The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) is located in Canastota, New York

Canastota, New York

Canastota is a village located inside the Town of Lenox in Madison County, New York, United States. The population was 4,425 at the 2000 census.The Village of Canastota is in the south part of the Town of Lenox.- History :...

, United States, within driving distance from the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown and the National Soccer Hall of Fame

National Soccer Hall of Fame

The National Soccer Hall of Fame is a private, non-profit institution established in 1979 that honors soccer achievements in the United States.-History:...

 in Oneonta

Oneonta, New York

Oneonta is a city in southern Otsego County, New York, USA. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, had a population of 13,901. Its nickname is "City of the Hills." While the word "oneonta" is of undetermined origin, it is popularly believed to mean "place of open rocks" in the Iroquois language...

. The IBHOF is one of two recognized international boxing halls of fame, with the other being the World Boxing Hall of Fame

World Boxing Hall of Fame

The World Boxing Hall of Fame is located in Riverside, California, United States, in Southern California. The WBHF is one of two recognized international boxing halls of fame with the other being the International Boxing Hall of Fame , with the IBHOF being the more widely recognized...

.

The first Boxing Hall of Fame was sponsored by Ring magazine and located for decades at the offices of the Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan and located at 8th Avenue, between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station.Opened on February 11, 1968, it is the...

 in New York City. However, in 1990, as a consequence of an initiative by Ed Brophy to honor Canastota's world boxing champions, Carmen Basilio

Carmen Basilio

Carmine Basilio better known in the boxing world as Carmen Basilio, is an American former professional boxer who was a two weight world boxing champion...

 and Basilio's nephew, Billy Backus

Billy Backus

Billy Backus, born March 5, 1943 in Canastota, New York, is a former world boxing champion. In the summer of 2006 Backus retired from his correctional facility job and moved to South Carolina.- Early boxing career :...

, the village of Canastota inaugurated the new museum, which showcases boxing's rich history. Multi-award winning artist Richard T. Slone

Richard T. Slone

Richard T. Slone is an English painter.Slone was born in 1974 in Dalton-in-Furness, a northern English town. Slone is self-taught....

 was named their official artist of the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1997 and remains so to this day.

There are ceremonies conducted every year to honor the inductees and the ceremonies are attended by many former world boxing champions, boxing celebrities and Hollywood celebrities each year.

Professional boxers have to wait five years after retirement to be eligible for election into the Hall of Fame.

On December 7, 2010, the Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2011. Living inductees include heavyweight champion "Iron" Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson

Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson is a retired American boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old...

 (USA), three-division champion Julio César Chávez

Julio César Chávez

Julio César Chávez is a retired Mexican professional boxer.He is a six-time world champion in three weight divisions, and for several years he was considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world...

 (Mexico), light welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu (Russia/Australia), trainer Ignacio "Nacho" Beristain

Ignacio Beristáin

Ignacio Beristáin is a Mexican trainer in the sport of boxing. Beristain is a member of the Boxing Hall of Fame and is considered one of the greatest trainers in the history of boxing.-Training career:...

 (Mexico), and referee Joe Cortez

Joe Cortez

Joe Cortez is a Puerto Rican boxing referee who has worked many important world title bouts.-Biography:Cortez moved to Puerto Rico during his childhood. Living there, he became fluent in Spanish. Cortez had a good amateur boxing career, winning various Golden Gloves tournaments from 1960 to 1962...

 (Puerto Rico). Posthumous honorees are: bantamweight contender Memphis Pal Moore

Memphis Pal Moore

Memphis Pal Moore was an American boxer from Memphis. Moore began his boxing career while serving as a sailor in the United States Navy. He served as a boxing instructor while in the Navy, and was selected as a boxing representative and sent to England for a boxing tournament amongst the Allied...

 (USA), light heavyweight champion Jack Root

Jack Root

Jack Root was a light heavyweight champion and also fought for the world heavyweight title. He fought out of Chicago, Illinois.-Light heavyweight championship claim:...

 (USA), and welterweight and middleweight contender Dave Shade (USA) in the Old-Timer Category; broadcaster Harry Carpenter

Harry Carpenter

Harry Leonard Carpenter OBE was a British BBC sports commentator broadcasting from the early 1950s until his retirement in 1994. His speciality was boxing...

 (UK) in the Observer Category; John Gully

John Gully

John Gully was an English prize-fighter, horse racer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1837.-Early life:...

 (UK) in the Pioneer Category; and promoter A.F. Bettinson in the Non Participant Category.

Modern era

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist...

 (1990) Sammy Angott

Sammy Angott

Sammy Angott was born Samuel Engotti in Pennsylvania. He was known as a clever boxer who liked to follow up a clean punch by grabbing his opponent, causing him to be known as "The Clutch."...

 (1998) Fred Apostoli

Fred Apostoli

Alfredo "Fred" Apostoli was a rugged, accomplished body punching middleweight, who was recognized as the world champion when he defeated Marcel Thil on September 23, 1937. He was elected to The Ring's Boxing Hall of Fame...

 (2003) Alexis Argüello

Alexis Argüello

Alexis Argüello , also known by the stage name El Flaco Explosivo , was a Nicaraguan professional boxer and politician...

 (1992) Henry Armstrong

Henry Armstrong

Henry Jackson Jr. was a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong. He is universally regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time by many boxing critics and fellow professionals.Henry Jr...

 (1990) Carmen Basilio

Carmen Basilio

Carmine Basilio better known in the boxing world as Carmen Basilio, is an American former professional boxer who was a two weight world boxing champion...

 (1990) Wilfred Benítez

Wilfred Benitez

Wilfred Benítez , is a Puerto Rican boxer. He is remembered best as a skilled and aggressive fighter with exceptional defensive abilities who won world championships in three separate weight divisions, and was the youngest world champion in boxing history at the age of 17...

 (1994) Nino Benvenuti (1996) Jackie Kid Berg (1992) Jimmy Bivins

Jimmy Bivins

James Louis Bivins, is a former American heavyweight boxer whose professional career ran from 1940 to 1955. He was born in Dry Branch, Georgia...

 (1999) Joe Brown

Joe Brown (boxer)

Joe Brown was an accomplished boxer who won the undisputed Lightweight Championship of the World in 1956, making 11 successful defences before losing his crown in his old age to Carlos Ortiz in 1962. Brown was a classic boxer and a knockout puncher...

 (1996) Ken Buchanan

Ken Buchanan

Ken Buchanan is a former boxing undisputed world lightweight champion. Many consider Buchanan to be the best boxer ever to come out of Scotland.- Early career :...

 (2000) Charley Burley

Charley Burley

Charley Burley was a boxer of the 1940s, compiling a record of 83 wins , 12 losses, and 2 draws with 1 "no contest"...

 (1992) Miguel Canto

Miguel Canto

Miguel Angel Canto Solis is a former world boxing champion from Mexico.- Boxing Life :Contrary to many Mexican boxers, Canto was not a "slam-bang" type of boxer...

 (1998) Orlando Canizales

Orlando Canizales

Orlando Canizales is an American boxer who won the International Boxing Federation bantamweight title and defended it a record sixteen consecutive times.-Boxing career:...

 (2009) Michael Carbajal (2006) Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter (boxer)

James Walter Carter was a world lightweight boxing champion. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in 2000. Carter's loss to Lauro Salas in 1952 and his loss to Paddy DeMarco in 1954 were each named Ring Magazine upset of the year...

 (2000) Marcel Cerdan

Marcel Cerdan

Marcellin "Marcel" Cerdan was a French pied noir world boxing champion who was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be France's greatest boxer, and beyond to be one of the best to have learned his craft in Africa...

 (1991) Antonio Cervantes

Antonio Cervantes

Antonio Cervantes aka Kid Pambelé is a Colombian boxing trainer and former two time world Jr. Welterweight champion. He successfully defended the title 16 times. Cervantes fought 21 world title fights, keeping the 140 pounds title for almost 8 years...

 (1998) Julio César Chávez

Julio César Chávez

Julio César Chávez is a retired Mexican professional boxer.He is a six-time world champion in three weight divisions, and for several years he was considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world...

 (2011) Bobby Chacon

Bobby Chacon

Bobby Chacon is an American former, two-time, world boxing champion.-Career:Chacon turned professional in 1972 and won his first 19 fights, including a win against former champion Jesus Castillo...

 (2005) Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler (boxer)

"Joltin'" Jeff Chandler is a former boxer. Chandler reigned as the WBA Bantamweight Champion from November 1980 to April 1984....

 (2000) Jung-Koo Chang (2010) Ezzard Charles

Ezzard Charles

Ezzard Mack Charles was an African-American professional boxer and former world heavyweight champion. He holds wins over numerous Hall of Fame fighters in three different weight classes. Charles retired with a record of 93 wins, 25 losses and 1 draw.-Career:He was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia,...

 (1990) Curtis Cokes

Curtis Cokes

Curtis Cokes is a former boxer from Dallas, Texas, United States. Cokes was world welterweight champion, and he was famous for his training regimen, which he also imposed on other boxers training with him.-Pre-championship career:...

 (2003) Billy Conn

Billy Conn

William David Conn , better known as Billy Conn, was an American Light-Heavyweight boxing champion famed for his fights with Joe Louis. He had a professional boxing record of 63 wins, 11 losses and 1 draw, with 14 wins by knockout...

 (1990) Pipino Cuevas (2002)   Roberto Durán

Roberto Durán

Roberto Durán Samaniego is a retired professional boxer from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. A versatile brawler in the ring, he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra" during his career....

