What/Who detemines if a fighter is shot, past prime,faded

If Joe Calzaghe fights them

 

How much money he can make for TV and promoters.

 

the way they fight compared to their prime without a doubt

 

if they got destroyed by pac then you can tell a fighter is shot, faded, old:yep

 

seriously it's a combination of the choices you mentioned

 

Various facts.

Too many wars.
Age.
Lack of dedication, too much money, family, etc
A break in training through no fault of their own, accident, serious injury etc
Change in trainers/management.

I'm sure there are more.

Thing is for me shot/past prime are two different animals. A past prime fighter can still hang in there with the top guys, a shot fighter will get blitzed almost everytime.

 

His records and performance!

If a fighter has fought and beat some real good opponets, rose in rank then suddenly encounter problems in beating less skillful fighters he is shot.

If he cannot perform at least 70% of what he used to be as a fighter he is past his prime. :deal

 

Depends on the legends career progression a few fights before and a few fights after I'd say. Also was his last fight a war, did he get his preparations right, is the young fighter a name or a nobody?

 

Depends. If a fighter doesn't have anything to back it up then of course it's excuses. But if the guy has evidence then it takes a pretty ignorant person to dismiss the facts wuldn't you say?

I mean if a guy gets a phonecall 10 minutes before going into the ring that his mother had died I'll bet when it comes out people worldwide would still be spouting complete bull****:

'There's no way they'd have given him that information 10 minutes before getting in the ring, ****ing excuses'

See what I mean...