The World Boxing Hall of Fame (WBHF) is located in Riverside, California

Riverside, California

Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...

, United States, in Southern California. The WBHF is one of two recognized international boxing

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 halls of fame

Hall of Fame

A hall of fame, wall of fame, walk of fame, walk of stars or avenue of stars is a type of attraction established for any field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field...

 with the other being the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF)

International Boxing Hall of Fame

The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame is located in Canastota, New York, United States, within driving distance from the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown and the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta...

, with the IBHOF being the more widely recognized institution.

The WBHF was founded by Everett L. Sanders in 1980. Since its inception, the WBHF has not had a permanent location or museum, which has allowed the more recent IBHOF to garner more publicity and prestige. In 2005 the WBHF created a partnership with the 121-year-old Los Angeles Athletic Club

Los Angeles Athletic Club

Los Angeles Athletic Club is an athletic club and private social club in Los Angeles, California, USA. It awards the John R. Wooden Award to the outstanding men's and women's college basketball player of each year....

 in downtown Los Angeles, where it will establish its permanent home. It opened a "Walk of Fame" museum in 2006.

Its annual ceremony is held in October. Inductees traditionally received a plaque and a medallion, as well as miscellaneous mementoes. Starting in 2004, a 12-inch tall bronze sculpture, entitled "The Prizefighter", designed by artist and boxing trainer Steven Harpst, is given to each inductee, along with the medallion. A souvenir program is given to all attendees.

Professional boxers have to wait five years after retirement to be eligible for election into the Hall of Fame.

Inductees

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• Georgie Abrams
  Georgie Abrams
  Georgie Abrams was an American boxer who once fought for the middleweight championship.Turning professional in 1937, Abrams won his first 17 fights as a professional. He earned a shot at middleweight champion Tony Zale by defeating such contenders as Billy Soose, Teddy Yarosz, and Lou Brouillard....
  
  
• Steve Acunto
• Gwen Adair
• Johnnie Addie
• Artie Aidala
• Muhammad Ali
  Muhammad Ali
  Muhammad Ali is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist...
  
  
• Lou Ambers
  Lou Ambers
  Luigi Giuseppe d'Ambrosio , aka Lou Ambers, was a lightweight boxer who fought from 1932 to 1941.Managed by Al Weill and trained by Charley Goldman, the "Herkimer Hurricane", as he was known, began his career losing only once in more than three years when he faced future hall of fame lightweight...
  
  
• Sammy Angott
  Sammy Angott
  Sammy Angott was born Samuel Engotti in Pennsylvania. He was known as a clever boxer who liked to follow up a clean punch by grabbing his opponent, causing him to be known as "The Clutch."...
  
  
• Vito Antuofermo
  Vito Antuofermo
  Vito Antuofermo is an Italian-American actor who is also a former world Middleweight boxing champion.-Background:Antuofermo was born in Italy, in the town of Palo del Colle, which is located about 15 km inland from the city of Bari. but his family moved to the United States when he was 17...
  
  
• Fred Apostoli
  Fred Apostoli
  Alfredo "Fred" Apostoli was a rugged, accomplished body punching middleweight, who was recognized as the world champion when he defeated Marcel Thil on September 23, 1937. He was elected to The Ring's Boxing Hall of Fame...
  
  
• Ray Arcel
  Ray Arcel
  Ray Arcel was a boxing trainer who was active from the 1920s through the 1980s. He trained eighteen world champions....
  
  
• Joey Archer
  Joey Archer
  Joey Archer, , is a retired boxer. Archer defeated Sugar Ray Robinson in Robinson's final fight in 1965 , and fought Hall of Fame boxers such as Emile Griffith and Dick Tiger....
  
  
• Alexis Argüello
  Alexis Argüello
  Alexis Argüello , also known by the stage name El Flaco Explosivo , was a Nicaraguan professional boxer and politician...
  
  
• Baby Arizmendi
  Baby Arizmendi
  Alberto "Baby" Arizmendi was a professional boxer and featherweight world title holder. He also competed in the bantamweight and welterweight divisions. Arizmendi is famous for being the youngest boxer to turn pro...
  
  
• Henry Armstrong
  Henry Armstrong
  Henry Jackson Jr. was a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong. He is universally regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time by many boxing critics and fellow professionals.Henry Jr...
  
  
• Bob Arum
  Bob Arum
  Robert "Bob" Arum is the founder and CEO of Top Rank, a professional boxing promotion company based in Las Vegas. He also worked for the US Attorney's Office for the southern district of New York in the tax division....
  
  
• Teddy Atlas
  Teddy Atlas
  Theodore A. "Teddy" Atlas, Jr. is a well-known boxing trainer and fight commentator.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Abe Attell
  Abe Attell
  Abraham Washington "Abe" Attell , known in the boxing world as Abe "The Little Hebrew" Attell, was a boxer who became known for his record-setting six-year reign as World Featherweight Champion...
  
  
• Kid Azteca
  Kid Azteca
  Luis Villanueva Paramo was a Mexican boxer best known as Kid Azteca. Villanueva boxed professionally from 1932 to 1961, making him one of a small number of fighters that fought for four decades...
  
  

B

• Rocky Balboa
• Harry Balough
• Guido Bardelli Young Firpo
  Young Firpo
  Young Firpo was a professional light-heavyweight boxer. He was a popular fighter in the Pacific Northwest during the 1920s and 1930s, particularly in Portland, Oregon...
  
   (2008)
• Joe Barnum
• Carmen Basilio
  Carmen Basilio
  Carmine Basilio better known in the boxing world as Carmen Basilio, is an American former professional boxer who was a two weight world boxing champion...
  
  
• Jose Becerra
  Jose Becerra
  Jesus "Hit man" Becerra is a retired Mexican boxer. He became world champion in the bantamweight division.-Early life:...
  
  
• Wilfred Benítez
  Wilfred Benitez
  Wilfred Benítez , is a Puerto Rican boxer. He is remembered best as a skilled and aggressive fighter with exceptional defensive abilities who won world championships in three separate weight divisions, and was the youngest world champion in boxing history at the age of 17...
  
  
• Nino Benvenuti
• Jack Kid Berg
  Jack Kid Berg
  Judah Bergman, known as Jack Kid Berg or Jackie Kid Berg , was an English boxer born in the East End of London.-Biography:Judah Bergman was born in Romford Street near Cable Street, St George in the East, Stepney...
  
  
• Paul Berlenbach
• Al Bernstein
  Al Bernstein
  Al Michael Bernstein is an American sportscaster, writer, stage performer, recording artist, and speaker.-1970s:In the 1970s, he was a newspaperman, working at Lerner Newspapers in Chicago. He eventually became a managing editor at that newspaper....
  
   (2009)
• Melio Bettina
  Melio Bettina
  Melio Bettina was a professional boxer.-Amateur career:Bettina won the 1935 Intercity Golden Gloves at light-heavyweight by decision over Tony Zale.-Pro career:...
  
  
• Whitey Bimstein
  Whitey Bimstein
  Whitey Bimstein was a boxing trainer and cutman. He boxed pro and after 70 fights, he hung up his gloves, and joined the U.S. Navy during World War I as a boxing instructor. When he left the Navy, he decided to become a full time trainer. He formed a partnership with Ray Arcel in 1925 and...
  
  
• Jimmy Bivins
  Jimmy Bivins
  James Louis Bivins, is a former American heavyweight boxer whose professional career ran from 1940 to 1955. He was born in Dry Branch, Georgia...
  
  
• Jack Blackburn
  Jack Blackburn
  Charles Henry "Jack" Blackburn was an American boxer and boxing trainer.-Biography:He was born in New Year's Day, January 1, 1883....
  
  
• George Blake
  George Blake
  George Blake is a former British spy known for having been a double agent in the service of the Soviet Union. Discovered in 1961 and sentenced to 42 years in prison, he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966 and fled to the USSR...
  
  
• Chuck Bodak
  Chuck Bodak
  Vasil "Chuck" Bodak was an American boxing cutman who worked with over 50 world champions including Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano, Tommy Hearns, Julio Cesar Chavez, Evander Holyfield and Oscar De La Hoya....
  
  
• Lou Bogash
• Enrique Bolanos
  Enrique Bolaños
  Enrique José Bolaños Geyer was the President of Nicaragua from 10 January 2002 to 10 January 2007. President Bolaños is of Spanish and German heritage and was born in Masaya ....
  
  
• Oscar Bonavena
  Oscar Bonavena
  Oscar Natalio "Ringo" Bonavena was a heavyweight professional boxer with a career record of 58 wins, 9 losses and 1 draw. A rugged, wild-swinging puncher, he was nicknamed "Ringo" because of his Beatles haircut, and enjoyed professional success in both Argentina and the United States...
  
  
• Eddie Booker
  Eddie Booker
  Hilton Edward "Eddie" Booker was an American boxer who was active during the 1930s and 1940s.Booker was one of the famous "Murderers Row" group of black boxers, along with the likes of Charley Burley, Holman Williams and Jack Chase, avoided by other elite fighters of the era because of their...
  
  
• Cornelius Boza Edwards
  Cornelius Boza Edwards
  Cornelius Boza Edwards was a Ugandan boxer in the Light Welterweight division and the former WBC Super Featherweight Champion. Edwards emigrated from Uganda to England, where he lived for a long period of time...
  
