Boxers that Achieved Championships or Major wins beyond 40

[gilgamesh]

I know it's becoming a bit more common these days, but over the years the amount of fighters that have truly spectacular wins beyond 40 isn't much. Let's discuss as many of these guys as we can think of shall we? Because I know it's definitely more of "The exception, not the rule" in most cases.

We got the obvious ones like Bernard Hopkins, Archie Moore, George Foreman. Who else had key moments in their career past the ripe old age (by Boxing standards) of the big 4-0.

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Bob Fitzsimmons beating George Gardner, and Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
Jem Mace beating Tom Allen
Jess Willard beat Floyd Johnson, aged 41, not the best win ever but fairly solid.

[DrDuke]

Larry Holmes outclassed Ray Mercer at 42, what made him a contender for Holyfield's crown.

Evander himself fought well and won Lou Savarese far after 40. Not that Savarese was a big achievement, but just Holyfield was looking lackluster and shot time after time since Ruiz fights. He also arguably won Valuev for the belt and got robbed.

Vitali Klitschko made his last title defences after 40.

Guillermo Jones stopped Denis Lebedev, but failed a drug test, what made a bout NC.

Carl Thompson knocked out David Haye at 40.

Adonis Stevenson has recently retained his belt in a drawn bout against Badou Jack.

Thomas Hearns won a minor IBO cruiserweight belt against Nate Miller.

[orbtastic]

Not sure on the exact ages/dates but Jofre won a title late on and was still going in his early 40s, albeit against moderate opposition.

Zaragoza had to be 40 when he was still defending his title.

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Duran actually had some past 40, including Jorge Castro

[dr_devious]

Foreman vs Moorer at 45

[chrisjs1985]

Not sure on the exact ages/dates but Jofre won a title late on and was still going in his early 40s, albeit against moderate opposition.

Zaragoza had to be 40 when he was still defending his title.

Jofre won the title aged 37 against Legra. Ancient for a Featherweight especially in the 1970's and one who'd taken three years off in his early 30's. He was still winning fights until he retired aged 40. Some of the wins were good like Gomez, Lopez, Jiminez especially at that age.

Zaragoza was 39 when he lost his title (and retired) to Morales. It's funny I met him a few years ago in Vegas when Rafael Marquez fought Nishioka and he looked younger than in his fighting days! He has more hair too!

[bwu]

Saoul Mamby had some good wins late in his career. There was a knockout of Gary Hinton and decisions over Glenwood Brown and Larry Barnes, the latter for the NY Welterweight

[Bladder]

The Algerian, Affif Djelti, came to the UK past the age of 40 and beat the leading super-feathers here like Charles Shepherd and Dean Pithie, then went on to win the European title and made a few defences well into his forties.

[Bladder]

Denis Andries won the British Cruiserweight title past 40.

[Caractacus]

there was a similar thread concerning this posted a year ago.
It was about if 37 years was the absolute mandatory cut-off date for all professional Boxers
( as it had been at one time)
and if they contnued past age 37 their wins and losses would not be part of their official boxing record
and examples how a lot of them just went down-hill after age 37 ( if not earlier).