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held light heavyweight boxing championship of the world in the 1920s and was a contender for the heavyweight title George Dixon: the first black world boxing champion in any weight class, while also being the first ever Canadian-born boxing champion; considered the #1 Featherweight of all-time by Ring Magazine founder Nat Fleischer: David Downey
1920 Canadian Light Heavyweight boxing champion; 1921 Grey Cup champion with the Toronto Argonauts; 2-time Stanley Cup champion (1934, 1935) with the Chicago Blackhawks and the Montreal Maroons; Inducted into Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame (1965); also prominent in rugby, baseball
The Canadian Professional Boxing Council was founded in December of 1976. [1] Vince Bagnato presided over the council. [2] There were promoters and amateur and professional fight managers among its members. [3] It was established as a national regulatory body for professional boxing, presenting an alternative to the Canadian Boxing Federation ...
Chuvalo was born on September 12, 1937, to Croat immigrants Stipan and Katica from Ljubuški in the Herzegovina region of what is today Bosnia and Herzegovina.Chuvalo became the Canadian amateur heavyweight champion in May 1955, defeating Winnipeg's Peter Piper with a first-round knockout (KO) in a tournament final in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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 .
Trevor Berbick, former WBC heavyweight champion; Maxie Berger, world champion junior welterweight [4] Tommy Burns (1881–1955), world heavyweight boxing champion; George Chuvalo (born 1937), heavyweight, five-time Canadian heavyweight champion and two-time world heavyweight title challenger, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame; Willie DeWitt, heavyweight
Bellew was stripped of the title and named Emeritus champion after moving up to heavyweight. [15] 24 Mairis Briedis (def. Marco Huck) 1 Apr 2017 – 27 Jan 2018 1 25 Oleksandr Usyk: 27 Jan 2018 – 4 Jun 2019 2 Usyk was stripped of the title and named champion in recess after moving up to heavyweight. [16] 26 Ilunga Makabu (def. Michał Cieślak)
List of Commonwealth Boxing Council champions is a table showing the Commonwealth champions certificated by the Commonwealth Boxing Council (CBC). The CBC is also affiliated with the WBC. v — Champion vacated title. s — Champion stripped of title. (n) — where 'n' is the number of occasions the title has been won.