  
• Jim Braddock
  James J. Braddock
  James Walter "The Cinderella Man" Braddock was an American boxer who was the world heavyweight champion from 1935 to 1937....
  
  
• Umberto Branchini
  Umberto Branchini
  Umberto Branchini was an Italian boxing promoter and manager. Born in Modena, Italy, on July 17, 1914, he promoted or arranged fights on six continents during his career, which lasted for over fifty years...
  
  
• Bill Brennan
  Bill Brennan
  Bill Brennan was an American boxer who fought and lost to World Heavy Weight Champion Jack Dempsey twice...
  
  
• Teddy Brenner
• Charles Broadus
• Lou Brouillard
  Lou Brouillard
  Lucien Pierre Brouillard, better known as Lou Brouillard, , was a professional boxer in the welterweight division....
  
  
• Joe Brown
  Joe Brown (boxer)
  Joe Brown was an accomplished boxer who won the undisputed Lightweight Championship of the World in 1956, making 11 successful defences before losing his crown in his old age to Carlos Ortiz in 1962. Brown was a classic boxer and a knockout puncher...
  
  
• Panama Al Brown
  Panama Al Brown
  Alfonso Teofilo Brown , better known as Panama Al Brown, was a bantamweight boxer from Panama who made history by becoming boxing's first Hispanic world champion. Brown was a native of the city of Colón....
  
  
• Amilcar Brusa (2009)
• Ken Buchanan
  Ken Buchanan
  Ken Buchanan is a former boxing undisputed world lightweight champion. Many consider Buchanan to be the best boxer ever to come out of Scotland.- Early career :...
  
  
• Johnny Buckley
  Johnny Buckley
  Johnny Buckley is a legendary Irish boxing manager and promoter from Boston, Massachusetts mostly during the first half of the 20th century who has handled some of the most famous boxers in the world including 3 World Champions. He guided Jack Sharkey, Lou Brouillard and Paul Pender to world...
  
  
• Michael Buffer
  Michael Buffer
  Michael Buffer is an American professional ring announcer for boxing and professional wrestling matches. He is known for his trademarked catchphrase, "Let's get ready to rumble!" He is known for pioneering a distinct announcing style in which he rolls certain letters and adds other inflections to...
  
  
• Charley Burley
  Charley Burley
  Charley Burley was a boxer of the 1940s, compiling a record of 83 wins , 12 losses, and 2 draws with 1 "no contest"...
  
  
• Tommy Burns
  Tommy Burns (boxer)
  Tommy Burns , born Noah Brusso, is the only Canadian born world heavyweight champion boxer. The first to travel the globe in defending his title, Tommy made 11 title defenses despite often being the underdog due to his size. Burns famously challenged all comers as Heavyweight Champion, leading to...
  
  
• Dr. Jerry Buss
  Jerry Buss
  Gerald Hatten "Jerry" Buss Ph.D., M.S. is an American businessman, real estate investor, and a former chemist. He is the majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball team along with other professional sports franchises in Southern California...
  
  
• Robert Byrd
  Robert Byrd
  Robert Carlyle Byrd was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010...
  
  

C

• Mushy Callahan
  Mushy Callahan
  Mushy Callahan was the ring name of Vincent Morris Scheer, a boxer and a champion in the light welterweight division.Callahan was born on November 3, 1904, in New York City. He took the ring name of Mushy Callahan and began boxing in 1924....
  
  
• Jimmy Cannon
  Jimmy Cannon
  Jimmy Cannon was a sports journalist inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame for his coverage of the sport.-Early career:...
  
  
• Miguel Canto
  Miguel Canto
  Miguel Angel Canto Solis is a former world boxing champion from Mexico.- Boxing Life :Contrary to many Mexican boxers, Canto was not a "slam-bang" type of boxer...
  
  
• Orlando Canizales
  Orlando Canizales
  Orlando Canizales is an American boxer who won the International Boxing Federation bantamweight title and defended it a record sixteen consecutive times.-Boxing career:...
  
   (2009)
• Tony Canzoneri
  Tony Canzoneri
  Tony Canzoneri was an American boxer who was born in the town of Slidell, Louisiana.Canzoneri, an Italian American, was one of the members of the exclusive group of boxing world champions who have won titles in three or more divisions.- Early life :When he was a teenager, he and his family moved...
  
  
• Bill Caplan
• Primo Carnera
  Primo Carnera
  Primo Carnera was an Italian boxer, nicknamed the Ambling Alp, who became the world heavyweight champion.-Biography:...
  
  
• Harry Carpenter
  Harry Carpenter
  Harry Leonard Carpenter OBE was a British BBC sports commentator broadcasting from the early 1950s until his retirement in 1994. His speciality was boxing...
  
  
• Georges Carpentier
  Georges Carpentier
  Georges Carpentier was a French boxer. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908-26. Nicknamed the "Orchid Man", he stood and his fighting weight ranged from...
  
  
• Jimmy Carruthers
  Jimmy Carruthers
  James "Jimmy" William Carruthers was an Australian boxer, who became world champion in the bantamweight division.-Amateur career:...
  
  
• Jimmy Carter
  Jimmy Carter (boxer)
  James Walter Carter was a world lightweight boxing champion. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in 2000. Carter's loss to Lauro Salas in 1952 and his loss to Paddy DeMarco in 1954 were each named Ring Magazine upset of the year...
  
  
• Charles Casas
• Marcel Cerdan
  Marcel Cerdan
  Marcellin "Marcel" Cerdan was a French pied noir world boxing champion who was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be France's greatest boxer, and beyond to be one of the best to have learned his craft in Africa...
  
  
• Antonio Cervantes
  Antonio Cervantes
  Antonio Cervantes aka Kid Pambelé is a Colombian boxing trainer and former two time world Jr. Welterweight champion. He successfully defended the title 16 times. Cervantes fought 21 world title fights, keeping the 140 pounds title for almost 8 years...
  
  
• Bobby Chacon
  Bobby Chacon
  Bobby Chacon is an American former, two-time, world boxing champion.-Career:Chacon turned professional in 1972 and won his first 19 fights, including a win against former champion Jesus Castillo...
  
  
• Jeff Chandler
  Jeff Chandler (boxer)
  "Joltin'" Jeff Chandler is a former boxer. Chandler reigned as the WBA Bantamweight Champion from November 1980 to April 1984....
  
  
• Don Chargin
• Ezzard Charles
  Ezzard Charles
  Ezzard Mack Charles was an African-American professional boxer and former world heavyweight champion. He holds wins over numerous Hall of Fame fighters in three different weight classes. Charles retired with a record of 93 wins, 25 losses and 1 draw.-Career:He was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia,...
  
  
• Carlos Chavez
  Carlos Chávez
  Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by native Mexican cultures. Of his six Symphonies, his Symphony No...
  
  
• Fabela Chavez
• Julio César Chávez
  Julio César Chávez
  Julio César Chávez is a retired Mexican professional boxer.He is a six-time world champion in three weight divisions, and for several years he was considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world...
  
  
• Kid Chocolate
  Kid Chocolate
  For the boxer of the same nickname see Peter Quillin.Eligio Sardiñas Montalvo , better known as Kid Chocolate, was a Cuban boxer who enjoyed wild success both in the boxing ring and in society life during a span of the 1930s.-Biography:Eligio Montaldo, also nicknamed The Cuban Bon Bon, learned how...
  
  
• George Chuvalo
  George Chuvalo
  George Louis Chuvalo, CM is a retired Canadian heavyweight boxer who was never knocked down in ninety-three professional fights between 1956 and 1979. He is often considered to have had the greatest chin in the history of boxing and to be one of its most durable fighters...
  
  
• Gil Clancy
  Gil Clancy
  Gilbert Thomas "Gil" Clancy was a Hall of Fame boxing trainer and one of the most noted boxing commentators of the 1980s and 1990s. He worked with such famous boxers as Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and George Foreman, as well as Gerry Cooney in his fight with Foreman. In the 1990s, he worked with...
  
  
• Billy Conn
  Billy Conn
  William David Conn , better known as Billy Conn, was an American Light-Heavyweight boxing champion famed for his fights with Joe Louis. He had a professional boxing record of 63 wins, 11 losses and 1 draw, with 14 wins by knockout...
  
  
• Young Corbett II
  Young Corbett II
  Young Corbett II is a boxer who held the world featherweight championship. He was He took the name "Young Corbett II" in honor of James J. Corbett, a heavyweight champion....
  
  
• James J. Corbett
  James J. Corbett
  James John "Gentleman Jim" Corbett was an Irish-American heavyweight boxing champion, best known as the man who defeated the great John L. Sullivan. He also coached boxing at the Olympic Club in San Francisco...
  
  
• Young Corbett III
  Young Corbett III
  Young Corbett III was the world Welterweight boxing champion. He was born Raffaele Capabianca Giordano and began boxing in 1919 as Young Corbett III while still a 14-year-old "newsboy."...
  
  
• Pipino Cuevas
  Jose Cuevas
  José Isidro "Pipino" Cuevas González is a Mexican former world champion boxer at the welterweight division.-Professional career:...
  
