- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- Z Gorres
Z Gorres is a Philippine boxer from Mandaue, Cebu. He nearly won the WBO Super Flyweight title but didn't achieve it as he lost to Fernando Montiel. Inspite of losing to the Mexican title holder, Gorres showed world-class durability and managed to go the distance. There's a possibility that he may be the Philippines' most durable boxer.
- 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.
- Fernando Montiel
Fernando Montiel (born March 1, 1979 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico) is a professional boxer in the Super flyweight (115 lb) division. His record is 32-2-1 (24 KOs). He is the current WBO Super flyweight champion. Fernando Montiel is a hybrid boxer, using accurate punches to slow down his opponent and using swift hand speed and quickness to frustrate his opponents. This was perfectly showcased in his fight with game but relatively unknown Mitchell Samba.
- 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.
- Takefumi Sakata
Takefumi Sakata is a Japanese boxer in the flyweight (112 lb) division. He is the current WBA flyweight champion, and has a professional record of 30-4-1 (15KOs). Sakata was the premier boxer in the Kyoei boxing gym before the arrival of Koki Kameda in 2005. He stayed out of the limelight for most of his career, even being used as Kameda's sparring partner, but finally won a world title in 2007, defeating Lorenzo Parra for the WBA Flyweight title.
- Victor Burgos
Victor Burgos, born Jose Victor Flores Burgos on April 10, 1974 in Copala, Mexico, professional boxer. Burgos' career has been marked by his mediocre record -- after turning pro in 1993, he lost his first 4 fights, 2 by KO. Burgos, however, continued to compete, eventually winning the then-vacant IBF Light Flyweight title in a bout with Alex Sanchez in 2003. He lost the title to Will Grigsby in 2005, …
- Rosendo Alvarez
Rosendo José Álvarez Hernández is a flyweight boxer, and is well known for giving Mexican legend Ricardo Lopez two tough fights. He is the only person to hold the undefeated flyweight champion to a draw. He won the World Boxing Association strawweight title by close split decision over Thai fighter Chana Porpaoin. He defended his title by knockout over former and future champs Songkram Porpaoin (twin brother of Chana) and Kermin Guardia.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regina Halmich
Regina Halmich (born November 22, 1976) is a popular female boxer from Germany. Halmich, alongside Deirdre Gogarty of Ireland and Michelle Sutcliffe of England among others, has helped popularize female boxing in Europe. She has also become a sex symbol and television personality in her native country. Halmich was German champion as an amateur in 1992, 1993 and 1994, a year in which she also earned the European title. As a professional, she has boxed in the Jr. Flyweight, …
- Damaen Kelly
Damaen Kelly (b.August 18 1976) (also incorrectly known as "Damien Kelly") is a former professional boxer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Kelly fought his final professional fights in the Bantamweight division but was more noted for boxing in the Flyweight division. Kelly was considered to be a gifted textbook boxer but who lacked real knockout power.
- Violito Payla
Violito Payla is an amateur boxer from the Philippines. He competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the Flyweight (– 48kg) division but lost his bout in the round of 32 to Tulashboy Doniyorov of Uzbekistan, 36-26. He also competed at the 2006 Asian Games and won the gold medal in the Flyweight division in a decisive match against Somjit Jongjohor of Thailand 31-15.
- Jimmy Wilde
Jimmy Wilde (May 12, 1892 in Pentwyn Deintyr - March 10, 1969 in Cardiff) was a former boxer of Welsh origin. Wilde was world Flyweight champion, and he was called by Nat Fleischer and Charley Rose, among others, as The greatest Flyweight ever. His nickname was Mighty Atom, he was also known as the "Ghost with the Hammer in his Hand" and the "Tylorstown Terror".
- Diego Morales
Diego Adán Morales is a Mexican professional boxer and the younger brother of boxing legend, Erik Morales.
- Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson (born August 13, 1971, Washington, DC) is a boxer in the Super Flyweight division. Johnson, nicknamed "Too Sharp", defeated Francisco Tejedor to win the IBF Flyweight title in 1996. Although he never attained significant popularity due to his weight class and lack of defining fights, he went on to defend his title 13 times, becoming one of the top pound for pound fighters in boxing for several years.
- Somjit Jongjohor
Somjit Jongjohor (born January 19, 1975) is an amateur Thai boxer who won the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships at flyweight against Frenmchman Jerome Thomas (boxer) (Thomas also won Olympic silver 2004). At the Olympics 2004 he had bad luck with the draw and was outpointed by eventual winner Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano. He won silver at the 2006 Asian Games in the Flyweight (51 kg) division when he was upset by Filipino boxer Violito Payla 15-31.
- Elena Reid
Elena Reid (born November 1, 1981) is a professional female boxer and current WIBA Flyweight champion who fights under the nickname Baby Doll.
- Mzukisi Sikali
Mzukisi Sikali, (July 30 1971 - September 16 2005), was a South African boxer who served as a world champion in three different weight categories: junior flyweight, flyweight, and super flyweight. Sikali, who was regarded as one of South Africa's top boxers, was stabbed to death after he attempted to fight off a couple of muggers in Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth. The muggers were arrested around an hour after the incident; and a mobile phone, …
- 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.
