- Lennox Lewis
Lennox Claudius Lewis CBE (born September 2 1965 in West Ham, London, England) is a retired professional boxer who represented Canada in the Olympics and fought under the British flag as a professional. He is a former undisputed lineal heavyweight champion. Along with Muhammad Ali and Evander Holyfield, Lewis is one of three boxers in heavyweight history to have won the Heavyweight Championship on three separate occasions.
- Oscar de la Hoya
Oscar De La Hoya (born February 4, 1973) - nicknamed the Golden Boy - is an American boxer who won a gold medal for the United States Boxing Team at the Barcelona Olympic Games and is considered one of boxing's all time greats. Oscar De La Hoya became Ring Magazine's "Fighter of the Year" in 1995 and Ring Magazine's best "Pound for Pound" fighter in the world in 1997.
- John Ruiz
John “The Quiet Man" Ruiz, Born in Methuen, MA and currently resides in Chelsea, MA, is a professional boxer. His professional record is 41-7-1-0, with 28 knockouts. Frustrated by years of criticism from the boxing press and fans, he retired upon his second loss of the WBA Title on April 30, 2005 (to James “Lights-Out” Toney). Ruiz un-retired in 10 days, after finding out that James Toney had tested positive for anabolic steroids.
- Ruslan Chagaev
Ruslan Chagaev is an Uzbek boxer, currently holding the WBA heavyweight title. As an amateur fighter, he has won the Asian and World Championships in the heavyweight (81-91 kg) category. Chagaev originally won the gold medal at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships after beating boxing legend Félix Savón in the final, but when it was discovered that Chagaev had been boxing professionally, he lost the title and was suspended for a year.
- Mike Tyson
Michael Gerard Tyson, (born June 30, 1966) is a former American world heavyweight boxing champion. To date Tyson is the youngest man to have won a boxing world heavyweight title belt. During his prime in the late 1980s and early 1990s Tyson was one of the most recognizable athletes in the world. Nicknamed "Iron Mike Tyson", "Kid Dynamite", and "The Baddest Man on the Planet", Tyson adopted the Muslim name, Malik Abdul Aziz, …
- Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield (born October 19, 1962 in Atmore, Alabama) is a professional boxer from the United States and a multiple-time world champion in both the Cruiserweight and Heavyweight divisions. Holyfield won the bronze medal in the Light Heavyweight division at the 1984 Summer Olympics after losing a controversial disqualification to New Zealand's Kevin Barry.
- Ricky Hatton
Richard "Ricky" Hatton MBE (born October 6 1978, in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England) is an English boxer. Hatton is a two-time IBF and IBO Light Welterweight Champion, having relinquished the IBF belt, only to step back down to the weight class and beat Juan Urango. He was the WBA Welterweight Champion, but relinquished this title on 31 August 2006. Hatton is also the former WBU, WBA Light Welterweight Champion.
- Nikolai Valuev
Nikolai Valuev (born August 21, 1973), was the first Russian professional heavyweight boxing champion and the former holder of the WBA title between December 17, 2005 and April 15, 2007. His alias used to be "The Beast from the East" but he now prefers to be styled "The Russian Giant". Valuev is the tallest and heaviest recognized champion to this day, standing at 215 cm (about 7 feet 1 in) tall and weighing in at 145-150 kg (320-330 lb).
- Roy Jones Jr.
Roy Levesta Jones Jr. (born January 16, 1969) is an IBC Light Heavyweight Champion, a former four division boxing champion and pound for pound king from Pensacola, Florida. Standing in at 5'11, Jones was Ring Magazine's Fighter of the Year in 1994 and was voted the "Fighter of the Decade" in 1999 by the Boxing Writers Association of America. Jones was considered by many as one of the best pound for pound fighters in the world during his prime.
- Mikkel Kessler
Mikkel Kessler (born March 1 1979) is a Danish professional boxer, current Super Middleweight World Boxing Council World Champion and Super Middleweight World Boxing Association World Champion. In his professional career he is undefeated with a record of 39-0 and 29 knockouts.
- Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942) is a retired American boxer and former three-time World Heavyweight Champion and winner of an Olympic gold medal. In 1999, Ali was crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by "Sports Illustrated" and the BBC. Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He was named after his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., who was named for the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Clay.
- George Foreman
George Edward Foreman (born January 10, 1949) is an American two-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion. He is the oldest man ever to win the heavyweight title, and also has been named one of the 25 greatest fighters of all time. Nicknamed "Big George", he is now a successful businessman and an ordained Christian minister who has his own church.
