- Vitali Klitschko
Dr. Vitali Vladimirovich Klitschko born July 19, 1971). known as "Dr. Iron Fist", is a professional boxer since 1996. In 2005 he retired, but in January 2007 he announced his comeback. He was the WBC heavyweight boxing champion of the world in 2004 and 2005. He is 6' 8" (2.02m) tall, and was born in Belovodsk, Kyrgyzstan, in the former Soviet Union. Vitali has the highest knock out percentage (92%) of any heavyweight champion.
- Manny Pacquiao
Emmanuel Dapigran Pacquiao, (born December 17, 1978 in Kibawe, Bukidnon, Mindanao, Philippines) is a Filipino professional boxer and reigning WBC International Super Featherweight champion. He is a former world champion at IBF Super Bantamweight, and WBC Flyweight divisions. Pacquiao has a record of 44 wins, 3 losses, and 2 draws, with 35 wins coming by way of knockout. His brother, Bobby Pacquiao is also a Super Featherweight boxer.
- 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.
- Marco Antonio Barrera
Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia (born January 17, 1974 in Mexico City) is a Mexican professional boxer and former world WBC Super Featherweight champion. Barrera, whose brother Jorge Barrera is also a boxer, had a successful amateur boxing career where he won 55 out of 58 bouts, and then he turned professional. Barrera is a member of an affluent Mexico City family.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- Jorge Arce
Jorge Arce (pronounced "ar-say"; born July 27, 1979 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico) was a world champion in the light flyweight (108-pound) division in the sport of boxing for several years, as well as the WBC interim flyweight (112-pound) champion.
- Frank Bruno
Franklin Roy Bruno (born November 16, 1961) is a British former boxer whose career highlight was winning the WBC Heavyweight championship in 1995. Altogether, he won 40 of his 45 contests. Like Henry Cooper before him, Bruno has remained a popular celebrity with the British public since his ring career ended, and still appears regularly in pantomime.
- Gerry Penalosa
Geronimo "Gerry" Penalosa (born August 7, 1972, San Carlos City, Philippines) is a boxer in the Super Flyweight division. Penalosa, nicknamed "Fearless", turned pro in 1989 and in 1997 captured the WBC Super Flyweight Title with a decision win over Hiroshi Kawashima. He defended the title three times before losing the belt to In Joo Cho in 1998. In 2001 he challenged WBC Super Flyweight Title holder Masamori Tokuyama, but lost a decision.
- Wayne McCullough
Wayne McCullough, born July 7, 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland is a professional boxer who currently fights in the Featherweight division. During his professional career, which spans back to 1993, he has held the WBC world title in the Bantamweight category. He is from the Woodvale Road in the greater Shankill area of Belfast.
- Pongsaklek Wonjongkam
Pongsaklek Wonjongkam is a professional southpaw boxer in the flyweight division. His record is 65-2 (34 KOs). He is the current WBC world flyweight champion. Wonjongkam had a record of 9-2 early in his career—both losses were to Filipino journeyman Jerry Pahayahay. Since the second loss (on July 11, 1996), Wonjongkam has won 55 consecutive bouts - longest current continuous win streak in boxing.
- Brian Viloria
Brian Viloria (born November 24, 1980 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a Filipino-American professional boxer.
- Luisito Espinosa
Luisito Pio Espinosa (born June 26, 1967 in Tondo in the Philippines) is a retired boxer who won World titles in two different weight division. Known as "Golden Boy" and "Lindol", Espinosa turned pro in 1984 and in 1989 won the WBA Bantamweight title by knocking out Khaokor Galaxy in the first round. He defended the belt twice before losing it to Israel Contreras in 1991. In 1995 he won the WBC Featherweight title by outpointing Manuel Medina.
- Hozumi Hasegawa
Hozumi Hasegawa is a professional boxer from Hyogo, Japan. He is the current WBC world bantamweight champion. Hasegawa defended his WBC bantamweight title for the fourth time on May 3, defeating Simpiwe Vetyeka of South Africa by unanimous decision.
- Masamori Tokuyama
Masamori Tokuyama is a retired boxer in the super flyweight (115 lb) division. His record is 32-3-1 (9 KOs). He is a former WBC world super flyweight champion. Because of his affiliation to North Korea and his experience traveling to it, he has been banned from entering South Korea and the United States.
