A fighter getting his “Man Strength”

Maybe so, but I'd KO the average 22 year old. Haven't you heard? When I let these puppies go, *gestures towards fists* I make Gerald McClellan look like Maxie Rosenbloom.

 

Just wait til you meet 3yrs from now GC though. He'd wreck you.

 

Most people hit physical prime in their mid 20's

It goes downhill after 30 mid 30's.

Younger Ali couldn't take the shots 30 year old Ali could take. Same with Big George.

The sad thing is the people who develop young in their early 20's and look like garbage after ditching sports in their late 20's early 30's.

You see it with boxers the moment they ditch a diet they become fat creatures of the bog.

 

Exactly, late teens and even 20/21 are, on average, pre-prime (talking purely physical prime here, not factoring in pro & con external variables like ring & gym experience, wear and tear on chin, etc) while late twenties into early thirties is usually the dusk or at least beginning of end of most people's primes.

22-27, all other things being equal and assuming you're training your ass off and getting good sparring, is everyone's maximum optimal Beast Mode™.

 

Aye. That mutha****er will be one scary dude.

 

It's harder to point out in modern boxers/athletes because lots of them are on hard riods.

Whyte & AJ were only >230-pound men in their early 20's. Now they are 250 pound hulks. Although AJ is slimming down to 240 again now.

Fury debuted as a flabby 260 pound kid who spent way too long in his career doing weight drops and trying to slim down, now he is a strong 270 pound man who understands how he needs to train.

 

I am the polar opposite.
I am in way better shape now than I was at 19. Bigger, stronger and better. Probably a tad bit slower.

 

No one had tested this in reality.
Ali from 60 ies was damn more difficult to hit properly than slow Ali from 70 ies ( sorry, this version is owerrated as hell in forums and really most hyped up in forums ) .

Ali from 60 ies had landed on Ali from 70 ies 2 blows while had recieved 0 blows. This does matters a lot.
Ali from 60 ies was WoW how mobile and even if this version had been dropped, this didn't mean't that he had been hit even close to ideally and Ali from 60 was faster, more mobile and agile than Ali from 70 ies. Younger version of Ali in theoretical matchup had exausted and KTFOed older version of Ali with a glance.

 

If I was 50 years younger I'd kick my ass.

 

Old man strength actually hits in the 50’s if they have been active.

 

I didn't get my full man strength until I was 24-25. After that point any physical development was so small that I couldn't measure it. If I was a pro boxer any improvements inside the boxing ring after 24-25 would have to come from a purely technical improvement.

But I did notice that the strength improvement did start to slowdown after 22, but still continued to about 25.

Funny thing is though you were right on the money about the age for me. Because I distinctly remember being 22 and it was all of a sudden like a light switch had turned on and was so strong (relative to what I had been as a teen and very early 20 something) and powerful.

 

Getting that strength through training or putting a load on with the supplements and becoming a wonder of the world

 

Elite athletes who train year round are different than the rest of us.

Many guys played sports in college and their athletic days of training year round ended at 22. Yeah, they might lift and run and and do all sorts of stuff to stay in shape, but they are no longer pushing their bodies like they were in their athletic days so they don't really understand.

But a man who stays training hard through his 20's will notice a chance around 26yrs old. Could come a year earlier or later. But they'll fill out their frame again with another coat of lean , strong , hard muscle.

It's why you often see guys make a weight class jump at 26.

26 is the prime athlete. Every bit as quick as his 22 yr old self, legs and lungs are strong as ever, but it's the strength and power that has changed. 30yrs hits and that's the incremental slide downwards.

 

Strength and power are the last things to go though. Obviously at 35 nobody has the tank or the reflexes they once had. But there is no reason for a 35 year old fighter to not be as physically strong as his 25 year old self. If you're just talking about pure strength the 35 year old version is likely just as strong if not stronger than the 25 year old version.

Does anybody really think Carl Froch at 35 was weaker than he was at 25?