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| x Sugar Ray Leonard |
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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...
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| x Thomas Hearns |
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Orthodox stance | Welterweight |
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....
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| x Marvin Hagler |
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Southpaw | Middleweight |
Marvelous Marvin Hagler (born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler, in Newark, New Jersey, May 23, 1954), is a former Undisputed Middleweight boxing champion of the world. Hagler's record is 62-3-2 with 52 knockouts.
Hagler was raised in Newark, New Jersey's...
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| x Muhammad Ali |
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Orthodox stance | Heavyweight |
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942) is a retired American boxer and three-time World Heavyweight Champion, who is widely considered one of the greatest heavyweight championship boxers of all time. As an amateur, he won a...
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| x Mike Tyson |
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Orthodox stance | Heavyweight |
Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is a retired American boxer. He was the undisputed heavyweight champion and remains the youngest man ever to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles. He won the WBC title at just 20 years, 4...
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| x Larry Holmes |
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Heavyweight |
Larry Holmes (born November 3, 1949, in Cuthbert, Georgia) is a former world WBC and IBF heavyweight boxing champion. Holmes has spent the majority of his adult life in Easton, Pennsylvania, in the state's Lehigh Valley region, giving rise to his...
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James Field (c.1714 – 11 February 1751) was a sailor and boxer in England in the 18th century who was hanged for robbery.
He was born in Dublin, and spent most of his early life involved in petty crime. His criminal record meant that in Ireland he...
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| x John Morrissey |
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John Morrissey (February 12, 1831 – May 1, 1878), also known as Old Smoke, was a bare-knuckle boxer and a gang member in New York in the 1850s and later became a Democratic State Senator and U.S. Congressman from New York, backed by Tammany Hall....
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| x Barney Ross |
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Lightweight |
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...
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| x Mia St. John |
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Mia Rosales St. John (born June 24, 1967) is an American professional boxer, model, businesswoman, and Tae Kwon Do champion.
St. John, a Mexican-American born in San Francisco, California, attended California State University, Northridge, earning a...
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| x Chuck Zito |
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Italian-American Chuck Zito (born Charles Zito Jr. on March 1, 1953) is an actor, amateur boxer, martial artist, celebrity bodyguard, stuntman, former boxing trainer and former president of the New York chapter of the Hells Angels.
A motorcycle...
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| x Virgil Frye |
Virgil Charles Frye is an American actor and former Golden Gloves boxing champion.
He grew up in Estherville, Iowa. He has two children, Sean Frye and Soleil Moon Frye (Punky Brewster), and is the father-in-law of Jason Goldberg.
Frye suffers from...
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| x Rubin Carter | Middleweight |
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (born May 6, 1937) is a former American middleweight boxer, who competed from 1961 through 1966. Carter, along with John Artis, was convicted twice for the murder of three people which occurred at a bar in June 1966 in his...
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| x Wendo kolosoy |
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Antoine Wendo Kolosoy (April 25, 1925 - July 28, 2008) — known as Papa Wendo — was a Congolese musician. He was considered the "Father" of Congolese rumba music, a musical style blending rumba, beguine, waltz, tango and cha-cha.
Wendo was born in...
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| x Benny Leonard | Lightweight |
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...
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| x Tommy Loughran |
Tommy Loughran (November 29, 1902 – July 7, 1982) was the light heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
Loughran's effective use of coordinated foot work, sound defense and swift, accurate counter punching is now regarded as a precursor to the...
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| x Rubén Olivares | Featherweight |
Rubén Olivares (born January 14, 1947) is a former boxer of Mexican nationality. A native of Mexico City, Olivares was a world champion multiple times, and considered by many as the greatest bantamweight champion of all time. He was very popular...
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| x Kostya Tszyu |
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Light middleweight |
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...
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| x Wilfredo Gómez |
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Wilfredo Gómez (born October 29, 1956) is a former boxer and three time world champion. Nicknamed "Bazooka", Gómez had one of the highest knockout win percentages in professional boxing, winning 88 percent of his bouts by knockout. In 2003, Ring...
