By Tim Fletcher: Bernard Hopkins (55-7-2, 32 KOs), now inactive, says he accepted a fight against IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin, and that he would have come down in weight from light heavyweight to take the fight with the 33-year-old Kazakhstan fighter. Hopkins says that Golovkin would have had to come up in weight from middleweight to take the fight.
Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler said recently that a fight against Hopkins is something that they would be open to if they can’t get a unification clash against WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in September.