45-year-old former middleweight and light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins (51-5-1, 32 KO’s) is interested in moving up in weight and challenging World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) for his WBA title. Hopkins hasn’t been very active in the past couple of years since easily beating Kelly Pavlik by a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision in October 2008. However, Hopkins seems to be energized at the thought of moving up to face the younger, bigger, faster and stronger Haye at heavyweight. Hopkins’ last fight was at light heavyweight against 41-year-old Roy Jones Jr. last April. Hopkins didn’t look very good in this dull fight, which was marred by fouling and a lot of clinching. Hopkins hit the canvas a couple of times from what appeared to be rabbit punches. Hopkins didn’t look overpowering in that fight against Jones, who had been knocked out in the 1st round in his previous fight against Danny Green in December. Read more: http://www.boxingnews24.com/2010/08/hopkins-is-interested-in-haye-bout/