- Eagle Kyowa
Eagle Kyowa (イーグル京和, born as Den Janlaphan on December 4, 1978 in Phichit province, Thailand) is a professional boxer in the strawweight (105 lb) division. His record is 18-1 (6 KOs). He is the current WBC world strawweight champion. Kyowa originally won the WBC strawweight title on January 10, 2004, when he defeated José Antonio Aguirre. In his second defense of the title, a shoulder injury forced him to lose to Isaac Bustos by TKO.
- Carlos Zarate
Carlos Zarate Serna in Tepito, Distrito Federal, Mexico, and better known in the world of boxing plainly as Carlos Zarate, has the distinction of being the only boxer in history to put together two streaks of 20 or more knockout wins in a row. Zarate, considered along with rival Wilfredo Gómez to be among the better punchers of the lighter divisions, had an amateur record of 33 wins and 3 losses, with 30 knockout wins, …
- Daniel Zaragoza
Daniel Zaragoza (born December 11, 1957 in Mexico City, Mexico) was a professional boxer. Known as "The Mouse", Zaragoza a popular champion in the super bantamweight division throughout the 1980s and 1990's.
- Michael Carbajal
Michael Carbajal is a Phoenix, Arizona, USA native who was a four-time world boxing champion. He is nicknamed "Little Hands Of Stone," after his favorite boxer, the legendary "Hands Of Stone," Panamanian Roberto Durán.
- Ricardo Lopez
Ricardo “El Finito” Lopez Nava is a boxer from Mexico, who as an amateur won the silver medal at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. As a professional, he defended the WBC Strawweight Championship a record 22 times. He also won the WBA and WBO championship of the same weight class. Lopez also won the IBF Light Flyweight Championship and defended it twice before retiring. Notable fighters he defeated include Hideyuki Ohashi, Saman Sorjaturong, Kyun Yun Li, …
- Eder Jofre
Eder Jofre is a Brazilian former boxer, whom many consider to be the best Brazilian boxer of all time, as well as the second greatest bantam weight fighter of all time behind Ruben Olivares. He represented his native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. A native of São Paulo, Jofre, whose nicknames were "The Golden Bantam" and "Jofrinho", made his professional debut on March 23, 1957, beating Raul Lopez by knockout in five rounds.
- Veeraphol Sahaprom
Veerapol Sahaprom (Veerapol Nakhornluang Promotion, born November 16, 1968) is a former WBC and WBA Bantamweight Champion. He is from the Nakhon Ratchasima Province in Thailand. He is called "Deathmask" because he never changes his expression when throwing punches.
- Takashi Koshimoto
Takashi Koshimoto is a former Japanese professional boxer in the featherweight (126 lb) division. He is a former WBC world featherweight champion.
- 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. Harada was arguably one of Japan's most popular boxers; his fame reached international status, and Puerto Rico's Wilfredo Gómez declared that Harada was his idol as a child.
- Lupe Pintor
Jose Guadalupe Pintor Guzman (born April 13, 1955), 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. Pintor is a double World Champion, having held the WBC World Bantamweight Championship from 1978 until 1983 and the WBC World Super Bantamweight Championship from 1985 to 1986.
- Lionel Rose
Lionel Rose MBE (born June 21, 1948) is an Australian bantamweight boxer, now retired, who became the first Aboriginal in boxing history to win a world title.
- Hilario Zapata
Hilario Zapata (born August 19, 1958) is a former boxer who was a two time world Jr. Flyweight champion and a one time world flyweight champion. Zapata is a Panamanian. Zapata began his professional boxing career in 1977, beating Victor Lopez by a knockout in the second round. He had 2 wins in '77. He had a fast ascent to the top: By his fifth bout, on July 1 of 1978, he was meeting former world Flyweight champion Juan Guzman in Panama City, …
- Kuniaki Shibata
Kuniaki Shibata is a former Japanese professional boxer. He is a former WBC and WBA super featherweight champion.
