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Dominic Boesel (German: Dominic Bösel, born 24 October 1989) is a German professional boxer who has held the IBO light-heavyweight title since October 2021. He previously held the WBA interim and IBO light-heavyweight titles from 2019 to 2020.
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 ...
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 ...
Unified light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev is 18-0 with 18 KOs but doesn't get a lot of recognition as one of the best light heavyweights ever. One of his trainers says that should change.
On May 12, Boxing Scene confirmed a deal was in place for Smith to fight Cuban light heavyweight contender Sullivan Barrera (19-1, 14 KOs). Early reports indicated the fight would be part of a HBO triple-header also featuring Miguel Berchelt defending his WBC super featherweight title against mandated Takashi Miura on July 15, 2017, in ...
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 ...
Erkin Adylbek Uulu (born 14 February 1991) is a Kyrgyzstani boxer. He is 1.9m tall (6'3ft). He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's light heavyweight event, in which he was eliminated in the round of 32 by Juan Carlos Carrillo. [1] [2] He was the flag bearer for Kyrgyzstan at the Parade of Nations. [3]
Joshua Buatsi (born 14 March 1993) is a British professional boxer.He has held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) interim light-heavyweight title since September 2024. At regional level, he has held the British and Commonwealth light-heavyweight titles since February 2024, and previously held the British title in 2019.