By Steve Kim

Bernard Hopkins has made it very clear that even at the ripe old age of 50 that he's still like one more fight before calling it a day. And he has someone one in mind - Arthur Abraham, the current WBO super middleweight titlist.

Hopkins, who was last seen losing a 12-round decision to light heavyweight king, Sergey Kovalev, back in November told BoxingScene.com:

"I'm not retired but I do have an itch that I happened to want to entertain as far as at least a conversation and hopefully it will lead into a fight - and that is with the '68(pound) WBO champion. One reason is yeah, I'm 50 and I know that I'll have a lot of support from people of age and even the ones who believe that it can be one.

"I want to go out on my terms and I see that as a fight that can be made. 'Paco' (Valcarcel) the president of the WBO also believes it's a fight worth entertainig and trying to see if possibly it can happen. Where? I don't know, it's really in the early stages for that, right now."

The 35 year old Abraham (43-4, 29 KO's) stopped Robert Stieglitz in six rounds in Germany on July 18th in his most recent fight.

For the vast collection of world title belts that Hopkins has, he has never competed as a full-fledged super middleweight.

"I would love to go back one step and capture a world championship in a division, if you remember I skipped over that division to make history with Antonio Tarver at 175," said Hopkins, who in June of 2006, went from middleweight straight to light heavyweight to capture the lineal title in that weight class.

Steve Kim is the news editor for BoxingScene.com.