Twice against Mercado. Twice against Pascal. Once by Kovalev. Once by Smith. Hopkins has been down six times.
As a fan of Bernard Hopkins, and also a huge Pavlik fan, I must say that B-Hop was down way less than one would expect considering the fact that he fought so far into his later years and had an unique, yet traditionally sound, fighting style. He whipped a big favorite of mine in Kelly. I believe that Pavlik was not himself at the time of the fight, but I consider it a great win for B-Hop, who was considered an underdog, albeit an old, wily one. Some things are just marvelous to see.
Just looked it up. Pavlik's rematch with Taylor wasn't for the Middlewight Title. It was just a non-title bout at Super Middleweight at a catchweight of 166. I'm guessing this was insisted on by Taylor who didn't want to cut weight to make Middleweight again. Maybe he felt that he was weight drained and struggled to make Middleweight and that was why he got stopped the first time vs Pavlik. When Kelly fought Hopkins, Hopkins had just beaten Calzaghe at Light Heavyweight in a non-title bout. Hopkins had no interest in cutting weight at that point in his career, he hadn't made Middleweight since the rematch with Taylor back in 2005, which he lost. So again Pavlik was asked to move up in weight, this time by Hopkins. This time all the way to 170. Pavlik was the Middleweight Champ being asked to fight Hopkins at 170. That surely played a role in the result. Pavlik was at his best at Middlewieght, the extra weight he carried into that match with Hopkins must have slowed him down. Some commented that Pavlik was visibly much slower in the Taylor rematch than he was the first time, because he put on extra weight to meet Taylor at 166.
How can he have a suspect chin when he was only stopped by an ankle injury from being knocked out of the ring at 51 years old? Being knocked is not the same as being hurt. Some of the posters on here don't bother to think anything through.
