H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Bernard Hopkins
Middleweight · United States
Bernard Hopkins ranks #23 in the H&G All-Time Index at Middleweight, with a 92.23 All-Time Index score and a 55-8-2 professional record. His best wins on record include Oscar De La Hoya, Roy Jones Jr and Felix Trinidad. His career span on this page is 1988-2016.
- All-time rank
- #23All-Time Elite
- H&G All-Time Index
- 92.230-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 55-8-2Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1988-2016
- Data Confidence
- HighDeep career evidence and a tighter peak-rating band in this release. Close ranks still need boxing judgement.
Career story
How Bernard Hopkins's rating rose and fell year by year, with his peak marked.
Yearly peak-form Elo rating points. This curve is separate from the 0-100 ranking index.
Signature wins
- Oscar De La Hoya - 2004 - signature win
- Roy Jones Jr - 2010 - signature win
- Felix Trinidad - 2001 - signature win
- Kelly Pavlik - 2008 - signature win
- Ronald Wright - 2007 - signature win
Show the year-by-year numbers
| Year | Peak-form Elo rating |
|---|---|
| 1988 | 1,713 |
| 1990 | 1,835 |
| 1991 | 1,880 |
| 1992 | 1,910 |
| 1993 | 1,931 |
| 1994 | 1,953 |
| 1995 | 1,963 |
| 1996 | 2,001 |
| 1997 | 2,030 |
| 1998 | 2,033 |
| 1999 | 2,063 |
| 2000 | 2,073 |
| 2001 | 2,076 |
| 2002 | 2,073 |
| 2003 | 2,067 |
| 2004 | 2,053 |
| 2005 | 2,039 |
| 2006 | 2,023 |
| 2007 | 2,021 |
| 2008 | 2,015 |
| 2009 | 1,998 |
| 2010 | 1,994 |
| 2011 | 1,972 |
| 2012 | 1,949 |
| 2013 | 1,945 |
| 2014 | 1,930 |
| 2016 | 1,880 |
Why this ranking
Bernard Hopkins ranks #23 with a 92.23 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. His standout win in our data is over Oscar De La Hoya in 2004, who reached a 2,139 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. He also has 2 wins over opponents who were ranked in the top 100 around the time of the fight; these are matched by name and date, so we treat them as a careful estimate. Holding the score back, dominance over contemporaries sits below the field of ranked fighters in this release. Peak-form Elo is 2,076 (±213), separate from the 60-100 career Index.
What lifts or lowers this ranking
Bars show each weighted signal's relative size. Gold lifts the placement; grey holds it back.
Collapsed signal from peak rating, sustained rating and same-era separation.
How much major title evidence supports the rating.
How much the record is helped by wins over contemporaneous title-level opponents.
A narrow signal for lineal, explicit undisputed or major multi-belt class control in this release data; it is not a full title history.
How much repeat elite-year presence supports the all-time case.
Same-era separation left after the shared peak and sustained rating signal is removed.
Compare and explore
Put Bernard Hopkins next to any other ranked fighter, or open the tools built on the same rating data.
Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Bernard Hopkins actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Roy Jones Jr#8 · Index 96 · 1993, 2010
- Joe Calzaghe#17 · Index 93 · 2008
- Oscar De La Hoya#24 · Index 92 · 2004
- Felix Trinidad#37 · Index 90 · 2001
- Winky Wright#100 · Index 84 · 2007
- Sergey Kovalev#144 · Index 82 · 2014
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- Jermain Taylor#166 · Index 81 · 2005
- Simon Brown#211 · Index 80 · 1998
- Chad Dawson#233 · Index 79 · 2011, 2012
- Kelly Pavlik#270 · Index 79 · 2008
- Jean Pascal#316 · Index 78 · 2010, 2011
- John David Jackson#320 · Index 78 · 1997
Ranked-vs-ranked bouts from the pinned fight archive, ordered by opponent ranking. An objective record of who they shared a ring with.
Great rivals he never fought
Ranked fighters who shared a recognised division and whose competitive careers overlapped, with no bout between them on record. Each name opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Canelo Álvarez#5 · Middleweight / Light Heavyweight · 12 overlapping years (2005-2016)
- Dariusz Michalczewski#48 · Light Heavyweight · 15 overlapping years (1991-2005)
- Gennadiy Golovkin#53 · Middleweight · 11 overlapping years (2006-2016)
- Andre Ward#65 · Light Heavyweight · 13 overlapping years (2004-2016)
- Roberto Duran#73 · Middleweight · 14 overlapping years (1988-2001)
- Miguel Cotto#79 · Middleweight · 16 overlapping years (2001-2016)
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- Arthur Abraham#83 · Middleweight · 14 overlapping years (2003-2016)
- Thomas Hearns#86 · Middleweight / Light Heavyweight · 19 overlapping years (1988-2006)
- Terry Norris#92 · Middleweight · 11 overlapping years (1988-1998)
- James Toney#99 · Middleweight / Light Heavyweight · 29 overlapping years (1988-2016)
- Michael Moorer#107 · Light Heavyweight · 21 overlapping years (1988-2008)
- Chris Eubank#111 · Middleweight · 11 overlapping years (1988-1998)
Shared recognised division, overlapping competitive years, no recorded bout between them. A measured pattern only.
Linked style profile
8-axis style breakdown
Bernard Hopkins also has a reviewed style profile with radar scores, study notes and diagnostic comparisons.
About this rating
Rankings: H&G All-Time Index v2.0.0. Reflects fights up to , the most recent on record. The ratings are fixed to that point, so fights after it are not yet included.
The rating itself is built from the 65 bouts we hold full data for from 1988 to 2016, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 2,076 (peak dated 2001-09-01). This best-point rating sits on its own scale and is not directly comparable with the 0-100 index.
The peak estimate carries an uncertainty band of about ±213 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.