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Champions were recognized by public acclamation. A champion in that era was a fighter who had a notable win over another fighter and kept winning afterward. Retirements or disputed results could lead to a championship being split among several men for periods of time.
In 2001 and 2004, The Ring named him the fourth greatest middleweight of all time [13] and in 2002 named him the 17th greatest fighter of the past 69 years. [14] The International Boxing Research Organization rates Hagler as the sixth greatest middleweight of all time, [15] while BoxRec rates him the 29th greatest boxer of all time, pound for ...
This is a chronological List of World Super Middleweight Boxing Champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations: The World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA), The World Boxing Council (WBC), founded in 1963, The International Boxing Federation (IBF), founded in 1983,
On Oct. 1, 1975, heavyweights Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier met for the third and final time in Manila, Philippines, of all places. It turned out to be, in my view, the greatest fight in boxing ...
In 2003, he was named by the Ring Magazine as one of the 100 greatest punchers of all time. As of May 2023, BoxRec ranks Monzon as the fifth greatest fighter of all time, pound for pound. [14] Always known for his overhand right, following Monzón's victory over Mantequilla Nápoles, Angelo Dundee said: "Monzón is the complete fighter. He can ...
As of 2022, BoxRec ranks Calzaghe as the twenty-fourth greatest fighter of all time, pound for pound, as well as the second-greatest European boxer of all time. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 2007, Calzaghe won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award , [ 9 ] making him the first Welsh winner of this award since David Broome in 1960.
Hagler moved on and built a reputation as arguably the greatest middleweight who ever lived. In 1985, he stopped Hearns in three fearsome rounds in one of the most frenetic and action-paced major ...
Greb is ranked by BoxRec as the 5th greatest fighter. Greb was also named the 2nd greatest fighter of the past 80 years by the Ring Magazine, the 5th greatest fighter of all time by historian Bert Sugar, the 4th greatest fighter of all time by historian and boxing commentator Max Kellerman and ranked as the #1 middleweight, the #13 light ...