  

D

• Cus D'Amato
  Cus D'Amato
  Constantine "Cus" D'Amato was an American boxing manager and trainer who handled the careers of Floyd Patterson, José Torres, Vinnie Ferguson, and Mike Tyson. Several successful boxing trainers, including Teddy Atlas, Kevin Rooney, and Joe Fariello, were tutored by D'Amato...
  
  
• Harold Dade
  Harold Dade
  Harold Dade was an American boxer and Bantamweight champion.-Amateur career:*Won the 1940 Chicago Golden Gloves Championship in the flyweight division by decision over Gene Evans...
  
  
• Les Darcy
  Les Darcy
  James Leslie Darcy was an Australian boxer. He was a middleweight, but held the Australian Heavyweight Championship title at the same time....
  
  
• Chuck Davey
• Mickey Davies
• Alberto Davila
  Alberto Davila
  Albert "Alberto" Dávila is a Mexican-American boxer who boxed during the 1970s and 1980s in the bantamweight division. During parts of 1983 and 1984, he held the World Boxing Council championship. Dávila lost world bantamweight championships matches three times, and temporarily left the sport...
  
  
• Esteban De Jesús
  Esteban De Jesús
  Esteban De Jesús was a Puerto Rican world lightweight champion boxer whose life was full of controversy, problems and scandals. De Jesus, a native of the town of Carolina, Puerto Rico, was a gymmate of Wilfred Benítez and an acquaintance of Benitez's mother, Clara Benítez. He was trained by...
  
  
• Dr. Mike DeLuca
• Tony DeMarco
  Tony DeMarco
  Tony DeMarco is a boxer and world welterweight champion. He was born in Boston and grew up in that city's North End community. Tony DeMarco's actual birth name is Leonardo Liotta. Tony’s father Vincent and mother Giacomina came from Sicily.To box in the league, the minimum age was 18...
  
  
• Gordon Del Faro
• Jack Dempsey
  Jack Dempsey
  William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926. Dempsey's aggressive style and exceptional punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history. Many of his fights set financial and attendance records, including the first...
  
  
• Marty Denkin
• Miguel Diaz
  Miguel Diaz (boxing)
  Miguel Angel Diaz is an Argentine boxing trainer who has trained fighters from Latin America and from the United States. Diaz was selected to receive the Futch–Condon Award for the 1999 Trainer of the Year by the Boxing Writers Association of America, and was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of...
  
   (2008)
• George Dixon
  George Dixon (boxer)
  George Dixon was the first black world boxing champion in any weight class, while also being the first ever Canadian-born boxing champion.George was born in Africville, Halifax, Nova Scotia...
  
   (2009)
• Arthur Donovan
• Mickey Duff
  Mickey Duff
  Mickey Duff born 7 June 1929 in Krakow, Poland is a former British boxer, manager and promoter.Born Monek Prager in Krakow, Poland. His rabbi father saw the rise of the German Nazi party, so the family parents emigrated to England in the late 1930s.Having turned professional as a boxer illegally...
  
  
• Angelo Dundee
  Angelo Dundee
  Angelo Dundee is an American boxing cornerman. He is best known for his work with Muhammad Ali , and has worked with 15 world boxing champions, including Sugar Ray Leonard, José Nápoles, George Foreman, Jimmy Ellis, Carmen Basilio, Luis Rodriguez and Willie Pastrano.-Professional career:Born in...
  
  
• Chris Dundee
• Johnny Dundee
  Johnny Dundee
  Johnny Dundee was a featherweight and junior lightweight boxer who fought from 1910 until 1932. Dundee was born Giuseppe Curreri in Sciacca, Sicily, but was raised in the United States....
  
  
• Don Dunphy
  Don Dunphy
  Don Dunphy was a United States television and radio sports announcer specializing in boxing broadcasts. Dunphy was noted for his fast paced delivery and enthusiasm for the sport. It is estimated that he did "blow-by-blow" action for over 2,000 fights. The Friday Night Fights were broadcast every...
  
  
• Ralph Dupas
  Ralph Dupas
  Ralph Dupas was a boxer from New Orleans who won the world light middleweight championship.-Early boxing career:...
  
  
• Roberto Durán
  Roberto Durán
  Roberto Durán Samaniego is a retired professional boxer from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. A versatile brawler in the ring, he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra" during his career....
  
   (2006)
• Yancey Durham
• Lou Duva
  Lou Duva
  Louis "Lou" Duva is a boxing trainer and manager who has handled some of the most famous boxers in the world including 19 World Champions. The Duva family have promoted boxing events in over 20 countries on six continents...
  
  

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• Aileen Eaton
  Aileen Eaton
  Aileen Eaton was a boxing promoter who was influential in the United States' west coast's boxing scene for five decades. Eaton was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She attended Los Angeles High School....
  
  
• Joseph Elia
• Jimmy Ellis
  Jimmy Ellis
  James Albert "Jimmy" Ellis is a retired boxer from Louisville, Kentucky. He fought in what some consider to be the greatest heavyweight era of all-time, which included Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Jerry Quarry, Floyd Patterson, Oscar Bonavena, Earnie Shavers and George Chuvalo among...
  
  
• Flash Elorde
  Gabriel Elorde
  Gabriel "Flash" Elorde was a Filipino professional boxer. He was born and raised in the town of Bogo, Cebu....
  
  
• Dick Enberg
  Dick Enberg
  Richard Alan "Dick" Enberg is an American sportscaster. He currently provides play-by-play for telecasts of San Diego Padres baseball on 4SD, following a long career calling various sports for such networks as NBC, CBS, and ESPN...
  
  
• Lew Eskin

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• Johnny Famechon
  Johnny Famechon
  Johnny Famechon, born 28 March 1945, is a former Australian featherweight boxer, who was born as Jean-Pierre Famechon in Paris, France.He moved to Australia in 1950 at the age of five. Over his twenty-year career he developed a reputation for being a skilled boxer whose strength was his defence...
  
  
• Jeff Fenech
  Jeff Fenech
  Jeff Fenech is a retired Australian boxer and a three-time world champion who is now a boxing trainer.-Boxing career:...
  
  
• Jackie Fields
  Jackie Fields
  Jackie Fields was an American professional boxer who won two world championship titles.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Lou Filippo
  Lou Filippo
  Lou Filippo was a professional boxer and later boxing judge.Filippo was born on December 1, 1925 in Los Angeles, California, attended Fremont High School in South Los Angeles, and served in the Navy during World War II....
  
  
• Jack Fiske
• Bob Fitzsimmons
  Bob Fitzsimmons
  Robert James "Bob" Fitzsimmons , was a British boxer who made boxing history as the sport's first three-division world champion. He also achieved fame for beating Gentleman Jim Corbett, the man who beat John L. Sullivan, and is in The Guinness Book of World Records as the Lightest heavyweight...
  
  
• Del Flanagan
  Del Flanagan
  Del Flanagan was a middleweight professional boxer from Minnesota.-Personal life:Flanagan was a native of St Paul, Minnesota. Del Flanagan and his brother Glen were known as the Fighting Flanagan Brothers...
  
  
• Glen Flanagan
  Glen Flanagan
  Glen Flanagan was a featherweight professional boxer from Minnesota.-Personal life:Glen Flanagan was born and raised in St Paul, Minnesota. He and his wife Betty had six children, and Glen went on to have a successful career in insurance and real estate...
  
  
• Nat Fleischer
  Nat Fleischer
  Nathaniel Stanley Fleischer was a noted American boxing writer and collector. Fleischer inaugurated in 1922, encouraged by Tex Rickard, the Ring Magazine publication...
  
  
• Johnny Flores
• Tiger Flowers
  Tiger Flowers
  Theodore Flowers became the first African-American middleweight boxing champion, defeating Harry Greb in 1926. Known as "Tiger", he began boxing professionally in 1918 at the age of 23 while working at a Philadelphia shipbuilding plant...
  
  
• George Foreman
  George Foreman
  George Edward Foreman is an American two-time former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic gold medalist, ordained Baptist minister, author and successful entrepreneur...
  
  
• Bob Foster
• Charles (Pop) Foster
• Don Fraser
• Joe Frazier
  Joe Frazier
  Joseph William "Joe" Frazier , also known as Smokin' Joe, was an Olympic and Undisputed World Heavyweight boxing champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a one-fight comeback in 1981....
  
  
• Gene Fullmer
  Gene Fullmer
  Gene Fullmer is a former American middleweight boxer and world champion.-Professional career:Fullmer began his professional career in 1951 and won his first 29 fights, 19 by knockout...
  
  
• Eddie Futch
  Eddie Futch
  Eddie Futch was a boxing trainer. Among the fighters he trained are Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, and Trevor Berbick, four of the five men to defeat Muhammad Ali....
  
  

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• George Gainford
• Khaosai Galaxy
  Khaosai Galaxy
  Khaosai Galaxy is a former professional Thai super flyweight boxer and Muaythai kickboxer. Khaosai defended his WBA world title 19 times in seven years , winning 16 of his title fights by knockouts. A member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame he is widely considered as one of the greatest...
  
  
• Victor Galindez
  Víctor Galíndez
  Víctor Emilio Galíndez was an Argentine boxer who was the third Latin American to win the world Light Heavyweight championship, after Puerto Rico's José Torres and Venezuela's Vicente Rondon.Galíndez was born in Vedia in the Leandro N...
  
