can anyone name a top ten list of fighters that started at 19 yrs old??

**them_apples** · 07-13-2008, 12:26 AM

Tyson was almost a champion at 19

**cibola4** · 07-13-2008, 01:04 AM

haha...yeah i know that....
but it doesnt really help me...
at all...haha.
i want to know pros...or amat.
that started at the age of nineteen...
and ended their career as world champ or something
somewhat glorious...
just out of curiousity...

**JAB5239** · 07-13-2008, 08:40 PM

Originally posted by cibola4

I would really be interested in the answers...
because i also am starting at 19..
and want to see what the best of the best looked like...
that started at 19
thanks a bunch!!

Wilfred Benitez was a champion at 17.

**boxing myth** · 07-13-2008, 08:58 PM

does any one knows of a heavyweight fighter in dallas that wants to take me on!?

**Clegg** · 07-13-2008, 09:51 PM

I'm not sure about those that started at 19 exactly, but if you're talking about late starters in general then Anthony Mundine is the first name that comes to mind out of current/recent champions. He was a rugby player originally before switching.

There is also a professional football player here in the UK who has become a boxer and is 6-0 or something like that.

Nigel Benn joined the army as a teenager, then turned pro in his early 20s.

Michael Grant also started quite late, and only had a few AM fights before turning pro.

I'm not that knowledgeable on the older fighters, hopefully someone can help you out with that.

**Silencers** · 07-16-2008, 06:43 AM

Jesse James Leija started when he was 19.

**supRa** · 07-16-2008, 11:56 PM

am 18 and i wanna 2 but **** man, the problem is...... my mom she not that type of parent that cheers me up instead she bring me down lol, she says she doesnt wanna see me hurt

**sugarshanenas** · 07-17-2008, 12:31 AM

Originally posted by bluehefner

am 18 and i wanna 2 but **** man, the problem is...... my mom she not that type of parent that cheers me up instead she bring me down lol, she says she doesnt wanna see me hurt

haha same here my dad cheers me on but my mom and sister don't

**supRa** · 07-17-2008, 05:20 AM

Originally posted by sugarshanenas

haha same here my dad cheers me on but my mom and sister don't

lol i know mann ittt suckksss!!!! i mean **** everytime i leave for competition my bro always says that my mom all nervous and once she revice the call that i didnt fight or i won she gets all happy lol, and when i lose she like 'i told u y r u fighting' on my dads family side they all cheer me on and on my moms side they all negative with it... its ****ed up that **** brings me down

can anyone name a top ten list of fighters that started at 19 yrs old??