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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 ...
Ezzard Mack Charles (July 7, 1921 – May 28, 1975), was an American professional boxer who competed from 1940 to 1959. Known as the Cincinnati Cobra, Charles was respected for his slick defense and precision, and is often regarded as the greatest light heavyweight of all time, and one of the greatest fighters pound for pound, [1] having defeating numerous Hall of Fame fighters in three ...
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 ...
In professional boxing, the division is above 168 pounds (76 kg) and up to 175 pounds (79 kg), falling between super middleweight and cruiserweight.. The light heavyweight class has produced some of boxing's greatest champions: Bernard Hopkins (who, upon becoming champion, broke the record for oldest man to win a world title), Tommy Loughran, Billy Conn, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, Michael ...
Men's top 10 rankings Boxer Record Current weight class Current world title(s) Ranker The Ring [1] ... Light heavyweight – 5 7 5 6 7 Errol Spence Jr. 28–1 (22 KO)
Manny Pacquiao has won world championships in eight weight divisions, more than any other boxer in history. The Klitschko brothers, Vitali and Wladimir, held all four major titles in the heavyweight division from 2011 to 2013; they were the first brothers to hold versions of the heavyweight championship at the same time. [5]
Moore was ranked as the #1 light heavyweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization in 2005. [18] Moore was voted as the #1 light heavyweight of the 20th century by the Associated Press in 1999. [19] Moore is rated the number sixth pound for pound fighter of all time by Boxrec. [20]
World light-heavyweight boxing champions (1 C, 85 P) Pages in category "Light-heavyweight boxers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 901 total.