Rydell Tyron Booker vs. Raymond Demont Austin

This fight would've been DOPE ...in 2005. We are getting it now, however, in 2021.

Their combined age is 86 ...as in, "86 this unpalatable mess off the menu, please".

 

Cool, winner gets Ike Ibeabuchi.

 

He was in & out for a few years and was then in the custody of ICE for a while during the middle of the pandemic, but is officially no longer as of August (meaning he was either freed or deported, or he died).

 

AJ would like a word...

Nah, in terms of actual Nigerian-born heavies, they're both head and shoulders above their peers (the likes of David Izonritei and Friday Ahunanya being their nearest competition)

 

Particularly since the winner probably ends up Wilder's 2022 comeback..

 

Whoops, so he is!

...stupid Google led me astray; there's a pro football player named Ray Austin who's 46. Well, that utterly ruins the joke in my OP.

Their combined age in fact is 91. Yikes.

 

Actually that changes my vote in the poll too, damn it.

With six years between them I was already on the fence between a UD and stoppage for Booker. With him being eleven years Austin's junior, yeah, no question, knockout.

Really messes with my head that Austin's that much older. He debuted first but only by a few years, and of course lingered in the collective boxing consciousness and remained active for much longer beyond their primes as Ry had that 14 year stint in jail.

 

Can you imagine Ray Austin winding up in the world title picture several years longer than his conqueror Wlad?