Question about a fighters "prime" / "past his best"

[bambamdaddio]

I feel it is a contradiction as any current top ten p4p fighter thats 30 plus that suffers defeat should not have age as an excuse for that, neither should the victory of the winning opponent be deemed as less valuable because of the older opponent, this is more specific to the p4p list, & because of that reason, as they are seen to be current fighters who are at the top,

& if they are currently in the top 10 p4p & active, by the very nature of reaching & being active at that level, that should make the old & past it argument a none starter with more plaudits going to the victor..

Or something like that