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He boxed extremely successfully for Panix Promotion 15 times and in 2000 after Lennox Lewis had terminated his contract, Luan decided to look for a new alternative. In February and April 2000 he built his connections with Universum Box-Promotion and fought a number of matches for them.
Emmanuel Clottey (boxer) Joshua Clottey; Richarno Colin; Henry Collins (boxer) Luis Contreras (boxer) Steven Conway (boxer) Johnny Cooke; Marvin Cordova Jr. DeMarcus Corley; Marcos Costa; Billy Costello (boxer) Pier-Olivier Côté; Jane Couch; Tommy Coyle (boxer) Carl Crook; Walter Crucce; Andy Cruz; César Cuenca; Gary Cully; Juan Curet; Raúl ...
Ricky Anderson; William Abelyan; Arthur Abraham; Miguel Acosta; Tomasz Adamek; Ola Afolabi; Joachim Alcine; Devon Alexander; José Alfaro; Muhammad Ali; Canelo Álvarez
The light-heavyweight division was created in 1903, the brainchild of Chicago journalist Lou Houseman who was also a boxing manager and promoter. He matched his own fighter Jack Root with Kid McCoy and announced the fight as being for the light-heavyweight championship of the world.
This is a list of world lightweight boxing champions by organization, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations: . The World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA),
Lennox Lewis (2) (def. Oliver McCall) 7 Feb 1997 – 22 Apr 2001 9 21 Hasim Rahman: 22 Apr – 17 Nov 2001 0 22 Lennox Lewis (3) 17 Nov 2001 – 6 Feb 2004 2 Lewis retired as champion and chose not to rematch Vitali Klitschko ahead of a WBC-mandated 1 March deadline to accept the bout. [6] 23 Vitali Klitschko (def. Corrie Sanders)
John Henry Lewis: 31 Oct 1935 – 19 Jun 1939 5 Lewis is stripped of the title for failing to defend it within the required six month limit and was virtually blind in his left eye. [37] 15 Billy Conn (def. Melio Bettina) 13 Jul 1939 – 20 Dec 1940 3 Conn vacated the title to move up to the heavyweight division. [38] 16 Anton Christoforidis
Claressa Maria Shields [1] (born March 17, 1995) is an American professional boxer and professional mixed martial artist.She has held multiple world championships in five weight classes, including the undisputed female light middleweight title in March 2021; the undisputed female middleweight title twice between 2019 and 2024, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) female light heavyweight title ...