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| x Daorung Chuvatana | Bantamweight |
Daorung Chuvatana also known as Surapol Sidangnoi (born 1969-04-01 in Utaradit, Thailand) is a retired boxer who won World titles in the Bantamweight weight divisions.
Chuvatana turned pro in 1985 and in 1994 won the WBA bantamweight title by...
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| x Adonis Rivas | Flyweight |
Adonis Antonio Rivas Ordóñez (born 1972-12-07 in León, Nicaragua) is a professional boxer in the super flyweight division.
Rivas turned professional in 1995 and captured the WBO super flyweight title with a decision win over Diego Morales in 1999....
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| x Elvis Alvarez | Flyweight |
Elvis Alvarez (born 1965-02-02, Medellin, Colombia – died 1995-07-16) was professional boxer in the flyweight division.
Alvarez turned professional in 1985 and captured the vacant WBO flyweight title with a decision win over Miguel Mercedes in 1989,...
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| x Johnny Buff | Bantamweight |
Johnny Buff (June 12, 1888 – January 14, 1955) was an American boxer. He was World Bantamweight Champion from 1921 to 1922.
In 1921, Buff won both the Bantamweight Championship of the World and the Flyweight Championship of the World. He became the...
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| x Jesus Kiki Rojas | Flyweight |
Jesus Kiki Rojas (born 1964-01-31 in Rio Caribe, Sucre) is a former professional boxer in the super flyweight division from Venezuela.
Rojas turned professional in 1985 and captured the WBA flyweight title with a decision win over Fidel Bassa in...
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| x Eidy Moya | Bantamweight |
Eidy Moya (born 1974-09-04 in Barcelona, Anzoategui, Venezuela) is a retired boxer who won World titles in the bantamweight weight division.
Moya's natural boxing skills showed early in his life when older boys persuade him to brawl in the streets....
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| x Israel Contreras | Bantamweight |
Israel Contreras (born 1960-12-27 in La Guayra, Venezuela) is a former Venezuelan boxer who won the World Boxing Association bantamweight title. He had a supporting role in the Mel Gibson film Apocalypto.
Contreras turned professional in 1981 and...
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| x Michael Simms |
Michael Simms Jr (born July 26, 1974 in Sacramento, CA) is a US American boxer best known to win the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships at light heavyweight.
Simms won the tournament in Houston 1999 by beating David Haye 8-2, Humberto Savigne...
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| x Kelvin Seabrooks | Bantamweight |
Kelvin Seabrooks (born March 10, 1963 in Charlotte, North Carolina) was an American boxer who won the International Boxing Federation bantamweight title and defended it two times.
Seabrooks turned professional in 1981 and captured the IBF...
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| x Ubaldo Nestor Sacco | Light welterweight |
Ubaldo Nestor Sacco (July 28, 1955 in Buenos Aires – May 28, 1997) was an Argentine boxer.
Known as "Uby", Sacco turned pro in 1978 and won the World Boxing Association light welterweight title by TKO over Gene Hatcher in 1984. He lost the belt the...
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| x Loreto Garza | Light welterweight |
Loreto Garza (born May 23, 1962 in Sacramento, California) is a former American boxer.
Loreto Garza started boxing amateur at 18 years old and did it for three years. He won the Golden Gloves all three years and was also on the US boxing team. Garza...
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| x Dodie Boy Peñalosa | Flyweight |
Diosdado "Dodie Boy" Peñalosa (born November 19, 1962, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental Philippines) is a retired Filipino boxer and a former IBF champion in the light flyweight and flyweight classes.
Peñalosa won the Philippine lightweight title...
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| x Holly Holm |
Holly Holm (born October 17, 1981 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA) is a female boxer fighting in the welterweight division.
She currently holds several welterweight titles and is highly regarded as the best female welterweight in the world. She also...
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| x Gaby Canizales | Bantamweight |
Jose 'Gaby' Canizales (born May 1, 1960, in Laredo, Texas) is a retired boxer who won world championships in the bantamweight division.
