- Barbara Boxer
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) speaks at a News conference to release principles for global warming legislation. She says that this moment marks the start of legislative efforts to become energy efficient and create millions of green jobs which will make America a leader. (1:05) - 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, … - C. R. Boxer
Charles Ralph Boxer (born 8 March 1904 at Sandown on the Isle of Wight - died 27 April 2000 at St. Albans, Hertfordshire) was a distinguished historian of Dutch and Portuguese maritime and colonial history. - Herb Boxer
Herb Boxer (born June 4, 1947 in Hancock, Michigan, Michigan) is a retired ice hockey winger. Boxer was the first ever American born player drafted to the NHL when he was drafted in the 2nd round (17th overall) by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1968 NHL draft - Stephen Boxer
Stephen Boxer is an English actor currently starring in the BBC One daytime soap "Doctors". He has previously starred in a number of detective dramas, most notably in the second, third and fourth Prime Suspect films. - Amanda Boxer
Amanda Boxer is an English actress who is best known for her television work. Her credits include: "Sense and Sensibility", "The Cleopatras", "The Gentle Touch", "Miss Marple", "Between The Lines", "Trial & Retribution" and "Casualty". - 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. - 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. - Jimmy Carter
James Walter Carter (born December 15, 1923 in Aiken, SC -died September 21, 1994) was a world lightweight boxing champion. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in 2000. Carter's loss to Lauro Salas in 1952 and his loss to Paddy DeMarco in 1954 were each named Ring Magazine upset of the year. His professional record was 80-31-9 with 31 Knockouts. - 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. - 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. - Amir Khan
Amir Kahn (born December 8, 1986) is a British boxer from Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. He is the IBF inter-continental light welterweight champion, the current Commonwealth lightweight champion, and is ranked #10 in the WBO world lightweight rankings. He went to Devonshire Road Primary School, Smithills High School and Bolton Community College in Bolton. He was a hyperactive child and "a born fighter", according to his father, … - 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. - Joe Calzaghe
Joseph "Joe" Calzaghe (born 23 March, 1972 in Hammersmith, London, England) is a Welsh boxer of Italian origin, particularly from Sardinian and Welsh descent. He currently lives in Cwmbran, Wales, and is one of the pound for pound top 10 boxers in the world according to the Ring Magazine. He is sometimes referred to as the "Italian Dragon" in reference to his mixed heritage (the dragon being both a Welsh emblem and a Sardinian myth), or the "Pride of Wales". - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Mr. T
Mr. T (born Laurence Tureaud on May 21 1952) is an iconic actor known for his roles as Sgt. "B. A." Baracus in the 1980s television series "The A-Team", as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film "Rocky III", and for his numerous appearances in the WWE and pro-wrestling. He is also well-known for his distinctive mohawk hairstyle and for wearing an excessive amount of gold jewelry. He currently stars in the reality show "I Pity the Fool", … - David Diaz
David Diaz (born 1960) is an American illustrator, best known for his illustrations of the dramatic book "Smoky Night" by Eve Bunting that won him the 1995 Caldecott Medal. He was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and lives in Carlsbad, California - 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". - 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, … - 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. - Paul Smith
Paul Smith (born October 6, 1982 in Liverpool, England) is a professional boxer. Smith's career has featured bouts entirely held within the UK, mainly in Liverpool and Manchester; the quality of his opponents has been middling, although he has faced Ryan Walls and Steve Timms, and in fact ended the latter's career with a TKO in 1. Currently, he is scheduled to box in The Contender Challenge: UK vs. USA, facing Jonathan Reid. - Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke (born September 16 1953 [disputed, 1950 also cited]), is an American actor who has primarily appeared in drama, action, and thriller films. Trained as a boxer in his early years, he had a short stint as a professional boxer in the 1990s. Although his acting career has been uneven, he has carved out a niche over the last several decades in gritty, marginalized anti-hero roles. - 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. - Kelly Pavlik
Kelly Robert Pavlik (born April 4, 1982 in Youngstown, OH) is a boxer in the Middleweight division. Known as "The Ghost", Kelly Pavlik grew up on Youngstown's south side and graduated from Lowellville High School and Mahoning County Joint Vocational School in 2000. After a long amateur career, he signed with Bob Arum and Top Rank Boxing. He's managed by Jack Loew of Youngstown's South Side Boxing Gym. - Phil Jackson
Phil Jackson, born May 11, 1964 in Miami Beach, FL, was a professional heavyweight boxer, best known for challenging Lennox Lewis for the WBC Heavyweight Title in 1994. Known as "The Enforcer", Jackson began his career in 1988 on a tear, winning his first 25 fights mostly by KO, setting up a bout with top contender Razor Ruddock in 1992. Ruddock dominated, and Jackson was knocked down once in the 3rd, and once in the 4th, staying down for the 10 count. - 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. - Luis Rodriguez
Luis Manuel Rodriguez (born June 17 1937 in Camaguey, Cuba - died July 8 1996) was welterweight boxing champion of the world. - Hilary Swank
Hilary Ann Swank is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. Her Hollywood film career began with a small part in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1992) and then a major part in "The Next Karate Kid" (1994), where she played Julie Pierce, the first female protégé of the sensei Mr. Miyagi. She has become known for her two Oscar-winning performances: first as Brandon Teena, a transgender man in the movie "Boys Don't Cry", … - 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. - Shane Mosley
"Sugar" Shane Mosley (born September 7, 1971) is a boxer from Pomona, California. He has won world titles in three weight divisions and is the only boxer to date to have beaten Oscar de la Hoya twice. - James Toney
James "Lights-Out" Toney (born August 24, 1968) is a professional boxer from Detroit, Michigan and is a Huron High School alumnus where he was a 205 lb football quarterback in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Since his career debut in 1988, he has held the middleweight, super middleweight and cruiserweight world Championship. Formerly managed by Jackie Kallen, Toney is now self managed. - 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. - Arthur Abraham
Arthur Abraham (born Avetik Abrahamyan in Yerevan, Armenia) is a professional boxer and the current IBF champion of the middleweight division. He won the vacant title on December 10, 2005, in Leipzig, Germany, beating Kingsley Ikeke, via 5-round knock-out. On September 23, 2006, Abraham won a decision against Edison Miranda despite having his jaw broken in two places. - Jack Dempsey
John Edward Kelly (December 15, 1862 - November 11896), County Kildare, Ireland. Better known as Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey, called "Nonpareil", because no one could defeat him. This ended when Bob Fitzsimmons pummelled him around the ring and begged him to concede before he was hurt any more. But Dempsey, the reigning champion, wouldn't give up so Fitzsimmons knocked him out. Dempsey was buried in Portland, Oregon, USA, in an unmarked grave. - Antonio Margarito
Antonio Margarito (born March 18, 1978) is a boxer from Tijuana, Mexico. Margarito is the former WBO world Welterweight champion.
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