Best late starters?

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  1. di tullio

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    Boxers who got serious about boxing after around 18 who became great?
     
    di tullio, Jun 21, 2010
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  2. MRBILL

    MRBILL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Marciano and Holmes take the cakes' to the bank.......:deal

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    MRBILL, Jun 21, 2010
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    Ron Lyle did good too.
     
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    Norton.
     
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    Hmmm... Lyle never achieved greatness........... Goodness? YES! That's where his buck stops in town.......
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    Carlos Palomino,Ken Norton,Sergio Martinez.
     
    anarci, Jun 22, 2010
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    Hopkins?
     
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    True he never became great but he was 30 when he turned pro with little to no amatuer experience and he held his own with two ATGs in Ali and Foreman
     
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    Yeah wasn't Hopkins in his early 20's before he started?
     
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    He had boxed when he was teeneager but then he fell off from it and got in trouble.
     
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    Ah fair enough. Did he box in the amateurs?
     
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    Yes he started when he was 10 and went 95-4 as an amatuer dont know when he stopped but started again when he was in prison. He was 19 when he went to prison.
     
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