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Ring legend Hopkins to retire
- Updated: October 18, 2016
Bernard Hopkins has announced he will bring the curtain down on his 28-year career when he faces Joe Smith in his farewell bout on December 17.
Hopkins will hang up his gloves at the age of 51 after taking on fellow American Smith in his 65th and final fight at the Forum in Los Angeles.
‘The Executioner’ has won multiple world titles at middleweight and lightweight, boasts a record of 55-7-2, with 32 knockouts, and has never been stopped.
He has fought some of the biggest names of his career, including Oscar De La Hoya, Felix Trinidad and Joe Calzaghe, and will return to the ring after losing his WBA and IBF light heavyweight titles to WBO champion Sergey Kovalev in November 2014.
The Philadelphia-born fighter turned to boxing after a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence for armed robbery and lost his first bout as a …
