Examples of Fighters Literally Aging Over Night

Holyfield vs Toney but the old guy is still fighting so I must have been wrong...Ali vs Leon Spinks 1...Duran vs Hearns....Duran vs Benitez ...Duran vs Leonard 3...Roberto was another guy who found the Gerital

 

Rivera-Simms (right after Rivera had a terrific win over Terra Garcia)

then (very next fight)...

Simms-Alcine

then (two fights later)...

Alcine-Santos

then (very next fight)...

Santos-Foreman

It's like these guys were passing on a curse!

Cotto may have some luck at 154 after all. :think

 

"Oldie" McOlderson was only 27 when he showed up to fight Alfonso Gomez last year like this:

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Some say he was badly scared by a whoopee cushion sometime after the weigh-in. Gomez won via 7th round knockout. This was not long before the Castillo fight.

 

Joe Brown vs Carlos Ortiz
Bob Foster vs Jorge Ahumada
Jose Napoles vs John H. Stracey

 

Roy Jones vs Antonio Tarver

Sometimes you have to see more fights to know if it has actually happened. I cant wait to see how Marquez and Mosley perform in their next fights.

 

+1 I have a feeling Shane would still easily crush Berto but I'm not sure about Marquez. I felt he's been slipping significantly since the wars with Pac. I was a bit shocked by Jones after he came off of the Ruiz win.

 

Marquez will fight Diaz, so it will be an interesting fight since Diaz seems to have lost a step or two himself. Mosley is actually in a good position, because I believe he is still the WBA champion unless he vacated, so yes a fight with Berto would be good for him to get right back into the mix, or possibly the winner of Williams Cintron at 147.

 

The Marquez/Diaz match may not answer any questions about Marquez, unfortunately. I think he took a chunk off of Juan's career span in their last and his performances against Malignaggi didn't do too much to prove otherwise, in my eyes. As for Mosley, I didn't think he'd still have his belt, don't really think he should still have it, much as I like him. Anyway, I know he said he didn't want Paul Williams a while back, I think after the Margo fight but I actually think he'd stop Paul. Especially if they made it at 154, where he wouldn't have to cut weight so much.

 

Fred Aposti before the Cerofeno Garcia fight.

 

Jones post heavyweight title, Bowe in the Golota bouts, Frazier was suddenly an old fighter after fighting Foreman and a shot one after the third Ali bout, etc.

 

Mike McCallum in the first Toney fight.

 

Duran conveniently aged over night on 3 seperate occassions, nice. He aged, then de-aged, then aged, then de-aged, then aged, then de-aged. If it wasn't for his SCS(spontaneous cramp syndrome), ATDAS(age then de-age syndrome) AND DTS(didnt train syndrome), PPDCS(past prime doesnt count syndrome) medical conditions, he'd be undefeated

 

You're right. He was pretty awesome.