Manny Pacquiao, Keith Thurman, Nonito Donaire and many more so far this year have shown at the highest level of the most grueling professional sport of them all, professional boxing, that age can just be a number.
Really though.
They didn’t just do that, they smashed that theory and then some.
They really did.
There was more but let’s stick with the three names this year.
Nonito Donaire rolled back the clock in his 40s with a magnificent win for an interim title and looked like he didn’t miss a beat in his comeback.
Always a big favorite with fans because of his all action fight style, Donaire will be in another big fight shortly will ‘The Filipino Flash’.
The Year That Older Boxers Made The Impossible Possible
Of course, 46-year-old Filipino legend Manny Pacquiao made the impossible possible when he drew with 30-year-old Mario Barrios earlier this summer in a fight that most thought he deserved to win.
Keith Thurman after years away from boxing and after some brutal surgeries later in his career, too, earlier this year literally went half way across the world to Australia to batter Brock Jarvis.
Impossible really is nothing, these fighters competing in their 40s not only at the highest level of the most gruelling sport there is on Earth, professional boxing, proves it.
They are not just competing, in many cases they are winning and winning in some form too.
Manny Pacquiao was the pick of the bunch so far this year though, legend.
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