Trivia: Youngest fight between future HOFers?

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  1. sweet_scientist

    sweet_scientist Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    How about Jimmy McLarnin & Fidel LaBarba?

    I think they had about 36 years or so between them?
     
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  2. AlFrancis

    AlFrancis Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Fighting Harada - Hiroyuki Ebihara 37 years.
     
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  3. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Good shout - but not quite low enough.
     
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  4. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yes, if I have counted correctly, they are even a couple of weeks inside 36 years... but it's still not low enough.
     
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  5. thistle1

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    young Stribling and someone without reviewing his record.
     
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  6. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Good guess... but no, not Stribling and "someone".

    Though Stribling was only 16 when he started his pro career, he had almost 100 bouts under his belt (and was 19 years old) when he met his first HOFer: Jimmy Slattery (who himself was 19 at the time).
     
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  7. thistle1

    thistle1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    nah him and Sharkey add up to 49, so No.
     
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  8. Anubis

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    McLarnin was 16, LaBarba was barely 18 when they first squared off. So we've cut it down to 34 [and within a month of 33 if LaBarba had matched him just a few weeks earlier].

    They had that four rounder on October 28, 1924. LaBarba was born on September 29, 1905, McLarnin on December 19, 1907.
     
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  9. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Using those numbers makes McLarnin 16 years, 10 months, 9 days old, and LaBarba 19 years, 29 days old, when they met - for a total 35 years, 11 month and 8 days.

    ... but we can go even lower!
     
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  10. johnmaff36

    johnmaff36 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    jimmy wilde and joe gans








    (Ok, not THE joe gans)
     
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  11. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    And we have a winner... that's the fight I was looking for! (just kidding, of course).
     
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  12. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    Do amateur fights count? Tommy Hearns versus Aaron Pryor was a hell of a scrap. Lennox Lewis versus Riddick Bowe at the Olympics was alright before the lousy stoppage. I remember hearing that Ray Robinson fought Willie Pep as an amateur too.
     
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