Who holds the record for being the youngest champ?

[Drunken Cat]

What is the record for being the youngest to win a world title? I know of a few guys who've won it at 19, such as Manny Pacquio and Koki Kameda, though of the two Koki was a few months younger, but anyone ever do it at 18? And does anybody know who actually holds the record for being the youngest?

[Piggu]

Wilfred Benitez, age 17.

[Piggu]

Wilfred Benitez, age 17.

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.

[Drunken Cat]

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

[KoolWillie]

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

[alex6567]

the next youngest would be tyson at 19 right?

[Jazzy Paul]

the next youngest would be tyson at 19 right?

Tyson was 20....

[BKM-]

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.

[Piggu]

No the second youngest wasn't Tyson.

[the_truth_1984]

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.