List of Famous Boxers
Zhanat Zhakiyanov
Zhanat Zhakiyanov is a Kazakh former professional boxer who competed from 2007 to 2017. He held the WBA (Super) and IBO bantamweight titles in 2017.
Paul Smith
Paul James Smith Jr. is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2003 to 2017. He held the English middleweight title in 2008, the British super-middleweight title twice between 2009 and 2014, and challenged three times for a super-middleweight world title. As an amateur, he won a silver medal in the light middleweight division at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Satoshi Iida
Satoshi Iida is a Japanese professional boxer from Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Iida won the WBA super flyweight championship of the world in 1997 when he defeated Thai champion Yokthai Sithoar via a 12th-round unanimous decision.
Chris Byrd
Christopher Cornelius Byrd is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2009. He is a two-time world heavyweight champion, having first won the WBO title in 2000 after an upset corner stoppage over then-undefeated Vitali Klitschko. In his first title defense later that year, he lost to Vitali's brother Wladimir Klitschko. In 2002, Byrd defeated Evander Holyfield to win the IBF heavyweight title for his second reign as world champion. He made four successful defenses until losing his title again to Wladimir Klitschko in a 2006 rematch. He was ranked by BoxRec as the world's top 10 heavyweight from 1996 to 2003, reaching his highest ranking of No.4 in 1998, and his victorious fights over David Tua and Vitali Klitschko were awarded a 5-Star rating.
Serafim Todorov
Serafim Simeonov Todorov is a former Bulgarian Olympic amateur boxer. He won three consecutive gold medals at both the World and European Championships, and silver at the 1996 Olympics. He is the last boxer to defeat Floyd Mayweather Jr., albeit via a highly controversial decision, who later went on to become one of the all-time greats in professional boxing.
Moruti Mthalane
Moruti Mthalane is a South African professional boxer. He is a two-time IBF flyweight champion, having held the title since 2018 and previously from 2009 to 2014. He is also a former IBO flyweight champion, having held the title from 2014 to 2017.
Billal Bennama
Billal Bennama is a French boxer.
Myriam Lamare
Myriam Lamare is a French female boxer who won world titles in the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Federation (WBF), and International Boxing Federation (IBF).
Chayaphon Moonsri
Chayaphon Moonsri, known as Wanheng Menayothin or Wanheng Kaiyanghadaogym is a Thai professional boxer who held the WBC strawweight title from 2014 to 2020. As of January 2021, he is ranked as the world's third best active strawweight by BoxRec, The Ring and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.
Tadashi Tomori
Tadashi Tomori is a retired Japanese boxer who is a former WBC junior flyweight champion.