oldest world champion alive today...

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  1. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    You are (sadly) spot on. But since then, Bivens I believe, has had a pretty good life.
     
    TBooze, Mar 25, 2011
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  2. Duodenum

    Duodenum Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Source? Jimmy's web site makes no mention of him having passed, and neither does the IBHOF or anything else I've just checked.
     
    Duodenum, Mar 25, 2011
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  3. Jack Dempsey

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    Jimmys now gone, still LaMotta as oldest world champ?

    Terry Downes is Britains oldest surviving champ, LaMotta must be world's champ? Who after him? De Marco?
     
    Jack Dempsey, Sep 28, 2012
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  4. BillB

    BillB Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Liston was 103 when he died in 1970.
     
    BillB, Sep 28, 2012
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  5. burt bienstock

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    Bill ,please don't exagerate...Sonny Liston was but 101 years old.
     
    burt bienstock, Sep 28, 2012
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  6. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    That settled it imo.:thumbsup to you HH!!
     
    red cobra, Sep 28, 2012
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  7. MadcapMaxie

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    It's weird to think one of the worst human beings of the era, who took on some of the worst beatings possible lives for so long and still has all his marbles when you had big, healthy guys like Max Baer who only reached 50. Duodenum's theory seems about right, Lamotta probably died a while ago, Death is just too scared to tell him, hell couldn't handle the Raging Bull.
     
    MadcapMaxie, Sep 29, 2012
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  8. Stevie G

    Stevie G Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    "Don't ya know that Joe Louis is 137 years old" ??
     
    Stevie G, Sep 29, 2012
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  9. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    Think this may be a wee outdated.
     
    swagdelfadeel, Oct 19, 2017
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    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Curtis Cokes?
     
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  11. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    Carlos Ortiz
     
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  12. mcvey

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    Robert Cohen? Bantam Weight Champ 54 & 55
    Born15th Nov 1930.
     
    mcvey, Oct 20, 2017
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