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Combat sports are always a difficult place to get old. Fighters who have spent more than a decade believing firmly that they’re among the world’s best, capable of beating anyone on the right night, are an understandably difficult group to convince once those days have come to an end.
However, in most parts of the fighting world, there are at least some semi-decent contingency plans to let once-elite talents down gracefully. If managed correctly, after all, the later stage of an athlete’s time in competition can be their highest earning, and most marketable point. 2015 played host to the ‘Fight of the Century’ between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, both firmly past the best form of their careers, and raked in 4.6 million PPV buys as a result. Oscar De La Hoya banked most of his career highest PPV paydays in the last half dozen fights of his boxing career.