Are there many boxers who started age 23 and over?

Mundine.

 

I started at 39. Sadly, I didn't even make it to the car, to go to the gym, as I got distracted by a rerun of Batman, featuring MILTON ****ING BERLE!!!!

 

Why r you thinking about it? Get on it theres a guy in our gym givin it a last run and hes 30. Also Nonitos brother(Glen) is 32 and making a comeback.

 

Larry Holmes was 23 when he turned pro

 

You can find a decent amount of fighters who turn pro late but not too many champions started actually boxing late. I know i'm missing somebody out there that was a champion who started from the beginning in his 20s but I just can't think of who right now. There have been title contenders like Micheal Grant and many others but.............. I can't believe I missed this one. BERNARD THE EXECUTIONER HOPKINS. A master boxer and one of the all time greats. 23 years old fresh out of prison. HOW'S THAT FOR INSPIRATION.

 

yeah buddy, you don't get any younger. Get at it!

 

Hopkins was 23 at the time of his first pro fight.

 

Nate Campbell & Antonio Davis both got off to late starts

 

Yeah but he had just got out at 22 and started boxing.

 

No, Hopkins was actually an amateur boxer as a youngen so he was already quite famliliar with boxing even before he went to prison.

 

Audley Harrison and Carl Froch...or we talking about world class fighters here?

 

I know several professionals who've made a successful go of it with a late start.

Anthony Mundine, Nate Campbell, Hasim Rahman, its very possible, and you should try it!