Shortly after losing to middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins on Saturday night in Atlantic City, N.J., William Joppy said his next move is retirement.

"I ain't fighting no more," Joppy told The Washington Post for Monday's editions. "That's it, man. I had a good career. I was a world champion. I'm not real motivated for it no more." Joppy, a native of Silver Spring, Md. did not go down against Hopkins, who convincingly won a unanimous decision.

"I don't know what it was," Joppy told the Post. "I just wasn't on tonight."

Joppy, who posted a record of 34-3-1, held the WBA middleweight belt for five years before losing to Felix Trinidad in May 2001. Later that year in September, Hopkins beat Trinidad, who retired soon afterward.

"Bernard Hopkins had a good night this night," Adrian Davis, Joppy's trainer, told the newspaper after the fight. "He's an old veteran, he's smart. He's very slippery. He knows all the tricks. He never let Joppy get off, crowding up, staying close to him. He smothered Joppy the whole time. He forced Joppy to fight his fight." "I'm moving on with my life," Joppy told the Post. "I'm cool."