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Lightweight
Lightweight is a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight. It is also a slang term, indicating insignificance or ineptitude, for example having a low tolerance for alcohol. It can be used as a synonym for "kind of." It may also be used to describe something as being small or...
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Roberto Durán
Roberto Durán (born June 16, 1951) is a retired professional boxer from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all-time. A versatile brawler in the ring, he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra" (or "Hands of Stone") during his career....
Date of birth:
- Jun 16, 1951 (age 58 years)
Alexis Argüello
Alexis Argüello (April 19, 1952 – July 1, 2009), also known by the stage name El Flaco Explosivo (lit. "The Explosive Thin Man"), was a Nicaraguan professional boxer and politician. As a boxer he was a three-time world champion. His trainer was Lupe...
Date of birth:
- Apr 19, 1952
Date of death:
- Jul 1, 2009 (age 57 years)
Julio César Chávez
Julio César Chávez González (born July 12, 1962 in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora) is a former Mexican professional boxer. He is a six-time world champion in three weight divisions. His career spanned over twenty-five years. In his prime he was considered...
Date of birth:
- Jul 12, 1962 (age 47 years)
Edwin Rosario
Edwin "El Chapo" Rosario (born March 15, 1963 - died December 1, 1997) was a Puerto Rican boxer.
Chapo, as he was known around the world of boxing, was born in Barrio Candelaria, Toa Baja, an extremely poor barrio. Chapo's brother Papo Rosario was a...
Date of birth:
- Mar 15, 1963
Date of death:
- Dec 1, 1997 (age 34 years)
Héctor Camacho
Héctor Camacho (born May 24, 1962), nicknamed "Macho Camacho", is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. His son, Héctor Camacho Jr., is also a boxer.
Camacho was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, but his family moved to New York when he was a child. He ran...
Date of birth:
- May 24, 1962 (age 47 years)
Ray Mancini
Ray Mancini, known as "Boom Boom", (born Raymond Michael Mancino; March 4, 1961) is a retired Italian-American boxer. He held the World Boxing Association lightweight championship for two years in the 1980s. Mancini inherited his distinctive...
Date of birth:
- Mar 4, 1961 (age 48 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)
Jimmy Carter
James Walter Carter (December 15, 1923 in Aiken, SC – September 21, 1994) was a world lightweight boxing champion. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in 2000. Carter's loss to Lauro Salas in 1952 and his loss to Paddy DeMarco...
Date of birth:
- Dec 15, 1923
Date of death:
- Sep 21, 1994 (age 70 years)
Carlos Ortiz
Carlos Ortiz (born September 9, 1936) is a Puerto Rican who was a three time world boxing champion, twice in the lightweight division and once in the Jr. Welterweights.
Ortiz, born in Ponce, started his professional career in 1955 with a first round...
Date of birth:
- Sep 9, 1936 (age 73 years)
Henry Armstrong
Henry Jackson Jr. (December 12, 1912, Columbus, Mississippi - October 22, 1988, Los Angeles, California) was a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong.
The son of an African-American sharecropper and an Iroquois Native...
Date of birth:
- Dec 12, 1912
Date of death:
- Oct 22, 1988 (age 75 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)
Barney Ross
Barney Ross, born Dov-Ber Rasofsky (December 23, 1909–January 17, 1967) was a boxer.
Dov-Ber (or Beryl) Rasofsky was born in New York City to Isidore "Itchik" Rasofsky and Sarah Epstein Rasofsky. His father was a Talmudic scholar who had emigrated...
Date of birth:
- Dec 23, 1909
Date of death:
- Jan 17, 1967 (age 57 years)
Esteban De Jesús
Esteban De Jesus (August 2, 1951 – May 11, 1989) was a Puerto Rican world lightweight champion boxer whose life was full of controversy, problems and scandals. De Jesus, a native of the town of Carolina, Puerto Rico, was a gymmate of Wilfredo...
Date of birth:
- Aug 2, 1951
Date of death:
- May 11, 1989 (age 37 years)
Tony Canzoneri
Tony Canzoneri (November 6, 1908 – December 9, 1959) was an American boxer who was born in the town of Slidell, Louisiana.
Canzoneri, an Italian American, was one of the members of the exclusive group of boxing world champions who have won titles in...
Date of birth:
- Nov 6, 1908
Date of death:
- Dec 9, 1959 (age 51 years)
Ken Buchanan
Ken Buchanan (born 28 June 1945) is a former world boxing champion. Many consider Buchanan to be the best boxer ever to come out of Scotland.
Before turning pro, Buchanan was the 1965 ABA featherweight champion. He started boxing professionally on...
