Bernard Hopkins says he’d fight Gennady Golovkin

Maybe the Gennady Golovkin camp needs to start thinking a bit older to find his biggest opponent to date.

Can anyone stop Gennady Golovkin? While GGG has been thrilling boxing fans by leaving a ridiculously long streak of opponents looking at the lights, others are frustrated by the fact that he never seems to fight any truly top notch competition.

As suggested by the HBO crew during Golovin’s demolition of Dominic Wade on Saturday night, that’s at least in part due to the fact that some of the best middleweights want no part of him. It’s hard to line up a big fight, let alone a super-fight, without a really talented man who’s also willing to get in with Golovkin.

While the world waits to see if Canelo Alvarez will prove the exception — assuming he gets past his own big fight against Amir Khan on May 7 — someone else has said he’s willing to step up.

Your eyes do not deceive you. That is ex-middleweight champion and boxing legend Bernard Hopkins saying he’d agree to duke it out with Golovkin.

There’s a good chance he’s being serious. Hopkins has long been known for his willingness to fight just about anyone over a variety of weight classes, Father Time be damned. He’s been campaigning at light heavyweight in recent years, and the cut to middleweight couldn’t be much fun at age 51, but at least you can’t accuse him of simply talking. He’d really give it a go.

Whether GGG’s team would be as excited about the opportunity is a completely different matter. B-Hop would instantly become the biggest name Golovkin had ever fought, but much of the boxing community would see it as a farce. A 51-year old Hopkins is still better than a lot of fighters out there, but Golovkin is no ordinary boxer — he’s a bona fide destroyer.

So don’t expect this fight to ever happen. But at least someone is proving the HBO announcers wrong.

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