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Wayne Elcock. Jimmy Ellis. Lester Ellis. Flash Elorde. Carlos Eluaiza. Zsolt Erdei. Joe Erskine (American boxer); Joe Erskine (Welsh boxer) Alfredo Escalera.
This includes all American male boxers that can also be found in the subcategories. This is a diffusing subcategory of Category:American boxers . Articles about male boxers in the parent category should be moved to this subcategory.
No contests. 2. James Jackson Jeffries (April 15, 1875 – March 3, 1953) was an American professional boxer and world heavyweight champion. He was known for his enormous strength and stamina. Using a technique taught to him by his trainer, former welterweight and middleweight Champion Tommy Ryan, Jeffries fought out of a crouch with his left ...
1952 Helsinki. Middleweight. Floyd Patterson (January 4, 1935 – May 11, 2006) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1972, and twice reigned as the world heavyweight champion between 1956 and 1962. At the age of 21, he became the youngest boxer in history to win the title, and was also the first heavyweight to regain the ...
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, 1950) [1] Occupation. Painter. Known for. Expressionist paintings. Spouse. Janet Neiman (née Byrne) [1] LeRoy Neiman (born LeRoy Leslie Runquist, June 8, 1921 – June 20, 2012) was an American artist known for his brilliantly colored, expressionist paintings and screenprints of athletes, musicians ...
This is a list of WBC world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the World Boxing Council (WBC). The WBC is one of the four major governing bodies in professional boxing , and certifies world champions in 18 different weight classes .
Signature. John Arthur Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the " Galveston Giant ", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). His 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the "fight of the century". [ 4 ]
Jerry Quarry(May 15, 1945 – January 3, 1999), nicknamed "Irish" or "The BellflowerBomber", was an American professional boxer.[2] During the peak of his career from 1968 to 1971, Quarry was rated by The Ringmagazineas the most popular fighter in the sport. His most famous bouts were against Muhammad Ali.[3]