 (2007) Flash Elorde (1993) Jeff Fenech

Jeff Fenech

Jeff Fenech is a retired Australian boxer and a three-time world champion who is now a boxing trainer.-Boxing career:...

 (2002) George Foreman

George Foreman

George Edward Foreman is an American two-time former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic gold medalist, ordained Baptist minister, author and successful entrepreneur...

 (2003) Bob Foster (1990) Joe Frazier

Joe Frazier

Joseph William "Joe" Frazier , also known as Smokin' Joe, was an Olympic and Undisputed World Heavyweight boxing champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a one-fight comeback in 1981....

 (1990) Gene Fullmer

Gene Fullmer

Gene Fullmer is a former American middleweight boxer and world champion.-Professional career:Fullmer began his professional career in 1951 and won his first 29 fights, 19 by knockout...

 (1991) Khaosai Galaxy

Khaosai Galaxy

Khaosai Galaxy is a former professional Thai super flyweight boxer and Muaythai kickboxer. Khaosai defended his WBA world title 19 times in seven years , winning 16 of his title fights by knockouts. A member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame he is widely considered as one of the greatest...

 (1999)
Víctor Galíndez

Víctor Galíndez

Víctor Emilio Galíndez was an Argentine boxer who was the third Latin American to win the world Light Heavyweight championship, after Puerto Rico's José Torres and Venezuela's Vicente Rondon.Galíndez was born in Vedia in the Leandro N...

 (2002) Kid Gavilán

Kid Gavilan

Gerardo González , better known in the boxing world as Kid Gavilan, was a former world welterweight champion from Cuba...

 (1990) Joey Giardello

Joey Giardello

Carmine Orlando Tilelli was an American boxer who was the middleweight champion of the world from 1963 to 1965, and was better known by his professional pseudonym of Joey Giardello.-Early life:...

 (1993) Wilfredo Gómez

Wilfredo Gómez

Wilfredo Gómez , sometimes referred to as Bazooka Gómez, is a former boxer and three time world champion.-Biography:...

 (1995) Humberto González

Humberto Gonzalez

Humberto González is a Mexican former world boxing champion. Nicknamed Chiquita, he earned many admirers during his professional boxing career...

 (2006) Billy Graham

Billy Graham (boxer)

Billy Graham was an American boxer from New York City, New York. Graham had the remarkable distinction of never having been knocked off his feet in his long career...

 (1992) Rocky Graziano

Rocky Graziano

Rocky Graziano, born Thomas Rocco Barbella in New York City , was an Italian American boxer. Graziano was considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, often displaying the capacity to take his opponent out with a single punch...

 (1991) Emile Griffith

Emile Griffith

Emile Alphonse Griffith is a former boxer who was the first fighter from the U.S. Virgin Islands ever to become a world champion. He is perhaps best known for his controversial third fight with Benny Paret in 1962 for the welterweight world championship...

 (1990) Marvelous Marvin Hagler (1993) Fighting Harada

Fighting Harada

Masahiko Harada , better known as Fighting Harada, is a former world boxing champion. He is currently the president of the Japanese boxing commission....

 (1995) Larry Holmes

Larry Holmes

Larry Holmes is a former professional boxer. He grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, which gave birth to his boxing nickname, The Easton Assassin....

 (2008) Beau Jack

Beau Jack

Sidney Walker, better known as Beau Jack, , was an American lightweight boxer, he was a world champion twice...

 (1991) Lew Jenkins (1999) Eder Jofre

Eder Jofre

Éder Jofre is a retired Brazilian boxer and former bantamweight and featherweight champion .-Amateur career:Jofre represented his native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.-Olympic Results:*1st round bye...

 (1992) Ingemar Johansson

Ingemar Johansson

Jens Ingemar Johansson was a Swedish boxer and former heavyweight champion of the world. Johansson was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United States. In 1959 he defeated Floyd Patterson by TKO in the third round, after flooring Patterson seven times in that round, to win the World...

 (2002) Harold Johnson

Harold Johnson (boxer)

Harold Johnson , is a former professional boxer.Johnson was born in Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He won his first twenty-four fights before losing a ten round decision to Archie Moore, who would be Johnson's biggest career rival...

 (1993) Ismael Laguna

Ismael Laguna

Ismael Laguna Meneses was a professional boxer. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2001.Known as "El Tigre Colonense", Laguna was the Panamanian Featherweight Champion from 1962-63...

 (2001) Jake LaMotta

Jake LaMotta

Giacobbe LaMotta , better known as Jake LaMotta, nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" and "The Raging Bull", is a former American world middleweight champion boxer...

 (1990) Sugar Ray Leonard

Sugar Ray Leonard

Sugar Ray Leonard is an American retired professional boxer and occasional actor. He was named Ray Charles Leonard, after his mother's favorite singer, Ray Charles...

 (1997)   Lennox Lewis

Lennox Lewis

Lennox Claudius Lewis, CM, CBE is a retired boxer and the most recent British undisputed world heavyweight champion. He holds dual British and Canadian citizenship...

 (2009) Sonny Liston

Sonny Liston

Charles L. "Sonny" Liston was a professional boxer and ex-convict known for his toughness, punching power, and intimidating appearance who became world heavyweight champion in 1962 by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round...

 (1991) Nicolino Locche

Nicolino Locche

Nicolino Locche was an Argentine boxer from Tunuyán, Mendoza. He was of Italian origin, with his ancestors coming from Sardinia...

 (2003) Duilio Loi

Duilio Loi

Duilio Loi was an Italian boxer who held the Italian and European lightweight and welterweight titles, as well as the world junior welterweight championship. Loi fought from 1948 to 1962, and retired with a record of 115 wins , 3 losses and 8 draws...

 (2005) Danny Lopez

Danny Lopez

Danny Lopez is a former American boxer from Fort Duchesne, Utah. He was world Featherweight champion, and a very popular fighter both in television and Southern California, during the 1970s. His nickname is Little Red.-Background:...

 (2010) Ricardo Lopez (2007) Joe Louis

Joe Louis

Joseph Louis Barrow , better known as Joe Louis, was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949. He is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all time...

 (1990) Rocky Marciano

Rocky Marciano

Rocky Marciano , born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, was an American boxer and the heavyweight champion of the world from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956. Marciano is the only champion to hold the heavyweight title and go undefeated throughout his career. Marciano defended his title six times...

 (1990) Lloyd Marshall

Lloyd Marshall

Lloyd Marshall was a light heavyweight boxer who was inducted posthumously into the International Boxing Hall of Fame on June 2010.-Pro career:...

 (2010) Joey Maxim

Joey Maxim

Giuseppe Antonio Berardinelli was an American boxer. He was a light heavyweight champion of the world. He took the ring-name Joey Maxim from the Maxim gun, the world's first self-acting machine gun, based on his ability to rapidly throw a large number of left jabs.-Early career:Maxim was born in...

 (1994) Mike McCallum

Mike McCallum

Mike McCallum is a retired boxer. Nicknamed "The Body Snatcher" for his fierce body punching. McCallum won world titles in three weight classes.-Amateur career:Claimed an amateur record of 240-10...

 (2003) Barry McGuigan

Barry McGuigan

Finbarr Patrick McGuigan MBE , known as Barry McGuigan and nicknamed The Clones Cyclone, is a former Irish and British professional boxer who became a world featherweight champion.-Background:...

 (2005) Brian Mitchell (2009) Bob Montgomery

Bob Montgomery (boxer)

Bob Montgomery was an American lightweight boxer. He was born in Sumter, South Carolina.Montgomery went undefeated in his first 23 fights, going 22-0-1 and winning the Pennsylvania State Lightweight Title....

 (1995) Carlos Monzón

Carlos Monzón

Carlos Monzón was an Argentine professional boxer who held the undisputed world middleweight title for 7 years, during which he successfully defended the title 14 times....

 (1990) Archie Moore

Archie Moore

Archie Moore, born Archibald Lee Wright , was light heavyweight world boxing champion who had one of the longest professional careers in the history of that sport....

 (1990)
Matthew Saad Muhammad

Matthew Saad Muhammad

Matthew Saad Muhammad is a former boxer who was the world's light heavyweight champion.Saad Muhammad's mother died when he was an infant, and he and his elder brother were sent to live with an aunt. When he was five, his aunt could not afford to look after both of them and she instructed Saad...

 (1998)   José Nápoles

José Napoles

José Ángel Nápoles, nicknamed Mantequilla , is a Cuban-Mexican boxer and former world welterweight champion, who is frequently ranked as one of the greatest fighters of all time in that division...

 (1990) Azumah Nelson

Azumah Nelson

Azumah Nelson , a native of Ghana, is a former professional boxer. He is a three-time world champion in two weight classes.Nelson is the former Lineal and two-time WBC Super Featherweight Champion...

 (2004) Terry Norris

Terry Norris

Terry Wayne Norris is a retired American boxer and a three-time world champion in the light middleweight division. Originally from Lubbock, Texas, he fought out of San Diego.-Early boxing career:...

 (2005) Ken Norton

Ken Norton

Kenneth Howard Norton Sr. is a former heavyweight boxer. He is best known for his 12-round victory over a peak Muhammad Ali where he famously broke Ali's jaw, on March 31, 1973, becoming only the second man to defeat Ali as a professional .He and Ali...

 (1992) Rubén Olivares

Rubén Olivares

Rubén Olivares is a former Mexican boxer and current member of the Boxing Hall of Fame. A native of Mexico City, Olivares was a world champion multiple times, and considered by many as the greatest bantamweight champion of all time. He was very popular among Mexicans, many of whom considered him...

