Hopkins at 40 jumped from 160-175 to fight the best

He didn't kill himself to make weight, he made incredible sacrifices to remain there.

Most fighters make huge sacrifices, but Bernard's on another level.

Running 7/8 miles per day when he hasn't got a fight lined up, specifically measuring pieces of his food, drinking nothing but water, going into restaurants and personally speaking with the chef to have his food cooked in a certain way.

 

Jeez, why can't you just watch his career unfold?

Everyone's circumstances are different.

Bernard wasn't perfect.

He was happy to coast along at MW for years, until King put together his tournament.

He wasn't always willing to face the best. He ducked a huge fight with Roy in 2002, and he only left MW in 2006 after back to back defeats against Taylor.

He stayed in a relatively weak division for about 13 years.

How the hell can you do a direct comparison between a 34 year old fighter and a 51 year old fighter?

If it was now 1999 instead of 2016, would you be criticising Bernard in the way you're now criticising Golovkin?

 

:deal

 

Do some research if you're really interested.

Bernard is naturally bigger than Golovkin.

 

I don't believe that Roy ever ducked anyone out of a fear of losing to them, no. But he didn't want to fight Collins, Nunn and Rochigianni.

What has that got to do with this thread?

 

Hopkins was a legend he pulled it off
If GGG jumped up to 175 he would get schooled by Chad Dawson

 

Ali Funeka 130 (South Africa)
6'01" Tall
72.0" Reach

***** ***** ***** ***** *****

Maurice Blocker 140 (USA)
6'02" Tall
73.5" Reach

***** ***** ***** ***** *****

Willie Nelson 140 (USA)
6'03" Tall
79.0" Reach

***** ***** ***** ***** *****

Guillermo Jones 147 (Panama)
6'04" Tall
76.0" Reach

***** ***** ***** ***** *****

Mark Breland 147 (USA)
6'02" Tall
77.0" Reach

***** ***** ***** ***** *****

Paul Williams 147 (USA)
6'02" Tall
77.5" Reach

***** ***** ***** ***** *****

Kingsley Ikeke 154 (Nigeria)
6'04" Tall
79.0" Reach

 

Guillermo Jones was at 147 when he was like 15 years old

 

Guillermo Jones was a 6'04" tall, 24 years old world ranked Welterweight contender :smoke

 

Hopkins was forced out of 160 by then Young Lion undefeated Jermain Taylor, two defeats took away all his belts & he had to leave 160, otherwise Bernard would have been still at 160 :smoke

 

What's the story behind this?

 

Depends on what you mean by "natural". Hopkins got down to the lowest division he was able to get to while remaining strong, fit and healthy which is what most boxers do.