Better old man performance: Klitschko vs Joshua, Hopkins vs Tarver, Pacquiao vs Thurman

Hopkins - Tarver in my opinion, The Executioner dominated the fight and gave his opponent a boxing lesson, while the other two matches were much closer.

 

Hopkins' later career is unbelievable. The Tarver win was just the start of an old man beating up and/or outsmarting a bunch of youngins. You could extrapolate a lot more from B-Hop's third chapter than just boxing knowledge. If you know, you know.

 

Wlad's performance against Joshua, while uncharacteristically gutsy, highlighted Wlad's shortcomings as a fighter. The fight was there to be won, but Wlad's average ring IQ had him throwing the same hook and missing over and over again. If he just made the micro adjustment that a high IQ fighter would have made, Wlad would have won that fight.

Pac's performance against Thurman was really good. Pac being able to fight bigger opponents is always impressive, and he was giving up 10 years. Being 40 at 147 where speed and stamina is a huge factor is a lot harder than being 40 at heavyweight.

Hopkins jumped up and completely dominate Tarver. While Tarver was up there in age himself, he was a probably the best of the three opponents here. I think Hopkins beating Tarver was the best old man performance of the 3.

 

Wlad had more success with the right hand than anything. Maybe should have thrown more of them. But it's hindsight because AJ could have got him out of there earlier also.