 (1991) Bobo Olson

Bobo Olson

Carl Olson was an American boxer. He was the world middleweight champion between October 1953 and December 1955, the longest reign of any champion in that division during the 1950s, although he is probably best remembered for his three knockout losses against Sugar Ray Robinson.His nickname, Bobo,...

 (2000) Carlos Ortiz

Carlos Ortiz

For the Cuban wrestler with the same name see Carlos Julian OrtízCarlos Ortiz is a Puerto Rican who was a three time world boxing champion, twice in the lightweight division and once in the Jr. Welterweights....

 (1991) Manuel Ortiz

Manuel Ortiz (boxer)

Manuel Ortiz was one of the very best boxers of the 1940s, and was named to Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years. In 1996, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame....

 (1996) Carlos Palomino

Carlos Palomino

Carlos Palomino a retired Mexican professional boxer. Palomino is a former WBC Welterweight Champion and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Palomino is also an actor who has been featured in several television shows and films...

 (2004) László Papp

László Papp

László Papp was a Hungarian boxer, born in Budapest. A southpaw, he won gold medals in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia...

 (2001) Willie Pastrano

Willie Pastrano

Wilfred Raleigh Pastrano was a light heavyweight boxer who held the world crown from 1963 until 1965.-Early life:...

 (2001) Floyd Patterson

Floyd Patterson

Floyd Patterson was an American heavyweight boxer and former undisputed heavyweight champion. At 21, Patterson became the youngest man to win the world heavyweight title. He was also the first heavyweight boxer to regain the title. He had a record of 55 wins 8 losses and 1 draw, with 40 wins by...

 (1991) Eusebio Pedroza

Eusebio Pedroza

Eusebio Pedroza is a native of Panama who holds two records in boxing: His 19 defenses as world featherweight champion are a record for that division, and his seven years as world champion non-stop are a division record too...

 (1999) Willie Pep

Willie Pep

Guglielmo Papaleo was an American boxer who was better known as Willie Pep. Pep boxed a total of 1956 rounds in the 241 bouts during his 26 year career, a considerable number of rounds and fights even for a fighter of his era. His final record was 229-11-1 with 65 knockouts...

 (1990) Pascual Pérez

Pascual Pérez (boxing)

Pascual Nicolás Pérez was an Argentine flyweight boxer. Pérez was born in Tupungato in the Mendoza Province of Argentina, he went on to make history by becoming Argentina's first world boxing champion....

 (1995) Eddie Perkins

Eddie Perkins

Eddie Perkins was an American light welterweight boxer.-Professional career:Perkins turned professional in 1956 and captured the World Boxing Association light welterweight title with a decision win over Duilio Loi in 1962, but lost the belt in a rematch later that year...

 (2008) Aaron Pryor

Aaron Pryor

Aaron Pryor is a former boxer from Cincinnati, Ohio, and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He is the former world Junior Welterweight champion, and regarded as one of the greatest fighters in the history of the weight class.-Amateur career:Pryor, nicknamed The Hawk, had a record of...

 (1996) Dwight Muhammad Qawi

Dwight Muhammad Qawi

Dwight Muhammad Qawi is a former world boxing champion in the light heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions...

 (2004)   Sugar Ramos

Sugar Ramos

Ultiminio Ramos is a Cuban-Mexican boxer who is better known as Sugar Ramos. Ramos fought out of Mexico where he was adopted as a national hero...

 (2001) Luis Rodriguez (1997) Sugar Ray Robinson

Sugar Ray Robinson

Sugar Ray Robinson was an African-American professional boxer. Frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, Robinson's performances in the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight...

 (1990) Edwin Rosario

Edwin Rosario

Edwin "El Chapo" Rosario was a Puerto Rican boxer. He was the WBC world lightweight champion from 1983–84 and the WBA world champion in 1986–87 and again in 1989–90...

 (2006) Sandy Saddler

Sandy Saddler

Joseph "Sandy" Saddler was an American boxer born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a two-time featherweight world champion, and also held the junior lightweight crown. Over his twelve-year career , Saddler scored 103 knockouts. He was stopped only once, in his second pro fight, by Jock Leslie. ...

 (1990) Vicente Saldivar

Vicente Saldivar

Vicente Samuel Saldivar García was a Mexican boxer in the Featherweight division and was a part of the 1960 Mexican Olympic team. He was a former WBC and a two-time WBA Featherweight Champion...

 (1999) Salvador Sánchez

Salvador Sánchez

Salvador Sánchez Narváez was a Mexican boxer born in the town of Santiago Tianguistenco, Estado de México. Many of his contemporaries as well as boxing writers believe that, had it not been for his premature death, Sanchez could have gone on to become the greatest Featherweight boxer of all time...

 (1991) Max Schmeling

Max Schmeling

Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in the late 1930s transcended boxing, and became worldwide social events because of their national associations...

 (1992) Michael Spinks

Michael Spinks

Michael Spinks is a retired American boxer who was a world champion in the light-heavyweight and heavyweight divisions...

 (1994) Dick Tiger

Dick Tiger

Dick Tiger CBE was a boxer from Ubahu village, Amaigbo, Nigeria, who emigrated to Liverpool and later to the United States of America. Tiger was a member of the Igbo ethnic group...

 (1991) José Torres

José Torres

José Torres , was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. As an amateur boxer, he won a silver medal in the junior middleweight at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. In 1965, he defeated Willie Pastrano to win the WBC and WBA light heavyweight championships...

 (1997)   Kostya Tszyu (2011) Randy Turpin

Randy Turpin

Randolph Adolphus Turpin known as the Leamington Larruper, was an English boxer who was considered by some to be Europe's best middleweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s.-Biography:...

 (2001) Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson

Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson is a retired American boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old...

  (2011) Jersey Joe Walcott

Jersey Joe Walcott

Arnold Raymond Cream , better known as Jersey Joe Walcott, was a world heavyweight boxing champion. He broke the world's record for the oldest man to win the world's Heavyweight title when he earned it at the age of , a record that would be broken on November 5, 1994, by George Foreman, who...

 (1990) Pernell Whitaker

Pernell Whitaker

Pernell Whitaker , nicknamed "Sweet Pea", is a professional boxing trainer and retired American professional boxer...

 (2007)
Holman Williams

Holman Williams

Holman Williams was a world welterweight boxing contender.-Boxing career:Williams began boxing as an amateur in 1928 as a bantamweight and had a successful 38-bout career...

 (2008) Ike Williams

Ike Williams (boxer)

Ike Williams was a former lightweight world boxing champion. Williams was known for his great right hand, and was named to the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time as well as Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year for 1948.-Professional Career:During his career, Williams faced and...

 (1990) Chalky Wright

Chalky Wright

Albert "Chalky" Wright was a black American featherweight boxer who fought from 1928 to 1948. His career record was 160 wins , 43 losses and 18 draws. In 2003, Wright made The Ring magazine's list of the 100 greatest punchers of all time.-Biography:Wright was born in Durango, Mexico...

 (1997) Tony Zale

Tony Zale

Anthony Florian Zaleski was an American boxer. Zale was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, a steel town, which gave him his nickname, "Man of Steel." In addition, he had the reputation of being able to take fearsome punishment and still rally to win, reinforcing that nickname...

 (1991) Daniel Zaragoza

Daniel Zaragoza

Daniel Zaragoza was a Mexican professional boxer. Known as "The Mouse," Zaragoza a popular champion in the Super Bantamweight division throughout the 1980s and 1990s.-Amateur career:...

 (2004) Carlos Zárate (1994) Fritzie Zivic

Fritzie Zivic

Fritzie Zivic , born as Ferdinand Henry John Zivcich , was an American boxer.-Biography:...

 (1993)

Old Timers

Lou Ambers

Lou Ambers

Luigi Giuseppe d'Ambrosio , aka Lou Ambers, was a lightweight boxer who fought from 1932 to 1941.Managed by Al Weill and trained by Charley Goldman, the "Herkimer Hurricane", as he was known, began his career losing only once in more than three years when he faced future hall of fame lightweight...

 (1992) Baby Arizmendi

Baby Arizmendi

Alberto "Baby" Arizmendi was a professional boxer and featherweight world title holder. He also competed in the bantamweight and welterweight divisions. Arizmendi is famous for being the youngest boxer to turn pro...

 (2004) Abe Attell

Abe Attell

Abraham Washington "Abe" Attell , known in the boxing world as Abe "The Little Hebrew" Attell, was a boxer who became known for his record-setting six-year reign as World Featherweight Champion...

 (1990) Max Baer (1995) Jimmy Barry

Jimmy Barry

Jimmy Barry was an Irish-American boxer.Barry fought out of Chicago as a bantamweight, and a flyweight, retiring with a record of 59-0. Along with Rocky Marciano, Ricardo Lopez, Ji-Won Kim, and Joe Calzaghe, Barry is one of only five boxing champions to retire undefeated...

 (2000) Benny Bass

Benny Bass

Benny Bass, known as "Little Fish," was an American boxer....

 (2002) Battling Battalino

Battling Battalino

Christopher Battaglia better known as Battling Battalino, was an American former world featherweight boxing champion...

 (2003) Paul Berlenbach (2001)   James J. Braddock

James J. Braddock

James Walter "The Cinderella Man" Braddock was an American boxer who was the world heavyweight champion from 1935 to 1937....

 (2001) Jack Britton

Jack Britton

Jack Britton was three-time world welterweight boxing champion, born William J. Breslin in Clinton, New York....

 (1990) Lou Brouillard

Lou Brouillard

Lucien Pierre Brouillard, better known as Lou Brouillard, , was a professional boxer in the welterweight division....

