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List of British heavyweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British heavyweight title, which has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club since 1891, and the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) since 1929.
World champions were initially recognized by wide public acclamation, with heavyweight champions winning and losing championship recognition solely in the ring. Retirements periodically resulted in no one, true champion being recognized, while in other cases new champions were proclaimed only to see a previously recognized champion come out of ...
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1904 St. Louis details: Harry Spanjer United States Russell van Horn United States Peter Sturholdt United States 1908 London details: Frederick Grace Great Britain
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The all-time lineal heavyweight champions boxing list started in 1885 and includes Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson among others.
This is a list of British boxers who have won a world championship by one of the four major sanctioning organisations – the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and the World Boxing Organization (WBO) – as well as those awarded by The Ring.
List of British light-heavyweight boxing champions; List of British lightweight boxing champions; List of British super-welterweight boxing champions; List of British super-lightweight boxing champions
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]