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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.
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 ...
Boxer Record Current weight class Current world title(s) Ranker The Ring [1] BWAA [2] TBRB [3] ESPN [4] BoxRec [5] Oleksandr Usyk: 22–0 (14 KO) Heavyweight: WBA (Super), WBC, WBO, and The Ring: 1 3 1 1 13 Naoya Inoue: 28–0 (25 KO) Super bantamweight: WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO, and The Ring (Undisputed) 2 2 2 2 1 Terence Crawford: 41–0 ...
January 13 - Former unified heavyweight champion Tyson Fury announces his third retirement from boxing after speculation linked him to a clash with fellow former unified champion Anthony Joshua January 24 - Naoya Inoue took on South Korean Ye Joon Kim in Tokyo, Japan with Inoue retaining his Undisputed crown by KO Joon Kim in R4
The light heavyweight division had been without a champion since Jamahal Hill relinquished the title in July after he was injured in a pickup basketball game. Hill was at the Garden to watch the ...
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 ...
Lyndon Arthur (born 13 June 1991 [1]) is a British professional boxer.He held the International Boxing Organization (IBO) light-heavyweight title in 2023, and challenged for the World Boxing Association (WBA) (Super version) title in the same year.