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Light middleweight
Light Middleweight (also known as Junior Middleweight or Super Welterweight), is a weight division in professional boxing, between 148-154 pounds (66.7-69.9 kg).
This division was established in 1962, when the Austrian Board of Control recognized a fight between Emile Griffith and Teddy Wright for...
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Wilfred Benitez
Wilfred Benítez (born September 12, 1958 in New York, New York), is a Puerto Rican boxer. He is remembered best as a skilled and aggressive fighter with exceptional defensive abilities who won world championships in three separate weight divisions,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 12, 1958 (age 51 years)
Félix Trinidad
Félix 'Tito' Trinidad, Jr. (born January 10, 1973) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer, considered as one of the best boxers in that country's history. When he was an amateur Trinidad won five National Amateur Championships in Puerto Rico. He...
Date of birth:
- Jan 10, 1973 (age 37 years)
Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard (born Ray Charles Leonard on May 17, 1956) is a retired American professional boxer . Named Fighter of the Decade for the 1980s, he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time, winning world titles at multiple...
Date of birth:
- May 17, 1956 (age 53 years)
Oscar de la Hoya
Oscar "The Golden Boy" De La Hoya (born February 4, 1973) is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. He won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and...
Date of birth:
- Feb 4, 1973 (age 36 years)
Vinny Paz
Vinny Paz, formerly Vinny Pazienza (born Vincenzo Edward Pazienza on December 16, 1962 in Cranston, Rhode Island) is an Italian-American former boxer and world champion in the lightweight and light middleweight weight classes. He boxed under the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 16, 1962 (age 47 years)
Fernando Vargas
Fernando Vargas (born December 7, 1977) is a former Mexican American boxer and two-time world champion, who won a bronze medal as an amateur at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. His nicknames include "Ferocious", "The Aztec Warrior" and ...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1977 (age 32 years)
Thomas Hearns
Thomas "Hitman" Hearns (born October 18, 1958, in Memphis, raised in Detroit), is an American 8-time world champion professional boxer in six different categories or weights.
Hearns became the first ever quadruple world champion in boxing history....
Date of birth:
- Oct 18, 1958 (age 51 years)
Alan Minter
Alan Minter (born 17 August 1951 in Crawley, England) is a former middleweight world champion boxer.
Minter was the 1971 ABA Middleweight Champion. He won the bronze medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Soon after, Minter began his career in...
Date of birth:
- Aug 17, 1951 (age 58 years)
Shane Mosley
"Sugar" Shane Mosley (born September 7, 1971) is a boxer from Pomona, California. He has won world titles in three weight divisions. He is the current WBA Welterweight Super Champion
Mosley was an amateur standout, capturing various amateur titles,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 7, 1971 (age 38 years)
Kostya Tszyu
Konstantin Borisovich Tszyu (Russian: Константин (Костя) Борисович Цзю; English pronunciation: /ˈkɒstə ˈzuː/) (born September 19, 1969) is a retired Russian-born Australian boxer of mixed Russian, Korean and Mongol descent. He holds both Russian and...
Date of birth:
- Sep 19, 1969 (age 40 years)
Ricardo Mayorga
Ricardo Mayorga (born October 3, 1973 in Managua, Nicaragua), is a Nicaraguan professional boxer. He is the former WBA/WBC Welterweight champion and the former WBC Junior Middleweight champion. He holds a fair record of 29-7 with 23 knockouts and 1...
Date of birth:
- Oct 3, 1973 (age 36 years)
John Mugabi
John "The Beast" Mugabi (born March 4, 1960) is a former boxer and world Jr. Middleweight champion. A world traveller, Mugabi was a part of an early 1980s Jr. Middleweight and Middleweight division scene that also included Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray...
Date of birth:
- Mar 4, 1960 (age 49 years)
Donald Curry
Donald Curry (born September 7, 1961) is a retired Fort Worth boxer nicknamed the 'Lone Star Cobra'.
Curry, who had an amateur record of 400-4, made the 1980 United States Olympic team, but could not compete due to the U.S. boycott.
Claimed an...
Date of birth:
- Sep 7, 1961 (age 48 years)
Julian Jackson
Julian Jackson (born September 12, 1960) is a former professional boxer and former three-time world champion of the middle weight & junior middle weight division. Born in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Jackson is considered to be one of the hardest pound...
Date of birth:
- Sep 12, 1960 (age 49 years)
Nino Benvenuti
Giovanni Benvenuti (born 26 April 1938 in Isola d´Istria, Italy, today Izola, Slovenia), better known as Nino Benvenuti, is an Italian former boxer who is considered by many, including noted boxing writer Brian Doogan, to be the greatest boxer ever...