  
• Tom Gallery
• Joe Gans
  Joe Gans
  Joe Gans was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Gans was rated as the greatest lightweight boxer of all time by boxing historian and Ring Magazine founder, Nat Fleischer and was known as the "Old Master". He fought from 1891 to 1909.Gans started boxing professionally about 1891 in Baltimore...
  
  
• Ceferino Garcia
  Ceferino Garcia
  Ceferino Garcia was a champion boxer born in Naval, Biliran, Philippines. His number of victories are the most ever achieved by a Filipino boxer. He's also the only boxer from the Philippines ever to become world champion at middleweight. He was managed, during the final years of his career by...
  
  
• Frankie Garcia
• Kid Gavilan
  Kid Gavilan
  Gerardo González , better known in the boxing world as Kid Gavilan, was a former world welterweight champion from Cuba...
  
  
• Jerry Geisler
• Benny Georgino
• Joey Giambra
  Joey Giambra
  Joey Giambra , was a former middleweight boxer who faced and defeated most of the top contenders of his era...
  
  
• Joey Giardello
  Joey Giardello
  Carmine Orlando Tilelli was an American boxer who was the middleweight champion of the world from 1963 to 1965, and was better known by his professional pseudonym of Joey Giardello.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mike Gibbons
  Mike Gibbons
  Mike Gibbons was an American boxer from 1908 to 1922. The brother of heavyweight Tommy Gibbons, Mike claimed Middleweight Champion of the World status in 1909 following Stanley Ketchel's murder. Although he never won the title, Gibbons is regarded as one of the all-time best welter and...
  
  
• Tommy Gibbons
  Tommy Gibbons
  - Biography :Thomas J. Gibbons was a nearly undefeated heavyweight boxer. The brother of Mike Gibbons, Tommy started boxing professionally in 1911 as a middleweight. Like his brother he was a master scientific boxer who chose to outbox his opponents...
  
  
• Bert Gilroy
• Benny Goldberg
  Benny Goldberg
  Benny Goldberg was a Jewish Bantamweight boxer whose professional career spanned from 1937 to 1946.after Benny's retirement he became a federal marshal.-External links:**...
  
  
• Ruby Goldstein
  Ruby Goldstein
  "Ruby" Goldstein , the "Jewel Of The Ghetto," was an American boxer and prize fight referee.-Boxing career:Before he became a referee, Goldstein boxed professionally from 1925 to 1937...
  
  
• Wilfredo Gómez
  Wilfredo Gómez
  Wilfredo Gómez , sometimes referred to as Bazooka Gómez, is a former boxer and three time world champion.-Biography:...
  
  
• Johnny Gonsalves
• Humberto González
  Humberto Gonzalez
  Humberto González is a Mexican former world boxing champion. Nicknamed Chiquita, he earned many admirers during his professional boxing career...
  
  
• Rodolfo Gonzalez
  Rodolfo González
  Rodolfo González is a Venezuelan racing driver.- Formula Renault :After previously competing in karting, González raced in the 2003 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter Series, before racing in the main series in 2004 and 2005 while attending City College Norwich.- Formula Three :He won the British F3...
  
  
• Dan Goossen
• Billy Graham
  Billy Graham
  William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. is an American evangelical Christian evangelist. As of April 25, 2010, when he met with Barack Obama, Graham has spent personal time with twelve United States Presidents dating back to Harry S. Truman, and is number seven on Gallup's list of admired people for...
  
  
• Jackie Graves
  Jackie Graves
  Jackie Graves, alias The Austin Atom, was a featherweight boxer from Minnesota.-Boxing career:From 1944 to 1956 Graves compiled a career record of 82 wins and 11 losses with 2 draws...
  
  
• Rocky Graziano
  Rocky Graziano
  Rocky Graziano, born Thomas Rocco Barbella in New York City , was an Italian American boxer. Graziano was considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, often displaying the capacity to take his opponent out with a single punch...
  
  
• Harry Greb
  Harry Greb
  Harry Greb was an American boxer. He was World Middleweight boxing Champion from 1923 to 1926 and American Light Heavyweight title holder 1922–1923. He fought a recorded 303 times in his 13 year-career, against the best opposition the talent-rich 1910s & 20s could provide him, frequently squaring...
  
  
• Mel Greb
• Mitch Green
• Babe Griffin
• Emile Griffith
  Emile Griffith
  Emile Alphonse Griffith is a former boxer who was the first fighter from the U.S. Virgin Islands ever to become a world champion. He is perhaps best known for his controversial third fight with Benny Paret in 1962 for the welterweight world championship...
  
  
• Reg Gutteridge
  Reg Gutteridge
  Reg Gutteridge, OBE was a boxing journalist and television commentator.Gutteridge was born into a boxing family in Islington, London. His grandfather, Arthur, was the first professional boxer to appear at the original National Sporting Club...
  
  

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• Marvin Hagler
  Marvin Hagler
  Marvelous Marvin Hagler , is a former professional boxer who was undisputed world middleweight champion between 1980 and 1987. Hagler holds the distinction of having the highest KO% of all middleweight champions at 78%...
  
  
• Alphonse Halimi
  Alphonse Halimi
  Alphonse Halimi was a French boxer. He was nicknamed "la Petite Terreur."Time wrote of him: "Alphonse went to work with a street fighter's will. A grown-up guttersnipe from the back alleys of Algeria...
  
   (2009)
• John Hall
• Fighting Harada
  Fighting Harada
  Masahiko Harada , better known as Fighting Harada, is a former world boxing champion. He is currently the president of the Japanese boxing commission....
  
  
• Maurice Harris
  Maurice Harris
  Wilbur Maurice Harris , nicknamed "Sugar Moe", is the former United States Boxing Association heavyweight champion.-Pro career:...
  
  
• Chuck Hassett
• Greg Haugen
  Greg Haugen
  Greg Lee Haugen is a retired American boxer. Haugen was champion at both the Lightweight and Light-welterweight classes.Haugen turned pro in 1982 and won his first 17 fights before challenging for a world title...
  
   (2008)
• Clarence Henry
• Joe Herman
• Genaro Hernandez
  Genaro Hernandez
  Genaro Hernández was a Mexican-American boxer from South Central Los Angeles. Hernández was the former WBC, WBA, & Lineal super featherweight champion.-Pro career:...
  
  
• Rafael Herrera
  Rafael Herrera
  Rafael Herrera is a former boxer from Mexico. He has won world titles in the Bantamweight division.- Professional career :...
  
   (2009)
• Duke Holloway
• Larry Holmes
  Larry Holmes
  Larry Holmes is a former professional boxer. He grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, which gave birth to his boxing nickname, The Easton Assassin....
  
   (2007)
• Akihiko Honda
  Akihiko Honda
  is a Japanese professional boxing promoter who was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 2008, and was also selected as an inductee into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2009.-1965 to 1990s:...
  
   (2008)
• Al Hostak
  Al Hostak
  Albert Paul Hostak , nicknamed "the Savage Slav," was an American-born middleweight boxer who fought from 1932-1949. Hostak twice held the National Boxing Association Middleweight title between 1938 and 1940...
  
  
• Ace Hudkins
• Chuck Hull
  Chuck Hull
  Chuck Hull is the co-founder, executive vice president and chief technology officer of 3D Systems. He is the inventor of the solid imaging process known as stereolithography, the first commercial rapid prototyping technology, and the STL file format. He is the inventor on more than 60 U.S...
  
  
• Joe Humphries
  Joe Humphries
  Joseph Humphries was an English cricketer who played three Test matches for England on their tour to Australia in 1907-08 and for Derbyshire County Cricket Club and the Marylebone Cricket Club between 1899 and 1914....
  
  
• Jack Hurley

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• Sam Ichinose

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• Beau Jack
  Beau Jack
  Sidney Walker, better known as Beau Jack, , was an American lightweight boxer, he was a world champion twice...
  
  
• Julian Jackson
  Julian Jackson
  Julian Jackson is a retired professional boxer and former three-time world champion in the light middleweight and middleweight divisions...
  
   (2006)
• Peter Jackson
  Peter Jackson
  Sir Peter Robert Jackson, KNZM is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, known for his The Lord of the Rings film trilogy , adapted from the novel by J. R. R...
  
  
• Jim Jacobs
  Jimmy Jacobs (handballer)
  James Leslie 'Jimmy' Jacobs was an American handball player, boxing manager, Academy Award nominee and comic book and fight film collector.-Handball:...
  
  
• Mike Jacobs
  Mike Jacobs (boxing)
  Michael Strauss Jacobs was a boxing promoter, arguably the most powerful in the sport from the mid-1930's until his effective retirement in 1946...
  
  
• Harry Jeffra
  Harry Jeffra
  Harry Jeffra was an American boxer. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was a former world bantamweight and NYSAC featherweight boxing champion...
  
  
• James Jen Kin (2009)
• Lew Jenkins
• Eder Jofre
  Eder Jofre
  Éder Jofre is a retired Brazilian boxer and former bantamweight and featherweight champion .-Amateur career:Jofre represented his native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.-Olympic Results:*1st round bye...
  
