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On February 20, 2004, Jones relinquished his heavyweight title to resume boxing as a light heavyweight, at which point Ruiz was elevated to full championship recognition. On April 30, 2005, Ruiz was defeated by James Toney in a championship defense, but post-fight drug testing determined Toney had taken Nandrolone , an anabolic steroid .
Below is a list of longest reigning heavyweight champions in boxing measured by the individual's longest reign. Both The Ring and lineal championships are included. Career total time as champion (for multiple time champions) does not apply.
Tony Craig Tucker (born December 27, 1958) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1980 to 1998. He won the IBF heavyweight title in 1987, and was the shortest-reigning world heavyweight champion at just 64 days.
The all-time lineal heavyweight champions boxing list started in 1885 and includes Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson among others.
The official rules and regulations of the WBA, [1] World Boxing Council (WBC), [2] International Boxing Federation (IBF), [3] and World Boxing Organization (WBO) [4] all recognize each other in their rankings and title unification rules. Each of these organizations sanction and regulate championship bouts and award world titles.
Robert James Fitzsimmons (26 May 1863 – 22 October 1917) [a] was a British professional boxer who was the sport's first three-division world champion. [1] [2] He also achieved fame for beating "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (the man who beat John L. Sullivan), and he is in The Guinness Book of World Records as the lightest heavyweight champion, weighing just 167 pounds when he won the title. [3]
1 12 Carl Thompson (2) Feb 6, 2004 – Feb 2006 s [3] 1 13 Tomasz Adamek: Jun 9, 2007 – 2008 r: 0 14 Johnathon Banks: Jul 12, 2008 – Feb 27, 2009 s: 0 15 Danny Green: Aug 15, 2009 – Jul 20, 2011 4 16 Antonio Tarver: Jul 20, 2011 – Jul 2012 s: 1 17 Danny Green (2) Nov 21, 2012 – 2013 r: 0 18 Ola Afolabi: Nov 2, 2013 – 2015 r: 0 19 ...
1 Drozd is declared champion in recess due to injury. [14] 23 Tony Bellew (def. Ilunga Makabu) 29 May 2016 – 28 Mar 2017 1 Bellew was stripped of the title and named Emeritus champion after moving up to heavyweight. [15] 24 Mairis Briedis (def. Marco Huck) 1 Apr 2017 – 27 Jan 2018 1 25 Oleksandr Usyk: 27 Jan 2018 – 4 Jun 2019 2