youngest british boxing champion

[tim99b]

with the rules you have to be 21 to fight for the title- when this rules was started who was the youngest champion and how old were they

[Verdi]

Amir Khan was 22 when he won the WBA

Naz was 21 when he won the WBO

[bennie]

Ryan Rhodes had just turned 20 when he won the British light-middleweight title back in the 1990s; I believe he is the youngest post-war British champion. Eric Boon won the British lightweight title at 18 back in 1938.

[Coco]

Ryan Rhodes had just turned 20 when he won the British light-middleweight title back in the 1990s; I believe he is the youngest post-war British champion. Eric Boon won the British lightweight title at 18 back in 1938.

So is the rule 20 or 21?

[Verdi]

Oh 'British boxing champion', I had it in my head the youngest Brit to win a world strap.

[bennie]

Ryan Rhodes had just turned 20 when he won the British light-middleweight title back in the 1990s; I believe he is the youngest post-war British champion. Eric Boon won the British lightweight title at 18 back in 1938.

So is the rule 20 or 21?

It must be 20. I remember Wally Swift bemoaning the fact that his 20-year-old fighter, Del Bryan, could not fight for the British title until he was 21, even though he had just beaten British light-welterweight king Lloyd Christie in a non-title encounter. Reg Gutteridge then put it in his column that Bryan could in fact fight for the British title at 20.

[Taansend]

Ryan Rhodes had just turned 20 when he won the British light-middleweight title back in the 1990s; I believe he is the youngest post-war British champion. Eric Boon won the British lightweight title at 18 back in 1938.

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