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Arnold Raymond Cream (January 31, 1914 - February 25, 1994), better known as Jersey Joe Walcott, was a world heavyweight boxing champion. He ...

Floyd Patterson (January 4, 1935 – May 11, 2006) was an American heavyweight boxing champion. At 21, Patterson became the youngest man then ...

Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (September 28, 1905 – February 2, 2005) was a world champion heavyweight fighter from Germany whose ...

Bomber, is regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight boxing champions of all time. He held the heavyweight title for over 11 years and made 25 successful ...

John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15, 1858 – February 2, 1918) is widely recognized as boxing's first modern world heavyweight champion ...

a famous American boxer of the 1930s, onetime Heavyweight Champion of the World, and actor. One of the most devastating right-handed punchers in heavyweight ...

James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was the heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-28 who defeated Jack Dempsey ...

Charles L. "Sonny" Liston (May 8, 1932 – December 30, 1970), was a championship boxer who became world heavyweight champion in 1962 ...

| weight = Heavyweight | birth_date = September 1, 1923 ... 1, 1923 – August 31, 1969), was the heavyweight champion of the world ...

one of the world's greatest heavyweight boxers, as well as one of the world's most famous individuals, renowned the world over both ...

William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983) was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title between ...

he does consider himself the greatest heavyweight in boxing history, that ... his attempt for Joey Maxim's light-heavyweight title. Robinson fought ...

season. He would become a two-time world heavyweight champion. ... *Bronko Nagurski: World's Heavyweight Wrestling Champion! Minnesota: ...

division what Mike Tyson would later become as a heavyweight: An unstoppable force of nature whose life outside the ring left an unfortunate blemish on ...

was sold to Robert Maxwell. The import of heavyweight columnists and writers with a following, like Paul Callan from the Daily Mail sat uneasily ...

In 1949 he entered a light heavyweight Golden Gloves novice championship. When his potential opponents heard that he had entered, they all withdrew ...

boom by helping arrange for the broadcast of a heavyweight boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier in July 1921. Up to 300,000 people ...

is Pride Fighting Championships's current heavyweight champion and consistently ranked the world's best heavyweight mixed martial arts fighter ...

the concert clashed with a televised heavyweight boxing match between Rocky Marciano and Jersey Joe Walcott and as a result was poorly attended ...

lb [85 kg], Middleweight up to 253 lb [115 kg], Heavyweight 253+ lb [115+ kg] and Open Weight [unrestricted entry]), and include competitions for female ...

sport, winning the Illinois State Golden Gloves heavyweight championship (novice division) in 1937. Dixon then turned professional as a boxer and worked ...

the first African-American to win the heavyweight championship in boxing.]] ... first sport to accept Blacks. However, heavyweight champ Jack Johnson, who ...

Jimmy Peau and David Tua, who contested the heavyweight championship of the world. The discus thrower Beatrice Faumuina was twice a Commonwealth Games ...

also maintains the Gales Ferry site where the heavyweight men's team trains for the prestigious Yale-Harvard Boat Race. Yale crew is the oldest ...

#039;s production of Requiem for a Heavyweight. He then played small parts in a number of rather unsuccessful movies. Connery had a major role ...

it suitable for saucepots, Dutch ovens, and heavyweight baking pans such as bundt pans. Due to the microscopic pores caused by the casting process ...

knockout of Max Schmeling on June 22, 1938. Heavyweight champions Jack Dempsey (after losing the title), Rocky Marciano, Floyd Patterson, Ingemar Johansson ...

the bell may have been named after a contemporary heavyweight boxer Benjamin Caunt. It is thought that the bell was originally to be called "Victoria ...

and kickboxing. Randy Couture (current UFC heavyweight champion) and Dan Henderson (current PRIDE champion in both the 183 and 205 pound divisions ...

White was King's first cousin, and former heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston was his uncle. |right|250px|B. B. King's favorite ...

*[https://www.economist.com/special-report/2006/11/23/a-heavyweight-champ-at-five-foot-two A heavyweight champ, at five foot two] The Economist ...

* Joe Frazier, 1964 Olympic heavyweight boxing champion and the world heavyweight champ 1970-73; fought Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight title ...

defeated George Foreman to regain the World Heavyweight title. [[Image:Kabila_serment.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Joseph Kabila, named head of state ...

"Do you know who the fuck I am? I'm the heavyweight champion of the world," to which Ayer replied: "And I am the former Wykeham Professor ...

imposing Idi Amin was the Ugandan light heavyweight boxing champion from 1951 to 1960, as well as a swimmer and rugby player. [https://www.scotsman ...

typed letters. Business letters were typed on heavyweight, high-rag-content bond paper, not merely to provide a luxurious appearance, but also to stand ...

man in the Union Army, winning every available heavyweight wrestling championship. Clayton encouraged Harmon and his brothers to stay active in various ...

sent to Dallas in 1896, to prevent the illegal heavyweight prize fight between Pete Maher and Bob Fitzsimmons that had been organized by Dan Stuart, ...

referee for the boxing match to determine the heavyweight championship of the world. During the fight Bob Fitzsimmons, clearly in control, landed a low ...

critical success. The film is about a young, heavyweight boxer at the end of his career who is involved with organized crime. Both Fear and Desire and ...

and it’s Chancellor, leaving it bereft of heavyweight front-line politicians. ===Tariff reform: Chamberlain's last crusade=== ...

newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/11/heavyweight-ruth-bader-ginsburg Heavyweight: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg has moved the Supreme Court] The New Yorker ...

not an African prize.… Literature is not a heavyweight championship. Nigerians may think, you know, this man has been knocked out. It's nothing ...

photo of the DnieproGES hydropower plant, a heavyweight of Soviet industrialization in Ukraine.]] Collectivization devastated agricultural productivity ...