Longest Lived Boxers

85 and under sounds more like normal life expectancy.

I can find a lot of guys who lived to their early 80s, but it's tough to find older than that.

 

Wlad Klitschko will be the first to make it to 100.

 

So far 6 world champions have lived past their 90th birthday. Other than the 3 already mentioned we have:

Jimmy McLarnin 96
Johnny Wilson 92
Al Hostack 90

 

He is already the father of the heavyweight division.

When we lost Muhammad Ali, he became the new grand old man, who everybody looks up to.

 

Larry Holmes doesn’t think so.

 

Chuvalo is 80, and in spite of everything, going strong. Eighty is not very old, but considering all that he went through in and out of the ring, it's a milestone.

 

Former Floyd Patterson victim Jacques Royer Crecy died a couple of years ago at 86.

 

He wasn't a champ, but Joe Rollino (Kid Dundee) lived to be 104 and was still in excellent health when he got hit by a car. From what I've read, at 104 years old he didn't have any vision or hearing problems and supposedly he was bending quarters at his 103rd birthday party. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46610792

He supposedly had many boxing matches, was a professional strongman, and a WW2 hero.

 

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Lorenzo/Laurence Scafani apparently was the real name of Larry Jones, a San Francisco fighter who was active during the late 1910s and early 1920s. Based on available records, Scafani died when he was 100 years old.

- Chuck Johnston

 

Sorry to barge in 6 years later - but Laurence Scafani was my great-grandfather! He died in 1999, about 8 months after I was born, and my middle name is Laurence after him. He was a bare-knuckle boxer at a place called the Bucket of Blood (pretty common name, I gather?), and a Teamster. My dad loved him a lot.