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Categories: Boxers from Michigan. Sportspeople from Detroit. American boxers by populated place.
Overall Rank. 1. Floyd Mayweather Jr. Welterweight. 1996. Grand Rapids. 2. 2. James Toney.
This category highlights boxers, past and present, originally from the state of Michigan:
Ricky Womack (May 7, 1961 in Detroit, Michigan – January 19, 2002 at St. John Oakland Hospital, Madison Heights, Michigan) was a professional boxer from the United States.
Thomas Hearns, the most famous Detroit boxer this side of Joe Louis, fought from the 1970s to the 2000s, piling up six world titles and two continental titles in his impressive career....
Tony “Superbad” Harrison is determined to put Detroit back on the boxing map. One of the last protégés of late Hall of Fame trainer Emanuel Steward, Harrison is the reigning WBC World Super Welterweight Champion.
As the world’s heavyweight boxing champion for a record 12 years from 1937 to 1949, Joe Louis is generally regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, a breaker of racial barriers, and national hero.