As Cung Le and Rich Franklin were getting set up inside the octagon early Sunday morning in Macau, FUEL TV play-by-play man Jon Anik noted that, at 40 and 38 years old respectively, both were “on the back end of their primes.”
In case you couldn’t tell, that’s a polite way of saying they’re old. It’s kind of like calling a fighter “well-traveled” or saying he’s “a grizzled veteran.”
It’s not fooling anyone, but it sounds nice.