When was Bernard Hopkins prime?

[Mr. Philadel]

Mid to late 90s...got the big fights a bit late like calzaghe
During that time he was a complete fighter, aggressive great defense counters, power to knockout guys...this Hopkins beats Taylor, calzaghe, and beats most of the best middleweights ever

Exactly!!!!!^^^^^^^^^

[MrTambourineMan]

Mid to late 90s...got the big fights a bit late like calzaghe
During that time he was a complete fighter, aggressive great defense counters, power to knockout guys...this Hopkins beats Taylor, calzaghe, and beats most of the best middleweights ever

Boxing Scene, come for the Boxing, stay for the laughs.

[-Kev-]

Boxing Scene, come for the Boxing, stay for the laughs.

Considering a 39-43 year old Hopkins lost controversially to Calzaghe and Taylor, the Hopkins the poster is describing is very capable of beating Calzaghe and Taylor. Don't know why the hell you are trying to be a know it all smart mouth when you obviously don't know sh-t.

This guy is seriously laughing at the thought of a mid-late 90s Hopkins beating Taylor and Calzaghe who he damn near beat in the mid-late 2000s. You're pathetic.

[MrTambourineMan]

Considering a 39-43 year old Hopkins lost controversially to Calzaghe and Taylor, the Hopkins the poster is describing is very capable of beating Calzaghe and Taylor. Don't know why the hell you are trying to be a know it all smart mouth when you obviously don't know sh-t.

This guy is seriously laughing at the thought of a mid-late 90s Hopkins beating Taylor and Calzaghe who he damn near beat in the mid-late 2000s. You're pathetic.

Oi, mouthy little tit, he said that version of Hopkins 'Beats most of the best Middleweights ever'. That's what I'm laughing at.

Now pull up your Spider-Man pants and fuck off!

[IronDanHamza]

Around the Trinidad fight. Late 90's-early 00's.

He was obviously passed prime by 2005.

[Rip Chudd]

Robert Allen rematch to the Tito fight was his absolute peak.

I'd go as far back as the second Mercado fight

[jasjas]

36 .

[bojangles1987]

Oi, mouthy little tit, he said that version of Hopkins 'Beats most of the best Middleweights ever'. That's what I'm laughing at.

Now pull up your Spider-Man pants and fuck off!

He would have a damn good chance against most the best middleweights ever. I wouldn't say there's one middleweight ever a prime Hopkins doesn't have a decent chance of beating.

[D-MiZe]

He's still green and is about to hit his prime.

[Derranged]

That's what I was thinking. He was really never the same after that fight. It changed him.

He schooled the hell out of Pavlik after that fight.

Hopkins didn't do great against Calzaghe because Calzaghe's style did not allow Hopkins to headbutt and hold and hit like he's used to. Plus Calzaghe's a better boxer than his detractors give him credit for.

Now we sit around and wait for the butt-hurt whiners to go on for 30 pages screaming "robbery"