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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 ...
Robert James Fitzsimmons (26 May 1863 – 22 October 1917) 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]
This is a list of current male world boxing champions. ... Light heavyweight (175 lb/79.9 kg) WBA: WBC: IBF: WBO: The Ring: Artur Beterbiev Super champion 21–0 (20 KO)
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 ...
Oleksandr Usyk is considered a small heavyweight in an era of behemoths. The 6-foot-3 Ukrainian weighed in at a career-high 221¼ pounds for his fight against 240-pound Anthony Joshua this past ...
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 .
3 Light heavyweight. 4 Super middleweight. ... This is a list of IBO world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the International Boxing ...
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]