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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 considerably more.
The only way to win the championship was to beat the current champion. Retirements or disputed results could lead to a championship being split among several men for periods of time. With only minor exceptions, the heavyweight division remained free from dual title-holders until the 1960s.
As professional boxing has four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) each with their own champions, the sport doesn't have a centralized ranking system.The rankings published by these organizations share the trait of not ranking the other organizations' champions, as each one of the sanctioning bodies expects their champion to frequently defend their title against their top-ranked ...
The all-time lineal heavyweight champions boxing list started in 1885 and includes Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson among others.
In 2005, he was named the fifth greatest heavyweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization. [47] In 2007, on ESPN.com's list of the 50 Greatest Boxers of All Time, Marciano was ranked number 14, and was the 5th highest ranked heavyweight, behind (in order) Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson, and Jack Dempsey. [48]
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. [21] 13 J. B. Williamson (def. Prince Mama Mohammed) 10 Dec 1985 – 30 Apr 1986 0 14 Dennis Andries
11 Dec 2008 – 10 Feb 2010 2 Adamek vacated the title to stay at heavyweight. [13] 10 Yoan Pablo Hernández (def. Steve Cunningham) 4 Feb 2012 – 23 Nov 2015 3 Hernández is stripped of the title due to inactivity. [14] 11 Oleksandr Usyk (def. Murat Gassiev) 21 Jul 2018 – 16 Oct 2019 1 Usyk vacated the title to move up to heavyweight. [15] 12
The best UFC fighters of all time ranked. Alex Pattle. June 12, 2023 at 6:27 AM ... Light-heavyweight. Jon Jones’ career has been overshadowed by indiscretions in and out of the ring (Getty Images)