Who holds the record for being the youngest champ?

Wilfred Benitez became a champion at the tender age of seventeen.If the guy would have more dedication to his career he could have been an all time great. WTF...he IS an ATG...

who is the youngest champ now? is it juan diaz?

How old was Vargas? 19 I think. What the fuck am I talking about, he was 21.

How old was Vargas? 19 I think.

Wilfred Benitez became a champion at the tender age of seventeen.If the guy would have more dedication to his career he could have been an all time great.

No the second youngest wasn't Tyson.

Yes Tyson was the official Heavyweight champion of the world at the age of 20, when he actually unified. Patterson was champ at 19 though.

the next youngest would be tyson at 19 right? Tyson was 20....

the next youngest would be tyson at 19 right?

Benitiz was a complete fighter at the age of 16... my grandfather lost too cervantes

damn 17, thats pretty fuckin amazing. I think that record is pretty safe.

Wilfred Benitez, age 17. http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC051409/Wilfred%20Benitez%201_jpg.jpg Benitez won consistently over relatively unknown fighters, and in 1976 he lured the far more experienced, two-time world champion and now fellow Hall of Famer Antonio "Kid Pambele" Cervantes of Colombia to San Juan's Hiram Bithorn Stadium, to defend his World Junior Welterweight championship. Benitez stunned the boxing world by beating Cervantes. Wilfred won a fifteen round split decision, becoming the youngest boxing world champion in history, at the age of seventeen.

Wilfred Benitez, age 17.