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defeated a fighter that either had to drop his own world title prior to the fight due to organization's championship policy or would become world heavyweight champion while the winner's reign was still active; As of February 20, 2025.
On February 20, 2004, Jones relinquished his heavyweight title to resume boxing as a light heavyweight, at which point Ruiz was elevated to full championship recognition. On April 30, 2005, Ruiz was defeated by James Toney in a championship defense, but post-fight drug testing determined Toney had taken Nandrolone, an anabolic steroid. The bout ...
There is an over lap between the Combat sports of Boxing and Mixed martial arts. Fighters with professional records in both are listed below. Fighters with professional records in both are listed below.
There are many prizefighters with both professional boxing records and professional kickboxing records, including: A ... List of male boxers; List of female kickboxers;
Vacated title to fight Peter Manfredo Jr. instead of #1 contender Robert Stieglitz. The Ring: 2006–2008 3 Vacated titles to move up to light heavyweight. WBA, WBC: 2007–2008 0 Light heavyweight The Ring: 2008 1 Retired and vacated title. Kim Ji-won [3] 16–0–2 Super bantamweight IBF 1985–1986 4 Mihai Leu [4] 28–0–0 Welterweight WBO ...
The first of the current organizations to award a world title was the World Boxing Association (WBA), then known as the National Boxing Association (NBA), when it sanctioned its first title fight in 1921 between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier for the world heavyweight championship.
As professional boxing has four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) each with their own champions, the sport doesn't have a centralized ranking system.The rankings published by these organizations share the trait of not ranking the other organizations' champions, as each one of the sanctioning bodies expects their champion to frequently defend their title against their top-ranked ...
Hearns vacated the title to fight Juan Roldán for the vacant WBC middleweight title. [22] 16 Donny Lalonde (def. Eddie Davis) 27 Nov 1987 – 7 Nov 1988 1 17 Sugar Ray Leonard: 7 Nov – 15 Nov 1988 0 Leonard vacated the title because he was unsure whether he would continue his boxing career. [23] 18 Dennis Andries (2) (def. Tony Willis)