Why do people keep saying Taker is old when Batista is 40, Booker T & Sting are older than him?! Why!?

The reason why people say he is old is because he is old compared to the babyface wrestlers that are around today and by far him and HBK are the two oldist wrestlers in the WWE (i think) that are still wrestling...Yes sting and a few others are allot older then the taker but not to many people know sting stiener and a few others since they were too young to remember them in the WWE and most people dont watch TNA or even know about the past of the wrestlers there and think they have only been around a few years which they have not been and have been around a long long time especialy stiener who was with the WWE before taker was even there..