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This is a list of notable male boxers. For a list of female boxers, ... (American boxer); Joe Erskine (Welsh boxer) Alfredo Escalera; Sixto Escobar; Luisito Espinosa;
He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, and is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In 2005, Louis was ranked as the best heavyweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization, [ 10 ] and was ranked number one on The Ring magazine's list of the "100 greatest ...
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 ...
Ronnie Harris (American boxer, born 1948) Edward Hartman (boxer) Jahmal Harvey; Harry Henderson (boxer) Hank Herring; Jamel Herring; Roscoe Hill; Virgil Hill; John Hines (boxer) Russell van Horn; Michael Hunter (American boxer)
Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951. Nicknamed "The Brown Bomber", Louis is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential boxers of all time. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 until his temporary retirement in 1949.
Historian Bert Sugar ranked Robinson as the greatest fighter of all time and in 2002, Robinson was also ranked number one on The Ring magazine's list of "80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years". [14] He was named the best boxer of all time, pound for pound, by the International Boxing Research Organization (IBRO) in both of its all-time ratings ...
In time, each organization would have its own spin-off sanctioning organization break from its ranks: the United States Boxing Association, which disassociated with the WBA in the late 1970s and became the International Boxing Federation in 1983, and the World Boxing Organization, whose members would split from the WBC in 1988.
Muhammad Ali (/ ɑː ˈ l iː /; [2] born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and social activist. [a] A global cultural icon, widely known by the epithet, "the Greatest", he is frequently cited as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.