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World Boxing Council champions

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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.

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.

American boxer (1944–2011)

Vitali Klitschko

Ukrainian boxer and politician (1971-)

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.

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.

Evander Holyfield

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

British-Canadian boxer Vc

Oscar De La Hoya

American boxing promoter and former professional boxer

American boxer, rapper and actor

Vasyl Lomachenko

Ukrainian boxer

Gennady Golovkin

Kazakhstani boxer

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.

Panamanian boxer

American boxer (1943-2013)

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.

Irish association footballer and boxer

Bernard Hopkins

Julio César Chávez

Professional Mexican boxer

American boxer (1953–2021)

Marvelous Marvin Hagler

American boxer (1954–2021)

Jamaican heavyweight boxer (1954–2006)

Claressa Shields

American boxer and mixed martial artist (born 1981)

Croatian boxer and Olympic gold medalist (1948–2008)

Artur Beterbiev

American professional boxer

Welsh boxer and footballer

Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez

Canadian boxer (1972–2009)

Argentine boxer (1942-1995)

Puerto Rican boxer

Cecilia Brækhus

Norwegian 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.

Alexis Argüello

Nicaraguan boxer (1952-2009)

American boxer (born 1967)

Hungarian boxer

Oleksandr Gvozdyk

Ukrainian boxer

Pernell Whitaker

American boxer (1964–2019)

Russian-American boxer

American-born Haïtian boxer

Brazilian boxer (1936–2022)

Héctor Camacho

Puerto Rican boxer (1962–2012)