Here is a list of the 10 greatest performances by boxers 40 or older.
Manny Pacquiao joined an exclusive fraternity when he defeated Keith Thurman by a split decision to win a major welterweight title in July 2019.
The ageless Filipino icon had turned 40 the previous December, which made his remarkable performance one of the best ever among fighters who are at least 40 years old.
How does it compare with other great performances by those 40-plus? Here’s a list of 10 that stand out, in order of magnitude.
Note: The Pacquiao vs. Errol Spence Jr. fight on Aug. 21 in less than a month away. This special feature is just one of many that will be posted in the coming weeks.
Here is a list of the 10 greatest performances by boxers 40 or older.
Manny Pacquiao joined an exclusive fraternity when he defeated Keith Thurman by a split decision to win a major welterweight title in July 2019.
The ageless Filipino icon had turned 40 the previous December, which made his remarkable performance one of the best ever among fighters who are at least 40 years old.
How does it compare with other great performances by those 40-plus? Here’s a list of 10 that stand out, in order of magnitude.
Note: The Pacquiao vs. Errol Spence Jr. fight on Aug. 21 in less than a month away. This special feature is just one of many that will be posted in the coming weeks.
Six degrees of separation is a theory that everyone in the world is separated by no more than six social connections. In other words, you know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Queen Elizabeth. …
Six degrees of separation is a theory that everyone in the world is separated by no more than six social connections.
In other words, you know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Queen Elizabeth. Or so the concept goes.
We’re borrowing the six degrees concept – well, sort of loosely – to connect fighters from the past to their more contemporary counterparts in our new occasional feature, “Degrees of Separation.”
Example: Let’s connect Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. to Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Super easy; we did it in two steps. Senior fought Grover Wiley, who fought Junior.
In this installment of the Boxing Junkie feature,we wanted to link Scottish 140-pound titleholder Josh Taylor with arguably the greatest fighter Scotland has ever produced, Jimmy Wilde.
Taylor, 29, is still active. Wilde last fought in 1923. Yes, our work was cut out for us … but we did it.
Check it out:
Jimmy Wilde fought …
Pancho Villa, who fought …
Jimmy McLarnin, who fought …
Barney Ross, who fought …
Henry Armstrong, who fought …
Ray Robinson, who fought …
Denny Moyer, who fought …
Vito Antuofermo, who fought …
Marvin Hagler who fought …
Ray Leonard, who fought …
Hector Camacho, who fought …
Oscar De La Hoya, who fought …
Manny Pacquiao, who fought …
Lucas Matthysse, who fought …
Viktor Postol, who fought …
Josh Taylor
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Six degrees of separation is a theory that everyone in the world is separated by no more than six social connections. In other words, you know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Queen Elizabeth. …
Six degrees of separation is a theory that everyone in the world is separated by no more than six social connections.
In other words, you know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Queen Elizabeth. Or so the concept goes.
We’re borrowing the six degrees concept – well, sort of loosely – to connect fighters from the past to their more contemporary counterparts in our new occasional feature, “Degrees of Separation.”
Example: Let’s connect Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. to Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Super easy; we did it in two steps. Senior fought Grover Wiley, who fought Junior.
In this installment of the Boxing Junkie feature,we decided to focus on welterweight titleholder and pound-for-pounder Terence Crawford.
Crawford is without question the greatest fighter to ever come out of Nebraska, which isn’t saying much. The state isn’t exactly known as a hotbed of boxing.
That said, some good fighters have come from Nebraska. The best before Crawford might’ve been Ace Hudkins, a product of Lincoln who fought successfully from lightweight to light heavyweight from the early 1920s to early 1930s and ended up based in Los Angeles.
“The Nebraska Wildcat” twice fought the great Mickey Walker for the world middleweight title but came up short on the cards both times.
Could we link Hudkins to Crawford? We gave it a try. And we were successful even though Hudkins last fought in 1932, 88 years ago.
Check it out:
Ace Hudkins fought …
Mickey Walker, who fought …
LouBrouillard, who fought …
Georgie Abrams, who fought …
Ray Robinson, who fought …
Joey Archer, who fought …
Emile Griffith, who fought …
Armando Muniz, who fought …
Carlos Palomino, who fought …
Wilfredo Rivera, who fought …
Shane Mosley, who fought …
Manny Pacquiao, who fought …
Jeff Horn, who fought …
Terence Crawford
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Six degrees of separation is a theory that everyone in the world is separated by no more than six social connections. In other words, you know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Queen Elizabeth. …
Six degrees of separation is a theory that everyone in the world is separated by no more than six social connections.
In other words, you know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Queen Elizabeth. Or so the concept goes.
We’re borrowing the six degrees concept – well, sort of loosely – to connect fighters from the past to their more contemporary counterparts in our new occasional feature, “Degrees of Separation.”
Example: Let’s connect Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. to Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Super easy; we did it in two steps. Senior fought Grover Wiley, who fought Junior.
In this installment of the Boxing Junkie feature, we decided to feature Manny Pacquiao a second time. Earlier, we linked the future Hall of Famer to Filipino great Flash Elorde. We’re going back farther this time, connecting Pacquaio to the first Filipino to hold a world title, Pancho Villa.
Villa became flyweight champion when he stopped an aging Jimmy Wilde in 1923 and held the title until he died two years later, at only 23. Villa last fought in 1925, 95 years ago. So it took us 13 steps to connect him to Pacquiao.
Check it out:
Pancho Villa fought …
Jimmy McLarnin, who fought …
Lou Ambers, who fought …
Henry Armstrong, who fought …
Ray Robinson, who fought …
Joey Archer, who fought …
Emile Griffith, who fought …
Bennie Briscoe, who fought …
Marvin Hagler, who fought …
Ray Leonard, who fought …
Hector Camacho, who fought …
Oscar De La Hoya, who fought …
Manny Pacquiao
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