No... Bernard Hopkins had not been able to fight a full hard 12 rounds for years.. Taylor showed that before he fought Calzaghe. Calzaghe's style was perfect outwork an old man Hopkins.. Pavlik's was one dimensional and made for Hopkins.. Tarver was old himself, and never really that great and gassed himself a lot(Would have lost against Roy in the 3rd fight if Roy would have fought) I have always picked the 28 year old Hopkins that fought Jones, over the 43 year old Hopkins that had to fake low blows to get rest.
the cobra has the better resume imo. froch- magee, reid, pascal, taylor, dirrell, kessler, abraham, johnson, ward and bute, not to mention a bunch of these fights came in succession. calzaghe- eubank, reid, brewer, lacy, bika, kessler, hopkins and jones. calzaghe's got the better single win in hopkins, beat kessler and fought the better reid, but outside of that, overall it goes to froch as far as i'm concerned.