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Muhammad Ali
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.
Mike Tyson
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.
Joe Frazier
American boxer (1944–2011)
Manny Pacquiao
Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao Sr. is a Filipino professional boxer and former politician. Nicknamed "PacMan", he is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional boxers of all time, becoming the only eight-division world champion in boxing history. He also served as a senator of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022.
Vitali Klitschko
Ukrainian boxer and politician (1971-)
George Foreman
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.
Rocky Marciano
American heavyweight boxing champion (1923-1969)
Wladimir Klitschko
Ukrainian boxer (born 1976)
Oleksandr Usyk
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held the unified heavyweight championship since 2025, and the Ring magazine title since 2022. He held the undisputed championship in two weight classes—cruiserweight and heavyweight—and is the first male boxer to become a three-time undisputed champion in the "four-belt era". With his win over Tyson Fury in 2024, Oleksandr Uysk also became the most recent Lineal Heavyweight Champion.
Tyson Fury
Tyson Luke Fury is a British professional boxer. He held multiple world heavyweight championships, including unified titles from 2015 to 2016, the Ring magazine title twice between 2015 and 2022, and the World Boxing Council (WBC) title from 2020 to 2024. He also held the International Boxing Organization (IBO) title during his first reign as champion.
Sugar Ray Leonard
American boxer
Oscar De La Hoya
American boxing promoter and former professional boxer
Lennox Lewis
British-Canadian boxer Vc
Roy Jones Jr.
American boxer, rapper and actor
Ingemar Johansson
Swedish boxer (1932-2009)
Vasyl Lomachenko
Ukrainian boxer
Sonny Liston
American boxer (c. 1930–1970)
David Haye
British boxer
Larry Holmes
American boxer
Roberto Durán
Panamanian boxer
Canelo Álvarez
Santos Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez Barragán is a Mexican professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, from light middleweight to light heavyweight, including unified titles in three of those weight classes. In 2021, Álvarez became the first boxer in history to become the undisputed super middleweight champion, before becoming a two-time undisputed super middleweight champion in 2025. He also held the Ring magazine super middleweight title from 2020 to 2025.
Nino Benvenuti
Italian boxer
Katie Taylor
Irish association footballer and boxer
Ricky Hatton
Richard John Hatton, also known by nicknames such as "The Hitman", "The Pride of Hyde" and the "People's Champion", was a British professional boxer who competed between 1997 and 2012, and later worked as a boxing promoter and trainer. During his boxing career he held multiple world championships in the light-welterweight division, and one at welterweight. In 2005 he was named Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine, the Boxing Writers Association of America, ESPN, and BoxingScene.
Bernard Hopkins
American boxer
Leon Spinks
American boxer (1953–2021)
Marvelous Marvin Hagler
American boxer (1954–2021)
Guillermo Rigondeaux
Cuban boxer
Claressa Shields
American boxer
Gene Tunney
American boxer (1897-1978)
Joe Calzaghe
Welsh boxer
Antonio Tarver
American professional boxer
Andre Ward
American boxer
Shane Mosley
American boxer
Lauren Price
Welsh boxer and footballer
Artur Beterbiev
Russian 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.
Miguel Cotto
Puerto Rican boxer
Alexis Argüello
Nicaraguan boxer (1952-2009)
Carlos Monzón
Argentine boxer (1942-1995)
Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez
Mexican boxer
Thomas Hearns
American boxer
Jersey Joe Walcott
American boxer (1914-1994)
Michael Spinks
American boxer
Pernell Whitaker
American boxer (1964–2019)
Tomasz Adamek
Polish boxer
Éder Jofre
Brazilian boxer (1936–2022)
Naseem Hamed
Naseem Hamed, nicknamed Prince Naseem and Naz, is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2002. He held multiple featherweight world championships between 1995 and 2000, and reigned as lineal champion from 1998 to 2001. In 2015, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. The Ring magazine awarded Hamed an honorary featherweight title in 2019 to acknowledge his dominance of the division and the multiple champions he defeated; he is the only former world champion in any division thus far to receive this honour.
Dmitry Bivol
Dmitry Yuryevich Bivol is a Russian professional boxer. He won the undisputed light-heavyweight title in February 2025, and has held the unified championship since April 2025, as well as the International Boxing Organization (IBO) and Ring magazine titles since February 2025. Previously, he held the World Boxing Association (WBA) light-heavyweight title from 2019 to 2024. He also held the IBO title during his first reign as champion.
Diego Corrales
American professional boxer (1977–2007)
Jermain Taylor
boxer
Jean Pascal
Haitian-Canadian boxer
Kostya Tszyu
Russian-Australian boxer
Mairis Briedis
Cruiserweight World Champion in Boxing (2020-2022)
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.
Sandro Lopopolo
Italian boxer (1939–2014)
Adonis Stevenson
Canadian boxer
Román González
Nicaraguan boxer
Naoya Inoue
Japanese professional boxer