 (2006) Panama Al Brown

Panama Al Brown

Alfonso Teofilo Brown , better known as Panama Al Brown, was a bantamweight boxer from Panama who made history by becoming boxing's first Hispanic world champion. Brown was a native of the city of Colón....

 (1992) Tommy Burns

Tommy Burns (boxer)

Tommy Burns , born Noah Brusso, is the only Canadian born world heavyweight champion boxer. The first to travel the globe in defending his title, Tommy made 11 title defenses despite often being the underdog due to his size. Burns famously challenged all comers as Heavyweight Champion, leading to...

 (1996) Tony Canzoneri

Tony Canzoneri

Tony Canzoneri was an American boxer who was born in the town of Slidell, Louisiana.Canzoneri, an Italian American, was one of the members of the exclusive group of boxing world champions who have won titles in three or more divisions.- Early life :When he was a teenager, he and his family moved...

 (1990) Georges Carpentier

Georges Carpentier

Georges Carpentier was a French boxer. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908-26. Nicknamed the "Orchid Man", he stood and his fighting weight ranged from...

 (1991) Kid Chocolate

Kid Chocolate

For the boxer of the same nickname see Peter Quillin.Eligio Sardiñas Montalvo , better known as Kid Chocolate, was a Cuban boxer who enjoyed wild success both in the boxing ring and in society life during a span of the 1930s.-Biography:Eligio Montaldo, also nicknamed The Cuban Bon Bon, learned how...

 (1994) Joe Choynski

Joe Choynski

Joseph Bartlett "Joe" Choynski was an American boxer who fought professionally from 1888 to 1904.-Boxing career:"Chrysanthemum Joe", the son of a Polish immigrant that settled in California in 1867, weighed no more than 176 lb throughout his career but regularly fought heavyweights. He was...

 (1998) James J. Corbett

James J. Corbett

James John "Gentleman Jim" Corbett was an Irish-American heavyweight boxing champion, best known as the man who defeated the great John L. Sullivan. He also coached boxing at the Olympic Club in San Francisco...

 (1990) Young Corbett II

Young Corbett II

Young Corbett II is a boxer who held the world featherweight championship. He was He took the name "Young Corbett II" in honor of James J. Corbett, a heavyweight champion....

 (2010) Young Corbett III

Young Corbett III

Young Corbett III was the world Welterweight boxing champion. He was born Raffaele Capabianca Giordano and began boxing in 1919 as Young Corbett III while still a 14-year-old "newsboy."...

 (2004) Johnny Coulon

Johnny Coulon

John Frederic Coulon was the bantamweight boxing champion of the world from 6 March 1910, when he wrested the crown from England's Jim Kendrick, until 1914, when he was defeated by Kid Williams.-Biography:...

 (1999) Eugene Criqui

Eugène Criqui

Eugène Criqui was a French boxer who held the world featherweight title in 1923.Criqui was born in the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris. He was a professional pipe-fitter before he turned professional in 1910. He won the French flyweight title in 1912. His boxing career was interrupted when he...

 (2005) Les Darcy

Les Darcy

James Leslie Darcy was an Australian boxer. He was a middleweight, but held the Australian Heavyweight Championship title at the same time....

 (1993) Jack Delaney

Jack Delaney

Jack Delaney was a former light heavyweight boxing champion of the world and contender for the heavyweight crown...

 (1996) Jack Dempsey

Jack Dempsey

William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926. Dempsey's aggressive style and exceptional punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history. Many of his fights set financial and attendance records, including the first...

 (1990)   Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey

Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey

John Edward Kelly was an Irish-born champion boxer. At height, he was better known as Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey, called "Nonpareil" because no one could defeat him. In 65 contests, he lost only 3 times. This ended when Bob Fitzsimmons pummelled him around the ring and begged him to concede before...

 (1992) Jim Driscoll

Jim Driscoll

James "Jim" Driscoll commonly known as Peerless Jim was a Welsh boxer who learned his trade in the boxing ring and used it to fight his way out of poverty....

 (1990) Jack Dillon

Jack Dillon

Ernest Cutler Price was light heavyweight boxing champion of the world.-Personal:...

 (1995) George Dixon

George Dixon (boxer)

George Dixon was the first black world boxing champion in any weight class, while also being the first ever Canadian-born boxing champion.George was born in Africville, Halifax, Nova Scotia...

 (1990) Johnny Dundee

Johnny Dundee

Johnny Dundee was a featherweight and junior lightweight boxer who fought from 1910 until 1932. Dundee was born Giuseppe Curreri in Sciacca, Sicily, but was raised in the United States....

 (1991) Sixto Escobar

Sixto Escobar

Sixto Escobar was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. Competing in the bantamweight division, he became Puerto Rico's first world champion....

 (2002)
Jackie Fields

Jackie Fields

Jackie Fields was an American professional boxer who won two world championship titles.-Personal life:...

 (2004) Bob Fitzsimmons

Bob Fitzsimmons

Robert James "Bob" Fitzsimmons , was a British boxer who made boxing history as the sport's first three-division world champion. He also achieved fame for beating Gentleman Jim Corbett, the man who beat John L. Sullivan, and is in The Guinness Book of World Records as the Lightest heavyweight...

 (1990) Tiger Flowers

Tiger Flowers

Theodore Flowers became the first African-American middleweight boxing champion, defeating Harry Greb in 1926. Known as "Tiger", he began boxing professionally in 1918 at the age of 23 while working at a Philadelphia shipbuilding plant...

 (1993) Joe Gans

Joe Gans

Joe Gans was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Gans was rated as the greatest lightweight boxer of all time by boxing historian and Ring Magazine founder, Nat Fleischer and was known as the "Old Master". He fought from 1891 to 1909.Gans started boxing professionally about 1891 in Baltimore...

 (1990) Frankie Genaro

Frankie Genaro

Frank "Frankie" Genaro was a former Olympic gold medalist and boxing world flyweight champion...

 (1998) Mike Gibbons

Mike Gibbons

Mike Gibbons was an American boxer from 1908 to 1922. The brother of heavyweight Tommy Gibbons, Mike claimed Middleweight Champion of the World status in 1909 following Stanley Ketchel's murder. Although he never won the title, Gibbons is regarded as one of the all-time best welter and...

 (1992) Tommy Gibbons

Tommy Gibbons

- Biography :Thomas J. Gibbons was a nearly undefeated heavyweight boxer. The brother of Mike Gibbons, Tommy started boxing professionally in 1911 as a middleweight. Like his brother he was a master scientific boxer who chose to outbox his opponents...

 (1993) George Godfrey (2007) Harry Greb

Harry Greb

Harry Greb was an American boxer. He was World Middleweight boxing Champion from 1923 to 1926 and American Light Heavyweight title holder 1922–1923. He fought a recorded 303 times in his 13 year-career, against the best opposition the talent-rich 1910s & 20s could provide him, frequently squaring...

 (1990) Young Griffo

Young Griffo

Albert Griffiths , better known as Young Griffo, was a world featherweight boxing champion.-Professional career:...

 (1991) Harry Harris

Harry Harris (boxer)

Harry Harris was an American boxer.Harris was World Bantamweight Champion in 1901–02.-Boxing career:Harris turned professional in 1896 at the age of 16....

 (2002) Len Harvey

Len Harvey

Len Harvey was a boxer born in Stoke Climsland, Cornwall. A great tactician and defensive boxer who boxed at every weight division of his day. He began boxing at the very young age of 12 and boxed to he was 36. He was British champion at three weights, middleweight, light-heavy and heavyweight...

 (2008) Pete Herman

Pete Herman

Pete Herman was one of the all time great bantamweight world champions. An Italian-American, Herman was born Peter Gulotta in New Orleans, Louisiana, and fought from 1912 until 1922...

 (1997) Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson (boxer)

Peter "Black Prince" Jackson was a heavyweight boxer from Australia who had a significant international career.-Biography:...

 (1990) Joe Jeanette

Joe Jeanette

Jeremiah "Joe" Jeannette is considered one of the best African-American heavyweight boxers of the early 20th century.-Early life and career:...

 (1997) James J. Jeffries

James J. Jeffries

James Jackson Jeffries was a world heavyweight boxing champion.His greatest assets were his enormous strength and stamina. Using a technique taught to him by his trainer, former welterweight and middleweight champion Tommy Ryan, Jeffries fought out of a crouch with his left arm extended forward...

 (1990) Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson (boxer)

John Arthur Johnson , nicknamed the “Galveston Giant,” was an American boxer. At the height of the Jim Crow era, Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion...

 (1990) Gorilla Jones

Gorilla Jones

William Jones William Jones (May 12, 1906 – January 4, 1982) William Jones (May 12, 1906 – January 4, 1982) (better known as Gorilla Jones, was an American boxer and Middleweight boxing champion of the world.-Professional Boxing Career:...

 (2009) Rocky Kansas

Rocky Kansas

Rocky Kansas was a tough, short former lightweight champion of the world. He was born Rocco Tozzo on April 21, 1893 in Italy and came to America in 1898. He died on January 10, 1954.-Background:...

 (2010) Louis "Kid" Kaplan

Kid Kaplan

Louis Kaplan , better known as Kid Kaplan, was a professional boxer in the Featherweight division. He has been described as one of the greatest Ukrainian boxers.- Background :...

 (2003) Stanley Ketchel

Stanley Ketchel

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 (1990) Dixie Kid

Dixie Kid

Aaron Lister Brown aka Dixie Kid was an American boxer. He was a controversial contender for the World Welterweight Boxing Championship in 1904....

 (2002) Johnny Kilbane

Johnny Kilbane

John "Johnny" Patrick Kilbane was a featherweight boxer in the early part of the 20th century. He held the featherweight title from 1912 to 1923, the longest period in the division's history...

