Last thing to leave a boxer is his punching power

C'mon, man., I know you love Whyte but it's not remotely comparable. Povetkin was 40 and 41, had been fighting at the highest level amateur and pro both as a kickboxer and boxer for about 25 years, had been in more wars than an army, and was shot to bits. He was well past his best before the Hunter fight but his entire mechanism had gone by the time he fought the rematch against Whyte. Whyte is much younger and much fresher with way less miles on the clock.

 

Fighters can and often do get old overnight at that age, let alone at that age after extremely grueling careers after competing in combat sports for almost 30 years, much of it at the highest level, and being involved in more wars than an army and after being involved in yet another one at 40 y/o

 

I already told you that Povetkin was well past his best before he fought Hunter. He was declining from fight to fight at that age for goodness sake and that war against Hunter took a lot out of him, as you would expect it would for a 40 y/o at the end of an extremely long and hard career who'd taken an awful lot of damage throughout it and had a million miles on their clock.

He looked rickety against Hunter but against Whyte he looked like he'd just been dragged out of the geriatric ward for the first fight and like he'd just been dragged out of a graveyard for the rematch. He could still punch but he was a shell of the fighter he used to be.