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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

Amir Khan was 22 when he won the WBA

Naz was 21 when he won the WBO

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.

bennie wrote: ↑29 Nov 2017, 08:37 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?

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

Coco wrote: ↑29 Nov 2017, 08:53

bennie wrote: ↑29 Nov 2017, 08:37 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.

bennie wrote: ↑29 Nov 2017, 08:37 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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