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All championship reigns. [] Map of countries, number of beaten opponents in world heavyweight boxing championship fights reached by country citizen (as of December 2022). Note: secondary championships are not included. The list does not include The Ring and lineal championship fights after July 2, 1921. Pos.
Currentworld heavyweight champion. Current WBA, WBC, WBO and The Ring champion Oleksandr Usyk. At boxing 's beginning, the heavyweight division had no weight limit, and historically the weight class has gone with vague or no definition. During the 19th century many heavyweights were 170 pounds (12 st 2 lb, 77 kg) or less, though others weighed ...
Chávez retired in his 25th year as a professional boxer with a record of 107 wins, 6 losses and 2 draws, with 86 knockouts and is considered one of the greatest fighters of all time. He holds records for most successful consecutive defenses of world titles (27), most title fights (37), most title-fight victories (31) and he is after Joe Louis ...
Muhammad Ali (/ ɑːˈliː /; [2] born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed " the Greatest ", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century and is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
Walker Smith Jr. (May 3, 1921 – April 12, 1989), better known as Sugar Ray Robinson, was an American professional boxer who competed from 1940 to 1965. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. [1] He is often regarded as the greatest boxer of all time, pound-for-pound. [2][3][4][5][6]
Boxing career of Manny Pacquiao. Manny Pacquiao competed in professional boxing from 1995 to 2021. Regarded by boxing historians as one of the greatest professional boxers of all time, [4] Pacquiao is the only boxer in history to win twelve major world titles in eight different weight divisions. [5] He is also the first boxer in history to win ...
Ray Charles Leonard (born May 17, 1956), best known as Sugar Ray Leonard, is an American former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and occasional actor.Often regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, he competed professionally between 1977 and 1997, winning world titles in five weight classes; the lineal championship in three weight classes; [3] as well as the undisputed ...
The International Boxing Research Organization rates Foreman as the eighth-greatest heavyweight of all time. [8] In 2002, he was named one of the 25 greatest fighters of the past 80 years by The Ring. [9] The Ring ranked him as the ninth-greatest puncher of all time. [10] He was a ringside analyst for HBO's boxing coverage for 12 years until ...