He is terribly weak and slow. Slow twitch fibres stay with us for a lot longer than fast twitch fibres as we age. He has skill and timing, and is very efficient with his movement. His skills overcome his physical disadvantages. If you quantified his strength and stamina with testing I'm sure you'd find that he is very much a 49 year old. Boxing brain and skills, combined with his discipline to minimise the effects of aging.
Boxing is a dying around the world me thinks mma might have something too do with it. So there's isn't much competitive boxers boxers out there. In the u.k almost all the boxing gyms have incorporated mma and Muay Thai into their schedules people are beginning to think that boxing has far to many rules to be considered a real fight.
I think you may be right, but I think boxing still does way more in terms of PPV which is a good sign. Boxing needs a marketable heavyweight like Tyson stated in an interview earlier this year. We see the same things to an extent in the U.S. with boxing gyms merging with MMA, but some of them still exist as exclusively boxing clubs.
This is true. MMA fans don't make sense to me, though. When the fighters stand and punch the **** out of each other, the fans go crazy. The second someone shoots in, it goes to the ground and the BJJ kicks in, they either fall silent or they start booing because ground work "boring". Seems like they prefer the boxing portion but in the octagon over a boxing ring :huh
