The Heavyweight Champion when you were born?

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  1. Dubblechin

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    Happy Birthday.
     
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    Dubblechin Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    October 1964 ... Around the time challenger Sonny Liston was supposedly in the best shape of his life and the champion Muhammad Ali got a hernia, cancelling their rematch.
     
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    Leon Spinks.

    Sorry if that is a disappointment to some people.
     
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    KernowWarrior Bob Fitzsimmons much bigger brother. Full Member

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    Mike Tyson wbc champ.
    Tony Tucker ibf
     
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  6. Barrf

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    Leon Spinks. Which admittedly zeroes in my age and birthday easily.
     
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  9. Dempsey1238

    Dempsey1238 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hard to think the last living person born in the 1800's died in 2016. If she was still alive and have posting here, she would have said Jim Jeffries. Image how crazy that would have been.

    Larry Holmes for me.
     
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  10. Pugguy

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    Interesting way to look at it. My grandmother was born in 1909 and passed in 2002, aged 93. I used to think of events that occurred after her DOB, not least the first FOTC between Johnson and Jeffries in 1910. Of course she also predated the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

    I just saw on the news that Henry Kissinger has passed, born 1923, aged 100. Amazing life span. RIP.
     
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  11. thistle

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    1960, must have been Liston, I'm guessing without checking... my first memory of a HW Fight was Chuvalo late 60s, on TV in Toronto.

    Who against (?), I'm not sure, but I think it was Quarry.
     
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    “Smokin” Joe Frazier.
     
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    Happy birthday. Prime McVey KO 1 IMOJL
     
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  15. RockyJim

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    Yup...Then it was that "fiasco" up in Lewiston Maine in May 1965....what a JOKE!
     
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