Old Men Thread. Best performance by a 38yo or older?

there are so many fighters who get better with age...some fighters mature late mentally or physically, some guys finally get it.

 

Stopped prematurely.

 

He was over 40 the last they fought

 

Nah, I would have listed Fitzsimmons! I would say the least competitive match you listed was Klitschko vs. Adamek. In this match the older man didn't have to outsmart anyone, rest, and counter. He dominated the action and stopped a much younger ranked challenger who in his prime, and flighting in his home country.

 

hopkins vs joppy - this finished joppy to me as a top contender....never have i seen the whole head swell like that in a fight...i honestly thought bernard was going to kill him

 

J, Jack Dempsey was 45 years old when he "fought" and almost killed Cowboy Lutrell in 1940. You can still see "traces" of his vicious ,unrelenting
left hooks,even at the age of 45. Just imagine young Dempsey of Toledo,
21 years before ! Ouch...

 

Vitaly Klitschko vs. Cris Arreola
Bernard Hopkins vs. Kelly Pavlik
Shane Mosley vs. Antonio Margarito
Larry Holmes vs. Ray Mercer
George Foreman vs. Micheal Moorer
Roberto Duran vs. Iran Barkley
Jersey Joe Walcott vs. Ezzard Charles IV

 

Maybe Frazier vs Cummings.

 

Dempsey was a beast...I could see him feasting on Foreman comeback type opponents and going 30-0 even at 45

 

Agreed Burt, but he was facing Lutrell and not a decent James Toney

 

J,of course Dempsey was facing a wrestler. I was responding to the question ",how old Dempsey was in 1940", and even at the old retired age of 45, any discerning reader would see traces of that great left hook,and that "kill or be killed" attitude of his youth. But the Dempsey haters never miss an opportunity to bash him, even at the age of 45....And when I just posted an answer as to his age in 1940, and {forgive me], traces of his left hook youth, poor Jack get's bashed again. Sick, sick, sick...But cheer to U...
P.S. methinks Dempsey's name should be persona non grata on ESB, as it offends too many partisan posters. Tranquilizers should help....

 

I was just kidding Burt. Thought it was obvious pal:good

 

George Foreman-Shannon Briggs was a great performance by a 48 year old