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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.
Tony Laing (born 22 September 1957) is a Jamaican/British professional light welter/welter/light middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Midlands (England) Area light welterweight title, BBBofC British light welterweight title, Commonwealth light welterweight title, and was a challenger for the European Boxing Union (EBU) light welterweight ...
List of British heavyweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British heavyweight title, which has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club since 1891, and the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) since 1929.
The Lennox Lewis vs. Frank Bruno fight was the first time that two British boxers had fought for the world heavyweight title. [4] Lewis beat Bruno on a stoppage in round seven, Bruno again failing to take his title chance after leading the contest on points up until what proved the final round. [citation needed]
Larry Holmes, Joe Frazier, Michael Spinks and Marvis Frazier. Boxing in the 1980s was filled with important fights, events and personalities that shaped the sport. [1] Boxing in the 1980s was shaped by many different situations, such as the continuous corporate battles between the different world sanctioning organizations, the void left by Muhammad Ali as the sport's ambassador and consequent ...
George Gilbody (born 1 January 1955) is a British boxer.He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. [1]Gilbody was the National Champion in 1974 after winning the prestigious ABA featherweight title, he was also a four times National Champion in the lightweight division (1977, 1979, 1980, 1981) boxing out of St. Helens Star ABC. [2]
List of British middleweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British middleweight title. The title was first contested in 1891, came under the auspices of the National Sporting Club in 1909, and under the juristiction of the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) since it was formed in 1929.
Christopher Livingstone Eubank (born 8 August 1966) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 1998. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) middleweight and super-middleweight titles between 1990 and 1995, and is ranked by BoxRec as the third best British super-middleweight boxer of all time.