List of Famous Boxers
Marcos Maidana
Marcos René Maidana is an Argentine former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2014. He was a world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBA (Regular) super lightweight title from 2011 to 2012, and the WBA welterweight title from 2013 to 2014. A versatile brawler in the ring, Maidana was well known for his formidable punching power, and was never stopped in any of his five losses. He famously outbrawled and withstood punishing blows from Floyd Mayweather, Jr. during their first bout, but lost to Mayweather via a highly controversial majority decision.
Ken Shiro
Kenshiro Teraji , known professionally by his ring name Ken Shiro, is a Japanese professional boxer who has held the WBC light-flyweight title since 2017, and held the OPBF light-flyweight title in 2016.
Bakhodir Jalolov
Bakhodir Jalolov is an Uzbekistani professional boxer. As an amateur he competed in the super-heavyweight division, winning a bronze medal at the 2015 World Championships, gold at the 2019 edition and competed at the 2016 Olympics, acting as Uzbekistan's flag bearer during the opening ceremony.
Tevin Farmer
Tevin Farmer is an American professional boxer who held the IBF super featherweight title from 2018 to January 2020. Farmer, who is right handed but fights in a southpaw stance, is known for his old school style and slick defensive skills.
Julio César la Cruz
Julio César La Cruz Peraza is a Cuban amateur boxer. He won the light heavyweight world title in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017, Gold at the Pan American Games in 2011, 2015, and 2019, as well as the Olympic gold medal in 2016.
Robert Guerrero
Robert Joseph Guerrero is an American professional boxer. He has held world championships in two weight classes, including the IBF featherweight title twice between 2006 and 2008, and the IBF junior lightweight title from 2009 to 2010. Additionally he has held multiple interim titles at lightweight and welterweight.
Arnold Gjergjaj
Arnold Gjergjaj is a Swiss professional boxer. In 2014 he won the EBU-EE version of the European heavyweight title, becoming the first boxer fighting under a Swiss license to do so.
Kosei Tanaka
Kosei Tanaka is a Japanese professional boxer. He is a three-weight world champion, having held the WBO mini-flyweight title from 2015 to 2016; the WBO junior-flyweight title from 2016 to 2017; and the WBO flyweight title from 2018 to 2020. Upon winning his first world title in only his fifth bout, he became the fastest Japanese fighter ever to become a world champion. Along with Vasyl Lomachenko, he is also the fastest ever fighter to win titles in three weight-classes, having accomplished the feat in only 12 bouts.
Natasha Jonas
Natasha Jonas is a British professional boxer who challenged for the WBC and IBO female super-featherweight titles in August 2020. As an amateur, she won a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 2012 AIBA World Championships; bronze in the light welterweight division at the 2011 European Championships; and silver in the light welterweight division at the 2014 European Championships.
Shinsuke Yamanaka
Shinsuke Yamanaka is a Japanese former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2018. He held the WBC bantamweight title from 2011 to 2017, a reign where he made twelve successful defences and a reign which is the fourth longest in boxing's bantamweight division. He also held The Ring bantamweight title twice between 2016 and 2018.