whats old in boxing these days ??

There have been some recent examples of old guys giving young studs a lesson.

Phillips over Spinks
Casamayour over Katsidiz
Campbell of Diaz

 

All year round, keep yourself in great physical fitness and be running those miles so you can spend your time in the gym training on fight style and strategy, rather than getting in shape.

It's more so knowing how to get the peak out of your body while training and knowing when to rest. For some, that means they can go 6 days a week and rest one, others need to be 4 days on, 1 day off. Others need 5 days on, 3 days off.. Just depends how they recover.

 

People now are living longer as a whole..
Evolution has made the human being a much stronger animal, and your typical 35+ year old in shape is the equivalent to many 20 somethings of yesteryear.. Food, open minds, better knowledge, better health and hygiene in general..

We are a product of better understanding of who we are..

 

Nobody seems to point out that old era boxers start as journeyman fighting almost every other week or so and these fights do not carry in their resume. As a whole they have accumulated 4 to 5 times the usual number of fights by modern era boxers in their boxing career. These takes toll of their bodies at an earlier age as compared to present crop of fighters...

 

You have a point there. The smaller the fighter the more age will affect them. Which is one of the reasons that I think that fighters move up. When a fighter is going into his mid to late 20's he will get what my friends and I call man weight, there isnt much you can do to keep off man weight. But once a fighter is in his late 20 he SHOULD be pretty set at his fighting weight.

Good point:good