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The light-heavyweight division was created in 1903, the brainchild of Chicago journalist Lou Houseman who was also a boxing manager and promoter. He matched his own fighter Jack Root with Kid McCoy and announced the fight as being for the light-heavyweight championship of the world. The boxing press accepted the new weight division and Root was ...
This is a list of current male world boxing champions. ... Light heavyweight (175 lb/79.9 kg) WBA: WBC: IBF: WBO: The Ring: Artur Beterbiev Super champion 21–0 (20 KO)
In professional boxing, the division is above 168 pounds (76 kg) and up to 175 pounds (79 kg), falling between super middleweight and cruiserweight.. The light heavyweight class has produced some of boxing's greatest champions: Bernard Hopkins (who, upon becoming champion, broke the record for oldest man to win a world title), Tommy Loughran, Billy Conn, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, Michael ...
Spinks, who had won the IBF heavyweight title the previous month against Larry Holmes, was stripped of the WBC light heavyweight title due to the WBC's policy against fighters holding world titles in multiple divisions at the same time. [21] 13 J. B. Williamson (def. Prince Mama Mohammed) 10 Dec 1985 – 30 Apr 1986 0 14 Dennis Andries
[2] [3] He has held the undisputed championship [a] in the light-heavyweight division since October 2024, as well as the Ring magazine and International Boxing Organization (IBO) titles. Beterbiev is the first boxer to become the undisputed light-heavyweight champion since Roy Jones Jr. last held that distinction in 2002, [ b ] and is the first ...
This category lists professional boxers who have held a full light heavyweight world championship by the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF), or World Boxing Organization (WBO).
FILE -Caroline Dubois, of Great Britain, left, reacts after defeating Donjeta Sadiku, of Kosovo, right, in a light weight (60kg) preliminary boxing match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, July 27, 2021 ...
Moore was ranked as the #1 light heavyweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization in 2005. [20] Moore was voted as the #1 light heavyweight of the 20th century by the Associated Press in 1999. [21] Moore is rated the number sixth pound for pound fighter of all time by Boxrec. [22]