Has any well known boxer lived to 100?

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  1. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    Schmeling got to within months of it.

    People were starting to think about it.
     
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  2. Wass85

    Wass85 Active Member banned Full Member

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    Joe Louis, wasn't he 137 year's old when he lost to Marciano?
     
  3. Furey

    Furey EST & REG 2009 Full Member

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  4. Shay Sonya

    Shay Sonya The REAL Wonder Woman! Full Member

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    Barbara Buttrick, of England, former Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion, could make it. She will be 93 on December 3rd, 2022, and is in good health, the last I heard. She is in The International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame.
     
  5. wibispo

    wibispo Brazil Full Member

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    LOL
     
  6. Tockah

    Tockah Ingo's Bingo Full Member

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    LaMotta is such a weird mf... of all the people to live to 95 how did he?
     
  7. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I don’t know how old he was, but he got his ass kicked.

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  8. klompton2

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    Billy Fox did not make it to 96. In fact hed be 96 if he were still alive. He was punch drunk 40 years ago. I doubt he made it much past the 1980s.
     
  9. Vic The Gambler

    Vic The Gambler Active Member Full Member

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    I suspect there’ll be a few more centurions in the following decades due to the elite guys fighting much less often these days.
    I mean look at big Joe Joyce , he’s on the verge of a World title shot and the lad has hardly broken sweat…metaphorically speaking…in his pro career so far.
    19 fights at the age of 37…the guy will probably live for many, many more decades!
     
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  10. Vic The Gambler

    Vic The Gambler Active Member Full Member

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    :meparto:That made me laugh hard!
     
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  11. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    Hard head.
     
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  12. TheMikeLake

    TheMikeLake Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I'm very confused. Isn't Billy Fox still alive? I can find nothing that he has died.

    Edit - I see the chances are that perhaps he died as a John Doe as a homeless person or at an insane asylum.
     
  13. JunlongXiFan

    JunlongXiFan 45-6 in Kirks Chmpionshp Boxing Predictions 2022 Full Member

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    Historically your chances of living to 95 were less than your chances of winning a world boxing championship now.

    Cavemen didn't live to 95 :p
     
  14. Barrf

    Barrf Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Anyone tracked female fighters? I'd bet on some of them making it.
     
  15. JWSoats

    JWSoats Active Member Full Member

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    How about Curtis "Hatchetman" Sheppard? I haven't been able to find anything about him passing. If still alive, he would be around 103.
     
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