly taking candy from a baby

 

round about when he turned down a career high pay day to fight calzaghe in america in 2002 :deal

hopkins then fought the phenominal hakkar for a quarter of the money :rofl

 

'97--'03. Glen Johnson through to Joppy. Before he wasnt quite the polished, virtually technically flawless fighter he'd become, and after he was generally over cautious and didnt have much of a workrate. He had decent wins before, some great wins after, but in that span he had consistant, one-sided performances against solid opposition.

 

From 1995-2004! A long Prime for B-Hop!

 

1999-2001 for me.

 

95-2002

 

95-2000

 

dude fought literally nobodies in his prime and never moved up because he never wanted to challenge himself. He declined to move from a 50/50 split to fight RJJ when he had already lost to him and RJJ was p4p #1. He also blatantly ducked Dawson recently. Lost twice to JT and lost to Calzaghe. Great fighter, but not legendary like he claims to be.

 

Around 35/36 years of age when he fought Trinidad. That's when he became technically complete.

 

He doesnt need to claim hes a legend he is one.

 

What has he done to be a legend? Longevity is all. He's already lost I belive 3 out of his last 6 fights. His biggest wins come from blown up welterweights and middleweights. Dude is a complete fraud to the sport. I see people complaining about the May/Pac fight not happening but this clown refused to fight RJJ because of a money split he never deserved.

 

This also applies to Hagler.

 

The Johnson fight was his first fight in his prime. The Joppy fight the last.