Canizales turned pro in 1979 and in 1983 challenged Jeff Chandler for the World Boxing Association (WBA)...
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| x Nana Konadu | Bantamweight |
Nana Yaw Konadu Yeboah (born February 15, 1964 in Sunyani, Ghana) is a retired boxer who won World titles in two different weight divisions.
Konadu turned pro in 1985 and in 1989 won the WBC Super Flyweight Title by winning a decision over Gilberto...
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| x Alexander Munoz | Super Flyweight |
Alexander Muñoz (born February 8, 1979, Miranda, Venezuela) is a professional boxer in the super flyweight division, nicknamed "El Explosivo."
Munoz had an outstanding amateur career, compiling a record of 163 wins, 9 loses, and 129 knockouts in 172...
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| x Tod Morgan | Super Featherweight |
Albert Morgan Pilkington, better known as "Tod Morgan," (December 25, 1902 – August 3, 1953), was an American boxer.
According to the April 7, 1927 Spokane Spokesman-Review, Morgan was born in Dungeness, WA--which is adjacent to Sequim. Dungeness is...
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| x Fitz Vanderpool |
Fitzroy "Fitz The Whip" Vanderpool (born November 3, 1967 in Trinidad and Tobago)(Resides in Kitchner , Ontario , Canada) is a professional boxer with Canadian citizenship. His biggest match was against Fernando Vargas where he lost by tko.
Official...
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| x Michele Piccirillo | Welterweight |
Michele Piccirillo (born January 29, 1970 in Modugno, Italy) is a professional boxer in the welterweight (147lb) division.
Known as "Gentleman", Piccirillo turned pro in 1992 and captured the Vacant IBF Welterweight Title with a decision win over...
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| x Stipe Drviš |
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Stipe Drews, birth name Stipe Drviš (pronounced as STEE-peh DER-vish, born June 8 1973 in Makarska, Croatia), is a Croatian professional boxer. He lost the WBA's version of the World light heavyweight championship title to Australian Danny Green on...
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| x Harry Lewis |
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Harry Lewis (Harry Besterman; September 16, 1886 – February 22, 1956), was an American boxer.
Lewis was born in New York City. He was World Welterweight Champion 1908-12. Ring Magazine's Nat Fleischer ranked Lewis "the 6th greatest welterweight of...
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| x Bob Olin |
Robert Lous "Bob" Olin (July 4, 1908, in New York City – December 16, 1956, in New York City) was an American boxer.
He won the World Light Heavyweight Championship.
In 1928 Olin won the New York City Golden Gloves 175 lbs Open Championship. He won...
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| x Abe Goldstein | Bantamweight |
Abe Goldstein (September 10, 1898, in New York, New York – February 12, 1977, in St. Petersburg, Florida) was an American boxer.
He was World Bantamweight Champion in 1924, and was ranked the # 5 bantamweight of all time
Goldstein was 5' 5", and...
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| x Jackie Fields | Welterweight |
Jackie Fields (February 9, 1908 – June 3, 1987), born Jacob Finkelstein, was an American boxer.
He was an Olympic flyweight gold medal winner, and the world welterweight champion.
In 1962, legendary fight manager Jack Kearns called Fields the “best...
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| x Ben Jeby |
Ben Jeby, officially Morris Benjamin Jebaltowsky (born December 27, 1909 - October 5, 1985), was a Jewish American boxer from New York City.
He was the world middleweight champion in 1933.
After a successul amateur career, Jeby turned professional...
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| x Charlie Phil Rosenberg | Bantamweight |
Charley Phil Rosenberg (Charles Green; August 15, 1902, in New York City – March 12, 1976) was an American boxer.
He was World Bantamweight Champion from 1925 to 1927.
Rosenberg turned professional as a bantamweight in 1921 with less than stellar...
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| x Victor Perez | Flyweight |
Victor "Young" Perez (Victor Younki : born October 18, 1911, in Tunis, Tunisia; died March, 1945, in Auschwitz, Poland) was a Tunisian boxer.
