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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 ...
Bruno Girard. Bob Godwin. Julio César González. Danny Green (boxer) Montell Griffin. William Guthrie (boxer) Oleksandr Gvozdyk.
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.
United Team of Germany: 1964 Tokyo details: Joe Frazier United States: Hans Huber United Team of Germany: Giuseppe Ros Italy Vadim Yemelyanov Soviet Union: 1968 Mexico City details: George Foreman United States: Jonas Čepulis Soviet Union: Giorgio Bambini Italy Joaquín Rocha Mexico: 1972 Munich details: Teófilo Stevenson Cuba: Ion Alexe ...
12. Michael Spinks. 18 Mar 1983 – 9 Oct 1985. 4. Spinks, who had won the IBF heavyweight title the previous month against Larry Holmes, was stripped of the WBC light heavyweight title due to the WBC's policy against fighters holding world titles in multiple divisions at the same time.[20] 13.
List of world light-heavyweight boxing champions; This page is a redirect. The following categories are used to track and monitor this redirect: From a page move ...
This is a list of IBO world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the International Boxing Organization (IBO) since 1993. r – Champion relinquished title s – Champion stripped of title
Boxing magazine The Ring has awarded world championships in professional boxing within each weight class from its foundation in 1922. The first Ring world title belt was awarded to heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, and the second was awarded to flyweight champion Pancho Villa. The magazine stopped giving belts to world champions in the 1990s ...