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List of British heavyweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British heavyweight title, ... 24 March 1970 – 16 March 1971 0 Joe Bugner:
This is a list of British boxers who have won a world championship by one of the four major sanctioning organisations – the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and the World Boxing Organization (WBO) – as well as those awarded by The Ring.
April 26 – George Foreman stages a boxing exhibition against five different boxers, including former Joe Frazier challenger Terry Daniels. He beats the five men by knockout in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. May 16 – Muhammad Ali retains the world Heavyweight title with an eleventh-round knockout of Ron Lyle in Las Vegas.
It is all here in this series: This is the history of heavyweight championship – every one of the main players. At the very start of 1970 Muhammad Ali was still in boxing exile, Joe Frazier was ...
Brian Sidney Harper (19 June 1934 – 23 June 2021), better known by the ring name Brian London, was an English professional boxer who competed from 1955 to 1970. [1] He held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight title from 1958 to 1959, and twice challenged for the world heavyweight title, losing to Floyd Patterson in 1959 and Muhammad Ali in 1966, both times via knockout.
For BBBofC/Commonwealth Heavyweight Titles: 70 Loss 58–12 José Manuel Urtain TKO 2 (15) 17 Dec 1971 Madrid: For EBU Heavyweight Title: 69 Loss 58–11 Jerry Quarry: KO 1 (10) 16 Nov 1971 Empire Pool, Wembley, London: 68 Win 58–10 Joe Bugner: PTS 15 27 Sep 1971 Empire Pool, Wembley, London: BBBofC/Commonwealth/EBU Heavyweight Titles: 67 Win ...
This is a list of notable male boxers. For a list of female boxers, see List of female boxers A. Ricky Anderson ...
His boxing career legacy began at 18 when he knocked out Hector Mercedes in one round. Fast forward two years: The ear-loving Tyson becomes the youngest to hold the heavyweight title as a 20-year-old.