Perez was World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932.
The 5'1", 110-pound puncher captured the French...
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| x Robert Cohen |
Robert Cohen (born November 15, 1930, in Bone, Algeria) was a French boxer. Cohen was world bantamweight champion from 1954 to 1956.
Cohen, who stood at 5' 3-1/2", won the French bantamweight title in November 1953 and took the European championship...
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| x Jack Bernstein | Super Featherweight |
Jack Bernstein, also known as "John Dodick," "Kid Murphy," and Young Murphy," (November 5, 1899, in New York, New York – December 26, 1945) was an American boxer.
He was World Junior lightweight Champion.
He attended P.S. 64 in New York, but since...
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| x Benny Bass | Featherweight |
Benny Bass, known as "Little Fish," (December 15, 1904, in Kiev, Ukraine; immigrated to the United States in 1906 – June 25, 1975, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American boxer.
He was world featherweight champion, and world junior...
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| x Harry Harris |
Harry Harris ("The Human Hairpin"; November 18, 1880, in Chicago, Illinois – June 5, 1959, in New York City) was an American boxer.
Harris was World Bantamweight Champion in 1901-02.
Harris turned professional in 1896 at the age of 16.
Exceptionally...
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| x Susianna Kentikian | Southpaw | Flyweight |
Susianna "Susi" Levonovna Kentikian (born Syuzanna Levonovna Kentikyan on September 11, 1987) is a German-Armenian professional boxer. She was born in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, but she left the country with her family at the age of five because of the...
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| x Walter McGowan | Bantamweight |
Walter McGowan, MBE (born 13 October 1942 in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland), is a retired Scottish boxer. He is renowned for having been WBC world flyweight champion.
He was the son of Thomas McGowan, who had boxed under the name of 'Joe...
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| x Georgi Kandelaki |
Georgi Kandelaki (born April 10, 1974 in Gori, Georgia) is a former boxer from Georgia, who won the gold medal in the super heavyweight division at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary. A year earlier he represented his...
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| x Tue Bjørn Thomsen |
Tue Bjørn Thomsen (December 21, 1972 – April 23, 2006) was a professional boxer from Denmark, whose best performance as an amateur was winning the bronze medal at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Born in Egedesminde,...
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| x Katsunari Takayama | Minimumweight |
Katsunari Takayama (高山勝成 born May 12, 1983 in Osaka-shi, Osaka-fu, Japan) is a Japanese professional boxer. He is the former World Boxing Association (WBA) minimumweight interim champion, and the former World Boxing Council (WBC) minimumweight...
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| x Orlando Salido | Featherweight |
Orlando Salido Rivera (born November 16, 1980 in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora) is a Mexican professional boxer. He is currently the International Boxing Federation(IBF) Featherweight champion. He has a record of 28-9-2 (with 18 wins by KO).
On November 4,...
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| x Yuri Arbachakov |
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Flyweight |
Yuri Arbachakov (born October 22, 1966 in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia) was a boxing champion in the flyweight division. He was the first Russian professional boxing champion.
Arbachakov was an amateur boxing star in the Soviet Union. He won both world...
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| x Jeff Harding |
Jeff Harding (born 5 February 1965 in Sydney) was a world champion boxer from Australia, known as "Hit Man". Jeff lived in South Grafton N.S.W. Australia and was a student at South Grafton High School. He trained with Steve Cansdell in Grafton...
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| x Orlando Canizales | Bantamweight |
Orlando Canizales (born November 25, 1965) is an American boxer who won the International Boxing Federation bantamweight title and defended it a record sixteen consecutive times.
Canizales turned professional in 1984 and was undefeated in twelve...
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| x Frankie Liles | Super middleweight |
Frankie Liles (born February 14, 1967 in Syracuse, NY) was an American boxer at super middleweight. He is considered a World boxing champion.
Liles won a bronze medal at the 1987 Pan American Games. Liles had a stellar amateur career, compiling an...
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