At what age SHOULD a boxer be in his prime?

depends on their style

explosive fast paced fighter - peak young

Calm, technical fighters will get better with experience.

 

It varies, but it should be somewhere between 25.347834573457345834534563487538545368543657834 and 25.347834573457345834534563487538545368543657836

 

Different for everybody but Id say 27...

 

Depends on the fighter.
Usually from 26 to 32.

 

It is different for everybody, but I believe that for most boxers ( assuming they don't turn pro at 15 or 16 like some of the mexican fighters do) it is between 25-30. At this age they usually have had at least 3-5 years of professional experience and physically they are still at their peak. Below 23 or 24, they are still usually relatively green having all the physical tools but not usually the mental toughness or experience to truly be 100 % of their potential. After 30-32 they usually have the experience, but they also have the wear and tear and decline in speed and reflexes that accompany years in the ring. Between 25-30, they are at that proper balance between their physical and mental peaks.

 

No-one show this thread to B-Hop

 

Depends on style and career path. If the fighter is commited his whole career and started young then I would say he would be in the best shape of his / her life at 26 - 30.

 

Heavyweights usually have their primes in their 30s.
I'd say modern day heavyweights can peak at 35-ish~.

 

Someone should produce a graph for this, or even a pie chart, providing they can stop Rico from eating it.

Audley Harrison hasn't hit prime yet and he's 37 I think.

 

makes no sense. And this 'prime' thing kinda gets on my nerves

 

I agree. I never saw the reasoning behind trying to identify when a fighter was at his best, cause he's constantly facing different opponents, who offer different, and varying, opposition. And his performance is built upon the opposition he faces, and sometimes, its impossible to say how his performance lacks, or the opponent makes him seem to lack.

So often, an opponent can make a fighter look past his best, and a less than stellar opponent can make a fighter look outstanding.

So trying to determine when a fighter is at his prime/best, is like a dog chasing its tail, in my opinion.

Something like a weightlifter, who faces an exact, and never changing test. Something like that, you can gauge when he's at his prime. A fighter who is contantly facing different opponents......no. Unless it is a decline that is as obvious as him visibly getting slower and unable to pull the trigger (but again, that can be due to the opposition), but other than that, no, its too hard to tell, given the wide variation of his opposition's performance/resistance over his career.

 

26to 32

 

audley harrison will be 67 and he wil still be searching for his prime