Date of birth:
- Jun 28, 1945 (age 64 years)
Acelino Freitas
Acelino "Popó" Freitas (born September 21, 1975), is a native of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, who is a boxer and a former world junior lightweight and lightweight champion. His style of fighting in the ring has garnered him a reputation for being more...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1975 (age 34 years)
Carlos Cruz
Carlos Teo Cruz (November 4, 1937-February 15, 1970) was a boxer from the Dominican Republic. Considered by many Dominican boxing fans to be one of the finest boxers ever born in that country, Cruz was world Lightweight champion from 1968 to 1970....
Date of birth:
- Nov 4, 1937
Date of death:
- Feb 15, 1970 (age 32 years)
José Luis Ramírez
José Luis Ramírez (born 1958-12-03) is a Mexican national who was a boxer and a two time world Lightweight champion.
A native of Huatabampo, Sonora and a resident of Culiacán, Ramírez climbed slowly but steadily on boxing's rankings. In 1978, as a...
Date of birth:
- 1960 (age 50 years)
Paul Spadafora
Paul Spadafora (born September 5, 1975) is a native of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania who is a professional boxer. Spadafora was the IBF's world Lightweight champion.
Known as "The Pittsburgh Kid", Spadafora hails from a borough outside of Pittsburgh...
Date of birth:
- Sep 5, 1975 (age 34 years)
Pedro Carrasco
Pedro Carrasco (Alosno, Spain, July 11, 1943 – January 27, 2001) was a Spanish boxer whose fame transcended the boxing ring. During the 1970s, he was a media darling in Spain.
Carrasco was crowned European Lightweight champion in 1967. This triumph...
Date of birth:
- Jul 11, 1943
Date of death:
- Jan 27, 2001 (age 57 years)
Leonard Doroftei
Leonard Dorin Doroftei (known also as Leonard Dorin, though his family name is Doroftei; born April 10, 1970) is a Romanian-Canadian former boxer, the WBA lightweight world champion from January 5, 2002 to October 24, 2003.
Born in Ploieşti,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 10, 1970 (age 39 years)
Lew Jenkins
Lew Jenkins (December 4, 1916 - October 30, 1981) was an American boxer and Lightweight Champion of the World. He was born in Milburn, Texas and was raised in Depression-era Texas. He began fighting in carnivals and the US Army ultimately defeating...
Date of birth:
- Dec 4, 1916
Date of death:
- Oct 30, 1981 (age 64 years)
Jim Watt
Jim Watt (born 18 July 1948) is a former Scottish boxer, who became world champion in the lightweight division when Roberto Duran left the title vacant in 1979 and the WBC had him fight Alfredo Pitalua. Watt knocked out Pitalua in twelve rounds....
Date of birth:
- Jul 18, 1948 (age 61 years)
Livingstone Bramble
Ras-I Alujah Bramble (born Livingstone Bramble on September 3, 1960 in Saint Kitts and Nevis) is a boxer. However, Bramble was raised on Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. He became the first world champion from Saint Kitts and Nevis. As of 2005,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 3, 1960 (age 49 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)
Manny Pacquiáo
Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao (pronounced /ˈpækjaʊ/, /pa'kjaw/ in Cebuano and Tagalog, also in Bikol; born December 17, 1978), more commonly known as Manny Pacquiao, is a Filipino professional boxer.
He is currently the WBO World welterweight champion,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 17, 1978 (age 31 years)
Freddie Welsh
Freddie Welsh (March 5, 1886 - July 29, 1927) was a Welsh boxing champion.
Born in Pontypridd, Wales, and christened Frederick Hall Thomas, he was nicknamed the "Welsh Wizard" (an epithet shared by his contemporary, but in the political ring, David...
Date of birth:
- Mar 5, 1886
Date of death:
- Jul 29, 1927 (age 41 years)
Beau Jack
Sidney Walker, better known as Beau Jack, (April 1, 1921 – February 9, 2000), was an American lightweight boxer, he was a world champion twice. One of the most popular fighters during the war years, he headlined at Madison Square Garden on 21...
Date of birth:
- Apr 1, 1921
Date of death:
- Feb 9, 2000 (age 78 years)
Joe Gans
Joe Gans (November 25, 1874 - August 10, 1910) was born Joseph Gant in Baltimore, Maryland. Gans was rated as the greatest lightweight boxer of all time by boxing historian and Ring Magazine founder, Nat Fleischer and was known as the "Old Master"....
Date of birth:
- Nov 25, 1874
Date of death:
- Aug 10, 1910 (age 35 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)
Benny Leonard
Benny Leonard (born Benjamin Leiner; April 17, 1896—April 18, 1947) was an American boxer. He was named as number 8 on Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years.
