Search results for "Heavyweight" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...9 KB (1,442 words) - 02:33, 1 August 2022
- Floyd Patterson (January 4, 1935 – May 11, 2006) was an American heavyweight boxing champion. At 21, Patterson became the youngest man then ...10 KB (1,626 words) - 17:44, 28 March 2024
- Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (September 28, 1905 – February 2, 2005) was a world champion heavyweight fighter from Germany whose ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,326 words) - 06:38, 5 April 2024
- John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15, 1858 – February 2, 1918) is widely recognized as boxing's first modern world heavyweight champion ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 06:07, 3 August 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 00:53, 9 November 2022
- James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was the heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-28 who defeated Jack Dempsey ...12 KB (1,913 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- Charles L. "Sonny" Liston (May 8, 1932 – December 30, 1970), was a championship boxer who became world heavyweight champion in 1962 ...14 KB (2,380 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- | weight = Heavyweight | birth_date = September 1, 1923 ... 1, 1923 – August 31, 1969), was the heavyweight champion of the world ...19 KB (3,097 words) - 21:32, 16 April 2023
- one of the world's greatest heavyweight boxers, as well as one of the world's most famous individuals, renowned the world over both ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983) was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title between ...17 KB (2,668 words) - 08:39, 13 March 2024
- he does consider himself the greatest heavyweight in boxing history, that ... his attempt for Joey Maxim's light-heavyweight title. Robinson fought ...21 KB (3,404 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- season. He would become a two-time world heavyweight champion. ... *Bronko Nagurski: World's Heavyweight Wrestling Champion! Minnesota: ...14 KB (1,992 words) - 04:34, 22 November 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,638 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- was sold to Robert Maxwell. The import of heavyweight columnists and writers with a following, like Paul Callan from the Daily Mail sat uneasily ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 16:59, 13 May 2020
- In 1949 he entered a light heavyweight Golden Gloves novice championship. When his potential opponents heard that he had entered, they all withdrew ...14 KB (2,139 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- is Pride Fighting Championships's current heavyweight champion and consistently ranked the world's best heavyweight mixed martial arts fighter ...35 KB (5,669 words) - 21:02, 4 October 2022
- the concert clashed with a televised heavyweight boxing match between Rocky Marciano and Jersey Joe Walcott and as a result was poorly attended ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
- 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 ...39 KB (6,360 words) - 22:22, 26 February 2023
