Fighting past age 40

Vitali and Vladimir Klitschko can continue to fight years after their 40th birthday, in fact, Vitali is fighting after his 40th birthday!!!!!!!

 

You have a good point there Spider.... look at the way Hopkins was reacting to Jean Pascal's powerpunches. He seemed a lot easier to hurt in that fight than he has been throughout most of his career. To me that's clear evidence that his punch resistance is dwindling and that can't be good for his health and career going forward.

 

So would I.

Ali is old and disabled.

 

Now if you mean prime for prime, then you either greatly overestimate Vitali's skills or completely underestimate Ali's.

This would be somewhat interesting, even competitive.

But the most likely outcome would be a wide UD in Ali's favour, over 12 OR 15 rounds.

BTW, I'm a big fan of both Klitschkos, especially Vitali, whom I regard (at prime) as an easy (head to head) top 10.

 

You make a very good point, but I think you did not chose the best examples. I belive that Vitali can be beat with speed. His jab is a great power punch, but it is kind of slow and a hevyweight with speed such as Ali can counter it. It would be interesting to see how Mayweather would do against middleweight Greb. Mayweather/Robinson is an interesting match up at welterweight. It should also be notted that Robinson was an outstanding boxer into his late 30s.

 

He wants to keep posting well into his forties!

 

Most fighter's punch resistance diminishes at some point. Surely the older you fight the more dangerous it is for you J.R.

 

You are right, but you are telling that mostly to keyboard boxers who never trained and fought in their life so they don't understand what you are talking about. I would not go that far to say Vitali would stomp Ali but I would favor him for an UD win.

 

Nostalgia is a story telling domain, not a fighting domain.

It's why Rickson Gracie believes he could step in and defeat Junior Dos Santos even now, as a 60 yr old, because his mindset and mentality tells him something and he beleives it without really questioning it.

It's the same as religious followers who believe in their sect, they believe in it despite all the reason and logic that tells them they're wrong.

Ali has a great story and was at his time, the greatest fighter. Ali is not the greatest fighter ever, just the same as Vitali would kick his ass now, in 40 years, there will probably be someone who can kick Vitali's ass.

Progression in all sports shows us this, every single sport with quantifiable records.

 

I think it's more to do with the fact that the modern fighters simply don't fight anywhere near as much as they used to. And it's 12 round fights these days, not 15 rounds.

 

You truly are the most ignorant pile of excrement to ever befoul this forum with your presence.

 

That and advanced medical technology (what would have been a career ending injury, can now be fixed in an outpatient procedure in some cases) I think we will see more and more fighters (especially Heavyweights) still at the top of their game well into their 40's :good:bbb