Cory Spinks, also known as “The Next Generation”, is an American former professional boxer who has competed in light welterweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight divisions and is known for his southpaw stance. Spinks was held multiple world championships in two weight classes including the undisputed welterweight title and the IBF junior middleweight title twice. He has also challenged once... read full bio
Claressa Shields is an American professional boxer who has held world championships in three weight classes and has been reigned as the undisputed female middleweight champion of the world for the unified WBC and WBO light middleweight titles. She has also previously held the unified WBC and IBF female super middleweight titles and has held the record for becoming a... read full bio
Christy Martin, also known as “The Coal Miner’s Daughter”, is a former American world champion boxer who is CEO of Christy Martin Promotions, a boxing promotion company. Martin was born in Mullens, West Virginia, and as a child she played in various sports before going on to earn a basketball scholarship from Concord College in Athens, West Virginia where she... read full bio
Chad Dawson is an American professional boxer from Hartsville, South Carolina. Over the years he has held multiple light heavyweight world championships and has also competed in super middleweight and middleweight divisions. Dawson rose to fame after defeating Tomasz Adamek to be the WBC light heavyweight champion and after that, he defeated Antonio Tarver to win the IBF and IBO... read full bio
James “Bonecrusher” Smith is an American former professional boxer from Magnolia, North Carolina who previously held the WBA heavyweight title. Smith has previously served in the U.S. military and worked as a prison guard before beginning his career as a boxer. During his amateur career, Smith held a record of 35-4 before turning professional. During his professional career, Smith competed... read full bio
Bobby Czyz, also known as “Matinee Idol” or “Chappie”, is a retired American boxer and commentator who competed in middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions. Czyz was born in Orange, New Jersey, and grew up in Wanaque, New Jersey. During his amateur career, he was one of the few boxers that survived the LOT Flight 7 crash by staying... read full bio
Barry McGuigan, also known as “The Clones Cyclone”, is an Irish retired professional boxer and current boxing promoter. He has previously been the WBA and lineal featherweight world champion and since retiring, he has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame as well as the World Boxing Hall of Fame. McGuigan is also the founder and current president... read full bio
Azumah Nelson is a Ghanaian former professional boxer who is known to be one of the greatest African boxers of all time and is the 31st greatest pound for pound boxer of all time in Boxrec. He has also held the WBC featherweight title once and has held the WBC super featherweight title twice. Nelson has also been called “The... read full bio
Audley Harrison is a British former professional boxer who competed in the heavyweight division. During his amateur career, Harrison represented England in the Commonwealth Games where he took home gold for the super-heavyweight division. He later represented Great Britain in the Olympics where he won a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division, making him the first-ever British boxer to win... read full bio
Arthur “Art” Jimmerson is a retired boxer and mixed martial artist from Los Angeles, California, who competed at super middleweight, light heavyweight and cruiserweight. During Jimmerson’s amateur career, he was the National Golden Gloves Middleweight champion. During his career, Jimmerson fought in his first match with one glove, which is when he earned the nickname One Glove. Later on, Jimmerson... read full bio
Bernard Hopkins also known as “The Executioner”, “B-Hop”, or “The Alien”, is an American former professional boxer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who is one of the most successful boxers of the past three decades. He has held multiple world championships in two weight classes including the undisputed middleweight title as well as the lineal light heavyweight title. Early in his life,... read full bio
Ryan Garcia, also known as The Flash, or KingRy, is an American professional boxer who has competed in super featherweight and lightweight divisions. Garcia has held the WBC Silver lightweight title and has been featured in The Ring magazine as the world’s fifth best active lightweight and has been ranked seventh by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and tenth by... read full bio
Marlen was raised in a household that was passionate about boxing and was born in Houston, Texas. She first got into the ring when she began watching her younger brother while he worked out at the neighborhood gym. Marlen was soon pleading with her dad and the trainer at the gym to allow her to give the sport a go.... read full bio
Larry Holmes is a former professional boxer who is most known for his powerful left jab. Being the fourth of twelve children, Holmes had to drop out of school to help support his family. Holmes began to box at the age of 19. His boxing career began with an amateur record of 19-3. Holmes finally turned professional in 1973. He... read full bio
At first glance, you would not suspect Roy Jones, Jr. to be the superb melding of talent, personality, and charisma that he is. The quiet, even pensive individual, is a world-renowned boxing superstar…professional basketball player…musical producer and performer…entertainer…actor…and all-around nice guy. Cited as the best ‘Pound for Pound’ fighter in the world, Jones is the undisputed Light Heavyweight Champion of... read full bio
Wilfred Benitez, also known as “El Rader” and “Bible of Boxing”, is an American-born Puerto Rican former professional boxer who was the youngest world champion in the history of the sport. Benitez was born in New York City and he turned professional at only 15 years old. He earned three world titles and earned his first one at only 17... read full bio
Mia St. John, also known as “The Knockout”, is an American-Mexican professional boxer and former World Boxing Council champion in the super welterweight division. Mia has competed in welterweight, light welterweight, lightweight, super featherweight and featherweight divisions over the years. She is an IBA and IFBA lightweight champion and apart from her boxing career she is also a businesswoman, model,... read full bio
Kostya Tszyu, also known as “Thunder from Down Under”, is a Soviet-born Australian former professional boxer who has competed in light-welterweight divisions. Tszyu has held multiple light-welterweight world championships, including the undisputed and lineal titles and is known for being an all-around boxer-puncher and carries formidable punching power being known as one of the hardest-punching light-welterweights in the division’s history.... read full bio
Jesse James Leija, also known as “The Texas Tornado”, is an American former professional boxer who has competed in featherweight, super featherweight, lightweight, and light welterweight divisions. He has previously held the WBC super featherweight title and has challenged twice each for the world titles at lightweight and light welterweight. Leija was born in San Antonio, Texas, and during his... read full bio
Carlette Ewell, also known as “The Truth”, is an American professional boxer from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Ewell competes in the heavyweight division and she has won five professional boxing titles over the course of her career including the WIBA World light heavyweight title, WBE female light heavyweight title, UBC America’s female cruiserweight title, WIBC light heavyweight title, and UNBC female... read full bio