Date of birth:
- Apr 26, 1938 (age 71 years)
Matthew Hilton
Matthew Hilton (born December 17, 1965) was a Canadian fighter from Montreal, Quebec and one of the three brothers from the fighting family Hilton.
He started boxing professionally in early 1984, and while doing so lived (along with his father...
Date of birth:
- Dec 17, 1965 (age 44 years)
Yori Boy Campas
Luis Ramón Campas (born August 6, 1971 Mexico) is a Mexican boxer who was the IBF world Jr. Middleweight champion. He is better known as Yory Boy Campas.
He is a native of Navojoa, Mexico, where the word Yori means white (he is pale compared to the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1971 (age 38 years)
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker (born January 2, 1964), nicknamed "Sweet Pea," is a retired professional boxer, who is considered among the greatest of all-time. A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Whitaker was the lightweight silver medalist at the 1982 World...
Date of birth:
- Jan 2, 1964 (age 46 years)
Terry Norris
Terry Wayne Norris is a retired American boxer and a three-time world champion in the junior middleweight division. Originally from Lubbock, Texas, he fought out of San Diego.
A star baseball player during his high school years, Norris bypassed a...
Date of birth:
- 1967 (age 43 years)
Alessandro Mazzinghi
Alessandro Mazzinghi, known as Sandro (born in Pontedera, Italy, October 3, 1938) is an Italian former professional boxer.
Sandro entered the world of professional boxing in 1961, in the superwelter division. As European and World Champion, he has a...
Date of birth:
- Oct 3, 1938 (age 71 years)
David Reid
David Terrell Reid (born September 17, 1973) is a former boxer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Reid had a stellar amateur boxing career, culminating with a gold medal at the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, after having won the title a...
Date of birth:
- Sep 17, 1973 (age 36 years)
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Floyd Joy Mayweather, Jr. (born Floyd Sinclair on February 24, 1977), is an American professional boxer. He is the son of Floyd Mayweather, Sr., a former welterweight boxing contender.
From July 18, 2005 through June 2, 2008 he was rated by The Ring...
Date of birth:
- Feb 24, 1977 (age 32 years)
Sandro Lopopolo
Sandro Lopopolo (born December 18, 1939 in Milan) was an Italian light welterweight boxer, who won the silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, and fought as a professional from 1961 to 1973. Lopopolo held the Italian, European and World...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1939 (age 70 years)
Carmelo Bossi
Carmelo Bossi (born October 15, 1939) was an Italian boxer who held the European welterweight and world junior middleweight titles. Bossi boxed from 1961 to 1971 and his final overall record was 40 wins (10 KOs), 8 defeats and 3 draws.
Bossi...
Date of birth:
- Oct 15, 1939 (age 70 years)
Cory Spinks
Corey Spinks (born Corey Calvin, February 20, 1978 in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.) is a professional boxer. He's the son of former heavyweight champion of the world Leon Spinks. Cory was born five days after his dad defeated Muhammad Ali for the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 20, 1978 (age 31 years)
Javier Castillejo
Francisco Javier Castillejo (born March 22, 1968) is a boxer from Spain. He is the former WBA World Middleweight Champion, and has also previously held the WBC World Light-Middleweight Championship, giving him recognition as one of the few currently...
Date of birth:
- Mar 22, 1968 (age 41 years)
Jermain Taylor
Jermain Taylor (born August 11, 1978) is an American professional boxer and former undisputed middleweight champion. He made his professional boxing debut in 2001 and won his first 23 bouts, which included victories over former champions Raúl...
Date of birth:
- Aug 11, 1978 (age 31 years)
Sergio Mora
Sergio "The Latin Snake" Mora (b. December 4, 1980, Los Angeles) is a Mexican American professional boxer trained by Dean Campos. Dean is the young trainer behind Sergio's unorthodox style of fighting. His nickname refers to his Hispanic origins and...
Date of birth:
- Dec 4, 1980 (age 29 years)
Winky Wright
Ronald Lamont "Winky" Wright (born November 26, 1971, in Washington, DC) is an American boxer, the former undisputed light middleweight world champion and a current middleweight contender.
Though born in DC, he grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida,...
Date of birth:
- Nov 26, 1971 (age 38 years)
Mike McCallum
Mike McCallum (born 7 December 1956 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a retired boxer from Jamaica who held world titles in several weight classes.
McCallum represented Jamaica as an amateur at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, where he was...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1956 (age 53 years)
Maurice Hope
Maurice Hope (born 6 December 1951 in St. John's, Antigua) is a former boxer from England, who was world Jr. Middleweight champion. Hope lived in Hackney most of his life, but now lives in his place of birth, Antigua. He represented Great Britain at...