  
• Ingemar Johansson
  Ingemar Johansson
  Jens Ingemar Johansson was a Swedish boxer and former heavyweight champion of the world. Johansson was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United States. In 1959 he defeated Floyd Patterson by TKO in the third round, after flooring Patterson seven times in that round, to win the World...
  
  
• Harold Johnson
  Harold Johnson (boxer)
  Harold Johnson , is a former professional boxer.Johnson was born in Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He won his first twenty-four fights before losing a ten round decision to Archie Moore, who would be Johnson's biggest career rival...
  
  
• Jack Johnson
  Jack Johnson (boxer)
  John Arthur Johnson , nicknamed the “Galveston Giant,” was an American boxer. At the height of the Jim Crow era, Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion...
  
  
• Marvin Johnson
  Marvin Johnson
  Marvin Johnson is a former boxer from the United States, who fought in the 1972 Olympics in Munich, winning a bronze medal, and made his way up the professional ranks in the light heavyweight division soon thereafter...
  
   (2008)
• Gorilla Jones
  Gorilla Jones
  William Jones William Jones (May 12, 1906 – January 4, 1982) William Jones (May 12, 1906 – January 4, 1982) (better known as Gorilla Jones, was an American boxer and Middleweight boxing champion of the world.-Professional Boxing Career:...
  
  
• Don Jordan
  Don Jordan
  Don Jordan was a boxer born in Los Angeles, California and was the undisputed Welterweight Champion of the World from 1958 to 1960. His nickname was ‘Geronimo’...
  
  
• Rudy Jordan

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• Hank Kaplan
  Hank Kaplan
  Hank Kaplan was an American boxing historian and writer. Always wearing one of many of his prized boxing baseball caps, and smoking a pipe, he is widely regarded as the nation's foremost boxing historian, and was known and respected worldwide...
  
  
• Michael Katz
  Michael Katz
  Michael Katz is a psychologist, former Yantra Yoga instructor, author, artist, and long time student of contemporary masters of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon. He is best known as having authored the introduction and edited the popular book Dream yoga and the Practice of Natural Light by Chogyal...
  
  
• Jack Kearns
  Jack Kearns
  Jack "Doc" Kearns was an American boxing manager from the state of Washington. He is most famous for managing Jack Dempsey, who was World Heavyweight Champion from 1919 to 1926. He also managed Mickey Walker, Joey Maxim, and Archie Moore. He was given the nickname "Doc" from Dempsey....
  
  
• Tom Kelly
• Duncan Kennedy
  Duncan Kennedy
  Duncan Kennedy is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School and a founder of critical legal studies as movement and school of thought. Kennedy has been a member of the ACLU since 1967. According to his own testimony, he has never forgotten to pay his dues.-Education and...
  
  
• Stanley Ketchel
  Stanley Ketchel
  -External links:**...
  
  
• Don King
• Frank Klaus
  Frank Klaus
  Frank Klaus was a German-American boxer from 1904 to 1918. Klaus won the vacant Middleweight Championship of the world in 1913 and was elected to the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1974....
  
  

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• Fidel LaBarba
• Jake LaMotta
  Jake LaMotta
  Giacobbe LaMotta , better known as Jake LaMotta, nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" and "The Raging Bull", is a former American world middleweight champion boxer...
  
  
• Ismael Laguna
  Ismael Laguna
  Ismael Laguna Meneses was a professional boxer. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2001.Known as "El Tigre Colonense", Laguna was the Panamanian Featherweight Champion from 1962-63...
  
  
• Jim Lampley
  Jim Lampley
  James "Jim" Lampley is an American sportscaster, news anchor, movie producer, and restaurant owner. Lampley has anchored a record 14 Olympic Games U.S. television broadcasts, most recently the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China....
  
  
• Kenny Lane
  Kenny Lane
  Kenny Lane was a famous southpaw boxer. He fought for lightweight and light welterweight titles of the world, once against Joe Brown and twice against Carlos Ortiz.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mills Lane
  Mills Lane
  Mills Bee Lane III is a retired boxing referee, a former boxer, was a two term Washoe County District Court Judge, and television personality...
  
  
• Sam Langford
  Sam Langford
  Sam Langford was a Black Canadian boxing standout of the early part of the 20th century. Called the "Greatest Fighter Nobody Knows," by ESPN. He was rated #2 by The Ring on their list of "100 greatest punchers of all time". Langford was originally from Weymouth Falls, a small community in Nova...
  
  
• Tippy Larkin
  Tippy Larkin
  Tippy Larkin was a boxer from New Jersey who appeared on the cover of The Ring magazine in July 1944. From 1935 to 1946, Larkin's record was 114-9.-External links:* http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=9619&cat=boxer&pageID=1...
  
  
• George Latka
• Harold Lederman
  Harold Lederman
  Harold Lederman is a celebrated boxing judge and analyst. He began his career as a boxing judge in 1967 and joined the cast of HBO World Championship Boxing in 1986, where he has been ever since....
  
  
• Richie Lemos
  Richie Lemos
  Richie Lemos was a Mexican-American boxer in the Featherweight division...
  
  
• Jimmy Lennon
  Jimmy Lennon
  Jimmy Lennon Sr. was one of the top announcers of the boxing and wrestling world.-Announcing career:Known as "The Voice of the Olympic" Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, as well as "The Irishman With the Spanish Accent." For over 40 years, Lennon's unique professional ring eloquence and...
  
  
• Jimmy Lennon, Jr.
• Benny Leonard
  Benny Leonard
  Benny Leonard was an American lightweight boxer. He was named as number 8 on Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years and number 7 on ESPN's 50 Greatest Boxers of All-Time....
  
  
• Sugar Ray Leonard
  Sugar Ray Leonard
  Sugar Ray Leonard is an American retired professional boxer and occasional actor. He was named Ray Charles Leonard, after his mother's favorite singer, Ray Charles...
  
  
• Gus Lesnevich
  Gus Lesnevich
  Gustav George Lesnevich was an American boxer. Lesnevich was born and raised in Cliffside Park, New Jersey....
  
  
• John Henry Lewis
  John Henry Lewis
  John Henry Lewis was an African American boxer who was the world Light Heavyweight champion from 1935 to 1939.One interesting fact of his is that Lewis was managed by a gambler and racketeer of the 1930s: Gus Greenlee, a man who became very important to baseball's Negro Leagues as a commissioner...
  
  
• Lennox Lewis
  Lennox Lewis
  Lennox Claudius Lewis, CM, CBE is a retired boxer and the most recent British undisputed world heavyweight champion. He holds dual British and Canadian citizenship...
  
   (2008)
• A. J. Liebling
  A. J. Liebling
  Abbott Joseph Liebling was an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sonny Liston
  Sonny Liston
  Charles L. "Sonny" Liston was a professional boxer and ex-convict known for his toughness, punching power, and intimidating appearance who became world heavyweight champion in 1962 by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round...
  
  
• Nicolino Locche
  Nicolino Locche
  Nicolino Locche was an Argentine boxer from Tunuyán, Mendoza. He was of Italian origin, with his ancestors coming from Sardinia...
  
  
• Norm Lockwood
• Don Longanecker
• Danny Lopez
  Danny Lopez
  Danny Lopez is a former American boxer from Fort Duchesne, Utah. He was world Featherweight champion, and a very popular fighter both in television and Southern California, during the 1970s. His nickname is Little Red.-Background:...
  
  
• Ricardo López (2007)
• Yaqui Lopez
  Yaqui López
  Álvaro López is a former Mexican boxer and current member of the Boxing Hall of Fame. A native of Zacatecas, Zacatecas, López was very popular among Mexicans and is considered by many as one the greatest Light Heavyweights to never become world champion.-Early life:The fascinating story of López...
  
   (2007)
• Tommy Loughran
  Tommy Loughran
  Thomas Patrick Loughran was the light heavyweight boxing champion of the world.Loughran's effective use of coordinated foot work, sound defense and swift, accurate counter punching is now regarded as a precursor to the techniques practiced in modern boxing...
  
  
• Joe Louis
  Joe Louis
  Joseph Louis Barrow , better known as Joe Louis, was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949. He is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all time...
  
  
• George Luckman
• Ray Lunny

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• Raul (Raton) Macias
• Luis Magana
  Luis Magana
  Luis Magana was a boxing announcer as well as a professional wrestling announcer and color commentator. He also wrote Boxing articles for various newspapers. He was active in the Los Angeles area in at least one of these capacities from the 1920s to the 1980s.-References:...
  
  
• Billy Mahoney
• Allan Malamud
• Ricardo Maldonado
• Ray Mancini
  Ray Mancini
  Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini is a retired Italian-American boxer. He held the World Boxing Association lightweight championship from 1982 to 1984. Mancini inherited his distinctive nickname from his father, veteran boxer Lenny "Boom Boom" Mancini, who laid the foundation for his son's career...
  
   (2005)
• Sammy Mandell
• Rocky Marciano
  Rocky Marciano
  Rocky Marciano , born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, was an American boxer and the heavyweight champion of the world from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956. Marciano is the only champion to hold the heavyweight title and go undefeated throughout his career. Marciano defended his title six times...
  
  
• Lloyd Marshall
  Lloyd Marshall
  Lloyd Marshall was a light heavyweight boxer who was inducted posthumously into the International Boxing Hall of Fame on June 2010.-Pro career:...
  
