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Bernard Hopkins is literally an anomaly. By definition, he is an anomaly.
The majority of fighters who start at world level at a late age, in Hopkins case 28 and won his first world title at 29, tend to fight at Championship level into their later years. Longer than a fighter like Floyd who was at that level as a teenager.
Combine that with the fact Hopkins is a once in a lifetime unique fighter we have what's called; an "anomaly"
Again, to use him as a measuring stick for the age a fighter should be past it is totally disingenious in every which way. The fact is, the vast majority of elite fighters are finished by 40, if they aren't they're way way way way passed their best days. That's just factual. What's also factual is Hopkins is the ONLY fighter ever to be Champion at that age and you can count on one hand the number of fighters who won at Championship level at age 45 and older in the 100+ year history of Boxing.
In Floyd's case, competing at the highest level from an Amateur as a 16 year old all the way to age 40, being riddled with endless injuries, meant he was shot to pieces by age 40.
The only reason Floyd even stepped in the ring at that point is because Conor can't box to save his life and is no threat. Floyd could walk in the ring at age 50 and have no chance of losing to that same version of McGregor.
I agree with essentially all of this, but he wasn't shot to shit when he fought Berto. He maintained his physical abilities impressively well considering he was nearly 40 by the time of that fight (although, you could tell he was starting to not trust his body throughout that fight). It's pretty well-known (and this has been repeatedly corroborated by people who were in and around Floyd's camp) that Floyd didn't take the McGregor fight remotely seriously (and why would he?), but if he had to fight a real opponent in August of 2017, I think he still could have looked half-decent. He's smart and skilled enough to tailor his style to declining physical abilities and I think he would have still beaten essentially every active WW at the time, save Spence (Porter's style could have been an issue, too).