List of Famous Boxers

Omar Alonzo Chávez Carrasco, best known as Omar Chávez, is a Mexican professional boxer and the current WBC Youth Intercontinental welterweight champion.

Vergil Ortiz Jr. is an American professional boxer of Mexican descent. He has held the WBO International welterweight title since 2021. As an amateur, he was a seven-time national champion and was the winner at the 2013 Junior Olympics. He was named 2019 The Ring magazine Prospect of the Year.

Dewey Bozella is a former professional boxer who is known for being wrongfully imprisoned. Convicted in 1983 for the murder of an elderly woman, Bozella served 26 years in prison before his conviction was overturned in 2009 after being proved innocent.

Mikhail Viktorovich Koklyaev is a Russian weightlifter, strongman competitor, powerlifter and boxer. He is married and has two children.

Jessel Mark Araula Magsayo is a Filipino professional boxer who has held the WBC-ABC featherweight title since 2019.

Ricardo Antonio Mayorga Perez is a Nicaraguan ex professional boxing and former mixed martial artist. In boxing he is a former two-weight world champion, having held the unified WBA (Super), WBC, Ring magazine, and lineal welterweight titles in 2003, and the WBC super welterweight title from 2005 to 2006. Mayorga first became well known to boxing fans upon being featured on the cover of The Ring's December 2003 issue, entitled "The craziest man in the sport: Mayorga lights up boxing." He has since maintained this infamous reputation with his relentless trash-talk in the build-up to most of his fights, as well as his smoking and drinking habits outside the ring.

Gamal Yafai is a British professional boxer who held the Commonwealth super-bantamweight title in 2016 and is the current European Super-Bantamweight Champion since December 2020. As an amateur he won a bronze medal at the 2010 European Championships in Moscow.

Satish Kumar Yadav is an Indian amateur boxer from Bulandshahr. He won the bronze medal at the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon in the super heavyweight category and is the first Indian boxer to qualify for the Olympics in the super heavyweight category.

Yves Ed'duvill Edwards is a Bahamian retired mixed martial artist, who is perhaps best known for competing in the UFC's Lightweight division, fighting 21 times in the promotion. A professional competitor since 1997, he also competed for PRIDE, the WEC, Strikeforce, Bellator, EliteXC, King of the Cage, BodogFIGHT, the MFC, and HDNet Fights. For a period of time (2004), Edwards was ranked as the #1 Lightweight in the world.

Richard Eklund Jr. is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1975 to 1985. Known as "The Pride of Lowell", he held the USA New England welterweight title twice between 1979 and 1983. He is the half-brother and former trainer of former WBU champion Micky Ward. The 2010 biopic The Fighter is based on the two brothers' fall and rise to the boxing title.