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Boxer Record Weight class (boxing) Title(s) held Championship years Title defenses Notes Jimmy Barry [1] 61–0–10, 1NC Bantamweight World: 1894–1899 6 Fought when the bantamweight category was not fully established. The weight limits in the United States shifted during his career. Joe Calzaghe [2] 46–0–0: Super middleweight WBO: 1997 ...
The National Boxing Association (NBA) was organized in 1921 to serve as a regulating authority for boxing in the United States. The prominence of New York City as the epicenter of boxing would lead to its state boxing regulatory body, the New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC) joining the NBA in recognizing world champions in each weight class.
The list does not include The Ring and lineal championship fights after July 2, 1921, although it only includes heavyweight champions that captured undisputed championship (July 2, 1921–present), lineal championship (August 29, 1885–July 2, 1921) or The Ring championship. The list only includes title reigns during which the champion:
In 2003, The Ring ranked him number 11 in the list of all-time greatest punchers. [97] Robinson was also ranked as the number 1 welterweight and the number 1 pound-for-pound boxer of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization. [98] He was inducted into the Madison Square Garden Walk of Fame at its inception in 1992. [99]
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 ...
10 of boxing’s greatest Black boxers. These ten men stand out as some of the greatest athletes of all time. Muhammad Ali. American boxer Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) training with a speed bag ahead ...
BoxRec currently ranks Tyson at number 20 among the greatest boxers that had their last fight at heavyweight. [166] In The Ring magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years, released in 2002, Tyson was ranked at number 72. [167] He is ranked number 16 on The Ring magazine's 2003 list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
This project page is incomplete. Please help to improve the page, or discuss the issue on the talk page. Boxing magazine The Ring began naming the top 10 pound for pound boxers in 1989. The first #1 pound for pound fighter was heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. To reduce the number of tables, a table is only added if there are changes in the rankings. For WBA titles, only titles in the primary ...