  
• Joey Maxim
  Joey Maxim
  Giuseppe Antonio Berardinelli was an American boxer. He was a light heavyweight champion of the world. He took the ring-name Joey Maxim from the Maxim gun, the world's first self-acting machine gun, based on his ability to rapidly throw a large number of left jabs.-Early career:Maxim was born in...
  
  
• Mike McCallum
  Mike McCallum
  Mike McCallum is a retired boxer. Nicknamed "The Body Snatcher" for his fierce body punching. McCallum won world titles in three weight classes.-Amateur career:Claimed an amateur record of 240-10...
  
  
• Gerald McClellan
  Gerald McClellan
  Gerald McClellan is a former boxer from the United States of America, who was the WBO and WBC middleweight champion. McClellan's record as a professional boxer was 31 wins and 3 losses with 29 wins by knockout...
  
   (2007)
• Jackie McCoy
• Terry McGovern
  Terry McGovern (boxer)
  Terrible Terry McGovern , born John Terrence McGovern in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States, was a boxer who held the world bantamweight and featherweight titles.-Professional career:...
  
  
• Barry McGuigan
  Barry McGuigan
  Finbarr Patrick McGuigan MBE , known as Barry McGuigan and nicknamed The Clones Cyclone, is a former Irish and British professional boxer who became a world featherweight champion.-Background:...
  
  
• Jimmy McLarnin
  Jimmy McLarnin
  James McLarnin, known as Jimmy McLarnin , was an Irish Canadian professional boxer who became two-time welterweight world champion and an International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee.-Background:McLarnin was born in Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, into a large Methodist family who emigrated...
  
  
• Gilberto Mendoza (2008)
• Arthur Mercante Sr.
• Larry Merchant
  Larry Merchant
  Larry Merchant is an American former sportswriter, a longtime commentator for HBO Sports presentations of HBO World Championship Boxing, Boxing After Dark and HBO pay-per-view telecasts, and is considered "the greatest television boxing analyst of all time" by ESPN Boxing analyst Dan Rafael.-Life...
  
  
• Brian Mitchell (2009)
• Bob Montgomery
  Bob Montgomery (boxer)
  Bob Montgomery was an American lightweight boxer. He was born in Sumter, South Carolina.Montgomery went undefeated in his first 23 fights, going 22-0-1 and winning the Pennsylvania State Lightweight Title....
  
  
• Carlos Monzón
  Carlos Monzón
  Carlos Monzón was an Argentine professional boxer who held the undisputed world middleweight title for 7 years, during which he successfully defended the title 14 times....
  
  
• Archie Moore
  Archie Moore
  Archie Moore, born Archibald Lee Wright , was light heavyweight world boxing champion who had one of the longest professional careers in the history of that sport....
  
  
• Davey Moore (Featherweight)
• Jerry Moore
  Jerry Moore
  Gerald Hundley "Jerry" Moore is the current head football coach of the Appalachian State University Mountaineers located in the town of Boone in Watauga County, North Carolina. He has filled the position since 1989. Moore has had a winning record in 19 out of the last 20 seasons. He led the...
  
  
• Denny Moyer
  Denny Moyer
  Denny Moyer was an American boxer who held the world light middleweight title between 1962 and 1963. He finished his career with a 97–38–4 record.-Early life:...
  
  
• Matthew Saad Muhammad
  Matthew Saad Muhammad
  Matthew Saad Muhammad is a former boxer who was the world's light heavyweight champion.Saad Muhammad's mother died when he was an infant, and he and his elder brother were sent to live with an aunt. When he was five, his aunt could not afford to look after both of them and she instructed Saad...
  
   (2006)
• Eddie Muller
  Eddie Muller
  Eddie Muller is a writer based in San Francisco. He is known for writing books about movies, particularly film noir. Founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, he is considered a noir expert and is called on to write and talk about the film genre, notably on wry commentary tracks for Fox's...
  
  
• Armando Muniz
  Armando Muñíz
  Cruz Armando Muñíz Hurtado is a retired Mexican professional boxer and the former NABF Welterweight Champion. Muñíz is a member and current president of the World Boxing Hall of Fame.-Amateur career:...
  
  
• Jim Murray
  James Murray (boxer)
  James Murray was a Scottish professional bantamweight boxer. He died as a result of injuries sustained in his last fight.Murray was born in Lanark, Scotland...
  
  

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• José Nápoles
  José Napoles
  José Ángel Nápoles, nicknamed Mantequilla , is a Cuban-Mexican boxer and former world welterweight champion, who is frequently ranked as one of the greatest fighters of all time in that division...
  
  
• Dr. Vincent A. Nardiello
• Azumah Nelson
  Azumah Nelson
  Azumah Nelson , a native of Ghana, is a former professional boxer. He is a three-time world champion in two weight classes.Nelson is the former Lineal and two-time WBC Super Featherweight Champion...
  
  
• Mike Neporadny
• Ken Norton
  Ken Norton
  Kenneth Howard Norton Sr. is a former heavyweight boxer. He is best known for his 12-round victory over a peak Muhammad Ali where he famously broke Ali's jaw, on March 31, 1973, becoming only the second man to defeat Ali as a professional .He and Ali...
  
  
• Lou Nova
  Lou Nova
  Lou Nova aka Cosmic punch was an American boxer and actor. Born in Los Angeles, California, the Nova was the U.S. and World Amateur Boxing Champion in 1935. After turning pro, he remained undefeated in his first 22 matches, and won 40 fights in total...
  
  
• Dr. Max Novich

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• Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
  Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
  Joseph Francis Hagan was light heavyweight boxing champion of the world.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sean O'Grady
• Rubén Olivares
  Rubén Olivares
  Rubén Olivares is a former Mexican boxer and current member of the Boxing Hall of Fame. A native of Mexico City, Olivares was a world champion multiple times, and considered by many as the greatest bantamweight champion of all time. He was very popular among Mexicans, many of whom considered him...
  
  
• Tony Olivera
• Joey Olmos
• Carl (Bobo) Olson
  Bobo Olson
  Carl Olson was an American boxer. He was the world middleweight champion between October 1953 and December 1955, the longest reign of any champion in that division during the 1950s, although he is probably best remembered for his three knockout losses against Sugar Ray Robinson.His nickname, Bobo,...
  
  
• Gaspar Ortega
  Gaspar Ortega
  Gaspar Ortega was a Mexican professional boxer and is considered one of the best Welterweight boxer's from Mexico.-Pro career:...
  
  
• Carlos Ortiz
  Carlos Ortiz
  For the Cuban wrestler with the same name see Carlos Julian OrtízCarlos Ortiz is a Puerto Rican who was a three time world boxing champion, twice in the lightweight division and once in the Jr. Welterweights....
  
  
• Manuel Ortiz
  Manuel Ortiz
  Manuel Ortiz Partida is a professional wrestler who is currently wrestling the independent circuit in Mexico, particularly in the Tijuana area...
  
  
• Ken Overlin
  Ken Overlin
  Ken Overlin , was an American-born middleweight boxer who fought professionally from 1931 to 1944, compiling a record of 131 wins , 18 losses, and 9 draws....
  
  

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• Ferdie Pacheco
  Ferdie Pacheco
  Dr. Ferdie Pacheco was the cornerman for multiple boxing champions, most famously Muhammad Ali, for whom he was also a personal physician. Beginning in the late 1970s, Pacheco was a TV boxing analyst for several networks, most notably Showtime. Pacheco is also a prolific author and painter...
  
  
• Carlos Palomino
  Carlos Palomino
  Carlos Palomino a retired Mexican professional boxer. Palomino is a former WBC Welterweight Champion and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Palomino is also an actor who has been featured in several television shows and films...
  
  
• Dan Parker
• George Parnassus
• Willie Pastrano
  Willie Pastrano
  Wilfred Raleigh Pastrano was a light heavyweight boxer who held the world crown from 1963 until 1965.-Early life:...
  
  
• Floyd Patterson
  Floyd Patterson
  Floyd Patterson was an American heavyweight boxer and former undisputed heavyweight champion. At 21, Patterson became the youngest man to win the world heavyweight title. He was also the first heavyweight boxer to regain the title. He had a record of 55 wins 8 losses and 1 draw, with 40 wins by...
  
  
• Davey Pearl
• Eusebio Pedroza
  Eusebio Pedroza
  Eusebio Pedroza is a native of Panama who holds two records in boxing: His 19 defenses as world featherweight champion are a record for that division, and his seven years as world champion non-stop are a division record too...
  
  
• J. Russell Peltz
  J. Russell Peltz
  J Russell Peltz is an American boxing promoter. A member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame and the World Boxing Hall of Fame, Peltz is best known for his fight promotions at the Spectrum, the Blue Horizon, and currently at Bally's Atlantic City.- Early life :Peltz became a boxing fan at age...
  
  
• Paul Pender
  Paul Pender
  Paul Pender was an American middleweight boxer.-Early life:He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of William and Anna Pender...
  
  
• Willie Pep
  Willie Pep
  Guglielmo Papaleo was an American boxer who was better known as Willie Pep. Pep boxed a total of 1956 rounds in the 241 bouts during his 26 year career, a considerable number of rounds and fights even for a fighter of his era. His final record was 229-11-1 with 65 knockouts...
  
