List of Famous Boxers

Shingo Wake is a Japanese professional boxer and former OPBF super bantamweight champion. He trained under Satoshi Koguchi at Koguchi Boxing Gym in Tokyo. Wake was scouted early by Koguchi, who spotted his talent and persuaded him to move to Tokyo and pursue a boxing career. He has since changed boxing gym and now trains at Flare boxing gym. A southpaw, Wake is dubbed a "sharp shooter" due to his accuracy and speed in the ring.

Julio César Ceja Pedraza is a Mexican professional boxer. He held the WBC super bantamweight title from 2015 to 2016.

Akira Yaegashi is a Japanese former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2019. He was a three-weight world champion, having held the WBA mini-flyweight title from 2011 to 2012; the WBC, Ring, and lineal flyweight titles from 2013 to 2014; and the IBF light-flyweight title from 2015 to 2016. He is an alumnus of the Takushoku University.

Stephen Collins is an Irish former professional boxer who competed from 1986 to 1997. Known as The Celtic Warrior Collins is the most successful Irish boxer in recent professional boxing history, having held the WBO middleweight and super-middleweight titles simultaneously and never losing a fight as champion.

John Michael McCarthy is an American former professional mixed martial arts referee and current broadcaster for Bellator MMA. McCarthy is perhaps best known for officiating numerous bouts promoted by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), dating back to UFC 2.

Yoko Gushiken is a Japanese former professional boxer who competed from 1974 to 1981. He held the WBA light-flyweight title from 1976 to 1981, making a total of 13 successful defences. Following his retirement from boxing, he remains popular in Japan as a tarento having signed a contract with Ohta Production. He is well known in Japan for his comical trademark looks of perm afro hair style.

Eduard Valentinovich Troyanovsky is a Russian professional boxer who held the IBF and IBO light-welterweight titles from 2015 to 2016.

Bernardo "Benny the Kid" Paret was a Cuban welterweight boxer who won the World Welterweight Championship twice in the early 1960s.

Takuma Inoue is a Japanese professional boxer. He held the WBC interim bantamweight title from 2018 to 2019, and has challenged once for the WBC bamtamweight title.

Lehlohonolo Benedict "Lehlo" Ledwaba was a South African professional boxer who competed from 1990 to 2006, and held the IBF junior featherweight title from 1999 to 2001.