Bernard Hopkins Is A Legend?

No.

 

Nobody did more with his talent. That guy trained and lived like a spartan warrior his entire career. Never out of shape and one of the most cerebral fighters ever.

Just think, at 50 years old, he was fighting Kovalev and Joe Smith. That is unreal when you think about it. Big difference fighting real world ranked fighters in you 50's compared to Tyson fighting some chump like Jake Paul.

 

I'm a Hopkins fan, even the dirty fighting. Dude was a master. Is he the longest reigning MW champ?

 

Same, he can be a bit of a douchebag outside of the ring but inside he was a master that knew every trick, dirty or not

 

He did have a humanitarian side lol, helping mr bozella secure his very first pro heavyweight prize fight. As well as lectures at schools to stay out of trouble to the youths!

 

I'm not much of a Hopkins fan but have to admit that his success and longevity have been outstanding.

 

He is an all time great. But did he have the kind of charisma and following that will transcend into legend ? I don’t know.

 

He never had a convincing loss until he was almost 50 years old great Middleweight very good Light Heavyweight. An ATG definitely but I don't know about legend because some of his fights were boring and he didn't have the best personality quite honestly

 

He's a legend in my book. One of the craftiest boxers, has fought a number of other great fighters throughout, knew how to bend the rules from time to time, had incredible ring IQ, gave awesome boxing lesson performances even beyond his 30s, and became the oldest boxing champion.

 

Can't stand him outside the ring. His mocking of the suicide of Lou Dibella's brother around the time of the Jermain Taylor fights was absolute sewer stuff. In the ring it's impossible not to give him credit, but he was never a guy I enjoyed watching and his repeated spoiling, feigning injury antics were maddening to watch too. He reigned over a bloody awful 160 division that a few years earlier was an absolute murderers row.

 

Agreed. Pure trash as a human being but a great fighter.

 

Going to say no and I know many are going to disagree.
Hopkins had great boxing skills for sure and I do not doubt that.
But his level of competition as middleweight champion was god awful. I mean you make THREE defenses against Robert Allen? Really?
I look at say Marvin Hacker and Haglers reign and Hopkins and there is absolutely no comparison.
I look at Haglers competition on the way up vs Hopkins and again no comparison.
And all this talk about how Hopkins was a master of dirty fighting? If he pulled that with a Hamsho or a Briscoe he would regret it.