What is your definition of prime?? can you still be prime with..

Prime is when the fighter I support wins. Past prime is when the fighter I support loses. lol...............yep

A fighter's prime is different for each individual. It defines which years of their career where they are at their respective best. Many things can determine a fighter's prime: age, number of fights, punishment absorbed during fights, moving through weight classes, mental capacity, and other factors as well. Too many fans get hung up on age as a determining factor, but if a fighter fought fewer fights by the time he reaches 40 lets say, and those fights were not life and death battles, he will be more preserved and closer to his prime than a 40 year old fighter who is much more battle worn.

Your prime is 25-29. Anyone trying to argue otherwise is delusional. Look at how fast boxers deteriorate at the ages 30-34 Boxers can perform quite well into their early 30s if they don’t take much damage.

When your performing at your best. It can have ups and downs also. I mean after getting koed you might not be yourself for a few fights or so after until you get your mojo back. Like Pac against Floyd. Pac was still tentative and not quite had the confidence he normally would have had. Todays Pac is probably better than the one Floyd fought.

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This is a new era the younger kids seem to be more physically enhanced like Ryan Garcia, Vergil Ortiz, Zion Williamson, even if some lack skill. Your body does start to change at 30 but if you take good care of it like Mayweather, Hopkins, Tom Brady or LeBron you can continue to have success into 40+. But everyone's body is different some people do start to break down earlier than others, so it all depends.

Terrence Crawford.

Hmm Good Question Prime doesn't have an Exact AGE IMO, Prime to me is when the Mental has now caught up with your Physical, allowing you to be the very best version of you that you can possibly be. It comes early for some fighters or sometimes maybe it comes later like B-Hop whom second act of his career is what made him GREAT not the First ACT when he lost his Pro Debut and Roy Jones Jr toying with him and making him look silly in their first fight In boxing that Age Range does seem to be Mid 20's all the way up to maybe Mid 30's if you take care of yourself and put in the work. However, I don't think you can proclaiming a fighter is "In His Prime" just because he is 25 years old

Go look at all the top fighters in each division. People saying 25 are crazy. This isn't the 70s anymore. The top welterweights are all 29-32 Look at the heavy weights. Wilder, fury, and joshua. Canelo hit his prime i would say during ggg 2 fight @28. Don't get me wrong some fighters do peak early but no adays in this new age training and technology it's 27-34. Maybe 34 is a bit much so I'll change it to 27-33. Those 25 year olds still don't have there grown man strength nor do they have the Experience nor IQ. Like i said. Just go through every division and see how old most of the top 10 fighters are.

Prime is when you're able to perform your best mentally and physically. Both go hand in hand. You might be in your physical prime at 25 but not mentally at 35. At 35 you can be in your mental prime but physical prime. Whenever the two meet that's your prime. Some hit it early and some hit it late. A 28 year old Mayweather was probably in his physical prime but wasn't there mentally until later on in his 30's.

I think you are off about 4 years to the high side. Traditionally age 30 has been the start of past prime and 34 is old. Ray Leonard was finished at at 34 and got slaughtered by Norris who he would have easily beaten in his prime. Ward retired at 33 and Bradley retired at 32. I think you're still living in the past. We're in new age training and technology. Look at crawford. He'll be 32 next month and is still in his prime. Prograis is 30 and hasn't peaked yet. The Charlo twins are 29 and i feel like they haven't peaked just yet. Bradley retired because he was in a lot of wars. And we know ward still had a lot left but retired early.

All human beings experience their physical primes ~19-30. Your body begins it’s breakdown process in your 30s. Now there’s a difference between one’s prime and one’s peak. The peak of your life is when everything is just going terrific. That’s subjective for each person though. Some people sit around and talk about high school all day because that was the peak of their life, others peak in their late 30s when that business venture finally works out.

the guys who are thinking " athletically " are wrong you are saying that this is a young man's game, which is true but, this is also a thinking man's game a game where often, technique > youthful exuberance a game where experience > aggression I think of a fighters career as a bell-curve, with a straight-line indicating the period where the fighter operated at the peak - or near the peak - of his performances..... with some fighters, depending on their strategy/style/age/etc..... the area above the line is flatter/longer prime =/= age, in boxing..... there is far more to the equation than that many fighters have proven that throughout history

There's a difference between fighting prime and athletic prime for boxing. Meldrick Taylor was only 24 when he fought JCC, but he became a shot fighter around 28 years old, even though he was still in his athletic prime. The 1st JCC fight Taylor had took most of his prime away, he suffered a really bad beating. Boxing is the only sport where after 1 single event, you can lost most of your prime because your punch resistance has severely diminished if you've been in a nasty boxing war. Someone brought up Fernando Vargas, they are absolutely correct that Vargas was almost done by 28, even though he was still athletically prime. He was basically a shot fighter by that time.

I would say 27 you just start entering your prime. 30 is probably peak. Then after 34 you start going downhill.I think you are off about 4 years to the high side. Traditionally age 30 has been the start of past prime and 34 is old. Ray Leonard was finished at at 34 and got slaughtered by Norris who he would have easily beaten in his prime. Ward retired at 33 and Bradley retired at 32.

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Your prime is 25-29. Anyone trying to argue otherwise is delusional. Look at how fast boxers deteriorate at the ages 30-34I agree. A boxer at about age 24 to age 29 is as fast and strong as they are ever going to be. When a boxer turns 30 he will start to lose a little speed and power as a rule. He might still be good enough to beat everybody his weight. This can be shown in sports that can be timed or measured like track and field or swimming etc.Records are usually set by guys of this age.

Prime is when the fighter I support wins. Past prime is when the fighter I support loses. Lmmfao rotf......

Sounds like a shot fighter to me

i slipped on a banana peel today. that wouldnt have happened in my prime