Hopkins, 46, won the WBC light heavyweight title Saturday night with a unanimous decision over Jean Pascal in a 12-round rematch of their controversial fight five months ago.
Only getting stronger as the fight wore on against his much younger opponent, Hopkins won on scorecards that read 116-112, 115-113 and 115-114 to add another milestone to his long career.
Hopkins (52-5-2) has never been knocked out, so the 28-year-old Pascal (26-2-1) was fighting more than two decades of history as he tried in vain to hurt the elder boxer with a flurry near the middle of the 12th round. Standing up to the punches and ducking his way out of trouble again, Hopkins walked straight into history.
He wore his newest belt at 46 years, four months and six days old. Foreman was 45 years and 10 months old when he knocked out 26-year-old unbeaten Michael Moorer in the 10th round to become heavyweight champion again in 1994.
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Wow! It’s really rare. At his age he can still fight that. He really suits to that belt he has now. And became the oldest champion, no one could do it like he did.
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