The "Ghetto Wizard" as he was known was born and raised in the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 17, 1896
Date of death:
- Apr 18, 1947 (age 51 years)
Lou Ambers
Luigi Giuseppe d'Ambrosio (November 8, 1913 – April 24, 1995), aka Lou Ambers, was a lightweight boxer who fought from 1932 to 1941.
Managed by Al Weill and trained by Charley Goldman, the "Herkimer Hurricane", as he was known, began his career...
Date of birth:
- Nov 8, 1913
Date of death:
- Apr 24, 1995 (age 81 years)
Rocky Kansas
Rocky Kansas was a tough, short (5'2'' tall) former lightweight champion of the world. He was born Rocco Tozzo on April 21, 1895 in Buffalo, New York and died on January 10, 1954.
Rocky was the younger brother of Joe "Kid" Kansas (Tozzo), and older...
Date of birth:
- Apr 21, 1895
Date of death:
- 1954 (age 58 years)
Ike Williams
Ike Williams (August 2, 1923, in Brunswick, GA—September 5, 1994) was a former lightweight world boxing champion. Williams was known for his great right hand, and was named to the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time as well as...
Date of birth:
- Aug 2, 1923
Date of death:
- Sep 5, 1994 (age 71 years)
Sammy Angott
Sammy Angott (January 17, 1915 – October 22, 1980) was born Samuel Engotti in Pennsylvania. He was known as a clever boxer who liked to follow up a clean punch by grabbing his opponent, causing him to be known as "The Clutch."
On May 3, 1940, the 5...
Date of birth:
- Jan 17, 1915
Date of death:
- Oct 22, 1980 (age 65 years)
Sammy Mandel
Sammy Mandell (b. February 5, 1904 in Rockford, Illinois, d. November 7, 1967 in Oak Park, Illinois) was a former world lightweight boxing champion. Born Samuel Mandella, he was known as the "Rockford Sheik", due to his Rudolph Valentino like good...
Date of birth:
- Feb 5, 1904
Date of death:
- 1967 (age 62 years)
Jack Kid Berg
Judah Bergman, known as Jack Kid Berg or Jackie Kid Berg (June 28, 1909 – April 22, 1991), was an English boxer born in the East End of London.
Judah Bergman was born in Cable Street, St George in the East, Stepney. He was apprenticed as a lather...
Date of birth:
- Jun 28, 1909
Date of death:
- Apr 22, 1991 (age 81 years)
Diego Corrales
Diego "Chico" Corrales (August 25, 1977 – May 7, 2007) was a former super featherweight and lightweight world boxing champion. He is most noted for his series of bouts with José Luis Castillo.
Corrales was born to a Colombian father and a Mexican...
Date of birth:
- Aug 25, 1977
Date of death:
- May 7, 2007 (age 29 years)
Fuad Aslanov
Fuad Aslanov (born June 28, 1976 in Sumgait) is an Azerbaijani boxer who competed in the flyweight division (– 51 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.
Date of birth:
- Jun 28, 1976 (age 33 years)
Serik Yeleuov
Serik Yeleuov (born December 15, 1980) is a Kazakhstani boxer who won the bronze medal at Lightweight (60 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place at the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying...
Date of birth:
- Dec 15, 1980 (age 29 years)
Leavander Johnson
Leavander Johnson (December 24, 1969 – September 22, 2005) was an American lightweight boxer from Atlantic City, New Jersey, who once held the International Boxing Federation version of the world title. He won the title on June 17, 2005, against the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 24, 1969
Date of death:
- Sep 22, 2005 (age 35 years)
Joel Casamayor
Joel "El Cepillo" Casamayor Johnson (born July 12, 1971 in Guantanamo, Cuba) is a Cuban boxer, who turned pro after defecting to the United States on the eve of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The nickname "El Cepillo", literally translated to ...
Date of birth:
- Jul 12, 1971 (age 38 years)
Jesús Chávez
Jesús Gabriel Sandoval Chávez (born November 12, 1972) is a Mexican professional boxer. He was born in Hidalgo del Parral in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Chávez has a career record of 44 wins, (30 knockouts) and 5 losses.
Chávez's first title...
Date of birth:
- Nov 12, 1972 (age 37 years)
Namjil Bayarsaikhan
Namjilyn Bayarsaikhan (Mongolian: Намжилын Баярсайхан; born August 10, 1965) is a retired Mongolian boxer. At the 1992 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's Lightweight category.
Date of birth:
- Aug 10, 1965 (age 44 years)
Orzubek Nazarov
Orzubek Nazarov (born August 30, 1966 in Kant, Kyrgyzstan) is a Kyrgyz boxer, who won the bronze medal at the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Reno. He is a former WBA Lightweight Champion.
