Youngest Heavyweight Champions EVER

[big john h]

With the passing of Floyd Patterson (RIP) the 2nd youngest champ ever, behind Tyson, i was wondering who was 3rd, 4th and 5th. My friend says Ali but Isay somebody else. Is there a list of youngest champions fro myoungest to oldest? - j

[hhascup]

1. Mike Tyson
2. Patterson
3. Ali (or Clay, as he was called back then)
4. Louis

[big john h]

thanks. is there an official list or something? i thought dempsey was younger than louis? also i'm talking about alphabet soup champs too (any wbo/wba/ibf/wbc)

[pundit]

I compiled a list here:

http://www.boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 920#504920

[hhascup]

If you count all the alphabet soup champions, here's a list of all that won the title before their 25th birthday:

1. Mike Tyson 20 Yrs. 4 months 23 days (WBC)
2. Herbie Hide 21 Yrs. 8 months 14 days (WBB Title)
---Herbie Hide 22 Yrs. 6 months 20 days (WBO Title)
3. Floyd Patterson 21 Yrs. 10 months 26 days
4. Muhammad Ali 22 Yrs. 1 months 8 days
5. Joe Louis 23 Yrs, 1 month 9 days
6. John L. Sullivan 23 Yrs. 3 months 23 days
7. George Foreman 24 years old
8. Jack Dempsey 24 Yrs. 0 months 10 days
9. Joe Frazier 24 Yrs. 1 months 21 days (when he beat Mathis)
10. Jim Jeffries 24 Yrs. 1 months 25 days
11. Michael Dokes 24 Yrs. 2 months 0 days
12. Tommy Morrison 24 Yrs. 5 months 15 days
13. Michael Moorer 24 Yrs. 6 months 3 days
14. Wladimir Klitschko 24 Yrs. 6 months 19 days
15. Leon Spinks 24 Yrs. 7 months 4 days
16. Tommy Burns 24 Yrs. 8 months 6 days
17. Max Schmeling 24 Yrs. 8 months 15 days
18. John Tate 24 Yrs. 8 months 21 days

[hhascup]

Your right, I don't know what I was thinking!

[sweetsci]

Your right, I don't know what I was thinking!

Back in 2006? I don't remember what I was thinking then, either!

I thought Grant was a WB-something champion at one point. Not the three (or four, whatever) major belts, but one of the minors.

And as abhorrent as the idea is now, when Luther McCarty won the "white title" he was pretty young. Somewhere around the Tyson & Patterson range.

[SteveO]

I thought Grant was a WB-something champion at one point. Not the three (or four, whatever) major belts, but one of the minors.

Michael Grant beat Alfred Cole for the IBC title on July 20th 1997.
Grant was 24 years old.