yes he is, taking on these young guys who can punch and taking there best shots while breaking then down.
fact is, floyd's been hurt in one fight and was hurt in fights early in his career but has great recovery and a good chin. marquez landed pleny of rights, but had nothing behind them. floyd's defense is absolutely brilliant. but the fact is, Hopkins went 17 years without being hurt from a punch and the fact that his defense is so good, people get credit for landing punches on his shoulders, via calzaghe, just to make the fights look competitive.
I said a large part comes from athleticism, the largest part comes from technique. Trust me i fully acknowledge Floyd has great defense and great technique. That said Hopkins was never known for uncanny speed or athleticism at all. When Floyd is faced with someone faster or a southpaw he turns into a very conventional high guard defensive fighter with very little upper body movement. But that in combination with his amazing counterpunching is more than enough. Bernard just has a lot more facets to his defense than Floyd does, but we can agree to disagree its just a matter of opinnion.
Bhop is amazing but you guys should calm down a bit. Pascal is barely more than a glorified slugger from what I've seen. He's not hard to outbox
awesome, fighting only guys that dont represent danger wow dumbass!!!, he was scared of punching BAG Margocheato for ****sake !!!!!:rofl
Oh also Hopkins will use the philly shell with lots of upperbody movement vs FASTER and STRONGER southpaws. I have yet to see Floyd do this.
I did, watch the first 5 founds of that fight. Midway when as usual Zab gasses and slows down Floyd went back to what he normally does. Zab made Floyd look very ordinairy the first 4. Can facepalm all you want, if you were less of a hugger and more objective youd see im right.
Floyd is athletic/defensive quite like his dad only better. I dont think his style will work when the time comes that he loses speed. Imagine Leonard vs Mayweather, sr. Bernard doesn't need the same speed to showcase his defense. Being able to fight at this age especially in boxing and dominating much younger champions is a testament to Hopkins defense.