contemporary:
(plural: ‘contemporaries‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “kong”; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a person born or living at the same time or period as another;
a person (or a thing) of the present time,

contemporaries --- film actresses of the same period
President Barak Obama of the USA and Prime Minister David Cameron of the UK are contemporaries. President Barak Obama is the contemporary of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, because both of them are in power almost in the same period.
Q: Who was Charles Darwin’s contemporary? →→→ A: Some of Charles Darwin’s contemporaries were Alfred Russel Wallace, Herbert Spencer, Captain FitzRoy and Gregory Mendel.
Actor Johny Depp is the contemporary of actor Nicolas Cage in the Hollywood film industry.

one boxer contemporary of the other
