What is the biggest age discrepancy in a world's title fight? I have a good idea on this but could be wrong .
It depends, I think, on when Archie Moore was born! According to his IBHOF profile, he was born on December 13, 1913 - and would then have been 21 years and 22 days older than Patterson, when they met for the vacant crown in 1956. However, if he was born 3 years later (BoxRec) the age difference would of course be correspondingly less - and in that case my guess would be the Foreman-Morrison WBO title fight, with an age difference of almost exactly (just 8 days short) 20 years.
My guess would be George Foreman vs Shannon Briggs (lineal hwt title fight). Big George had approximately 22 years and 11 months on Shannon.
I was thinking Foreman - Morrison, i thought Briggs was older than Morrison?:huh , bottom line was George lost both fights:-(
If the Boxrec dates are correct, Morrison was born in January, 1969 and Briggs was born in December, 1971.
Benitez - Cervantes would have been about 13 years difference. In other words, 75% of Wildredo's entire life at that stage :scaredas:
Duran/Joppy 21 years Foreman/Morrison 20 years Moore/Rinaldi 19 years Moore/Anthony 19 years Moore/Patterson 19 years Foreman/Moorer 18 years Tyson/Holmes 18 years Hopkins/Murat 18 years Hopkins/Cloud 17 years Hopkins/Dawson 17 years
The difference in age between Duran and Joppy was actually only 19 years and 3 month - but good enough for 3rd place on a Top-5 list (if Moore was born in 1916!): Foreman/Morrison 20 years Foreman/Schulz 19 years, 10 months Duran/Joppy 19 years, 3 months Foreman/Moorer 18 years, 10 months Hopkins/Murat 18 years, 8 months Edit: AlFrancis found Zaragoza/morales (18 years, 9 months) - which beats Hopkins/Murat for 5th place by 1 month.
