Of course lovable George: dang it! At 45 he won the world hw title!!! He said one time "just because I'm 40 or 50 doesn't mean I can't dream. Heck I go to my proctologist once a year and he says everything is fine! Can't I dream a little bit? There's nothing like having a dream." Others include: Fernando wargas: even after the bad back he came back to fight Raymond joval and one other dude and then he called out Javier castillejo at the end of his career. Canelo Alvarez: I view him in the top ten mexican s of all time. His ambition: to be a big boned fighter , example: him at all the "heavier " weights. We've yet to have seen if he still goes all the way up to cruiserweight. Heck Mosley and odlh: these two guys were a treat to have around!!! Fought best of the best, fought often, always came to fight, two special guys, stuck around way longer than a young man's game fighter would. These are simply my votes, what are yours'?
Carlos Palomino, the one time WBC Welterweight Champion did go to college part time and eventually full time to take care of his young son back in the 1970's, he was a single parent.
Dennis Andries. After being taken apart by Hearns and losing his title, he moved to the States, joined the gym of the man who’d beaten him and pretty much learned how to box all over again, and won his title back.
Jersey Joe Walcott won the heavyweight belt at the fourth attempt. Things like that don't happen anymore.
Virgil Hill made a good living with his WBA light heavyweight title, often defending it at home in North Dakota, but he reached a point where he wanted more. He packed his bags and basically said ‘anybody, anytime, anywhere.’ Unified with IBF in Germany by beating Maske, tried to add the WBO (also in Germany) and lost to Michaelczewski, then fought Roy Jones Jr and got his ribs shattered. But he wasn’t done. Stepped up to cruiser to win another division title (in France, vs. Tiozzo), and kept up his travel schedule fighting Mormeck twice (losing both), beat Donny Lalonde, fought Maske again in Germany (losing this time). It’s a pretty damned admirable slate for a guy who was seen as more of a ‘hometown fighter’ for much of his career, and he didn’t let some losses dissuade him from wanting to make the biggest and best fights he could regardless of venue.
