Examples of Fighters Literally Aging Over Night

Honestly i dont come on here solely to ***** about him. I click on a thread, "oh this topic should be interesting, i wonder which legendary greats will be brought up in this one...then BAM! Duran Nazism all over the thread. His sex offender peter sutcliffe looking face haunts my ****ing dreams

 

:rofl I can't imagine what it must be like for you here.

 

i love hands of stone to death but i hear ya

back to the thread bowe is the one i agree with most so far

otherwise, jackson against mcclellan, zale against graziano (faded yes but after that third fight...), lewis against klitschko, corrales against clottey...

 

Jeff Chandler and Aaron Pryor.

 

Name me a fighter who DOESN'T age overnight.

 

I'm suprised none of you said Hagler against SRL. His slow hooks sailed over the totally exposed and tired Ray. Both my brother and I watching it said either he became an old man overnight or he's missing these on purpose. He became old overnight.

 

Hagler started becoming old earlier. At the least, it started against Mugabi, where he was missing too much there too, mostly on shots he would have connected flush a few years earlier.

 

Not the the fight you just mentioned.

 

This is the first time I've seen anyone say this - which is strange, because that's what I've been wondering all these years! Also, to me it looked like Hagler was throwing arm-punches, with no real power behind them... like he was making sure not to hurt Leonard.

I know this sounds preposterous, and I'm probably way out of line here... but that's how I saw it at the time.

 

Duran VS Esteban De Jesus in their first fight...the age just sort of fell in all of a sudden and you could tell he just had peaked way too early and burned out and became an old man over night...it was sad. Those thirty-one fights he'd had just simply all took their toll on him at the same time. :-( Esteban would never have decked him before that night. Why has nobody else mentioned this?!!!

 

Bernard Hopkins after his fight with Pavlik. He's looked like crap in his last 2 fights.

 

Terry Norris was a p4p top 12 and was in line for a De La Hoya or Trinidad mega fight then gets stretched by the average Keith Mullings and loses every other fight he ever has afterwards all in his early 30's.

 

Well, technically, we're all aging all the time so all of them.