- 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. - 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. - 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. - Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins (born January 15, 1965) nicknamed The Executioner is a professional boxer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hopkins was the undisputed holder of the Middleweight championship belts from all 4 major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO). He defended his Middleweight title 20 times. Far more then any middleweight in history. In addition, he was awarded the coveted linear Ring Belt after defeating Felix Trinidad in September 2001. - Hasim Rahman
Hasim "The Rock" Shariff Rahman (born November 7, 1972), is an American boxer who became the linear and legit Heavyweight champion of the world by knocking out Lennox Lewis in 2001. His nickname is "The Rock" (the name comes from his last name, correctly pronounced "rock-mahn"). Rahman lives and trains in Rochester, NY. - Naseem Hamed
Naseem Hamed (born February 12 1974, in Sheffield, England) is a British boxer and former Bantamweight and Featherweight champion born to Yemeni parents who emigrated to Sheffield. Hamed styled himself as "Prince" Naseem Hamed. Hamed is known for his flashy and sometimes arrogant style, colourful ring entrances and unorthodox southpaw style. Hamed's spectacular ring entrances have included being deposited in the middle of the ring by an elevator, … - Scott Harrison
Scott Harrison (born August 19 1977) was the first Scottish boxer to regain the World Boxing Organisation featherweight championship. - 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. - 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, … - 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. - 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. - Miguel Cotto
Miguel Cotto is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Organization Light Welterweight champion and is the current World Boxing Association Welterweight champion. He is married to Melissa Guzmán and has two children with her, Alondra and Miguel. As an amateur Cotto represented Puerto Rico in the Lightweight and Light Welterweight divisions at various international events including the 1999 Panamerican Games, … - Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (born February 24 1977) is a professional American boxer. His father, Floyd Mayweather Sr., is a former welterweight contender and is currently working as a professional boxing trainer. One of his uncles, Jeff Mayweather, is a former IBO super featherweight champion. Another uncle, former two-division world champion Roger Mayweather, is Mayweather Jr.'s current trainer. Mayweather Jr. has started his own record label called Philthy Rich Records. - Winky Wright
Ronald Lamont "Winky" Wright (born November 26, 1971 in Washington, DC) is an American boxer, the former Undisputed Junior Middleweight Champion of the World and a current middleweight contender. - Zab Judah
Zab "The Jab Super" Judah, (born October 27 1977), of Brooklyn, New York, is an American professional boxer. He is a former junior welterweight 140 lb (63.5 kg) champion, and former undisputed champion in the welterweight 147 lb (66.7 kg) division. - Kostya Tszyu
Konstantin Tszyu (Russian: Константин (Костя) Цзю, pronounced in Australian English) (born September 19, 1969) is a Russian- born boxer of mixed Russian, Korean and Mongol descent. He has Australian and Russian citizenship and is a two time world junior welterweight champion, including a period of time as the undisputed junior welterweight champion. The son of a fitter in a metal factory and a nurse, Tszyu was born in a town named Serov, … - Antonio Tarver
Antonio Deon Tarver (born November 21, 1968), nicknamed the "Magic Man," is a professional boxer from Orlando, Florida, who is the former undisputed light heavyweight champion of the world. He stands at 6'02 and was the first man ever to knock out Roy Jones Jr. He built an impressive amateur career, which included winning a bronze medal while representing the United States at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. - Antonio Margarito
Antonio Margarito (born March 18, 1978) is a boxer from Tijuana, Mexico. Margarito is the former WBO world Welterweight champion. - Wladimir Klitschko
Dr. Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Klitschko ("Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Klychko"); born March 25 1976 in Solnechnoe, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan) is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer, former WBO and the current IBF and IBO World Heavyweight Champion. Though a major celebrity in his former adopted home of Germany, in 2004 he moved with his older brother, former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, to Beverly Hills. - Jeff Fenech
Jeff Fenech aka 'The Marrickville Mauler' (born May 28, 1964 in Marrickville, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian of Maltese parents, a former boxer and current boxing trainer, to whom many Australians refer to as the greatest boxing champion to ever come out of the country. Fenech is considered by many to be a national sports hero in Australia. - Sugar Ray Leonard
Ray Charles Leonard (born May 17, 1956) is a retired professional boxer. He was one of the leading boxers in the world in the late 1970s and 1980s, winning world titles at multiple weights and engaging in contests with such celebrated opponents as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler. He was named after the singing legend Ray Charles. Leonard was given the nickname "Sugar" by one of his amateur coaches in his hometown of Palmer Park, Maryland. - Diego Corrales