Date of birth:
- Dec 6, 1951 (age 58 years)
Ayub Kalule
Ayub Kalule (born January 6, 1954) is a retired boxer from Uganda, who first came to prominence when he won the Amateur World Welterweight Title at the inaugural 1974 World Championships in Havana, Cuba. He turned professional and based himself in...
Date of birth:
- Jan 6, 1954 (age 56 years)
Giselle Salandy
Giselle Salandy (January 25, 1987 – January 4, 2009), also known as Jizelle Salandy or Jizelle Joseph, was an unbeaten world-class female boxer from Trinidad and Tobago. She is ranked as the #1 female light middleweight boxer all-time by the Boxrec....
Date of birth:
- Jan 25, 1987
Date of death:
- Jan 4, 2009 (age 21 years)
Yermakhan Ibraimov
Yermakhan Ibraimov (born January 1, 1972) is a Kazakh boxer who competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal. Four years earlier, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, he captured the bronze medal....
Date of birth:
- Jan 1, 1972 (age 38 years)
Pornchai Thongburan
Pornchai Thongburan (born July 1, 1974) is a boxer from Thailand who competed in the Light Middleweight (– 71 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.
Date of birth:
- Jul 1, 1974 (age 35 years)
Boris Lagutin
Boris Nikolayevich Lagutin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Лагутин) (born June 24, 1938 in Moscow) was possibly the most celebrated of Soviet boxers. During his career as a boxer, he has won 241 fights and lost only 11. He won medals in three Olympic...
Date of birth:
- Jun 24, 1938 (age 71 years)
Karim Tulaganov
Karim Tulaganov (Карим Тулаганов; born August 27, 1973) is an Uzbek boxer. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he won a bronze medal in the men's Light Middleweight category, together with Yermakhan Ibraimov of Kazakhstan.
Tulaganov Olympic results were:...
Date of birth:
- Aug 27, 1973 (age 36 years)
Roman Karmazin
Roman Alexandrovich Karmazin (born January 2, 1973 in Kuznetsk) is the former IBF Light Middleweight champion of the world. He is a Russian boxer who has defeated Keith Holmes and Kassim Ouma. He suffered his first loss in 2002, a twelve-round...
Date of birth:
- Jan 2, 1973 (age 37 years)
Vernon Forrest
Vernon Forrest, known as "The Viper", (February 12, 1971 – July 25, 2009) was an American professional boxer who became a world champion in the welterweight and light middleweight divisions and noted for his two victories over Shane Mosley.
Forrest...
Date of birth:
- Feb 12, 1971
Date of death:
- Jul 25, 2009 (age 38 years)
Kassim Ouma
Kassim Ouma (born December 12, 1978) is a Ugandan boxer.
Born into poverty, at the age of six he was kidnapped and forced to join the National Resistance Army and consequently did not see his family for five years. Ouma is the 7th of 13 children,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 12, 1978 (age 31 years)
Carlos Santos
Carlos Santos (born October 1, 1955 in Ceiba, Puerto Rico) is a former boxer from Puerto Rico, who represented his native country as an amateur at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. There he was eliminated in the quarterfinals. Santos was...
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1955 (age 54 years)
Rolando Garbey
Rolando Garbey Garbey (born November 19, 1947 in Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban boxer who competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) category. He won an Olympic silver medal in 1968 and a bronze medal in 1976. In 1974, at the inaugural 1974 World...
Date of birth:
- Nov 19, 1947 (age 62 years)
John McCormack
John McCormack (born January 9, 1935 in Glasgow) was a Scottish boxer, who was nicknamed "Cowboy". Born in Maryhill, Glasgow.
Known as "Cowboy", he started boxing in 1950 at the age of fifteen, and by 1956 he held the Scottish and A.B.A. Light...
Date of birth:
- Jan 9, 1935 (age 75 years)
Richie Woodhall
Richie Woodhall (born April 17, 1968) is a former English super-middleweight boxer. He lost his last fight to his friend Joe Calzaghe in 2000, and subsequently retired in 2002.
Woodhall since developed a broadcasting career with the BBC's boxing...
Date of birth:
- Apr 17, 1968 (age 41 years)
José Antonio Rivera
José Antonio Rivera (b. April 7, 1973, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a professional boxer in the super welterweight (154 lb) division.
His record is 39-6-1 (24 KOs). He is a former WBA welterweight and WBA world super welterweight champion. He is...
