- The Undertaker
Mark Calaway (born March 24, 1965) is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name The Undertaker. He is signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on its "SmackDown!" brand but is currently inactive due to an injury. As of 2007, Calaway is one of the longest-tenured performers in WWE, having joined in 1990. - Chris Benoit
Christopher Michael Benoit (May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) was a Canadian professional wrestler who wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and World Wrestling Entertainment. A two-time World Heavyweight Champion, he was widely regarded as one of the best technical professional wrestlers of his generation. Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy, and their 7-year-old son Daniel were found dead in their Fayetteville, Georgia home on June 25, 2007. - The Great Khali
Dalip Singh Rana (born August 27 1972) is an Indian professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring name The Great Khali. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on its SmackDown! brand, where he is the current World Heavyweight Champion. Before embarking on his professional sports career, he was an officer in the Punjab state police. - 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, … - 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. - 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. - Jeff Jarrett
Jeffrey "Jeff" Leonard Jarrett (born April 14, 1967) is an American professional wrestler. A 12 time world heavyweight champion, Jarrett wrestled for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) throughout the 1990s. In 2002, Jarrett co-founded the professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). In addition to wrestling for TNA, Jarrett is the Vice President of TNA Entertainment. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Larry Holmes
Larry Holmes (born November 3, 1949 in Cuthbert, Georgia) is a former world heavyweight boxing champion. Noted boxing historian Bert Sugar has listed Holmes as one of the greatest boxers in history. Holmes was born in Georgia, but he has spent the majority of his life in Easton, Pennsylvania, in the state's Lehigh Valley region, from which Holmes gained his famed boxing nickname, "The Easton Assassin." Holmes won his first 48 professional fights, … - Lou Thesz
Aloysius Martin Thesz (April 24 1916 - April 28 2002), better known as Lou Thesz, was a legendary professional wrestler and six time NWA World Heavyweight Champion. He is widely considered by his peers and experts alike to be one of the most influential people in the history of professional wrestling. Among his many accomplishments, he is credited with inventing popular professional wrestling moves such as the Lou Thesz press, … - 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. - Curt Hennig
Curtis Michael Hennig, also known by his ring name Mr. Perfect, was an American professional wrestler who competed for the American Wrestling Association, World Wrestling Federation, and World Championship Wrestling promotions. A former World Heavyweight Champion, he was regarded by fans and peers alike as one of the most athletically gifted and charismatic professional wrestlers of his generation - 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. - Jack Johnson
John Arthur Johnson, better known as Jack Johnson and nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer and arguably the best heavyweight of his generation. He was the first black Heavyweight Champion of the World, 1908-1915. In a documentary about his life, Ken Burns said: "For more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous, and the most notorious African-American on Earth". - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Shannon Briggs
Shannon "Brooklyn" Briggs (born December 4, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American heavyweight boxer and actor, whose career peaked by controversially outpointing George Foreman for the linear heavyweight championship but was decelerated by a loss to Lennox Lewis in 1998. On November 4, 2006, Briggs was once again recognized as a heavyweight champion, becoming the WBO Heavyweight Champion by beating Sergei Liakhovich by TKO in the twelfth and final round. - 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. - 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. - John L. Sullivan
John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15 1858 - February 2 1918) is widely recognized as boxing's first modern world heavyweight champion. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts (now a part of Boston) to Irish emigrant parents, Michael Sullivan from Abbeydorney, County Kerry and the former Catherine Kelly from Athlone, County Westmeath. Sullivan was nicknamed "The Boston Strongboy". - 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 Baer
Maximilian Adalbert "Madcap Maxie" Baer (February 11, 1909 - November 21, 1959) was a famous American boxer of the 1930s, onetime Heavyweight Champion of the World, and actor. - Ray Mercer
"Merciless" Ray Mercer (born April 4, 1961 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American professional boxer and former WBO World Heavyweight Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist who resides in Fayetteville, North Carolina. - Tommy Morrison
Tommy David Morrison (January 2, 1969, Jay, Oklahoma) is a heavyweight boxer, and the former World Boxing Organization champion. Dubbed "The Duke", he is a grandnephew of Hollywood star John Wayne. - 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). - Jersey Joe Walcott
Arnold Raymond Cream (January 31, 1914 - February 25, 1994), 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 37. - 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. - Jess Willard
Jess Willard, born December 29, 1881 in St. Clere, Kansas in rural Pottawatomie County - died December 15, 1968 in Los Angeles, California, was a world Heavyweight boxing champion. A working cowboy, he did not begin boxing until he was almost thirty years old. Despite his late start, Jess Willard proved successful as a boxer, defeating top-ranked opponents to earn a chance to fight for the championship. - Tommy Burns
Tommy Burns (June 17, 1881 - May 10, 1955), born Noah Brusso, was a Canadian world heavyweight champion boxer. Born in Chesley, Ontario, Brusso grew up in Hanover, Ontario and was a lacrosse player in Galt. From an impoverished family of thirteen children, he travelled to Detroit, Michigan where he began his prizefighting career in 1900. In June 1903, he was discovered playing lacrosse under an assumed name for a Detroit team that was playing in Chatham, … - Ezzard Charles
Ezzard Mack Charles (July 7 1921 - May 28 1975) was an African-American professional boxer and former Heavyweight Champion of the world. He was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia, but is commonly thought of a Cincinnatian. Charles, known as "The Cincinnati Cobra," is best remembered for his wins as a heavyweight, but most experts feel he was in his prime as a light heavyweight. Although he never won the championship at that weight, … - Primo Carnera
Primo Carnera was an Italian boxer who became the World Heavyweight champion. - Bob Fitzsimmons
Robert James "Bob" Fitzsimmons (May 26, 1863 - October 22, 1917), a Cornish native, moved to New Zealand in his childhood. Representing New Zealand, he made boxing history as boxing's first three-division world champion. He also achieved fame for beating Gentleman Jim Corbett, the man who beat the great John L. Sullivan.
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