Why is Degale considered old, or weakened?

[EliasAlexander]

I never really followed him or the SMW division until recently but I am watching some fights now, for example Degale vs Dirrell, which is a phenomenal fight from start to finish!
looking at the record I am curious as to why people are saying that Degale has taken too much damage or that he is washed up.
Is this because of his two fights with Truax or the draw with Badou Jack?

[A.K]

Groves was even worse and still made a mockery of Jr

[E-Sharp]

Probably because he took a ton of damage in the Jack fight and hasn't looked the same since.

[SuperSuperLeeds]

He's had plenty of paggerings along the ropes go watch him against that French Somalia guy mahoumidi or some **** for the ebu title. He's taken a lot of shots then he had surgery and a break ,returned and lost to to truax who is not rated as a smw and is at the tail end of his career I think that's why..I think he schools jnr though still

[KTFOKING]

I never really followed him or the SMW division until recently but I am watching some fights now, for example Degale vs Dirrell, which is a phenomenal fight from start to finish!
looking at the record I am curious as to why people are saying that Degale has taken too much damage or that he is washed up.
Is this because of his two fights with Truax or the draw with Badou Jack?

Degale took a pretty bad beating against Jack in the last half of the fight, especially in round 12. He also got hit quite a bit against Bute and Medina. That is what started the decline and then Jack just pretty much made him washed up. His performance vs Traux in the first fight was terrible and even in the rematch he didn't look all that much better. Definitely not the same guy we saw against Dirrell. But the question is if he was just unhealthy heading into the Traux fight and if he has enough left in the tank to beat Eubank?

[anonymous2.0]

If you just look at boxrec DeGale looks fine barring the Caleb loss but in his fights you can see he's struggling hard and hasn't resembled the gold medalist he once was.

[IronDanHamza]

Injury prone.

Parties a lot.

Hard fights with Medina, Jack, Truax x2.

He's burnt out fast due to these combinations.

[BigZ44]

Got dragged through hell by Jack and then went life and death with Truax twice (who is awful) I'm certain DeGale is shot and a fringe guy like Eubank is going to run through him

[alexguiness]

Degale showed he can really fight against Jack.

It was a pretty brutal fight, harder than anything Eubank will bring.

People seem to forget that Eubank doesn't like getting hit, watch the Groves fight.

[HeadBodyBodyBody]

That Jack fight was brutal, then Degale's had shoulder surgery, and struggled against Truax (twice)... after the rematch, Degale even said he reckoned he's only got a couple more years left in the sport...