Best ever old man performances?

[Tom Cruise]

Im talking the fights where a great fighter has lost all or most of his physical gifts, but manages to school or beat a good young fighter with pure ring knowledge and technique

Recent example would be Hopkins over Pascal.

[Anthony342]

Toney over Jirov?

Foreman vs. Moorer?

Ali KO 8 Foreman?

[NChristo]

Archie Moore - Yvon Durelle

[joe strong]

Nothing will ever top Foreman beating Moorer.... 45 years old getting his tail kicked & BAM! he's the HW champion...

[deansluk]

if memory serves me right , toney wasnt actually that old , just massive inactivity and weight jumps , hopkins tarver to me was a bigger shock than pascal , even though he was older, tarver was lineal lhw champ , and hopkins got beat by taylor prevoious... also the kelly pavlik fight - bhops got loads lol , sugar boy malinga , won 2 wbc titles in his forties against benn and reid , duran vs barkley , corrie sanders klitshko ...
also andries vs harding , andries was 36 but rumour has it he was closer to 46 , beating the young harding in a war

[rightsideup]

Archie Moore - Yvon Durelle

very good example

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Hopkins vs pavlik, tarver, tito, pascal


Not a win but morales gave a great performance vs Maidana


Tommy Hearns beating virgil hill

[Ray Corso]

Archie Moore...................not sure we know his actual age either.
Archie Moore has more KO wins than all most ALL champions have fights.

Ray

[rightsideup]

to some degree robbies one punch ko of gene fulmer he was far from shot but not near his peak just proved he could be a factor in any fight because of that power

[Anthony342]

How about Ali over the young Leon Spinks?