Diego "Chico" Corrales (August 25 1977 - May 7 2007) was a former super featherweight and lightweight world boxing champion. "Chico" had a professional record of 40-5-0, with 33 wins coming by way of knockout. - Barry McGuigan
Finbar Patrick "Barry" McGuigan MBE (born February 28, 1961 in Clones, County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland), nicknamed "The Clones Cyclone", is a former professional boxer who became a world Featherweight champion. McGuigan, who is the son of the late Pat McGuigan, a famous singer in Ireland, fought for Northern Ireland in the 1978 Commonwealth Games and represented his native country at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. - Jeff Lacy
Jeffrey Scott Lacy (born May 12, 1977 in St. Petersburg, Florida) is an American boxer. Currently fighting in the super middleweight boxing division at 5'9" (though some observers have noted that he looks closer to 5'8') and 168 lb, his record stands at 22 wins (17 by knockout) and one loss. His good punching power, most notably the left hook, and aggressive style created huge expectation, but he failed to realize his potential when defeated by Joe Calzaghe. - Ricardo Mayorga
Ricardo Mayorga (born October 3, 1973 in Managua, Nicaragua), He is the former WBA/WBC Welterweight champion and the former WBC Junior Middleweight champion. He holds a fair record of 28-6 with 23 knockouts and 1 draw. Mayorga is known as "El Matador" for his incredible power, knockout record, and having one of the best chins in the boxing industry. He was featured for the first time on the cover of Ring Magazine on the December 2003 issue, released in October. - John Conteh
John Conteh (born Kirkby, May 27 1951) is a British former boxer who was world Light-Heavyweight boxing champion. Conteh is one of Britain's most successful boxing champions. At his peak in the mid to late 70's he was considered good enough that he was touted as a possible opponent of Muhammad Ali. He enjoyed great fame in Britain and was often on the front as well as the back pages of the leading dailies due to his love of partying and women. - 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. - Laila Ali
Laila Ali (born December 30, 1977 in Miami Beach) is the daughter of Muhammad Ali and his third wife Veronica Porsche Ali. She was their second child and is the most famous of the nine children born to Muhammad Ali. Laila has a degree in business from Santa Monica College and previously owned a nail salon in California before becoming a boxer. - Vic Darchinyan
Vic Darchinyan (born January 7, 1976 in Vanadzor, Armenia) is the former IBF and IBO champion of the flyweight division. He is a southpaw boxer, who currently trains under Billy Hussein, brother of boxers Nedal and Hussein Hussein. Previously, he was trained by former 3-division world champion, Jeff Fenech in Sydney, Australia. Darchinyan's amateur career was 158-18 record with 105 knockouts, all but twenty of them were in Armenia, … - 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". - Azumah Nelson
Azumah Nelson (born September 19, 1958) is a former boxer and three-time world champion. A native of Ghana. Nelson also has endured personal loss: His wife of many years died during the 1990s of cancer. - 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, … - Marvin Hagler
Marvelous Marvin Hagler (born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler in Newark, New Jersey, May 23, 1954), is an American former boxer. He finished his boxing career with a record of 62-3-2 with 52 knockouts. - Enzo Maccarinelli
Enzo Maccarinelli (born August 20, 1980 in Swansea, Wales) is a professional boxer in the cruiserweight division. His record is 24-1 (18 KOs). He is the current WBO world cruiserweight champion. On June 28, 2003, Maccarinelli won the vacant WBU cruiserweight title when he defeated Bruce Scott by fourth-round TKO. He has defended the title seven times since then. - Johnny Tapia
Johnny Lee Tapia (born February 13, 1967), better known as Johnny Tapia, is an American professional boxer. He has won world titles at Super Flyweight, Bantamweight, and Featherweight. Tapia was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. - Joel Casamayor
Joel "El Cepillo" Casamayor Johnson is a Cuban boxer, who turned pro in 1992 after he had won an Olympic gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The nickname "El Cepillo", literally translated to "the hairbrush", comes from his uppercut, which rakes his opponents across the face. Casamayor is a two time champion, and current WBC Lightweight champion, as well as The Ring magazines world champion. <br> <br - Nonito Donaire
Nonito Donaire nicknamed The Filipino Flash (born on November 16, 1982 in General Santos City, Phillipines) is a Filipino boxer and world champion in the Flyweight category. - Nigel Benn
Nigel Benn (born January 22, 1964) is an English former boxer who held world titles at both Middleweight and Super Middleweight. Benn was known as "The Dark Destroyer", a nickname that would, ironically, later come back to haunt him. - Emile Griffith
Emile Alphonse Griffith (born February 3, 1938) is a former boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands who won world championships in both the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions. He was the first boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands ever to become a world champion. While Griffith is recognized in some boxing books as being a three division world champion, his claim to the Junior Middleweight title was not generally recognised.
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