This is getting sad. Kovalev carried Hopkins in their fight. Any top fighter should avoid Hopkins like the plague. At least Kovalev got a few belts out of beating Hopkins. At this point if you beat Hopkins you beat an old man and If you lose it would be career suicide.
I am a GGG fan and this is how I see it too. 51 is just too frickin old. C'm on people! I don't know if even a massive weight advantage is going to overcome that.
That's exactly what people said about the Kovalev fight. He's even a year older now, and Golovkin seems to be a better boxer as Kova who completely schooled the old man.
Hopkins looked old against Kovalev, I don't think Bhop would have ever beat Kovalev, but man he was a slow old man in that fight. This would have been a great fight for GGG in the past, but I wouldn't give GGG an ounce of credit for beating him now. And I'm a huge GGG fan that also LOVED watching Calzaghe beat Hopkins.