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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-)
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.
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.
Anthony Joshua
Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni "AJ" Joshua is a British professional boxer. He held the unified heavyweight championship twice between 2017 and 2021. He also held the International Boxing Organization (IBO) title during his reigns as champion. At regional level, he held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles from 2015 to 2016.
Sugar Ray Leonard
American boxer
Oscar De La Hoya
American boxing promoter and former professional boxer
Vasyl Lomachenko
Ukrainian boxer
David Haye
British 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.
Katie Taylor
Irish association footballer and boxer
Bernard Hopkins
American boxer
Tommy Morrison
boxer (1969-2013)
Guillermo Rigondeaux
Cuban boxer
Susianna Kentikian
German-Armenian boxer
Claressa Shields
American boxer
Joe Calzaghe
Welsh boxer
Andre Ward
American boxer
Artur Beterbiev
Russian boxer
Miguel Cotto
Puerto Rican boxer
Riddick Bowe
American boxer (born 1967)
Cecilia Brækhus
Norwegian boxer
Arthur Abraham
Armenian-German boxer
Andy Ruiz Jr.
Mexican-American 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.
Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez
Mexican boxer
Marco Huck
German boxer
Robeisy Ramírez
Cuban Boxer
Zsolt Erdei
Hungarian boxer
Thomas Hearns
American boxer
Sultan Ibragimov
boxer
Sergey Kovalev
Russian boxer
István Kovács
boxer
Erik Morales
Mexican boxer
Dariusz Michalczewski
Polish-German boxer
Felix Sturm
German boxer
Héctor Camacho
Puerto Rican boxer (1962–2012)
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.
Michael Moorer
American boxer
Chris Eubank
Christopher Livingstone Eubank is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 1998. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) middleweight and super-middleweight titles between 1990 and 1995, and is ranked by BoxRec as the third best British super-middleweight boxer of all time.
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)
Chris Byrd
American boxer
Giovanni Parisi
boxer (1967-2009)
Ray Mercer
American Boxer
Denys Berinchyk
Amateur World Championship runner-up, Ukrainian Boxer
Mairis Briedis
Cruiserweight World Champion in Boxing (2020-2022)
Francesco Damiani
Italian boxer
Joseph Parker
New Zealand boxer
Corrie Sanders
South African boxer (1966-2012)
Jermain Taylor
boxer
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.
Jorge Julio Rocha
Colombian boxer
Shannon Briggs
American boxer and actor
Siarhei Liakhovich
Belarusian boxer
Daniel Santos
Puerto Rican boxer
Choi Yo-sam
South Korean boxer (1973–2008)
Marlen Esparza
boxer