older yet. His is the mindset of the true old school, fighters like the great Sam Langford. Langford battled a man named Harry Wills an incredible 17 times. He was 31 at the time of their first fight, impossibly old for a small heavyweight in that era of constant fighting and lackluster medical care.
Jack Dempsey never fought Harry Wills -- promoter Tex Rickard said he feared race riots -- and Riddick Bowe dumped his title belt in the garbage rather than fight Lennox Lewis, who had stopped him in the 1988 Olympics.