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Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. A global cultural icon, widely known by the nickname "the Greatest", he is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. He held the Ring magazine heavyweight title from 1964 to 1970, was the undisputed champion from 1974 to 1978, and was the WBA and Ring heavyweight champion from 1978 to 1979. In 1999, he was named Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated and the Sports Personality of the Century by the BBC.

Michael Gerard Tyson is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005, and again in 2024. Nicknamed "Iron Mike" and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "the Baddest Man on the Planet", Tyson is widely regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time, and one of the most intimidating men in boxing history. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990.

American boxer (1944–2011)

American professional boxer (1949–2025)

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. is an American professional boxer and boxing promoter. He is undefeated at 50–0. Mayweather won 15 major world championships spanning five weight classes from super featherweight to light middleweight. This includes the Ring magazine title in three weight classes. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1996 Olympics, three U.S. Golden Gloves championships, and the U.S. national championship at featherweight. After retiring from professional boxing in August 2017, he transitioned to exhibition boxing.

American boxer (1914-1981)

Sugar Ray Robinson

American boxer (1921–1989)

Evander Holyfield

Sugar Ray Leonard

American television personality and retired professional boxer

American boxer, rapper and actor

John Arthur Johnson, nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). His 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the "fight of the century". Johnson defeated Jeffries, who was white, triggering dozens of race riots across the U.S. According to filmmaker Ken Burns, "for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African American on Earth". He is widely regarded as one of the most influential boxers in history.

American boxer (c. 1930–1970)

Floyd Patterson

American heavyweight boxer (1935-2006)

Henry Armstrong

American boxer (1912–1988)

Deontay Leshun Wilder is an American professional boxer. He held the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title from 2015 to 2020. By winning the title, Wilder became the first American world heavyweight champion since 2007, which was the longest period of time in boxing history without an American heavyweight champion.

American boxer (1937–2014)

American boxer (1943-2013)

Bernard Hopkins

Marvelous Marvin Hagler

American boxer (1954–2021)

American boxer (1953–2021)

American boxer (1913-1998)

Claressa Shields

American boxer (1921–1975)

American professional boxer

Terence Crawford

Terence Allan "Bud" Crawford is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2008 to 2025. He retired with an undefeated record and won 18 different major world championships in five weight classes from lightweight to super middleweight, including the undisputed championships at light welterweight, welterweight, and super middleweight. He is the first male boxer in history to become a three-weight undisputed world champion. In the four-belt era, Crawford became the first male boxer to capture the undisputed championship in two and three divisions, and the first to achieve undisputed status at both light welterweight and welterweight.

American boxer (born 1967)

American boxer (1938–2013)

American mixed martial artist and amateur wrestler

Pernell Whitaker

American boxer (1964–2019)

Jersey Joe Walcott

American boxer (1914-1994)

American former boxer and mixed martial artist

Johnathan Michael Porter (born January 20, 1997), known professionally as Blueface, is an American rapper and professional boxer. In October 2018, after releasing the music video for his song "Respect My Cryppin'", he became a viral meme due to his offbeat style of rapping. The following month, he was signed to Cash Money West, the California branch of Birdman's Cash Money Records label.

Gervonta Bryant Davis, also known by his nickname "Tank", is an American professional boxer. He has held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) super featherweight title in 2017, the World Boxing Association (WBA) super featherweight title twice between 2018 and 2020, the WBA super lightweight title in 2021, the WBA lightweight title from 2023 to 2026, and regular version from 2019 to 2023.

American boxer (1956-2015)

American boxer (1944–2022)

American boxer and actor

Shakur Stevenson

Ash-Shakur Nafi-Shahid Stevenson is an American professional boxer. He has won world championships in four weight classes, from featherweight to junior welterweight. He has held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and Ring magazine junior welterweight titles since 2026. As an amateur, he represented the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning the bantamweight silver medal.

Robert Earl Jones

American actor (1910–2006)

first African-American military pilot

British basketball player

Timothy Bradley

American boxer (1940–2014)

Tim Witherspoon

American boxer (1958–2012)