As an amateur Nazarov was the World bronze...
Date of birth:
- Aug 30, 1966 (age 43 years)
José Luis Castillo
José Luis Castillo (born December 14, 1973, Empalme, Sonora) is a Mexican boxer. Nicknamed El Temible, Castillo has a current record of 58-9-1 with 50 knockouts. He is best known for his grueling fight against Diego Corrales for the WBC-WBO...
Date of birth:
- Dec 14, 1973 (age 36 years)
Arturo Frias
Arturo Frias (born October 27, 1956) is a Chicano who was a world champion boxer. He is a native of Montebello, California.
Frias began his professional boxing career on February 7, 1975, one month and a half after he had turned eighteen years old....
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1956 (age 53 years)
Giovanni Parisi
Giovanni Parisi (December 2, 1967 – March 25, 2009) was an Italian boxer, who won the gold medal in the Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg) category at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
A native of Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Parisi began his professional...
Date of birth:
- Dec 2, 1967
Date of death:
- Mar 25, 2009 (age 41 years)
Chun Chil-Sung
Chun Chil-Sung (Hangul: 전칠성, Hanja: 全七星) (born July 7, 1961 in Sinan, Jeollanam-do, South Korea) is a retired South Korean boxer.
In 1983, Chun won the silver medal in lightweight (– 60 kg) at the 3rd Boxing World Cup in Rome, Italy. Next year, he...
Date of birth:
- Jul 7, 1961 (age 48 years)
Hong Sung-Sik
Hong Sung-Sik (born November 13, 1967) is a South Korean boxer. He won a bronze medal in the men's Lightweight (60 kg) category at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Date of birth:
- Nov 13, 1967 (age 42 years)
Bob Montgomery
Bob Montgomery was an American boxer from Philadelphia. He was born in Sumter, South Carolina.
Bob Montgomery went undefeated in his first 23 fights, going 22-0-1 and winning the Pennsylvania State Lightweight Title.
Montgomery beat Julie Kogon...
Date of birth:
- Feb 10, 1919
Date of death:
- Aug 25, 1998 (age 79 years)
Miguel Angel Gonzalez
Miguel Ángel González (born November 15, 1970), is a Mexican professional boxer best known to be world lightweight champion as a professional. He also campaigned as a junior welterweight, as well as welterweight in his career, and is currently rated...
Date of birth:
- Nov 15, 1970 (age 39 years)
Tony Lopez
"Tony The Tiger (boxer)" redirects here. For other uses, see Tony The Tiger (disambiguation). For the article about the cartoon mascot, see Tony The Tiger.
Tony "The Tiger" Lopez (born February 24, 1963), is a former professional boxer from...
Date of birth:
- Feb 24, 1963 (age 46 years)
Wladimir Sidorenko
Wladimir Sidorenko or Wolodymyr Sydorenko, (Ukrainian: Валерій Сидоренко; born September 23, 1976 in Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) is a professional boxer in the bantamweight (118 lb) division. He is the former WBA world bantamweight champion,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 23, 1976 (age 33 years)
John Caldwell
John Caldwell (born 7 May 1938, Belfast - died 11 July 2009) was an Irish boxer who won the bronze medal in the flyweight (– 51 kg) division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.
Caldwell was considered a supreme fighter whose class...
Date of birth:
- May 7, 1938
Date of death:
- Jul 11, 2009 (age 71 years)
Julio Díaz
Julio Díaz (born on December 24, 1979 in Jiquilpan, Michoacán, Mexico) is a professional boxer in the lightweight (135 lb) division. His record is 36-6 (25 KOs). He is a former IBF lightweight champion
Diaz captured the IBF lightweight interim title...
Date of birth:
- Dec 24, 1979 (age 30 years)
Rafael Ruelas
Rafael Ruelas (born April 26, 1971 in Yerba Buena, JAL, Mexico) was a professional boxer. Ruelas was a very popular Mexican fighter, best known for his devastating knockout loss to Oscar de la Hoya; a loss which left Oscar somewhat scorned by the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 26, 1971 (age 38 years)
Tim Austin
Timothy ("Tim") Austin (born April 14, 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a professional boxer from the United States. He was nicknamed the "Cincinnati Kid".
Austin had an outstanding amateur career, compiling a record of 113-9.
Known as "Cincinnati Kid",...
Date of birth:
- Apr 14, 1971 (age 38 years)
Romallis Ellis
Romallis Ellis (born December 16, 1965 in Atlanta, Georgia) was an American boxer, who won the Lightweight Bronze medal at the 1998 Olympics.
Olympic Results
Ellis began his professional career in 1989 and later moved up two weight classes. He came...
Date of birth:
- Dec 16, 1965 (age 44 years)
