1 STEVE WARD (64)
Recognised by Guinness because the oldest professional boxer in historical past, cruiserweight Ward fought on a BIBA licence six days earlier than his sixty fifth birthday in August 2021, beating Adrian Parlogea, 50, in Mansfield.
2 SAOUL MAMBY (60)
New Yorker Mamby dropped a call to journeyman Anthony Osbourne within the Cayman Islands in March 2008, aged 60 years and 9months. He’d held the WBC super-lightweight belt 26 years earlier.
3 REBECCA LIGHT (57)
The oldest at the moment energetic boxer, bantamweight Light will flip 58 in September and final fought in March in South Carolina. It’s questionable if she ought to accomplish that once more, given she’s misplaced 10 of her 11 bouts.
4 ROY JONES JNR (54)
One of the greats, however a person who simply can’t keep away, Jones misplaced to MMA fighter Anthony Pettis in a licensed boxing match in Wisconsin in April. He additionally took half in a star bout final weekend, aged 54 and a half.
5 OLIVER McCALL (54)
The man finest identified for knocking out Lennox Lewis in 1994 resurfaced for 2 low-key bouts in 2018-19, profitable each, the latter in Mexico a month after his 54th birthday .
6 LARRY HOLMES (52)
After a bout with fellow fiftysomething George Foreman fell via, Holmes as a substitute fought Butterbean in Virginia in 2002, profitable comfortably on factors over 10 rounds.
7 FIRAT ARSLAN (52)
While being matched rigorously, German cruiserweight Arslan remains to be energetic and profitable. The former WBA titleholder (2007-08) turns 53 in September and final fought in May. He is 20-1-1 in 22 bouts since 2015.
8 DEWEY BOZELLA (52)
Bozella served 26 years in jail on a false conviction for homicide. He boxed behind bars and, after his conviction was quashed in 2009, he said his dream to have a minimum of one professional bout. He did this in 2011, aged 52, beating Larry Hopkins at cruiserweight in LA.
9 BERNARD HOPKINS (51)
The oldest world champion of all time, light-heavyweight Hopkins was knocked out of the ring and into everlasting retirement in December 2016, 29 days earlier than his 52nd birthday, by Joe Smith in Inglewood.
10 ALICIA ASHLEY (50)
Jamaica’s ‘Slick’ entered the Hall of Fame this 12 months for a profession which included a late-40s run as WBC super-bantam champ. She was 50 when she final fought; a detailed factors defeat to Dina Thorslund in Austria.
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