Perhaps we can all agree the following is true:
When it comes to catfighting or any style of personal combat there is not one silver bullet that makes you a good fighter. Someone could in theory have plenty of experience catfighting (let’s say ten catfights) but if you say have lost 3/4 of all your catfights…we can hardly say that you’re good them, despite plenty of experience can we?
A lot of factors have to be considered and come together to make you a good fighter 
Xoxo
Kate xx
No, Kate, that's not it. Negative experience is still experience. And someone who loses three-quarters of their fights is still more experienced than someone who's never fought. And if you fight a lot, even if you lose, at least you will get rid of the fear of fighting, and one day you will win. But sitting and just dreaming will certainly not make you a good fighter.
I’m not arguing that experience is not important, I’m arguing that experience alone does not make you a successful fighter. I look at experience as an ingredient and as every baker will tell you, you can’t make a cake with eggs alone (Just don’t ask me to bake… I will probably burn the kitchen down).
If I was to make a recipe for a successful fighter, off the top of my head it would go something like this:
Physical fitness / Endurance.
Experience.
Physical attributes (Height, arm reach etc).
Mental toughness (You don’t lose it because your hair got pulled or face scratched).
Emotional control (You control your anger, your anger does not control you).
Confidence.
Luck.
Now have I listed all the ingredients needed to bake a successful cake? Maybe…but chances are I’ve forgotten something

So to summarise just because someone is older, it doesn’t mean they have an advantage in a fight. Also let’s say a total catfight newbie was facing my example who lost 3/4 of all her catfights. Isn’t there an argument that her confidence could perhaps be shot to hell at this point and that all this negative experience could factor against her? I suggest to all that is a very likely possibility, then again maybe she can shrug off that many losses and turn that negative experience into a positive.
So finally I say again there is no one silver bullet that makes you a successful fighter, it’s a combination of factors. Some you can control and some you can’t.
Xoxo
Kate xx