- Jermain Taylor
Jermain Taylor (born August 11, 1978, Little Rock, Arkansas) -nicknamed Bad Intentions- is a professional boxer and current middleweight champion of the WBO and WBC. Taylor currently has an undefeated record of 27-0-1, with 17 wins coming by way of knockout. He is married to former Louisiana Tech and former WNBA player Erica Smith-Taylor. He is a graduate of McClellan Magnet High School, Class of 1997.
- Anthony Mundine
Anthony Mundine (born 21 May 1975 in Newtown, NSW, Australia) is a boxer, former Australian rugby league player of mixed-race White and Indigenous Australians descent and WBA Super Middleweight Champion. Mundine was trained by his father, Tony Mundine, who was a middleweight contender during the 1970s. His Mother's name is Lyn Mundine Mundine has had a stormy relationship with the media.
- Erik Morales
Erik Isaac Morales Elvira (born September 1, 1976 in Tijuana, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer, WBC, IBF and WBO division champion. He is a former world champion at WBC / WBO Super Bantamweight (122 lb), WBC Featherweight (126 lb), WBC Super Featherweight, WBC International Super Featherweight (130 lb), and most recently the IBF Junior Lightweight (130 lb) divisions. Already a legend in the boxing ring and in Mexico, …
- Joe Frazier
Joseph William "Smokin' Joe" Frazier (born January 12, 1944 in Beaufort, South Carolina) is a former world heavyweight boxing champion, active mostly in the 1960s and 1970s. Frazier is considered one of the greatest heavyweights of all time, but he is perhaps most famous for his trilogy of fights with Muhammad Ali, the first of which, won by Frazier in a unanimous decision, has often been called one of boxing's greatest bouts.
- Virgil Hill
Virgil Eugene Hill (born January 18, 1964 Clinton, Missouri) is a Joplin, Missouri fighter partly of Native American heritage, who forged a solid connection between the state of North Dakota and the sport of boxing.
- Javier Castillejo
Francisco Javier Castillejo (born February 3, 1968) is a boxer from Spain. He is the former WBA World Middleweight Champion, and has also previously held the WBC World Light-Middleweight Championship, giving him recognition as one of the few currently active fighters to have held highly-regarded World Championships in two different weight classes.
- Joe Louis
Joseph Louis Barrow, best known as Joe Louis and nicknamed The Brown Bomber, a native of Lexington, Alabama, is regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight boxing champions of all time. He held the title for over 11 years, recording 25 successful defenses of the title. In 2003, "Ring Magazine" rated Joe Louis No. 1 on the list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
- Riddick Bowe
Riddick Lamont Bowe (born August 10, 1967, Brooklyn, New York) is an American boxer and former undisputed heavyweight champion. He is best remembered for his trilogy of fights with Evander Holyfield, and two brutal bouts with Andrew Golota.
- Edwin Valero
Edwin Valero (born December 3, 1981 in Bolero Alto, Mérida, Venezuela) is an undefeated southpaw boxer who fights in the super featherweight (130 lb) division. His professional boxing record is 22-0 (22 KOs, 19 of which occurred in the first round). Valero is the current WBA super featherweight champion.
- Michael Moorer
Michael Lee Moorer (born November 12 1967) is a boxer who has been a world champion in the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions. He came out of retirement to fight against Cliff Couser on December 9, 2006 at the Seminole Hard Rock Live Arena in Hollywood, Florida.
- Max Schmeling
Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (September 28, 1905 - February 2, 2005) was a German boxer whose two fights with Joe Louis transcended boxing and became worldwide social events because of their national associations. Despite his supposed associations with nazism, it became known long after the Second World War that Schmeling had risked his own life to save the lives of two Jewish children in 1938.
- Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano (September 1 1923 - August 31 1969), born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, was the heavyweight champion of the world from 1952 to 1956. Marciano, with forty-three knockouts to his credit (an 88% knockout rate), remains the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire without a defeat or a draw in his professional career.
- Chris John
Yohannes Christian John (born September 14, 1979 in Jakarta, Indonesia) is the WBA featherweight boxing champion (2003-). His record is 39-0-1 (20 KOs).
- Jimmy Ellis
James Albert "Jimmy" Ellis (born February 24, 1940) was a boxer from Louisville, Kentucky. He held the WBA Heavyweight title from 1968 to 1970. As an amateur, he was trained by Joe Elsby Martin, Sr., at Louisville's Columbia Gym. He turned professional, as a middleweight, in 1961. Early in his career, he was trained and managed by Bud Bruner. With Bruner, he compiled a record of 15-5 (5 KOs), and was ranked #10 in the world as a middleweight.