 (1995) Frank Klaus

Frank Klaus

Frank Klaus was a German-American boxer from 1904 to 1918. Klaus won the vacant Middleweight Championship of the world in 1913 and was elected to the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1974....

 (2008) Fidel LaBarba (1996) Sam Langford

Sam Langford

Sam Langford was a Black Canadian boxing standout of the early part of the 20th century. Called the "Greatest Fighter Nobody Knows," by ESPN. He was rated #2 by The Ring on their list of "100 greatest punchers of all time". Langford was originally from Weymouth Falls, a small community in Nova...

 (1990) George "Kid" Lavigne

Kid Lavigne

George Henry "Kid" Lavigne was an American boxer from Michigan. He was the second American boxer to hold the lightweight champion, winning the title on June 1, 1896.-Pro career:...

 (1998) Benny Leonard

Benny Leonard

Benny Leonard was an American lightweight boxer. He was named as number 8 on Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years and number 7 on ESPN's 50 Greatest Boxers of All-Time....

 (1990) Battling Levinsky

Battling Levinsky

Barney Williams , was light heavyweight boxing champion of the world from 1916 to 1920.-Boxing career:...

 (2000) Harry Lewis

Harry Lewis (boxer)

Harry Lewis , was an American champion boxer. Lewis was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2002 and to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2008.-Link:***...

 (2008) John Henry Lewis

John Henry Lewis

John Henry Lewis was an African American boxer who was the world Light Heavyweight champion from 1935 to 1939.One interesting fact of his is that Lewis was managed by a gambler and racketeer of the 1930s: Gus Greenlee, a man who became very important to baseball's Negro Leagues as a commissioner...

 (1994) Ted "Kid" Lewis (1992)
Tommy Loughran

Tommy Loughran

Thomas Patrick Loughran was the light heavyweight boxing champion of the world.Loughran's effective use of coordinated foot work, sound defense and swift, accurate counter punching is now regarded as a precursor to the techniques practiced in modern boxing...

 (1991) Benny Lynch

Benny Lynch

Benny Lynch was a Scottish professional boxer who fought in the flyweight division. He is considered by some to be one of the finest boxers below the lightweight division in his era and Ring Magazine has described him as the greatest fighter that Scotland has ever produced...

 (1998) Joe Lynch

Joe Lynch (boxer)

Joseph Aloysius Lynch was an American Bantamweight boxer.-Pro career:He won the world title at that weight in 1920, defeating Pete Herman. Herman defeated him to regain the title the following year...

 (2005) Sammy Mandell (1998)  Jack McAuliffe

Jack McAuliffe

Jack McAuliffe was an Irish-American boxer. Nicknamed 'The Napolean of the Ring', and fighting mostly out of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, he was one of only nine boxers to remain undefeated throughout his entire career. He was the Lightweight Champion of the World from 1886 to 1893...

 (1995) Charles "Kid" McCoy

Kid McCoy

Charles "Kid" McCoy, who was born Norman Selby was an American world champion boxer.-Overview:Born in Moscow, Rush County, Indiana, McCoy would eventually weigh 160 pounds, stand 5' 11", and go on to a record 81 wins...

 (1991) Packey McFarland

Packey McFarland

Patrick "Packey" McFarland was a popular American boxer in the lightweight and welterweight divisions, despite a extraordinary winning record he was unable to secure a match for either world title...

 (1992) Terry McGovern

Terry McGovern (boxer)

Terrible Terry McGovern , born John Terrence McGovern in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States, was a boxer who held the world bantamweight and featherweight titles.-Professional career:...

 (1990)  Jimmy McLarnin

Jimmy McLarnin

James McLarnin, known as Jimmy McLarnin , was an Irish Canadian professional boxer who became two-time welterweight world champion and an International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee.-Background:McLarnin was born in Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, into a large Methodist family who emigrated...

 (1991) Sam McVey

Sam McVey

Sam McVey or Sam McVea was a Hall of Fame heavyweight boxer during the early 20th century. He fought out of Oxnard, California. McVey ranked alongside Sam Langford and Joe Jeanette as one of the top black fighters during a famed career that took him across the globe...

 (1999) Freddie Miller

Freddie Miller (boxer)

Freddie Miller was an American boxer from Cincinnati, Ohio. Freddie Miller was one of the very best featherweight boxers of the 1930s, and was named to Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years....

 (1997) Billy Miske

Billy Miske

Billy Miske, alias The Saint Paul Thunderbolt , was a professional boxer from Saint Paul, Minnesota. -Professional Boxing Career:...

 (2010) Charley Mitchell (2002) Pedro Montañez

Pedro Montañez

Pedro Montañez, , was a boxer from Cayey, Puerto Rico. Also known as El Torito De Cayey , he has been considered by many to be one of the best boxers in history never to win a world title...

 (2007) Memphis Pal Moore

Memphis Pal Moore

Memphis Pal Moore was an American boxer from Memphis. Moore began his boxing career while serving as a sailor in the United States Navy. He served as a boxing instructor while in the Navy, and was selected as a boxing representative and sent to England for a boxing tournament amongst the Allied...

 (2011) Owen Moran

Owen Moran

Owen Moran was a world Bantamweight boxing champion.-Professional career:Known as "The Fearless", Moran is recognized by some historians as a former world bantamweight champion...

 (2002)  Kid Norfolk

Kid Norfolk

William Ward also known as Kid Norfolk was a world heavyweight boxing title contender.-Professional career:...

 (2007) Battling Nelson

Battling Nelson

Oscar Mathæus Nielsen, also known as Battling Nelson, was a Danish boxer who held the world lightweight championship on two separate occasions...

 (1992) Philadelphia Jack O'Brien

Philadelphia Jack O'Brien

Joseph Francis Hagan was light heavyweight boxing champion of the world.-Biography:...

 (1994) Billy Papke

Billy Papke

Billy Papke was an American boxer....

 (2001) Billy Petrolle

Billy Petrolle

William Michael Petrolle was a world lightweight boxing title contender.-Personal:Brother of fellow boxers Pete Petrolle and Frank Petrolle...

 (2000) Willie Ritchie

Willie Ritchie

Willie Ritchie , was the world lightweight boxing champion from 1912 to 1914.-Biography:He was born in San Francisco, California as Gerhardt Anthony Steffen on February 13, 1891...

 (2004) Maxie Rosenbloom

Maxie Rosenbloom

Max Everitt Rosenbloom, known as Slapsie Maxie was an American boxer, actor, and television personality.-Life and career:...

 (1993)  Jack Root

Jack Root

Jack Root was a light heavyweight champion and also fought for the world heavyweight title. He fought out of Chicago, Illinois.-Light heavyweight championship claim:...

 (2011) Barney Ross

Barney Ross

Barney Ross , born Beryl David Rosofsky, was a world champion boxer in three weight divisions and decorated veteran of World War II.-Early life:...

 (1990) Tommy Ryan

Tommy Ryan

Tommy Ryan was a famed welterweight and middleweight champion boxer who fought from 1887-1907. Ryan was considered an excellent boxer-puncher, and many consider him one of the all time greatest middleweight champions. His won lost record is 86 wins , 3 losses and 6 draws...

 (1991) Dave Shade (2011) Jack Sharkey

Jack Sharkey

Jack Sharkey was an American heavyweight boxing champion. He was born Joseph Paul Zukauskas , the son of Lithuanian immigrants, in Binghamton, New York but moved to Boston, Massachusetts as a young man...

 (1994) Jimmy Slattery

Jimmy Slattery

James Edward Slattery was a professional boxer in the Light Heavyweight division. James Edward Slattery (born August 25, 1904 in Buffalo, NY - died August 30, 1960) was a professional boxer in the Light Heavyweight (175lb) division. James Edward Slattery (born August 25, 1904 in Buffalo, NY -...

 (2006)  Tom Sharkey

Tom Sharkey

Tom 'Sailor Tom' Sharkey was a boxer who fought two fights with heavyweight champion James J. Jeffries. Sharkey's recorded ring career spanned from 1893 to 1904. He is credited with having won 40 fights , 7 losses, and 5 draws...

 (2003) Mysterious Billy Smith

Mysterious Billy Smith

Mysterious Billy Smith was a Canadian boxer. He turned pro in 1890, and in his ninth fight knocked out Danny Needham to win the welterweight championship in 1892. He held on to it until Tommy Ryan beat him on points in 1894. He won back the vacant title in 1898 by beating Matty Matthews, and lost...

 (2009) Billy Soose

Billy Soose

Billy Soose was an American boxer who won the world middleweight championship in 1941.After a collegiate boxing career, Soose became a professional boxer in 1938. That same year he met Charley Burley, defeated Soose by a unanimous decision. In 1940 Soose defeated two future middleweight champions,...

 (2009)
Freddie Steele

Freddie Steele

Freddie Steele was a boxer and film actor born Frederick Earle Burgett in Seattle, Washington. He was recognized as middleweight champion of the world between 1936 and 1938. Steele was nicknamed "The Tacoma Assassin" and was trained by Jack Connor, Johnny Babnick, and Ray Arcel, while in New York...

 (1999) Young Stribling

Young Stribling

Young Stribling was a professional boxer in the Heavyweight division.He was the elder brother of fellow boxer Herbert Stribling.- Background :...

 (1996) Charles "Bud" Taylor (2005) Lew Tendler

Lew Tendler

"Lefty" Lew Tendler was an American boxer. He is a member of the World Boxing Hall of Fame, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and the International Boxing Hall of Fame.-External links:******...

