Fighters who had a late prime

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  1. brigante9

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    Fighters who hit there prime at a time when most fighters are retiring
     
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  2. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Jersey Joe, Ken Norton, Jack Britton, Jesse Burnett
     
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  3. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    Bernard Hopkins, Archie Moore
     
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  4. rayrobinson

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    Late opportunities , not late primes.
     
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  5. Rumsfeld

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    Lewis and Wlad both peaked late after teaming up with Emanuel who was able to help fine-tune their styles after they were past their physical peaks.
     
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    Jack Johnson
     
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  7. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Forgot about Ron Lyle. Both he and Jesse Burnett's peaking late was due to their being held over at the state's pleasure for several years.
     
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  8. juppity

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    Dennis Andries
     
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  9. Saad54

    Saad54 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Saoul Mamby
     
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    No D I C K Tiger???
     
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  11. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Mamby and Tiger, good choices.
     
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  12. red cobra

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    Thank you jowcol...I was just going to name Tiger, Monzon, Napoles and Locche.
     
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  13. HerolGee

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    stuart hall and joe calzaghe both won their first recognised world title in their mid thirties.

    awesome efforts by both, and a real hail mary by stuart. he was so happy to finally make it, as was joe overjoyed to beat 21-win novice jeff lacy. it was great to see them so happy to win it after almost 20 years.

    edit - sorry, my bad about stuart, he won his at 33, over a year earlier than joe.
    Sorry Stu!
     
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  14. NoNeck

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    Diamond Boy Charr
     
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  15. HerolGee

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    are you sure you want to claim that beating a 40soemthing baldie on points is your prime effort? because that makes charr look a lot worse than he already is. and he looks bad as it is.
     
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