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This is a list of British boxers who have won a world championship by one of the four major sanctioning organisations – the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and the World Boxing Organization (WBO) – as well as those awarded by The Ring.
Tony Laing (born 22 September 1957) is a Jamaican/British professional light welter/welter/light middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Midlands (England) Area light welterweight title, BBBofC British light welterweight title, Commonwealth light welterweight title, and was a challenger for the European Boxing Union (EBU) light welterweight ...
Franklin Roy Bruno MBE (born 16 November 1961) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1982 to 1996. He won the WBC heavyweight title from Oliver McCall at Wembley Stadium in 1995, in what was his fourth world championship challenge.
Larry Holmes, Joe Frazier, Michael Spinks and Marvis Frazier. Boxing in the 1980s was filled with important fights, events and personalities that shaped the sport. [1] Boxing in the 1980s was shaped by many different situations, such as the continuous corporate battles between the different world sanctioning organizations, the void left by Muhammad Ali as the sport's ambassador and consequent ...
He moved to London in 1981 to further his boxing career. [2] In 1982, he became European amateur under-19 champion after defeating Assylbek Kilimov in the semi-finals and Moe Gruciano in the finals at Schwerin in what was then East Germany. [3] [4] Christie was listed in The Guinness Book of Records as the only British boxer to win all 10 ...
British Boxing Board of Control champions (123 P) Pages in category "Lists of British boxing champions" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
List of British super-middleweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British super-middleweight title, which has been sanctioned by the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) since 1989.
Christopher Livingstone Eubank (born 8 August 1966) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 1998. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) middleweight and super-middleweight titles between 1990 and 1995, and is ranked by BoxRec as the third best British super-middleweight boxer of all time.