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Defended IBF title and defeated WBA champion to become WBA Super champion. Dmitry Pirog: 20–0–0 Middleweight WBO 2010–2012 3 Retired from boxing due to chronic spinal injuries. Harry Simon [9] 31–0–0 Light middleweight: WBO 1998–2001 4 Vacated title to move up to middleweight. Middleweight WBO 2002 0
United Team of Germany: 1964 Tokyo details: Joe Frazier United States: Hans Huber United Team of Germany: Giuseppe Ros Italy Vadim Yemelyanov Soviet Union: 1968 Mexico City details: George Foreman United States: Jonas Čepulis Soviet Union: Giorgio Bambini Italy Joaquín Rocha Mexico: 1972 Munich details: Teófilo Stevenson Cuba: Ion Alexe ...
1921–1963, a boxer who held both the NYSAC and NBA (WBA) world titles simultaneously; 1963–1983, a boxer who held both the WBA and WBC world titles simultaneously
This is a list of WBC world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the World Boxing Council (WBC). The WBC is one of the four major governing bodies in professional boxing , and certifies world champions in 18 different weight classes .
Boxing magazine The Ring has awarded world championships in professional boxing within each weight class from its foundation in 1922. The first Ring world title belt was awarded to heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, and the second was awarded to flyweight champion Pancho Villa. The magazine stopped giving belts to world champions in the 1990s ...
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 ...
Beginning with boxer Pat Bradley, is a chronological widely recognized List of World Welterweight Boxing Champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations: The World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA)
The world has changed greatly since the days an Olympic gold medal seemed like a birthright for the best American amateur boxers. Why the best U.S. Olympic boxing team in decades won't help grow ...