  
• Pascual Perez
• Eddie Perkins
  Eddie Perkins
  Eddie Perkins was an American light welterweight boxer.-Professional career:Perkins turned professional in 1956 and captured the World Boxing Association light welterweight title with a decision win over Duilio Loi in 1962, but lost the belt in a rematch later that year...
  
   (2006)
• Billy Petrolle
  Billy Petrolle
  William Michael Petrolle was a world lightweight boxing title contender.-Personal:Brother of fellow boxers Pete Petrolle and Frank Petrolle...
  
  
• Jesus Pimentel
  Jesus Pimentel
  Jesús "Little Poison"Pimentel was an exciting Mexican bantamweight boxer who fought from 1960 to 1971.-Professional career:...
  
  
• Lupe Pintor
  Lupe Pintor
  Jose Guadalupe Pintor Guzman , better known as Lupe Pintor, is a former world boxing champion from Cuajimalpa, Mexico. Nicknamed El Indio De Cuajimalpa or The Indian From Cuajimalpa, he started boxing professionally in 1974...
  
  
• Joe Ponce
• Aaron Pryor
  Aaron Pryor
  Aaron Pryor is a former boxer from Cincinnati, Ohio, and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He is the former world Junior Welterweight champion, and regarded as one of the greatest fighters in the history of the weight class.-Amateur career:Pryor, nicknamed The Hawk, had a record of...
  
  

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• Jerry Quarry
  Jerry Quarry
  Jerry Quarry , nicknamed "Irish" or “The Bellflower Bomber,” was an Irish-American heavyweight boxer. Quarry was rated by Ring Magazine as the most popular fighter in the sport, 1968–1971, and was one of the biggest stars of arguably the greatest era in the history of the heavyweight division.-...
  
  

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• José Luis Ramírez
  José Luis Ramírez
  José Luis Ramírez is a retired Mexican boxer. He was a two-time World Lightweight Champion.-Career:A native of Huatabampo, Sonora and a resident of Culiacán, Ramírez made his professional debut on March 25, 1973 at the age of 15. He climbed slowly but steadily on boxing's rankings...
  
  
• Mando Ramos
  Mando Ramos
  Armando Ramos was a Mexican-American professional boxer and the former two-time WBC and WBA Lightweight Champion. He was born in Long Beach, California. Armando "Mando" Ramos was one of the most popular and exciting fighters in Southern California during the 1960s. Ramos was an outstanding amateur...
  
  
• Sugar Ramos
  Sugar Ramos
  Ultiminio Ramos is a Cuban-Mexican boxer who is better known as Sugar Ramos. Ramos fought out of Mexico where he was adopted as a national hero...
  
  
• Marc Ratner
  Marc Ratner
  Marc Ratner is the current Vice President of Regulatory Affairs with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Formerly, he was the Executive Director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission....
  
  
• Jesse Reid
  Jesse Reid
  Jesse Reid is a boxer and Hall of Fame trainer. His former students include world champions Roger Mayweather, Lamon Brewster, Johnny Tapia, Orlando Canizales, Reggie Johnson and Bruce Curry...
  
  
• Alberto Reyes (2008)
• Grantland Rice
  Grantland Rice
  Grantland Rice was an early 20th century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio.-Biography:...
  
  
• Tex Rickard
• Lucia Rijker
  Lucia Rijker
  Lucia Rijker is a Dutch professional female boxer, kickboxer, and actress.Rijker has been dubbed by the press and opponents "The Most Dangerous Woman in the World". She can speak four languages and is a Buddhist, dedicating time daily to meditation and chanting...
  
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• Willie Ritchie
  Willie Ritchie
  Willie Ritchie , was the world lightweight boxing champion from 1912 to 1914.-Biography:He was born in San Francisco, California as Gerhardt Anthony Steffen on February 13, 1891...
  
  
• Freddie Roach
• Sugar Ray Robinson
  Sugar Ray Robinson
  Sugar Ray Robinson was an African-American professional boxer. Frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, Robinson's performances in the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight...
  
  
• Luis Manuel Rodríguez
  Luis Manuel Rodriguez
  Luis Manuel Rodríguez was a professional boxing champion. Known as "El Feo", Rodriguez began his career in pre-Castro Havana. In Cuba, Rodriguez twice defeated the ill-fated future welterweight champion Benny Kid Paret.After the Cuban Revolution, Rodríguez campaigned in the United States...
  
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• Lionel Rose
  Lionel Rose
  Lionel Edmund Rose MBE was an Australian bantamweight boxer, the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title.-Early life:...
  
  
• Maxie Rosenbloom
  Maxie Rosenbloom
  Max Everitt Rosenbloom, known as Slapsie Maxie was an American boxer, actor, and television personality.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Barney Ross
  Barney Ross
  Barney Ross , born Beryl David Rosofsky, was a world champion boxer in three weight divisions and decorated veteran of World War II.-Early life:...
  
  
• Charlie Ross
  Charlie Ross
  Charlie Ross is an American politician and attorney who lives in Brandon, Mississippi. He served as Senator from District 20 in the Mississippi Senate until 2007. District 20 comprises parts of Madison and Rankin Counties. Charlie was first elected to the Senate in 1997 after serving as the...
  
  
• Larry Rozadilla
• Damon Runyon
  Damon Runyon
  Alfred Damon Runyon was an American newspaperman and writer.He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from the...
  
  

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• Sandy Saddler
  Sandy Saddler
  Joseph "Sandy" Saddler was an American boxer born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a two-time featherweight world champion, and also held the junior lightweight crown. Over his twelve-year career , Saddler scored 103 knockouts. He was stopped only once, in his second pro fight, by Jock Leslie. ...
  
  
• Lauro Salas
  Lauro Salas
  Lauro Salas was a former world lightweight boxing champion.-Professional career:...
  
  
• Vicente Saldivar
  Vicente Saldivar
  Vicente Samuel Saldivar García was a Mexican boxer in the Featherweight division and was a part of the 1960 Mexican Olympic team. He was a former WBC and a two-time WBA Featherweight Champion...
  
  
• Salvador Sánchez
  Salvador Sánchez
  Salvador Sánchez Narváez was a Mexican boxer born in the town of Santiago Tianguistenco, Estado de México. Many of his contemporaries as well as boxing writers believe that, had it not been for his premature death, Sanchez could have gone on to become the greatest Featherweight boxer of all time...
  
  
• Everett L. Sanders
• Dave Sands
  Dave Sands
  Dave Sands, born David Ritchie, was an Australian Aborigine boxer. He established himself as a leading contender for the World Middleweight Title, only to die prematurely in a motor vehicle accident at the age of 26....
  
  
• Pete Sanstol
  Pete Sanstol
  Pete Sanstol was a Norwegian professional boxer. He is a World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee.-Background:Peder Olai Sanstøl was the youngest of five children born to Jonas Jonasen Sanstøl and Elen Dortea Nilsdatter Lindland in Moi, Lunde municipality, in Rogaland county in Norway...
  
  
• Don Sauer
• Johnny Saxton
  Johnny Saxton
  Johnny Saxton was an American professional boxer in the welterweight division. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, learned to box in a Brooklyn orphanage and had an amateur career winning 31 of 33 fights, twice becoming World Welterweight Champion.- Professional career :Saxton turned professional...
  
  
• Max Schmeling
  Max Schmeling
  Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in the late 1930s transcended boxing, and became worldwide social events because of their national associations...
  
  
• Bernhard Schwartz
• Marty Servo
  Marty Servo
  Mario Severino, "Marty Servo" was the former world welterweight boxing champion. Servo began boxing in the mid-1930s. He became a professional boxer in 1938 and was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1989.-Amateur career:Servo had an impressive amateur career...
  
  
• Jack Sharkey
  Jack Sharkey
  Jack Sharkey was an American heavyweight boxing champion. He was born Joseph Paul Zukauskas , the son of Lithuanian immigrants, in Binghamton, New York but moved to Boston, Massachusetts as a young man...
  
  
• Bob Sheridan
  Bob Sheridan
  Bob Sheridan, nicknamed Colonel Bob Sheridan, is a boxing and MMA commentator. He has broadcast over 10,000 fights on radio and television, with 890 world title fights...
  
  
• Al Silvani
  Al Silvani
  Al Silvani was an American boxing trainer and actor.As one of the most sought-after trainers in the business, Silvani trained over twenty world champions, including Jake LaMotta, Henry Armstrong, Carmen Basilio, Fritzie Zivic, Pone Kingpetch, Rocky Graziano, Ingemar Johansson, and Lou Ambers.He...
  
  
• Red Smith
  Red Smith (sportswriter)
  For other uses, see: Red Smith Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith was an American sportswriter who rose to become one of America's most widely read sports columnists.-Career:After graduating from Green Bay East High School, site of Packers home games until 1957, Smith moved on to...
  
  
• Jack Solomons
  Jack Solomons
  Jack Solomons was a British boxing promoter who has been called "one of the greatest boxing promoters in history."He began promoting boxing in London during the 1930s. His first great success came when he put together a match between Jack London and Bruce Woodcock for the British heavyweight title...
  
