No. Old men aren't supposed to be succesful in boxing. Therefore, if they lose, they're only performing as expected. However, if they win, they're exceeding expectations.
And I think that's flawed logic. If Hopkins is still good enough to win against top level competition, his losses should get scrutinized as well because he's shown he's still a top-class fighter, even if he's not quite hat he once was. No matter how you scored the Taylor fights, Hopkins made the mistake of fighting the same fight twice and expecting a different outcome. That's a tactical error that he usually doesn't make that has zero to do with age,
Never really got the controversy about that fight, it was close but Hopkins did next to nothing for the first 7 or 8 rounds. He closed it strong but winning the last third of the fight when you did nothing substantial the first two thirds of it leaves very little room for complaint. Hopkins just gave to many rounds away by doing nothing but make faces during the early and middle rounds