What fighters lived the longest Max Schmeling, aged 99 Heavyweight Champion https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10424853 Jack Sharkey, aged 91 Heavyweight Champion https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6606990 Jake Lamotta, aged 95 Middleweight Champion Jimmy Bivins, aged 92 Light heavy and heavyweight contender Beat 6 LHW champions and 1 heavyweight champion https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=93082058 Harold Johnson, aged 87 Light heavyweight champion and heavyweight contender https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=142821704 Archie Moore, aged 84 Light heavyweight champion and heavyweight contender https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4247 Danny Nardico, aged 85 Light heavyweight contender, only one to floor Jake Lamotta https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=62571112 Any more to add to the list?
85 and under sounds more like normal life expectancy. I can find a lot of guys who lived to their early 80s, but it's tough to find older than that.
So far 6 world champions have lived past their 90th birthday. Other than the 3 already mentioned we have: Jimmy McLarnin 96 Johnny Wilson 92 Al Hostack 90
George Foreman is 68 and seems to be in very good shape. Unless his health suddenly fails, he may make it into his mid 80s or up. He might end up being the very last of the 70s era.
He is already the father of the heavyweight division. When we lost Muhammad Ali, he became the new grand old man, who everybody looks up to.
Chuvalo is 80, and in spite of everything, going strong. Eighty is not very old, but considering all that he went through in and out of the ring, it's a milestone.
Jack Dempsey, aged 87 Heavyweight Champion https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=275
He wasn't a champ, but Joe Rollino (Kid Dundee) lived to be 104 and was still in excellent health when he got hit by a car. From what I've read, at 104 years old he didn't have any vision or hearing problems and supposedly he was bending quarters at his 103rd birthday party. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46610792 He supposedly had many boxing matches, was a professional strongman, and a WW2 hero.
Lorenzo/Laurence Scafani apparently was the real name of Larry Jones, a San Francisco fighter who was active during the late 1910s and early 1920s. Based on available records, Scafani died when he was 100 years old. - Chuck Johnston
Sorry to barge in 6 years later - but Laurence Scafani was my great-grandfather! He died in 1999, about 8 months after I was born, and my middle name is Laurence after him. He was a bare-knuckle boxer at a place called the Bucket of Blood (pretty common name, I gather?), and a Teamster. My dad loved him a lot.