Date of birth:
- Apr 7, 1973 (age 36 years)
Sergiy Dzindziruk
Sergey "Razor" Dzindziruk (Ukrainian: Сергій Дзинзирук ; born 1 March 1976 in St. Nizhnegorsk, Ukraine) is a southpaw professional boxer in the junior middleweight (154 lb) division. He is the current WBO super welterweight champion.
As an amateur...
Date of birth:
- Mar 1, 1976 (age 33 years)
Duane Thomas
Duane Julius Thomas (born June 21, 1947 in Dallas, Texas) is a former American football running back in the National Football League who played four seasons for the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins from 1970 to 1974.
Thomas played college...
Date of birth:
- Jun 21, 1947 (age 62 years)
Simon Brown
Simon Brown (born August 15, 1963, in Clarendon, Jamaica) is a former professional boxer. Known as "Mantequilla", a name given to him by his famous trainer Jose 'Pepe' Correa, Brown was an welterweight fighter who held titles at multiple weight...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1963 (age 46 years)
Laurent Boudouani
Laurent Boudouani (born December 29, 1966 in Sallanches, Haute-Savoie) is retired professional boxer. He's a former WBA world light middleweight champion boxer and an Welterweight Silver medal winner at the 1988 Olympics.
Boudouani turned...
Date of birth:
- Dec 29, 1966 (age 43 years)
Robin Reid
Robin Reid (born February 19, 1971 in Sefton, England) is a former British boxer whose greatest successes came when winning the light middleweight bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics for Great Britain and Becoming the World Boxing Council super...
Date of birth:
- Feb 19, 1971 (age 38 years)
Christophe Tiozzo
Christophe Tiozzo (born June 1, 1963 in St. Denis, France) was a French boxer, who won a Light Middleweight Bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Tiozzo is the brother of Three-Time World Champion Fabrice Tiozzo.
Tiozzo began his professional...
Date of birth:
- Jun 1, 1963 (age 46 years)
Ray Downey
Ray Downey (born September 23, 1968 in Halifax County, Nova Scotia) was a Canadian boxer, who won a light middleweight bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics. In 1990 he gained silver at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
Downey turned pro in 1994 and...
Date of birth:
- Sep 23, 1968 (age 41 years)
Daniel Santos
Daniel Santos (born October 10, 1975 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. As an amateur Santos represented Puerto Rico in international events, including the 1990 and 1992 Junior World Championships, Pan American Boxing...
Date of birth:
- Oct 10, 1975 (age 34 years)
Raul Marquez
Raúl Márquez (born August 28, 1971 in Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas) is a Mexican boxer who represented the United States in the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain and an IBF Jr. Middleweight Champion. In 1976 Raul came to the United States...
Date of birth:
- Aug 28, 1971 (age 38 years)
Paul Vaden
Paul "The Ultimate" Vaden (born December 29, 1967 in San Diego, CA) CEO of Multi-Paul Inc. is a retired world champion boxer & motivational speaker. Vaden created "The Ultimate Workout" a high end and successful residential white collar boxing...
Date of birth:
- Dec 29, 1967 (age 42 years)
Travis Simms
Travis Simms (born May 1, 1971) is a professional American boxer in the super welterweight (154 lb) division.
On January 6, 2007, Simms won a nine-round knockout victory against Jose Antonio "El Gallo" Rivera in a championship bout in Hollywood,...
Date of birth:
- May 1, 1971 (age 38 years)
Harry Simon
Harry Simon (born October 21, 1972 in Walvis Bay, Namibia) is a former professional boxer in the super welterweight (154 lb) division.
As an amateur Simon represented Namibia as a welterweight at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. His...
Date of birth:
- Oct 21, 1972 (age 37 years)
Verno Phillips
Verno Jeremias Phillips (born November 29, 1969 in Belize City, Belize), is a professional boxer in the Light Middleweight division.
Phillips turned pro in 1988 and captured the Vacant WBO Light Middleweight Title in 1993 with a win over Lupe Aquino...
Date of birth:
- Nov 29, 1969 (age 40 years)
John David Jackson
John David Jackson (born May 17, 1963 in Denver, CO), is a former professional boxer in the super welterweight (154lb) division.
Jackson was developed as an amateur out of the Tacoma Boys club in Tacoma, WA, USA, and turned professional in 1984. He...
Date of birth:
- May 17, 1963 (age 46 years)
Manfred Zielonka
Manfred Zielonka (born January 24, 1960, Düren) is a retired boxer from West Germany. At the 1984 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's light middleweight division (– 71 kg). In the semifinals he was beaten by eventual winner Frank...
Date of birth:
- Jan 24, 1960 (age 49 years)
