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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.
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.
Sugar Ray Leonard
American boxer
Oscar De La Hoya
American boxing promoter and former professional 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
Claressa Shields
American boxer
Shane Mosley
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.
Miguel Cotto
Puerto Rican boxer
Thomas Hearns
American boxer
Pernell Whitaker
American boxer (1964–2019)
Félix Trinidad
Puerto Rican boxer
Carmelo Bossi
Italian boxer
Javier Castillejo
Spanish boxer
Vernon Forrest
American boxer (1971–2009)
Mike McCallum
Jamaican boxer
Erislandy Lara
Cuban boxer
Laurent Boudouani
boxer
Wilfred Benítez
Puerto Rican boxer
Fernando Vargas
American boxer
Demetrius Andrade
American boxer
John Mugabi
Uganda Boxer
Sergio Martínez
Argentinian boxer
David Reid
American boxer
Jack Culcay-Keth
German boxer
Kim Ki-soo
South Korean boxer
Yuri Foreman
Israeli boxer and rabbinical student
Serhiy Dzyndzyruk
Ukrainian boxer
Sadam Ali
American boxer
Mikaela Mayer
American boxer
Jermell Charlo
boxer
Koichi Wajima
Japanese boxer
Winky Wright
American boxer
Cory Spinks
American boxer
Ricardo Mayorga
Nicaraguan boxer
Jermall Charlo
American boxer
Josh Kelly
British boxer
Julian Jackson
Virgin Islands boxer (born 1960)
John David Jackson
American boxer
Alessandro Mazzinghi
Italian boxer (1938–2020)
Miguel Angel Castellini
Argentine boxer (1947–2020)
Liam Smith
English boxer
Zaurbek Baysangurov
Russian boxer
Donald Curry
American boxer
Ishe Smith
American boxer
Israil Madrimov
Uzbekistani boxer
Harry Simon
Namibian boxer
Joachim Alcine
Haitian-Canadian professional boxer
Raúl Márquez
American boxer
Miguel de Oliveira
Brazilian boxer
Ayub Kalule
Ugandan boxer
Ann Wolfe
American boxer
Freddie Little
American boxer
José Antonio Rivera
Puerto Rican boxer
Sebastian Fundora
American boxer
José Durán
Spanish boxer
Brian Castaño
Argentine professional boxer
Denny Moyer
American boxer