Bernard Hopkins

Bernard Hopkins is one of those fighters who makes you rethink everything you assumed about what a boxer can be. Coming up out of Philadelphia — a city that seems to breed a certain kind of hard-edged resilience — he turned a stretch in Graterford Prison into a launching pad for one of the most disciplined careers in boxing history. The guy held the undisputed middleweight championship from 2001 to 2005, unified all four major belts, and then — just when most fighters are playing golf on their earnings — he went and won a world light heavyweight title in 2011 at age 46, becoming the oldest world champion in the sport's history at the time. Ring magazine gave him a Comeback of the Year and the International Boxing Hall of Fame called in 2020. I've always found Hopkins fascinating not for flash or power, but for pure chess-match intelligence. He's the definition of fighting smarter, not just harder.

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Name (English)

Bernard Hopkins

Name (Japanese)

バーナード・ホプキンズ

Reading

ばーなーど・ほぷきんず

Born

January 15, 1965 (age 61)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Snake

Origin

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Height

185 cm

Occupation

boxer

Awards & achievements

• 2010 The Ring magazine Comeback of the Year
• WBO World Middleweight Champion
• 2020 International Boxing Hall of Fame
• WBC World Light Heavyweight Champion
• WBC World Middleweight Champion
• IBF World Light Heavyweight Champion
• IBF World Middleweight Champion
• WBA World Light Heavyweight Champion

• Official sitehttps://www.bernardhopkins.net
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/bhopdaalien/
• Xhttps://x.com/THEREALBHOP
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Hopkins
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%97%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531804

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• boxer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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