Age no barrier for champ Hopkins

Boxing: Bernard Hopkins has warned you might not see his like again ahead of his light-heavyweight unification match against Sergey Kovalev tomorrow night-

Age no barrier for champ Hopkins
Fri, 07 Nov, 2014 - 00:00
Jesse Lingham

Hopkins, the WBA and IBF champion, faces Russia’s WBO title-holder at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, two months shy of his 50th birthday.

Hopkins, who turned pro in 1988, is the oldest world champion in history.

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