- Benny Lynch
Benny Lynch (April 2, 1913 - August 6, 1946) is considered by some to be one of the finest boxers below the lightweight division in his era and Ring Magazine has described him as the greatest fighter that Scotland has ever produced. He was born in the Gorbals area of Glasgow and learned his fighting skills in the carnival booths that were popular in the West of Scotland during the Great Depression. Benny won the Scottish flyweight boxing title on May 16, …
- Frankie Genaro
Frank "Frankie" Genaro (August 26, 1901 - December 27, 1966) was a former Olympic gold medalist and boxing world flyweight champion. He is credited with engaging in 130 bouts, recording 94 victories (21 KO's), 22 losses, 8 draws and 6 No Decisions. Genaro won the flyweight Gold Medal at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp. He turned pro that same year and almost immediately was fighting world class flyweights, scoring wins over Charley (Phil) Rosenberg and Pancho Villa.
- Pone Kingpetch
Pone Kingpetch, also known as Mana Seedokbuab (Thai : มานะ สีดอกบวบ) is Thailand's 3 times Flyweight world boxing champion. He was born in Hua Hin on 12 February 1935. He became Thailand's first world boxing champion on 16 April 1960 when he defeated Pascual Pérez of Argentina at Lumpini boxing stadium in Bangkok. Pone died in 1982 at the age of 47.
- 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, …
- Bernard Inom
Bernard Inom (born August 25, 1973) is a retired boxer from France, who competed in the light flyweight division during the 1990s. He won the silver medal at the 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Berlin, Germany, where he was defeated in the final by Bulgaria's Daniel Petrov.
- Yuri Arbachakov
Yuri Arbachakov (born October 22, 1966 in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia) was a boxing champion in the flyweight division. He was the first Russian professional boxing champion.
- Charlie Magri
Charlie Magri (born July 20, 1956 in Tunis, Tunisia) is a former flyweight boxer. He grew up in Stepney, and on retirement set up "Magri's Pets", in Bethnal Green, London.
- Peter Kane
Peter Kane (1918-1991), of Lancashire, was one of England's greatest flyweight boxers and a world champion in the 1930s. Kane was born in Heywood, Lancashire, on February 28, 1918, but grew up in the town of Golborne, near Warrington, after his family moved there before his first birthday. Renowned for his punching power, he lost only seven of the 102 bouts in his 14-year career.
- Ratanapol Sor Vorapin
Ratanapol Sor Vorapin (born 1 November, 1976 in Dankoonthod, Thailand as Anucha Phothong), is a professional boxer. He is the older brother of former WBO Bantamweight champion Ratanachai Sor Vorapin.
- Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown (November 29 1909, in Collyhurst, England, died March 15 1971) was a boxer. He was born in England and began boxing professionally at age 16. On October 31, 1932, he beat Young Perez in a 13-round knockout and was recognized as world flyweight champion by the National Boxing Association. He lost the title on September 8, 1935 to Benny Lynch. He retired from boxing in 1939, making a single comeback fight in 1948 -- a points victory over Billy Stevens in 8 rounds.
- 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.
- Suban Pannon
Suban Pannon (born May 10, 1978) is a Thai amateur boxer. He participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics for his native Southeast Asian country. There he was stopped in the second round of the Light flyweight (48 kg) division by Ukraine's Valeri Sidorenko. Punnon won the bronze medal in the same division one year earlier, at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Houston, Texas. He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics, …
- Duke McKenzie
Duke McKenzie (born 4 May 1963) has commentated on ITV's boxing coverage in the UK since boxing returned to the network in September 2005. He previously commentated on boxing for BBC Radio Five Live and BBC television with John Rawling who also moved to ITV at the same time.
- Nana Konadu
Nana Yaw Konadu Yeboah (born February 15, 1964 in Sunyani, Ghana) is a retired boxer who won World titles in two different weight divisions. Konadu turned pro in 1985 and in 1989 won the WBC Super Flyweight Title by winning a decision over Gilberto Roman. He lost the belt in his first defense to Sung Kil Moon in 1990 and lost a rematch to Moon in 1991. He later moved up to Bantamweight and captured the WBA Bantamweight Title by TKO'ing Veeraphol Sahaprom in 1996.
- Francisco Guilledo
Pancho Villa (August 1, 1901 - July 14, 1925) was the nome de guerre by which the legendary Filipino flyweight boxer Francisco Guilledo was best known. Villa, who stood only 5 feet tall and never weighed more than 114 pounds, rose from obscurity to win the World Flyweight boxing championship in 1923, earning acclaim in some quarters as "the greatest Asian fighter in boxing history". Villa is also remembered to this day for the unusual, tragic, …
- Yoshio Shirai
Yoshio Shirai was a professional boxer from Tokyo, Japan. He won the world flyweight title in 1952, becoming the first Japanese boxer to win a world title.
- Pedro Alcazar
Pedro "El Rockero" Alcazar (16 September 1975 - 23 June 2002) was a Panamanian boxer who won the WBO Super flyweight championship, and then sustained fatal injuries in the ring. He was a protege of the legendary Hall of Famer Roberto Duran, who was a pallbearer at his funeral. Alcazar's death shocked the boxing world. He lost his title to Fernando Montiel in Las Vegas, Nevada on 22 June 2002. Immediately following the bout, Alcazar was declared healthy by ringside doctors, …
- Daniel Petrov
Daniel Bozhilov Petrov (born September 8, 1971 in Varna) is a Bulgarian boxer. He won a silver medal at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and a gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 in the category Light Flyweight. Petrov began his career in Varna, Bulgaria, but then went to Slavia (Sofia). He became a champion of the country several times. In 1993 he captured the European title in Bursa, Turkey.