 (1999) Marcel Thil

Marcel Thil

-Career:Born in Saint-Dizier, Haute-Marne in the Champagne-Ardenne Region of France, Thil started boxing at a very young age and turned professional at the age of sixteen...

 (2005) Gene Tunney

Gene Tunney

James Joseph "Gene" Tunney was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-1928 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927. Tunney's successful title defense against Dempsey is one of the most famous bouts in boxing history and is known as The Long Count Fight...

 (1990) Pancho Villa (1994)  Barbados Joe Walcott (1991) Mickey Walker (1990) Freddie Welsh

Freddie Welsh

Freddie Welsh was a Welsh lightweight boxing champion. Born in Pontypridd, Wales, and christened Frederick Hall Thomas, he was nicknamed the "Welsh Wizard". Brought up in a tough mining community, Welsh left a middle-class background to make a name for himself in America...

 (1997) Jimmy Wilde

Jimmy Wilde

Jimmy Wilde , was a Welsh world boxing champion. He was the first official world flyweight champion and was rated by American boxing writer Nat Fleischer, as well as many other professionals and fans including former boxer, trainer, manager and promoter, Charley 'Broadway' Rose, as "the greatest...

 (1990) Jess Willard

Jess Willard

Jess Willard was a world heavyweight boxing champion. He won the heavyweight title from Jack Johnson in April 1915 and lost it to Jack Dempsey in July 1919....

 (2003) Kid Williams

Kid Williams

John Gutenko who boxed under the name Kidd Williams, was a boxer from Denmark.-Biography:Williams was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He traveled with his parents to the United States in 1904 where they ended up in Baltimore, Maryland...

 (1996) Harry Wills

Harry Wills

240px|rightHarry "The Black Panther" Wills was perhaps the most well known victim of the "color line" drawn by white heavyweight champions after the title reign of Jack Johnson...

 (1992) Ad Wolgast (2000) Midget Wolgast

Midget Wolgast

Joseph Robert Loscalzo also known as Midget Wolgast was a world flyweight boxing champion.-Professional career:...

 (2001) Teddy Yarosz

Teddy Yarosz

Teddy Yarosz was an American athlete in boxing. He held the world middleweight boxing championship during 1934-1935.-Personal life:Yarosz was born in Monaca, Pennsylvania. His brother Tommy Yarosz also became a boxer....

 (2006)

Pioneers

Barney Aaron

Barney Aaron

Barney Aaron was an English bare-knuckle boxer.The father of Hall of Famer Young Barney Aaron began boxing in 1819 and became a Lightweight Champion in the 1820s. Called The Star of the East, Aaron got victories over William Connelly, Ned Stockton, Lenney, Frank Redmond and Peter Warren...

 (2001) Young Barney Aaron

Young Barney Aaron

Young Barney Aaron was a Bare Knuckle boxer.The son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron, he emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856. Aaron became a U.S...

 (2007) Caleb Baldwin

Caleb Baldwin

Caleb Ramsbottom , aka Caleb Baldwin, was a premiere lightweight boxer of the bare-knuckle era in England.-Professional career:...

 (2003) Jem Belcher

Jem Belcher

Jem Belcher was an English bare-knuckle boxer and Champion of All England 1800-1805.Born in Bristol, Belcher beat Paddington Tom Jones in April 1799 in the Middleweight Championship of England. He drew with champion Jack Bartholomew in a 51-round bout in 1799, and won the rematch in the...

 (1992) Benjamin Brain

Benjamin Brain

Benjamin Brain was a bareknuckle prizefighter. A collier by trade, he was a valiant fighter whose career spanned twenty years...

 (1994) Jack Broughton

Jack Broughton

John "Jack" Broughton was an English bare-knuckle fighter. He was the first person to ever codify a set of rules to be used in such contests; prior to this the "rules" that existed were very loosely defined and tended to vary from contest to contest...

 (1990) James Burke

James Burke (boxer)

James "Deaf" Burke , 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 200 lb , was one of England's earliest boxing champions. He trained in the area around the River Thames....

 (1992) Jem Carney

Jem Carney

Jem "Jim" Carney was an 1880s English Lightweight Champion.-Professional career:...

 (2006) Arthur Chambers

Arthur Chambers

Arthur Chambers was an Anglo-American boxer.-Career:...

 (2000) Tom Cribb

Tom Cribb

Tom Cribb was an English bare-knuckle boxer of the 19th century, so successful that he became world champion. He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.-Life:...

 (1991)
Dick Curtis

Dick Curtis (boxer)

Dick Curtis was a professional boxing pioneer born in Southwark, London.-Pro career:Known as the “The Pet of the Fancy”, Curtis turned professional in 1820 and on February 27, 1827 defeated Barney Aaron...

 (2007) Dan Donnelly

Dan Donnelly (boxer)

Dan Donnelly was a professional boxing pioneer and the first Irish-born heavyweight champion. He was posthumously inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, Pioneers Category in 2008.-Champion of the needy:...

 (2008) Professor Mike Donovan

Professor Mike Donovan

Mike Donovan also known as Professor Mike Donovan and Mike O'Donovan was a middleweight boxer of the bare-knuckle era and later became one of the foremost teachers of the sport....

 (1998) Paddy Duffy

Paddy Duffy

Paddy Duffy was an Irish-American and the first World Welterweight champion of the gloved era of boxing.-Professional career:Duffy won his first fight by KO over Skin Doherty in 1884 at age nineteen....

 (1994) Billy Edwards

Billy Edwards

Billy Edwards was a was a standout lightweight of the late 1860s and 1870s in England.-Professional career:...

 (2004) James Figg

James Figg

James Figg was an English bare-knuckle boxer. He is universally recognized the first English bare-knuckle boxing champion, reigning from 1719 to 1730 or 1734. Many of the bouts at the time consisted of boxing, wrestling and fencing with sharp swords. Figg was also a great fencer that engaged in...

 (1992) Joe Goss

Joe Goss

Joe Goss was born on 5 November 1838 in Northampton, England. Although he rarely scaled more than 160 pounds, the clever and aggressive Goss routinely fought men both bigger and heavier than himself....

 (2003) John Gully

John Gully

John Gully was an English prize-fighter, horse racer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1837.-Early life:...

 (2011) John C. Heenan

John C. Heenan

John Camel Heenan, aka the Benicia Boy was an American bare-knuckle prize fighter. Though highly regarded, he had only three formal fights in his entire career, losing two and drawing one....

 (2002) Tom Hyer

Tom Hyer

Tom Hyer was an American bare-knuckle boxer. He was a champion of boxing in America from September 9, 1841 to 1851....

 (2009)
John Jackson

John Jackson (boxer)

"Gentleman" John Jackson was a celebrated pugilist of the late 18th century.He won the title Champion of England in a fight on 15 April 1795 in which he beat...

 (1992) Paddington Tom Jones

Paddington Tom Jones

Paddington Jones was a boxer from 1785 to 1805.-Career:Jones is credited with having fought more bouts and seconded more pugilists than any person before him...

 (2010) Tom King (1992) Nat Langham

Nat Langham

Nat Langham was an English middleweight bare-knuckle prize fighter. He had the distinction of being the only opponent ever to beat the legendary Thomas Sayers.-Early life:...

 (1992) Jem Mace

Jem Mace

Jem Mace was an English boxing champion. He was born at Beeston, Norfolk. Although nicknamed "The Gypsy", he denied Romani ethnicity in his autobiography...

 (1990) Daniel Mendoza

Daniel Mendoza

Daniel Mendoza was an English prizefighter, who was boxing champion of England 1792–95.-Success:...

 (1990) Tom Molineaux

Tom Molineaux

Tom Molineaux was a African-American bare-knuckle boxer. He spent much of his career in Great Britain and Ireland, where he had some notable successes.-Early life:...

 (1997)   John Morrissey

John Morrissey

John Morrissey , also known as Old Smoke, was an Irish bare-knuckle boxer and a gang member in New York in the 1850s and later became a Democratic State Senator and U.S. Congressman from New York, backed by Tammany Hall...

 (1996) Henry Pearce

Hen Pearce

Henry Pearce was an English bare knuckle prizefighter who fought under the London Ring Rules and was the recognised English Champion from 1804 until his retirement, due to ill health, in 1807.Pearce was known as "The Game Chicken", a nickname probably derived from his habit of signing his name...

 (1993) Jack Randall

Jack Randall (boxer)

Jack Randall , nicknamed "The Nonpareil", was a professional boxing pioneer.Born in London and standing only 5'6" tall, the diminutive Randall was one of the dominant pugilists of his era, compiling a 16-0-1 record as a professional, with all of his wins coming by knockout...

 (2005)
Bill Richmond

Bill Richmond

Bill Richmond was an African American boxer, born a slave in Cuckold's Town , Staten Island, New York. His nickname was 'The Black Terror'....

 (1999) Dutch Sam

Dutch Sam

Samuel Elias , was a professional boxing pioneer and was active between the years 1801 and 1814. Known as the hardest hitter of his era, he earned the nickname "The Man with the Iron Hand".-Pro career:Dutch Sam is known as "the discoverer of the right hand uppercut...

 (1997) Young Dutch Sam

Young Dutch Sam

Young Dutch Sam was a professional boxing pioneer. -Pro career:Young Dutch Sam is best known as a being a Welterweight Champion of the World in the 1820s....

 (2002) Tom Sayers (1990) Tom Spring

Tom Spring

Tom Spring was an English bare-knuckle fighter. He was heavyweight champion of England in 1821 until his retirement in 1824...

