List of Famous Boxers

Ray Charles Leonard, best known as "Sugar" Ray Leonard, is an American former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and occasional actor. Often regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, he competed from 1977 to 1997, winning world titles in five weight divisions; the lineal championship in three weight divisions; as well as the undisputed welterweight title. Leonard was part of "The Fabulous Four", a group of boxers who all fought each other throughout the 1980s, consisting of Leonard, Roberto Durán, Thomas Hearns, and Marvin Hagler.

Larry Holmes is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to 2002. He grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, which led to his boxing nickname of the Easton Assassin.

Badou Johannes Gabriel Jack is a Swedish professional boxer. He is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBC super-middleweight title from 2015 to 2017 and the WBA light-heavyweight title in 2017. As an amateur he represented The Gambia at the 2008 Olympics, reaching the first round of the middleweight bracket.

Berry Gordy III, known professionally as Berry Gordy Jr., is an American record executive, record producer, songwriter, film producer and television producer. He is best known as the founder of the Motown record label and its subsidiaries, which was the highest-earning African-American business for decades.

Joseph Obey Joyce is a British professional boxer who has held the British, Commonwealth, European, WBC Silver, and WBO International heavyweight titles since November 2020. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal at the 2013 European Championships; gold at the 2014 Commonwealth and 2015 European Games; bronze at the 2015 World Championships; and silver at the 2016 Olympics. As of December 2020, he is ranked as the world's eighth best active heavyweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. and the ninth by the BoxRec.

Katie Taylor is an Irish professional boxer and former footballer. She is a two-weight world champion and the current undisputed lightweight champion, having held the WBA title since 2017; the IBF title since 2018; and the WBC, WBO, and Ring magazine titles since 2019, as well as having held the WBO junior-welterweight title in 2019. Following her victory over Delfine Persoon in 2019, she became one of only eight boxers in history to hold all four major world titles in boxing—WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO—simultaneously.

Tai Tuivasa is an Australian mixed martial arts fighter currently competing in the Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Yordenis Ugás Hernández is a Cuban professional boxer. He has held the WBA (Regular) welterweight title since September 2020 and on January 29 was promoted to WBA (Super) welterweight Champion by the WBA after Pacquiao was stripped for inactivity. previously challenged for the WBC welterweight title in 2019. As an amateur he won a gold medal at the 2005 World Championships and bronze at the 2008 Olympics, both in the lightweight division. As of November 2020, he is ranked as the world's fifth best active welterweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and seventh by The Ring magazine and BoxRec.

Ted Cheeseman is a British professional boxer. He held the British light-middleweight title from 2018 to 2019 and challenged once for the European light-middleweight title in February 2019.

Joe Fournier is an English entrepreneur. Fournier set up his own fitness business before selling to a FTSE100 company. He subsequently moved into the nightclub industry and then boxing.