i married a sligo maid anyway...onwards... did you know, the oldest ages of participants in a professional boxing match ??... from boxrec via the new york times - They fought for the farcical "Whiskerweight Championship of America." (Corporal William Jubb was 92 & George Washington Brown was 80.) They boasted "whiskers of the Kentucky colonel type and through the four rounds both vainly tried time and again to reach the button. Round one found octogenarians waving like palm trees in the gentle ocean breeze." Brown floored Jubb's false teeth in the third stanza. By the end of the bout "both aspirants were locked in an embrace on the floor [after falling during a clinch] as 2,000 tourists cheered.... Charles W. Eldridge, the referee, 101 years old, declared the battle a draw." New York Times http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=250894&cat=boxer i've got more ....will i carry on ?
this video was the first boxing match filmed....albeit a brief bit of film here...by thomas edison in 1894 this film is the first moment in all sports history recorded...so, the trivia bit.... boxing was the first sport ever filmed !!... [YT]vB46ESyVrWA[/YT]
youngest pro boxer was 9 years old. http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=103423&cat=boxer&pageID=2 This content is protected This content is protected