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The poll evaluated 20 champions dating back to the dawn of gloved heavyweight championship fights. The fighters, listed chronologically, are John L. Sulllivan, James Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, James Jeffries, Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Larry Holmes ...
Mar 8, 2024 · Unbeaten Liverpool fighter Nick Ball will challenge Rey Vargas for the WBC featherweight title, while in an all-British bout, Mark Chamberlain will fight Gavin Gwynne for the European lightweight ...
- Joe Louis. The Brown Bomber was the undisputed heavyweight champion for 11¾ years and met all comers. He was a magnificent boxer-puncher whose biggest loss was to the Internal Revenue Service.
- Muhammad Ali. He reinvented himself over and over again. Beating Sonny Liston to win his first championship as a 7-to-1 underdog, defeating chief rival Joe Frazier two out of three times, stopping the undefeated George Foreman as a 4-to-1 underdog (to regain the title), outpointing Kenny Norton two out of three times and nearly everyone else during what was truly a “Golden Age of Heavyweights” (the 1960s and ’70s).
- Larry Holmes. Ali’s former sparring partner dominated everyone except Michael Spinks during his seven-plus years as heavyweight champion (1978-’85). A boxer-puncher with a power jab and heavy right hand who was seldom in a bad fight, Holmes was his own worst enemy PR-wise; constantly spewing negativity with his “I’m never appreciated by you media people” rhetoric.
- Rocky Marciano. “The Rock” is the only heavyweight champion to retire undefeated. Only 5-foot-10 and 185 pounds but was able to generate gigantic power.
The “Cincinnati Cobra” competed with the elite from middleweight to heavyweight for the better part of a decade without a title shot. Charles had some big wins and losses in the first three years of his career, reaching The Ring’s No. 1 contender spot at middleweight in the October-December 1942 issues before assuming the No. 2 contender spot at light heavyweight in the January 1943 issue.
Dec 19, 2023 · Fury vacated the Ring belt in his brief retirement last year, but is still the WBC heavyweight world champion Credit: Getty Ring Champion - Oleksandr Usyk Age: 36 Record: 21-0 (14 KOs). Usyk was ...
Mar 26, 2022 · Ring Magazine's rankings of the world's top fighters now has the Ukrainian second to only Tyson Fury. Both stars hold world title belts, with Fury putting keeping WBC crown after defeating Deontay ...
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4 days ago · "The Bronze Bomber" is 1-4 in his last five fights and many expect the faded 38-year-old to retire from the sport. Zhang, who recently lost to No. 4-rated Joseph Parker , retains his No. 5 spot ...
