Best Old Man performances vs a younger opponent?

[One to watch]

Nate Campbell v diaz - schooling at times
Casamayor v katsidis - terrific fight
holmes v holyfield - solid performance from holmes
Gomez v khan - seen as a gimme for khan but he ends up decking him and dragging him into a war
Moseley v margarito - they thought shane was done but he comes back to smash the no1 welterweight
Casajello v sturm
And my personal favourite skelton v dallas

Yes Skelton brutalised Dallas streetfighting style.

Lucas browne beat richard towers up in similar way.battered him over the ropes.

 

[nick t]

Jhonny Gonzalez banjo'ing Abner Mares in a round. Mares was being touted by some as a future p4p'er and Jhonny was to be just another name on his record.

I'm a huge Mares fan but that loss took a lot out of him. Ducked a rematch aswell if i remember rightly

 

[Trail]

Carbajal in his last ever fight KO'ing a young Jorge Arce who was a reigning world champ at the time was a fine result.

Got the fight on now.

 

[JFT96]

Hopkins v Pavlik is one of the main ones for me. Everyone thought he was done at that age but he was quicker, smarter and classier than Pavlik all night. Still had a few years left in him after too.

Not at world level but one for me was Darchinyan vs Del Valle. Del Valle was looking like a serious prospect to me but was battered by Vic. His career has gone nowhere since

 

[Frank L Beano]

Bernard Hopkins vs Jean Pascal.

 

[SpursBen316]

Joyce VS Dubois

 

[CamelCase]

Yes Skelton brutalised Dallas streetfighting style.

Lucas browne beat richard towers up in similar way.battered him over the ropes.

Skelton vs Dallas was a weird fight, surely those ropes should’ve been tighter and the ref shouldn’t have just let Dallas hang there like a bit of laundry. Fucking hilarious though.

 

[46 Wins]

Kovalev vs Yarde

 

[Trail]

George Foreman - Michael Moorer has to be up there.

Hopkins - Kovalev, despite Hopkins never getting the W he was ace that night, and he was 49. Kovalev was 31. Most people aged 25 don't have a body as good as a 49 year-old Bernard Hopkins.

 

[Dynamito]

Saoul Mamby at 41 beat the highly touted prospect Glenwood "The Beast" Brown who was 18-0.

At 43 He beat Larry Barnes who was 17-0. Both Barnes and Brown
became future world title contenders.

 

[Casper Gomez]

A lot of my favourites were already taken so I thought I go for the lesser spoken about ones, which don’t really get a mention.

Hearns vs Hill
Freitas vs Olivera

 

[AntG]

Nelson vs Ruelas

 

[knockout artist]

Wlad v AJ although be came up short

Froch v Groves in the Wembley rematch, he bossed it from the first bell

 

[Trail]

Wlad v AJ although be came up short

Froch v Groves in the Wembley rematch, he bossed it from the first bell

That's a good shout, another one. Carl Froch was 11 years older than George Groves. Just leathered Groves, controlled the fight from the get-go.

Serious question for everyone on here though, did anyone know the attendance at Wembley Stadium that night? Carl never told us, did he?

 

[Dynamito]

Manning Galloway at 43 beating the 20 year old Ricardo Williams jr.
Williams was a star of the 2000 Olympics was paid $1.5 million signing on bonus by Top Rank when turned pro.

Williams spent the money in a year ended up having a wasted career did a stint in prison and ended up broke. Ironically Williams grew up in the same Gym as Adrian Broner.

Virgil Hill at 42 beating Valery Brudov for the WBA Cruiserweight title.

 

[DOM5153]

Calzaghe at 34 almost 35, smashing a 28 year old Jeff Lacy. Not as good as some of the examples but still relevant I feel.

 

[Trail]

Hopkins at 48 fighting Kovalev. He didn't win, but he never shamed himself.

 

[Judgemental John]

Can't really remember the fight but always remember Brendan Ingle comment on Otis Grant defeating Ryan Rhodes - " He old-manned him out of it".

 

[REDC]

Bernard Hopkins vs:
Taylor x2
Tarver
Pavlik
Pascal x2
Cloud
Murat
Shumenov
Kovalev

 

[REDC]

Hopkins was 36 when he destroyed 28 y/o Tito