 (1992) John L. Sullivan

John L. Sullivan

John Lawrence Sullivan , also known as the Boston Strong Boy, was recognized as the first heavyweight champion of gloved boxing from February 7, 1881 to 1892, and is generally recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing under the London Prize Ring rules...

 (1990) Bendigo Thompson

William Thompson (boxer)

William Abednego Thompson was an English bare-knuckle boxer.-Early life:Born in Sneinton, Nottingham in 1811, Thompson was one of a set of triplets named Abednego, Shadrach and Meshak, after the young men in the Book of Daniel who emerged from the fiery furnace of Babylon...

 (1991) Jem Ward

Jem Ward

Jem Ward was an English bare-knuckle boxer. "A fine fighter and powerfully built man", he was the English champion boxer from 1825 until 1831. However, he is most notable for being the first boxer to be officially disciplined for deliberately losing a fight. During his fighting career he was...

 (1995)

Non-participants

• Thomas S. Andrews (1992)
• Ray Arcel
  Ray Arcel
  Ray Arcel was a boxing trainer who was active from the 1920s through the 1980s. He trained eighteen world champions....
  
   (1991)
• Bob Arum
  Bob Arum
  Robert "Bob" Arum is the founder and CEO of Top Rank, a professional boxing promotion company based in Las Vegas. He also worked for the US Attorney's Office for the southern district of New York in the tax division....
  
   (1999)
• Jarvis Astaire (2006)
• Giuseppe Ballarati (1999)
• George Benton
  George Benton
  George Benton was a boxer and a boxing trainer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.His first amateur bout was when he was thirteen. He turned professional three years later at the age of sixteen. He boxed professionally from 1949 to 1970 and defeated future world champions Freddie Little, Jimmy Ellis,...
  
   (2001)
• Ignacio Beristain
  Ignacio Beristáin
  Ignacio Beristáin is a Mexican trainer in the sport of boxing. Beristain is a member of the Boxing Hall of Fame and is considered one of the greatest trainers in the history of boxing.-Training career:...
  
   (2011)
• A.F. Bettinson (2011)
• Whitey Bimstein
  Whitey Bimstein
  Whitey Bimstein was a boxing trainer and cutman. He boxed pro and after 70 fights, he hung up his gloves, and joined the U.S. Navy during World War I as a boxing instructor. When he left the Navy, he decided to become a full time trainer. He formed a partnership with Ray Arcel in 1925 and...
  
   (2006)
• Jack Blackburn
  Jack Blackburn
  Charles Henry "Jack" Blackburn was an American boxer and boxing trainer.-Biography:He was born in New Year's Day, January 1, 1883....
  
   (1992)
• William A. Brady
  William A. Brady
  William Aloysius Brady, Sr. was an American theatre actor, producer, and sports promoter.-Biography:Brady was born to a newspaperman in 1863. His father kidnapped him from San Francisco and brought him to New York City, where his father worked as a writer while William was forced to sell...
  
   (1998)
• Umberto Branchini
  Umberto Branchini
  Umberto Branchini was an Italian boxing promoter and manager. Born in Modena, Italy, on July 17, 1914, he promoted or arranged fights on six continents during his career, which lasted for over fifty years...
  
   (2004)
• Teddy Brenner (1993)
• Amilcar Brusa (2007)
• Bill Cayton
  Bill Cayton
  William D. Cayton , best known for helping to manage and promote Mike Tyson early in his career, was also famous for preserving much of boxing's legacy through his efforts as a film historian and producer...
  
   (2005)
• John Graham Chambers
  John Graham Chambers
  John Graham Chambers was a Welsh sportsman. He rowed for Cambridge, founded inter-varsity sports, became English Champion walker, coached four winning Boat-Race crews, devised the Queensberry Rules, staged the Cup Final and the Thames Regatta, instituted championships for billiards, boxing,...
  
   (1990)
• Don Chargin (2001)
• Stanley Christodoulou
  Stanley Christodoulou
  Stanley Christodoulou is a South African international boxing judge and referee. Christodoulou has judged bouts in his native South Africa, as well as internationally with the WBA, with whom he is involved in leaderships roles dealing with officiating...
  
   (2004)
• Leonardo e Souza Carvalho (2002)
• Gil Clancy
  Gil Clancy
  Gilbert Thomas "Gil" Clancy was a Hall of Fame boxing trainer and one of the most noted boxing commentators of the 1980s and 1990s. He worked with such famous boxers as Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and George Foreman, as well as Gerry Cooney in his fight with Foreman. In the 1990s, he worked with...
  
   (1993)
• Irving Cohen
  Irving Cohen
  Irving Cohen was a character that Martin Short used on SCTV, and brought with him to SNL. Cohen was a caricature of old Tin Pan Alley songsmiths, and the running gag in any sketch where he appeared was that he would claim that he could "write a song about anyt'ing," at which point Irving would...
  
   (2002)
• James W. Coffroth (1991)
• Cuco Conde (2007)
• Joe Cortez
  Joe Cortez
  Joe Cortez is a Puerto Rican boxing referee who has worked many important world title bouts.-Biography:Cortez moved to Puerto Rico during his childhood. Living there, he became fluent in Spanish. Cortez had a good amateur boxing career, winning various Golden Gloves tournaments from 1960 to 1962...
  
   (2011)

• Cus D'Amato
  Cus D'Amato
  Constantine "Cus" D'Amato was an American boxing manager and trainer who handled the careers of Floyd Patterson, José Torres, Vinnie Ferguson, and Mike Tyson. Several successful boxing trainers, including Teddy Atlas, Kevin Rooney, and Joe Fariello, were tutored by D'Amato...
  
   (1995)
• Jeff Dickson (2000)
• Arthur Donovan (1993)
• Mickey Duff
  Mickey Duff
  Mickey Duff born 7 June 1929 in Krakow, Poland is a former British boxer, manager and promoter.Born Monek Prager in Krakow, Poland. His rabbi father saw the rise of the German Nazi party, so the family parents emigrated to England in the late 1930s.Having turned professional as a boxer illegally...
  
   (1999)
• Angelo Dundee
  Angelo Dundee
  Angelo Dundee is an American boxing cornerman. He is best known for his work with Muhammad Ali , and has worked with 15 world boxing champions, including Sugar Ray Leonard, José Nápoles, George Foreman, Jimmy Ellis, Carmen Basilio, Luis Rodriguez and Willie Pastrano.-Professional career:Born in...
  
   (1994)
• Chris Dundee (1994)
• Don Dunphy
  Don Dunphy
  Don Dunphy was a United States television and radio sports announcer specializing in boxing broadcasts. Dunphy was noted for his fast paced delivery and enthusiasm for the sport. It is estimated that he did "blow-by-blow" action for over 2,000 fights. The Friday Night Fights were broadcast every...
  
   (1993)
• Dan Duva
  Dan Duva
  Daniel Salvator Duva was a boxing promoter who promoted or co-promoted over 100 world championship fights through his family run business, Main Events. Under his leadership Main Events promoted such notable champions as Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Pernell Whitaker, Mark Breland and many others...
  
   (2003)
• Lou Duva
  Lou Duva
  Louis "Lou" Duva is a boxing trainer and manager who has handled some of the most famous boxers in the world including 19 World Champions. The Duva family have promoted boxing events in over 20 countries on six continents...
  
   (1998)
• Aileen Eaton
  Aileen Eaton
  Aileen Eaton was a boxing promoter who was influential in the United States' west coast's boxing scene for five decades. Eaton was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She attended Los Angeles High School....
  
   (2002)
• Pierce Egan
  Pierce Egan
  Pierce Egan was an early British journalist, sportswriter, and writer on popular culture.Egan was born in the London suburbs, where he spent his life. By 1812 he had established himself as the country's leading 'reporter of sporting events', which at the time meant mainly prize-fights and...
  
   (1991)
• Shelly Finkel
  Shelly Finkel
  Shelly Finkel is an American boxing and music manager and promoter. Finkel started out in music, promoting acts such as Vanilla Fudge and Mountain, before moving into boxing in the late 1970s...
  
   (2010)
• Nat Fleischer
  Nat Fleischer
  Nathaniel Stanley Fleischer was a noted American boxing writer and collector. Fleischer inaugurated in 1922, encouraged by Tex Rickard, the Ring Magazine publication...
  
   (1990)
• Richard Kyle Fox (1997)
• Dewey Fragetta (2003)
• Don Fraser (2005)
• Eddie Futch
  Eddie Futch
  Eddie Futch was a boxing trainer. Among the fighters he trained are Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, and Trevor Berbick, four of the five men to defeat Muhammad Ali....
  
   (1994)
• Billy Gibson
  Billy Gibson (boxing)
  William J. Gibson was a boxing promoter and manager for Benny Leonard , Gene Tunney , Paulino Uzcudun, and featherweight Louis Kaplan. He was also the owner of the short-lived New York Brickley Giants of the National Football League. Gibson began his career in boxing as a promoter in Bronx...
  
   (2009)
• Charley Goldman
  Charley Goldman
  Charley Goldman was a famed boxing trainer who trained five world champions. Goldman's most famous pupil was the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, Rocky Marciano....
  
   (1992)
• Ruby Goldstein
  Ruby Goldstein
  "Ruby" Goldstein , the "Jewel Of The Ghetto," was an American boxer and prize fight referee.-Boxing career:Before he became a referee, Goldstein boxed professionally from 1925 to 1937...
  
   (1994)
• Bob Goodman
  Bob Goodman
  Robert "Bob" Goodman is an American boxing matchmaker, publicist and promoter. He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. since 2009, the Florida Boxing Hall of Fame. and the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame, since 1990 and recipient of the prestigious Boxing Writers Association of...
  
