Pool: Is 30-40yrs. the true peak of a boxer?

With all the new modern training things they go a lot over 30 now,but you know,if they had it,they had it period in the old days too:SRR,Archie Moore etc

 

but how many examples of fighters between 30 and 40 who are shot?

 

Casamayor is far from the best he has ever been. Campbell started late, Calzaghe was probably better around 2002, Hopkins aswell was probably better around the Trinidad fight.

It depends entirely on their style, for example Hopkins can still cut it because he's obviously a world-class fighter and uses his smarts more than his physical attributes. Jones can still cut it because like Hopkins he's a phenomenal fighter, but not at the level he once did, because he relies on his reflexes and speed, which have deteriorated.

 

Depends on when the began fighting, their style, amatuer career, number of wars they've been in.. etc..

..but you'd be in your physical peak in your late 20's, very early 30's.

Most of the older guys are not physcially peak anymore, but they rely on skill and knowledge to continue winning.

 

when fighters hit there prime is dependant on a lot of factors. some hit their stride at 30 like the hopkin's, campbell's etc..... but then, many are also robbed of their prime in their 20's like vargas.

 

some gets are shot in them late 20's
Junior Jones was for sure

 

It does, as other have stated, really depend on the style of the fighter. However, with some of the best, most athletically gived boxers, you can see a significant decline in hand and foot speed somewhere between 31-33. I'm referrng to Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, Lenard, and, of course, Roy Jones. As with any phenomically gifted athletes (the ones who are head and shoulders above the others)--Jordan, Carl Lewis, Joe Brown, Roy Jones...these guys are so far and away better than the other, that you really do notice when they start to slow down, when time catches up to them. Ali, for example, was never the same after his layoff....yes, he was still probably the best and he won some big fights. But, the young athletic Ali was a slippery fast nightmare who was incrediablly hard to hit. After his comeback, he was not the same fighter...And Roy Jones? We have all witnessed the preciptious decline of the great Roy Jones. Eight years ago he was almost impossible to hit. Since then he's been knocked cold by two fighter who would'nt've touched him in his prime.

 

I voted late 20s.

Here's the thing, as a boxer gets to his mid to late 20s he is reaching his PHYSICAL prime. However, as he enters his 30s he reaches a level of maturity and understanding of fighting that he did not have early on. So, it allows students of the game to prolong their careers as people like Hopkins and Calzaghe have while still fighting at the top level.

Hard to say, but I guess late twenties to early thirties is where it all comes together. Depends on the weight class also.

 

i'd say 26-31