Quote Originally Posted by El Gamo
Just as with all aspexts of life,the older you get,the worse you get at it and combined with longer and longer levels of inactivity,I TOTALLY disagree about comparing this Oscar to that of 02. The factors I have just mentioned surely come into play. And he should have lost to Sturm too and those fights you mentioned have been his only fights in that time!(Mayorga too)
Yes, but all fighters age differently. Take a fighter like Erik Morales. He aged rapidly and is done at the age of 30, because he spent a decade killing himself to make weight and has been in one bloodbath after another.
Oscar has gotten older age-wise, he's older in years, but he has not sustained much punishment or shown lots of slippage.
Like I said, he had no chance against Hopkins, that had nothing to do with age, Hopkins was just too big and skilled. He had no business at 160. Sturm may have beaten him, but DLH was in a weight class he didn't belong in, and was totally out of shape. Do you think he will be out of shape for a Mayweather fight?
All 34 year old fighters are not equal, you have to consider the effects of age on a case-by-case basis.