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Below is a list of longest reigning heavyweight champions in boxing measured by the individual's longest reign. Both The Ring and lineal championships are included. Career total time as champion (for multiple time champions) does not apply.
1. On Oct. 1, 1975, heavyweights Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier met for the third and final time in Manila, Philippines, of all places. It turned out to be, in my view, the greatest fight in boxing ...
In time, each organization would have its own spin-off sanctioning organization break from its ranks: the United States Boxing Association, which disassociated with the WBA in the late 1970s and became the International Boxing Federation in 1983, and the World Boxing Organization, whose members would split from the WBC in 1988.
HBO World Championship Boxing (in later years stylized in its title card as HBO Boxing – World Championship) is an American sports television series on premium television network HBO. It premiered on January 22, 1973, with a fight that saw George Foreman defeat Joe Frazier in Kingston, Jamaica .
Corbett could not make weight and relinquished the title (although some sources say he continued to defend the title at a higher weight). Attell was recognized as the best man at the weight and thus was proclaimed champion. [1] 1904-02-01 1912-02-22 Abe Attell: World 1912-02-22 1923-06-02 Johnny Kilbane: World 1923-06-02 1923-07-26 Eugène ...
In 2003, NBC picked up a package of three bouts from the promotional group Main Events, which aired on May 3, 10 and 17, 2003. All three matches were also aired in Spanish by NBC's sister network Telemundo. It marked the first time that NBC broadcast professional boxing since 1992, when Sportsworld ended its run after 14 years.
26 Feb – 3 Dec 1926 1 3 Mickey Walker: 3 Dec 1926 – 19 Jun 1931 3 Walker vacated to move up to heavyweight. [22] 4 Marcel Thil (def. Gorilla Jones) 11 Jun 1932 – 23 Sep 1937 10 Thil retires. 5 Freddie Steele (awarded title) 23 Sep 1937 – 1938 1 Steele stripped of the title. 6 Tony Zale (def. Georgie Abrams) 28 Nov 1941 – 16 Jul 1947 1 7
Marciano and Walcott's first fight is regarded as one of the greatest in boxing history, being named 1952’s fight of the year by The Ring. The fight was also ranked the 16th greatest fight of all time by both The Ring and BoxRec, while Bleacher Report ranked it as the 10th greatest heavyweight match of all time. [9]