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  2. List of world light-heavyweight boxing champions - Wikipedia

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    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. The boxing press accepted the new weight division and Root was ...

  3. Light heavyweight - Wikipedia

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    In professional boxing, the division is above 168 pounds (76 kg) and up to 175 pounds (79 kg), falling between super middleweight and cruiserweight.. The light heavyweight class has produced some of boxing's greatest champions: Bernard Hopkins (who, upon becoming champion, broke the record for oldest man to win a world title), Tommy Loughran, Billy Conn, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, Michael ...

  4. Artur Beterbiev - Wikipedia

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    Beterbiev is the first boxer to become the undisputed light-heavyweight champion since Roy Jones Jr. last held that distinction in 2002, [b] and is the first to do so in the "four-belt" era. [ 4 ] As an amateur , Beterbiev won a light-heavyweight silver medal at the 2007 World Championships , gold at the 2008 World Cup and 2009 World ...

  5. Dmitry Bivol - Wikipedia

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    Light-middleweight. Dmitry Yuryevich Bivol (Russian: Дмитрий Юрьевич Бивол; born 18 December 1990) is a Russian professional boxer. He held the WBA light heavyweight title from 2017 to 2019 and the WBA Super light heavyweight title from 2019 to 2024.

  6. Ezzard Charles - Wikipedia

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    Ezzard Mack Charles (July 7, 1921 – May 28, 1975), was an American professional boxer who competed from 1940 to 1959. Known as the Cincinnati Cobra, Charles was respected for his slick defense and precision, and is often regarded as the greatest light heavyweight of all time, and one of the greatest fighters pound for pound, [1] having defeating numerous Hall of Fame fighters in three ...

  7. Joshua Buatsi - Wikipedia

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    Joshua Buatsi. Joshua Buatsi (born 14 March 1993) is a British professional boxer. He has held World Boxing Organization (WBO) interim light-heavyweight title since September 2024. At regional level, he has held the British and Commonwealth light-heavyweight titles since February 2024, and previously held the British title in 2019.

  8. Archie Moore - Wikipedia

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    Mike Mazurki. Succeeded by. Lou Thesz. Archie Moore (born Archibald Lee Wright; December 13, 1913 – December 9, 1998) [1] was an American professional boxer and the longest reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion of all time (1952 – 1962). He had one of the longest professional careers in the history of the sport, competing from 1935 to 1963.

  9. Andre Ward - Wikipedia

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    Light heavyweight. Andre Michael Ward (born February 23, 1984) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2017. He retired with an undefeated record and held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including unified super middleweight titles between 2009 and 2015, and unified light heavyweight titles between ...

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