- Miguel Canto
Miguel Angel Canto Solis is a former world boxing champion from Mexico. Contrary to many Mexican boxers, Canto was not a "slam-bang" type of boxer ("Slam-Bang" is a term that is used to describe boxers whose fights are usually action-packed; Mexican boxers are usually stereotyped as "slam-bangers"). He enjoyed using boxing techniques and knowledge instead of trying to score knockouts in most of his fights. Prove of this is that he only won fifteen fights by knockout, …
- Chucho Castillo
Jesus Castillo (born June 17, 1944) is a former Mexican boxer. Better known as Chucho Castillo, he was WBA and WBC Bantamweight champion in 1970. Castillo and Ruben Olivares sustained one of the most important rivalries in the history of Mexican boxing. Castillo was described by the boxing book "The Ring: Boxing in the 20th Century" as quiet and sullen, while Olivares was more of an outgoing partygoer, according to the book.
- Sirimongkol Singwangcha
Sirimongkol Singwangcha is a boxer from Thailand. He has won world titles in two weight divisions. His career record is 53-2 (31 KOs). Singwangcha defeated Jose Luis Bueno on August 10, 1996 for the WBC bantamweight title. He defended the title three times before suffering his first loss—a seventh round TKO by Joichiro Tatsuyoshi.
- Wandee Singwangcha
Wandee Singwangcha (born On Duwises on February 5, 1980 in Udon Thani, Thailand) is a professional boxer in the light flyweight (108 lb) division. His record is 50-7-1 (10 KOs). He is a former WBC interim light-flyweight champion. Retired in 2005, Singwangcha now devotes his time to animal rights' groups.
- Juan Manuel Márquez
Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez (born August 23, 1973, in Mexico City) is a Mexican professional boxer and the former world WBC super featherweight champion. He also has held the IBF,WBA, and WBO featherweight (126 lb) titles. Márquez comes from a strong boxing pedigree. His brother, Rafael Márquez, is a former world champion who has won world titles at the bantamweight and super bantamweight divisions.
- Humberto Gonzalez
Humberto Gonzalez (born March 25, 1966) is a Mexican former world boxing champion. Nicknamed "Chiquita", he made many admirers during his professional boxing career. Female boxer Delia Gonzalez was one of them, nicknamed "Chikita" after Humberto. Gonzalez made his professional boxing debut on September 1, 1984 in Mexico City with a four round decision win over Jorge Ortega. Little over three months later, he had his first knockout win, …
- Jiro Watanabe
Jiro Watanabe (born 16 March1955) is a Japanese former boxer who was considered by many, along with Yoko Gushiken, to be one of the two best world champions to come out of Japan. Watanabe, who campaigned only in Japan and South Korea, was one of the first World Super flyweight champions, as the division was relatively new when he was crowned.
- Joichiro Tatsuyoshi
Joichiro Tatsuyoshi is a former World Boxing Council (WBC) world bantamweight champion from Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan. His record is 19–6–1 (13 KOs). He is popular for his fight style and unique personality, and has appeared in several television variety shows. He is named after Joe Yabuki, the main character of the boxing anime, "Ashita no Joe" ("Tomorrow's Joe").
- Sot Chitalada
Sot Chitalada (born 24 October 1961) in Chonburi, Thailand, was formerly twice WBC Flyweight Champion. Chitalada built a reputation as a Muay Thai champion in Thailand before making the transition to professional boxing. After winning his first four professional fights, he challenged WBC Light flyweight Champion Jung Koo Chang on 31 March 1984, losing a twelve-round decision.
- Gilberto Roman
Gilberto Roman (29 November 1961 - 27 June 1990) was a Mexican boxer who became World Super flyweight Champion (115 lbs). He is considered by many fans to be one of the great champions in this division. In 1986, Roman dethroned Jiro Watanabe of Japan as the WBC Super Flyweight Champion. In 1985, Roman had lost two fights early in the year and many thought his days of being a contender would be over. However, he reeled off eight straight wins to earn the fight with Watanabe, …
- Jung Koo Chang
Jung Koo Chang (born February 4 1963 in Busan) is a South Korean world boxing champion. His nickname is "The Korean Hawk". In Chang's first world title try, he lost to Hilario Zapata of Panama by a decision in 15 rounds in 1982. However, in a rematch held at Seoul, he avenged that loss and became world champion by knocking out Zapata in three rounds. Chang then went on to establish a world record for the most defenses as a world Jr. Flyweight champion, …