Youngest Heavyweight Champions

[Mike DeLisa]

Harry Hascup posted this on BoxRec, and i thought it would fit in here. Parenthetical comments by me, so dont blame Harry:

If you go inculde all alphabet and fringe groups the list is --

01. Mike Tyson 20 Yrs. 4 months 23 days (WBC) (claim, Spinks the champ)
02. Herbie Hide 22 Yrs. 6 months 20 days (WBO Title)
03. Herbie Hide 22 Yrs. 8 months 14 days (WBB Title)
04. Floyd Patterson 21 Yrs. 10 months 26 days (vacant Lineal, CBZ recognizes as the youngest!)
05. Mike Tyson 21 years. 11 months, 27 days (Lineal)
06. Muhammad Ali 22 Yrs. 1 months 8 days (lineal)
07. Joe Louis 23 Yrs, 1 month 9 days (lineal)
08. John L. Sullivan 23 Yrs. 3 months 23 days (lineal)
09. George Foreman 24 years old (his birthday!)
10. Jack Dempsey 24 Yrs. 0 months 10 days
11. Joe Frazier 24 Yrs. 1 months 21 days (NYSAC when he beat Mathis)
12. Jim Jeffries 24 Yrs. 1 months 25 days (Lineal)
13. Michael Dokes 24 Yrs. 2 months 0 days
14. Tommy Morrison 24 Yrs. 5 months 15 days
15. Michael Moorer 24 Yrs. 6 months 3 days
16. Wladimir Klitschko 24 Yrs. 6 months 19 days
17. Leon Spinks 24 Yrs. 7 months 4 days
18. Tommy Burns 24 Yrs. 8 months 6 days (Lineal)
19. Max Schmeling 24 Yrs. 8 months 15 days
20. John Tate 24 Yrs. 8 months 21 days
21. Michael Grant 24 Yrs. 10 months 16 days -- (IBC)

THe CBZ Lineal list is as follows --

01. Floyd Patterson 21 Yrs. 10 months 26 days (vacant Lineal)
02. Mike Tyson 22 years. minus 3 days (Lineal)
03. Muhammad Ali 22 Yrs. 1 months 8 days (lineal)
04. Joe Louis 23 Yrs, 1 month 9 days (lineal)
05. John L. Sullivan 23 Yrs. 3 months 23 days (lineal)
06. George Foreman 24 years old (his birthday!)
07. Jack Dempsey 24 Yrs. 0 months 10 days
08. Jim Jeffries 24 Yrs. 1 months 25 days (Lineal)
09. Leon Spinks 24 Yrs. 7 months 4 days
10. Tommy Burns 24 Yrs. 8 months 6 days (Lineal)

[PeteLeo]

I don't doubt your research, but what fringe of a fringy fringe version of the title did Michael Grant win? Was the Golota bout for some sort of championship? PeteLeo.

[Mike DeLisa]

He beat AL Cole for the IBC Heavyweight Title. Is that fringe enough for you?

[PeteLeo]

Pretty fringey. Any sentence containing the words heavyweight title and Al Cole is pretty far out in the ether, it would seem to me. PeteLeo.

[brutu]

When Floyd Patterson won the Heavyweight Championship of the World,thats what it was lineal and intact.
Trevor Berbick dont count whatever cr*p belt he had at the time.

[Mike DeLisa]

Revised the main list and added the Lineals!

[hawk5ins]

Fringy Fringe, I just GOTTA be a part of!

Hawk

[Sharkey]

He beat AL Cole for the IBC Heavyweight Title. Is that fringe enough for you?

Big George may have said, about this organization: "Legitimate belt. Ah Bee See? They make a tasty root-beer."

http://www.ibcrootbeer.com/

[Petey]

OK, so I guess I'm not the only one who refrs to the IBC belt as "The Root Beer Title". Thank God!