# The 16 Greatest Fighters to Win After Turning 40

> Twenty years into a career, most fighters are commentating. These ones were still getting their hands raised.

*By YPB Team · Published August 19, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-16-greatest-fighters-to-win-after-turning-40*

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## Current results (2 votes)

1. **George Foreman** — 50% (1 votes · score 1000/1000)
   Won the heavyweight title back at 45, twenty years after losing it in Zaire.
2. **Vitor Belfort** — 50% (1 votes · score 1000/1000)
   Knocked out Nate Marquardt at 38 and was still finishing fights past 40.
3. **Dan Henderson** — 0% (0 votes · score 862/1000)
   Knocked out Hector Lombard at 44 and Michael Bisping at 45.
4. **Evander Holyfield** — 0% (0 votes · score 862/1000)
   Still beating ranked heavyweights at 43, a decade after the Tyson fights.
5. **Bernard Hopkins** — 0% (0 votes · score 764/1000)
   Won a world title at 49, the oldest man ever to hold one.
6. **Andrei Arlovski** — 0% (0 votes · score 764/1000)
   Won UFC fights past 43, twenty years after taking the heavyweight title.
7. **Anderson Silva** — 0% (0 votes · score 647/1000)
   Stopped Tyron Woodley in the second round in December 2025, aged 50.
8. **Wladimir Klitschko** — 0% (0 votes · score 647/1000)
   Defended the heavyweight title six times after turning 40.
9. **Randy Couture** — 0% (0 votes · score 503/1000)
   Won the UFC heavyweight title at 43 by outboxing a man twenty years younger.
10. **Holly Holm** — 0% (0 votes · score 503/1000)
   Beat ranked bantamweights in her forties, more than a decade after her boxing career.
11. **Fedor Emelianenko** — 0% (0 votes · score 503/1000)
   Won four straight fights in his forties, including a knockout of Frank Mir at 41.
12. **Aleksei Oleinik** — 0% (0 votes · score 503/1000)
   Kept submitting UFC heavyweights into his mid-forties with the Ezekiel choke.
13. **Manny Pacquiao** — 0% (0 votes · score 323/1000)
   Won a welterweight world title at 40 by beating Keith Thurman in 2019.
14. **Mark Hunt** — 0% (0 votes · score 323/1000)
   Knocked out Frank Mir and Antonio Silva in his forties on pure hand speed.
15. **Roy Jones Jr.** — 0% (0 votes · score 323/1000)
   Won a cruiserweight title at 40 after four world titles in four divisions.
16. **Yoel Romero** — 0% (0 votes · score 323/1000)
   Beat Chris Weidman and Luke Rockhold at 39 and 40 in consecutive fights.

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