1st thing to go in old age?

[Dick-Sucker]

Another Phonomena. Why don't any of these things seem to have occurred to Bernard Hopkins?

[MELLY-MEL...]

reflexes go 1st!

[boxing_pundit85]

Another Phonomena. Why don't any of these things seem to have occurred to Bernard Hopkins?

if hopkins were to fight a great prime fighter like joe cal, then it would really show.

[GasPed]

The legs go first. Foot speed, balance, agility all suffer and a fighter finds himself just out of position, unable to take advantage of openings, and at the same time open for others to take advantage.

Then the reflexes go - the fighter just can't "get off". Hand speed goes from quick to just adequate.

Then the chin.

Then power.

Smarts stay for a long time, fwiw.

[THe TRiNiTY]

Overall coordination. Hand and foot. Overall movement.

[.::|ULTIMATE|::.]

speed, then reflexes, and then reasoning

[Truth]

Foot speed. I watched Roy Jones vs Anthony Hanshaw the other day...wow. Where was his speed? Age is a *****.

Roy still has 90-95% of his hand speed though.

[warp1432]

Yeah thank god. Left hook to the face to the body was a beautiful thing to watch against hanshaw. And how he could land that uppercut.

"Oh the uppercut."

[Weebler I]

In boxing terms of course. When a fighter becomes "out of his prime" what is the first thing to go?

I say reflexes and timing. What do you think?

Definitely his hair.

[sparked_85]

Definitely his hair.

haha, that made me laugh.

On a serious note it is definetely reflexes, it is the same in all sports. Being boxing or Badminton, there has to come point when the body does't carry out what the brain tells it to do.