- O'Neil Bell
O'Neil Bell (born December 29, 1974) is the former unified (WBA/WBC) cruiserweight champion.
- Floyd Patterson
Floyd Patterson (January 4, 1935 - May 11, 2006) was an American heavyweight boxing champion. At 21 Patterson became the youngest man then to have won the world heavyweight championship. He had a record of 55 wins 8 losses and 1 draw, with 40 wins by knockout.
- Sonny Liston
Charles L. "Sonny" Liston (May 8?, 1932 - December 30?, 1970), was a formidable boxer who became world heavyweight champion in 1962 by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round, the first time Patterson had been knocked out. Liston was one of the most powerful punchers in the history of the heavyweight division.
- Wladimir Sidorenko
Wladimir Sidorenko (born Wolodymyr Sydorenko on September 23, 1976 in Energodar, Ukraine) is a professional boxer in the bantamweight (118 lb) division. His record is 19-0-1 (6 KOs). He is the current WBA world bantamweight champion. Sidorenko won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics as a flyweight, and a silver medal at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships in the same division. He won the title at the 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships.
- Jack Dempsey
William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title between 1919 and 1926. Known as "The Manassa Mauler," Dempsey was a tremendous puncher famous for his exciting fights, many of which set financial and attendance records. A fish is named after him, reputedly for its colorfulness and aggressiveness.
- Leon Spinks
Leon Spinks (born July 11, 1953 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former boxer. He had an overall record of 26 wins, 17 losses and 3 draws as a professional, with 14 knockout wins. While still an amateur, he also became a member of the United States Marine Corps. Spinks went from being heavyweight champion of the world to being homeless in little more than a decade. Spinks had a stellar amateur boxing career.
- Alexander Munoz
Alexander Munoz (born February 8, 1975, Miranda, Venezuela) is a boxer in the Super Flyweight division.
- Ernie Terrell
Ernie Terrell (born on April 4, 1939 in Belzoni, Mississippi) is an American singer, record producer, and former WBA heavyweight boxing champion. Terrell is the older brother of The Supremes's early 1970s lead singer Jean Terrell. In the 1960s, she sang with his group, "Ernie Terrell & the Knockouts." In his early boxing career, Terrell defeated some good contenders, including Cleveland Williams, Zora Folley, and future Light Heavyweight champion Bob Foster.
- Souleymane M'Baye
Souleymane M'baye (born March 21, 1975 in Clichy, Paris, France) is a professional boxer and is the current WBA super-lightweight champion. He won the vacated title by a fourth technical knockout on September 2 2006 against Raul Horacio Babi. His current record is 35 wins, 1 loss, with 20 wins coming by way of knockout and his sole defeat coming against former WBA super-lightweight champion Vivian Harris.
- Tim Witherspoon
"Terrible" Tim Witherspoon (born December 27, 1957) is an American prizefighter who was twice recognized as Heavyweight Champion of the World by a professional boxing sanctioning organization.
- Gerrie Coetzee
Gerhardus Christian Coetzee (born August 4, 1955 in Boksburg), better known as Gerrie Coetzee, is a South African former boxer. He made history two times: He was the first African ever to fight for the world's Heavyweight title, and the first to win the world Heavyweight title. His nickname was "The Bionic Man", because he always had trouble with his right hand, and had a few corrective items put in it during three surgeries.
- Greg Page
Greg Page (born October 25, 1958) was an American boxer. He was the World Boxing Association Heavyweight champion from 1984 to 1985. His professional record after his retirement in 2001 was 58-17-1 with 48 Knockouts.
- Bruce Seldon
Bruce Samuel Seldon (born January 30, 1967) was an American boxer who held the World Boxing Association Heavyweight title from 1995 to 1996. It was after a boxing match between Seldon and Mike Tyson that Tupac Shakur was murdered in a drive-by shooting. Seldon lost his WBA Heavyweight Championship when he was stopped in the first round by Tyson.
- Lorenzo Parra
Lorenzo "Lencho" Parra(born August 19, 1978 in Machiques, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association(WBA) flyweight (112 lb) champion. He has an overall record of 27-0 (with 17 wins by Knockout). On December 6, 2003 Parra beat Eric Morel by an unanimous decision, for the WBA world championship title.