   (2009)
• Murray Goodman (1999)
• Bill Gore (2008)
• Abe J. Greene (2009)
• Larry Hazzard (2010)
• Akihiko Honda
  Akihiko Honda
  is a Japanese professional boxing promoter who was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 2008, and was also selected as an inductee into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2009.-1965 to 1990s:...
  
   (2009)
• Joe Humphreys (1997)

• Sam Ichinose (2001)
• Jimmy Jacobs
  Jimmy Jacobs (handballer)
  James Leslie 'Jimmy' Jacobs was an American handball player, boxing manager, Academy Award nominee and comic book and fight film collector.-Handball:...
  
   (1993)
• Mike Jacobs
  Mike Jacobs (boxing)
  Michael Strauss Jacobs was a boxing promoter, arguably the most powerful in the sport from the mid-1930's until his effective retirement in 1946...
  
   (1990)
• Jimmy Johnston
  Jimmy Johnston
  James Harle Johnston was a major-league baseball player from 1911 to 1926...
  
   (1999)
• Jack Kearns
  Jack Kearns
  Jack "Doc" Kearns was an American boxing manager from the state of Washington. He is most famous for managing Jack Dempsey, who was World Heavyweight Champion from 1919 to 1926. He also managed Mickey Walker, Joey Maxim, and Archie Moore. He was given the nickname "Doc" from Dempsey....
  
   (1990)
• Don King (1997)
• Tito Lectoure
  Juan Carlos Lectoure
  Juan Carlos Lectoure , nicknamed "Tito," was an Argentine businessman, mainly involved in boxing events and former owner of Buenos Aires' Luna Park stadium....
  
   (1997)
• A.J. Liebling (1992)
• Hugh, Earl of Lonsdale (1996)
• Harry Markson (1992)
• John, Marquess of Queensberry (1990)
• Arthur Mercante
  Arthur Mercante
  Arthur Mercante Sr. was an international boxing referee. His career lasted from the 1960s until 2001. Mercante's son also became a noted referee. In his youth, Arthur Mercante Sr. was a member of the Merchant Marines....
  
   (1995)
• Dan Morgan
  Dan Morgan
  Daniel Thomas "Dan" Morgan, Jr. is a former American football linebacker for the Carolina Panthers and the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Panthers 11th overall in the 2001 NFL Draft...
  
   (2000)
• William Muldoon
  William Muldoon
  William A. Muldoon was the Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion, physical culturist and the first chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission. He once wrestled a match that lasted over seven hours...
  
   (1996)
• Gilbert Odd
  Gilbert Odd
  Gilbert Odd was a British boxing historian and sportswriter.Odd boxed briefly as an amateur, then at 18 turned his sights on the sports writing side of the game, becoming a ringside correspondent for the weekly magazine, Boxing. Starting in 1941 and continuing for ten years after, he served as...
  
   (1995)
• Tom O'Rourke (1999)
• Mogens Palle (2008)
• Dan Parker (1996)
• George Parnassus (1991)
• J Russell Peltz (2004)
• Tex Rickard (1990)
• Irving Rudd (1999)
• Rodolfo Sabbatini (2006)
• Lope Sarreal (2005)
• Wilfried Sauerland
  Wilfried Sauerland
  Wilfried Sauerland is a German boxing promoter and manager.-Career:Boxing camps associated with Sauerland, have had various locations:...
  
   (2010)

• George Siler (1995)
• Sam Silverman (2002)
• Jack Solomons
  Jack Solomons
  Jack Solomons was a British boxing promoter who has been called "one of the greatest boxing promoters in history."He began promoting boxing in London during the 1930s. His first great success came when he put together a match between Jack London and Bruce Woodcock for the British heavyweight title...
  
   (1995)
• Emanuel Steward
  Emanuel Steward
  Emanuel Steward is an American boxing trainer, commentator and inductee of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame and the World Boxing Hall of Fame.-Life and career:...
  
   (1997)
• José Sulaimán
  José Sulaimán
  José Sulaimán Chagnón is a Mexican boxing official of Lebanese-descent. He is the president of the World Boxing Council....
  
   (2007)
• Sam Taub
  Sam Taub
  Sam Taub was a journalist and radio broadcaster who is best known for his work covering boxing.Taub was Jewish, and was born on New York's Lower East Side and raised on Mott Street in Chinatown. Taub's first job in journalism was as an assistant to Bat Masterson at the New York Morning Telegraph...
  
   (1995)
• Herman Taylor (1998)
• Bruce Trampler (2010)
• Lou Viscusi (2004)
• Jimmy Walker
  Jimmy Walker
  James John Walker, often known as Jimmy Walker and colloquially as Beau James , was the mayor of New York City from 1926 to 1932...
  
   (1992)
• Frank Warren
  Frank Warren (promoter)
  Frank Darren Warren is an English boxing manager and promoter.-Early life and early career:The son of a bookmaker, Warren trained as a solicitor's clerk with J Tickle & Co on Southampton Row in London....
  
   (2008)
• Al Weill
  Al Weill
  Armand "Al" Weill was a boxing manager. He managed four world champions Rocky Marciano, Marty Servo, Lou Ambers, Joey Archibald and several other boxers. He moved to the United States from his birthplace of France at the age of 13, where he eventually began his career.-References:*...
  
   (2003)

Observers

• Dave Anderson
  Dave Anderson (sportswriter)
  Dave Anderson is an American sportswriter based in New York City. After graduating in 1947 from Xavier High School - an elite Jesuit preparatory school in New York City - Anderson attended the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, graduating in 1951.Anderson has written for a number of New...
  
   (2008)
• Lester Bromberg (2001)
• Jimmy Cannon
  Jimmy Cannon
  Jimmy Cannon was a sports journalist inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame for his coverage of the sport.-Early career:...
  
   (2002)
• Harry Carpenter
  Harry Carpenter
  Harry Leonard Carpenter OBE was a British BBC sports commentator broadcasting from the early 1950s until his retirement in 1994. His speciality was boxing...
  
   (2011)
• Ralph Citro
  Ralph Citro
  Ralph Citro was a boxing historian and archivist.Citro was an amateur boxer while serving in the Marine Corps, compiling a record of 18-3. After leaving the service, he owned and operated gyms and began training boxers...
  
   (2001)
• Howard Cosell
  Howard Cosell
  Howard William Cosell was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these...
  
   (2010)
• Tad Dorgan (2007)

• Jack Fiske (2003)
• Paul Gallico
  Paul Gallico
  Paul William Gallico was a successful American novelist, short story and sports writer. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures...
  
   (2009)
• Bill Gallo
  Bill Gallo
  Bill Gallo was a cartoonist and newspaper columnist for the New York Daily News.-Biography:Gallo was born in Manhattan, the son of a journalist father who died when Gallo was 11 years old. Gallo's mother and father were natives of Spain. When Gallo graduated from high school in 1941, he landed a...
  
   (2001)
• Reg Gutteridge
  Reg Gutteridge
  Reg Gutteridge, OBE was a boxing journalist and television commentator.Gutteridge was born into a boxing family in Islington, London. His grandfather, Arthur, was the first professional boxer to appear at the original National Sporting Club...
  
   (2002)
• W.C. Heinz (2004)
• Jersey Jones (2005)
• Hank Kaplan
  Hank Kaplan
  Hank Kaplan was an American boxing historian and writer. Always wearing one of many of his prized boxing baseball caps, and smoking a pipe, he is widely regarded as the nation's foremost boxing historian, and was known and respected worldwide...
  
   (2006)

• Joe Koizumi (2008)
• Hugh McIlvanney
  Hugh McIlvanney
  Hugh McIlvanney is an award-winning, Scottish sports writer. He currently holds a long-running column on the back page of The Sunday Times sports section.- Life and career :...
  
   (2009)
• Larry Merchant
  Larry Merchant
  Larry Merchant is an American former sportswriter, a longtime commentator for HBO Sports presentations of HBO World Championship Boxing, Boxing After Dark and HBO pay-per-view telecasts, and is considered "the greatest television boxing analyst of all time" by ESPN Boxing analyst Dan Rafael.-Life...
  
   (2009)
• Harry Mullan
  Harry Mullan
  Harry Mullan was an Irish boxing writer and journalist. He died on 21 May 1999 at the age of 53 after a four-year battle with cancer. Born in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 1946, Mullan edited the British trade paper, Boxing News, for 19 years, from 1977 until 1996. Only Gilbert Odd,...
  
   (2005)
• Barney Nagler (2004)
• LeRoy Neiman
  LeRoy Neiman
  LeRoy Neiman is an American artist known for his brilliantly colored, pseudo-expressionist paintings and screen prints of athletes and sporting events.- Early years :...
  
   (2007)
• Damon Runyon
  Damon Runyon
  Alfred Damon Runyon was an American newspaperman and writer.He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from the...
  
   (2002)

• Budd Schulberg
  Budd Schulberg
  Budd Schulberg was an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and sports writer. He was known for his 1941 novel, What Makes Sammy Run?, his 1947 novel The Harder They Fall, his 1954 Academy-award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront, and his 1957 screenplay for A Face in the...
  
   (2003)
• Ed Schuyler (2010)
• Sylvester Stallone
  Sylvester Stallone
  Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone , commonly known as Sylvester Stallone, and nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, film director and occasional painter. Stallone is known for his machismo and Hollywood action roles. Two of the notable characters he has portrayed...
  
   (2011)
• Bert Sugar (2005)
• Stanley Weston
  Stanley Weston
  Stanley Weston was a prolific sportswriter and sports photographer. He promoted the sport of boxing in innumerable ways throughout his career...
  
  (2006)