  
• Billy Soose
  Billy Soose
  Billy Soose was an American boxer who won the world middleweight championship in 1941.After a collegiate boxing career, Soose became a professional boxer in 1938. That same year he met Charley Burley, defeated Soose by a unanimous decision. In 1940 Soose defeated two future middleweight champions,...
  
  
• Michael Spinks
  Michael Spinks
  Michael Spinks is a retired American boxer who was a world champion in the light-heavyweight and heavyweight divisions...
  
  
• Freddie Steele
  Freddie Steele
  Freddie Steele was a boxer and film actor born Frederick Earle Burgett in Seattle, Washington. He was recognized as middleweight champion of the world between 1936 and 1938. Steele was nicknamed "The Tacoma Assassin" and was trained by Jack Connor, Johnny Babnick, and Ray Arcel, while in New York...
  
  
• Richard Steele (referee)
  Richard Steele (referee)
  Richard Steele is a former member of the United States Marine Corps and famous boxing referee. Steele was a teammate of future world Heavyweight champion Ken Norton in the Marines. He began his career as an amateur boxer while with the Marines, compiling a record of 12 wins and 3 losses before...
  
  
• Howie Steindler
• Emanuel Steward
  Emanuel Steward
  Emanuel Steward is an American boxing trainer, commentator and inductee of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame and the World Boxing Hall of Fame.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Joe Stone
• Young Stribling
  Young Stribling
  Young Stribling was a professional boxer in the Heavyweight division.He was the elder brother of fellow boxer Herbert Stribling.- Background :...
  
  
• Bert Randolph Sugar
  Bert Randolph Sugar
  Bert Randolph Sugar is a boxing writer/sports historian. He currently resides in Chappaqua, New York.-Education:...
  
  
• José Sulaimán
  José Sulaimán
  José Sulaimán Chagnón is a Mexican boxing official of Lebanese-descent. He is the president of the World Boxing Council....
  
  
• John L. Sullivan
  John L. Sullivan
  John Lawrence Sullivan , also known as the Boston Strong Boy, was recognized as the first heavyweight champion of gloved boxing from February 7, 1881 to 1892, and is generally recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing under the London Prize Ring rules...
  
  

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• Lew Tendler
  Lew Tendler
  "Lefty" Lew Tendler was an American boxer. He is a member of the World Boxing Hall of Fame, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and the International Boxing Hall of Fame.-External links:******...
  
  
• Phil Terranova
  Phil Terranova
  Phil Terranova was the former NBA world boxing featherweight champion. Terranova won the crown when he KO'ed Jackie Callura on August 16, 1943, and lost the belt when he was outpointed by Sal Bartolo on March 10, 1944.Terranova retired with a record of 67 wins , 21 losses and 11 draws...
  
  
• Ernie Terrell
  Ernie Terrell
  Ernie Terrell is an American singer, record producer, and former World Boxing Association heavyweight boxing champion. At , he was very tall, by the standards of the day....
  
  
• Marcel Thil
  Marcel Thil
  -Career:Born in Saint-Dizier, Haute-Marne in the Champagne-Ardenne Region of France, Thil started boxing at a very young age and turned professional at the age of sixteen...
  
  
• John Thomas
  John Thomas
  -Education:* John Martin Thomas , Twelfth president of Rutgers University* John R. Thomas , American intellectual property professor- Military history :* John Thomas , American general in the American Revolutionary War...
  
  
• Dick Tiger
  Dick Tiger
  Dick Tiger CBE was a boxer from Ubahu village, Amaigbo, Nigeria, who emigrated to Liverpool and later to the United States of America. Tiger was a member of the Igbo ethnic group...
  
  
• Dan Tobey
• Barry Tompkins
  Barry Tompkins
  Barry Tompkins is a well-known American sportscaster. He is better known for his work as a boxing commentator, but he has covered football and another number of sports as well.-San Francisco, New York City and NBC:...
  
  
• Thell Torrance
• José Torres
  José Torres
  José Torres , was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. As an amateur boxer, he won a silver medal in the junior middleweight at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. In 1965, he defeated Willie Pastrano to win the WBC and WBA light heavyweight championships...
  
  
• Efren Torres
  Efren Torres
  Efren Torres was a Mexican boxer, who was world champion in the Flyweight division.Torres was born in Guadalajara.-Pro career:...
  
   (2007)
• Bruce Trampler
• Gene Tunney
  Gene Tunney
  James Joseph "Gene" Tunney was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-1928 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927. Tunney's successful title defense against Dempsey is one of the most famous bouts in boxing history and is known as The Long Count Fight...
  
  
• Bob Turley
  Bob Turley
  Robert Lee Turley was a Major League Baseball pitcher.Turley was signed as an amateur free agent by the St. Louis Browns in . He played his first game on September 29, 1951 for the Browns and moved with them to Baltimore in...
  
  
• Randy Turpin
  Randy Turpin
  Randolph Adolphus Turpin known as the Leamington Larruper, was an English boxer who was considered by some to be Europe's best middleweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mike Tyson
  Mike Tyson
  Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson is a retired American boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old...
  
  

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• Tony Unitas

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• Johnny Vidal
• Pancho Villa
  Pancho Villa
  José Doroteo Arango Arámbula – better known by his pseudonym Francisco Villa or its hypocorism Pancho Villa – was one of the most prominent Mexican Revolutionary generals....
  
  

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• Jersey Joe Walcott
  Jersey Joe Walcott
  Arnold Raymond Cream , better known as Jersey Joe Walcott, was a world heavyweight boxing champion. He broke the world's record for the oldest man to win the world's Heavyweight title when he earned it at the age of , a record that would be broken on November 5, 1994, by George Foreman, who...
  
  
• Mickey Walker
• Danny Wambolt
• Suey Welch
  Suey Welch
  Stephen H. "Suey" Welch was an Akron, Ohio-based manager who handled boxers from the 1920s through the 1970s. He specialized in bringing fighters from Ohio to Southern California, where many of them went on to become main event fighters. Most notably, he managed Middleweight Champion Gorilla Jones...
  
  
• Pernell Whitaker
  Pernell Whitaker
  Pernell Whitaker , nicknamed "Sweet Pea", is a professional boxing trainer and retired American professional boxer...
  
   (2008)
• Jess Willard
  Jess Willard
  Jess Willard was a world heavyweight boxing champion. He won the heavyweight title from Jack Johnson in April 1915 and lost it to Jack Dempsey in July 1919....
  
  
• Cleveland Williams
  Cleveland Williams
  Cleveland "Big Cat" Williams was an American heavyweight boxer who fought in the 1950s through the 1970s. A Ring Magazine poll once rated him as one of the finest boxers who never won a title...
  
  
• Holman Williams
  Holman Williams
  Holman Williams was a world welterweight boxing contender.-Boxing career:Williams began boxing as an amateur in 1928 as a bantamweight and had a successful 38-bout career...
  
  
• Ike Williams
  Ike Williams (boxer)
  Ike Williams was a former lightweight world boxing champion. Williams was known for his great right hand, and was named to the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time as well as Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year for 1948.-Professional Career:During his career, Williams faced and...
  
  
• Jackie Wilson
  Jackie Wilson
  Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson, Jr. was an American singer and performer. Known as "Mr. Excitement", Wilson was important in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. He was known as a master showman, and as one of the most dynamic singers and performers in R&B and rock history...
  
  
• Chalky Wright
  Chalky Wright
  Albert "Chalky" Wright was a black American featherweight boxer who fought from 1928 to 1948. His career record was 160 wins , 43 losses and 18 draws. In 2003, Wright made The Ring magazine's list of the 100 greatest punchers of all time.-Biography:Wright was born in Durango, Mexico...
  
  

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• Teddy Yarosz
  Teddy Yarosz
  Teddy Yarosz was an American athlete in boxing. He held the world middleweight boxing championship during 1934-1935.-Personal life:Yarosz was born in Monaca, Pennsylvania. His brother Tommy Yarosz also became a boxer....
  
  
• Dick Young
  Dick Young
  Dick Young may refer to:*Dick Young , English Test cricketer*Dick Young , American sportswriter*Dick Young , former American baseball player...
  
  

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• Tony Zale
  Tony Zale
  Anthony Florian Zaleski was an American boxer. Zale was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, a steel town, which gave him his nickname, "Man of Steel." In addition, he had the reputation of being able to take fearsome punishment and still rally to win, reinforcing that nickname...
  
  
• Alfonso Zamora
  Alfonso Zamora
  Alfonso Zamora Quiroz is a former Mexican boxer who fought from 1973 to 1980. Zamora was the silver medalist at the 1972 Munich Olympics. He enjoyed a meteoric rise in his professional career...
  
  
• Daniel Zaragoza
  Daniel Zaragoza
  Daniel Zaragoza was a Mexican professional boxer. Known as "The Mouse," Zaragoza a popular champion in the Super Bantamweight division throughout the 1980s and 1990s.-Amateur career:...
  
  
• Carlos Zarate
• Fritzie Zivic
  Fritzie Zivic
  Fritzie Zivic , born as Ferdinand Henry John Zivcich , was an American boxer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Juan Zurita
  Juan Zurita
  Juan Zurita was a Mexican boxer in the Lightweight division and a former Lightweight world champion.-Pro career:During his career he won a version of the Lightweight Championship of the World and other belts such as the NBA Lightweight Championship of the World, Featherweight Championship of...