BoxRec - User contributions [en]

Julio Cesar Chavez

2019-01-09T07:22:02Z

Mthompson95: /* Notes */

[[File:Julio Cesar Chavez.jpg|left|300px]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2011 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/chavez.html click]]]
[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]]
<boxer>008119</boxer>
'''Manager:''' [[Ramon Felix]] 
'''Trainers:''' [[Cristobal Rosas]], [[Emanuel Steward]] (1994-) 
'''[[:Category:Julio Cesar Chavez Gallery|Julio Cesar Chavez Gallery]]''' 

== Notes ==
*Has a record of 2-3-1 (1 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
°Won against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/rosario.html Edwin Rosario] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/camacho.html Hector Camacho].

°Lost against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/delahoya.html Oscar De La Hoya] (twice) and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/tszyu.html Kostya Tszyu].

°Drew with
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/whitaker.html Pernell Whitaker].

*Has a record of 31-4-2 (21 KOs) in world title fights.
*Has a record of 18-4-2 (10 KOs) against former world titlists.
**Won against [[Roger Mayweather]] (twice), [[Rocky Lockridge]], [[Juan Laporte]], [[Edwin Rosario]], [[Rafael Limon]], [[Jose Luis Ramirez]], [[Sammy Fuentes]], [[Meldrick Taylor]] (twice), [[Lonnie Smith]], [[Hector Camacho]], [[Greg Haugen]], [[Frankie Randall]] (twice), [[Tony Lopez]], [[Giovanni Parisi]], [[Joey Gamache]].
**Lost against Frankie Randall, [[Oscar De La Hoya]] (twice), [[Kostya Tszyu]].
**Drew with [[Pernell Whitaker]], [[Miguel Angel Gonzalez]].

*Won his first 87 professional fights.
* Chavez had a purported amateur record of 14-1.
*In his 12th pro fight, Chavez fought Miguel Ruiz on [[Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Miguel Ruiz|March 4, 1981]] in Culiacan, Mexico. Chavez was initially disqualified by the referee for hitting Ruiz after the bell ending the first round, but the result was officially overturned the next day by the Culiacan commission and changed to a 1st-round knockout for Chavez. The commission ruled that Chavez had not hit Ruiz after the bell. Chavez's manager, the late Ramon Felix, was on the Culiacan commission at the time.
*Father of fellow boxers [[Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.]] and [[Omar Chavez]].

== Awards & Recognition ==
*Named the [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|"Fighter of the Year"]] for 1987.
*Named [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|''The Ring'' "Fighter of the Year"]] for 1990.
*[[Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor (1st meeting)|Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor I]] was named [[Ring Magazine Fight of the Year|''The Ring'' "Fight of the Year"]] for 1990 and "Fight of the Decade" for the 1990s.
*Named the 6th [[The Top 50 Fighters of the Last 50 Years|greatest fighter of the last 50 years]] by [[Ring Magazine|''The Ring]] in 1996.
*Named the 18th [[The 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years|greatest fighter of the last 80 years]] by ''The Ring'' 2002.
*Named the 17th greatest fighter of all-time by [[Bert Sugar]] in his 2006 book ''[[Boxing's Greatest Fighters]]''.

== External Link ==
*[http://www.juliocesarchavez.net/ Official Website]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Hector Camacho]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Super Featherweight Champion]]|
after=[[Azumah Nelson]]|
years=1984 Sep 13 – 1987 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Edwin Rosario]]|
title=[[WBA Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Edwin Rosario]]|
years=1987 Nov 21 – 1989 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Jose Luis Ramirez]]|
title=[[WBC Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Pernell Whitaker]]|
years=1988 Oct 29 – 1989 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Roger Mayweather]]|
title=[[WBC Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Frankie Randall]]|
years=1989 May 13 – 1994 Jan 29
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Meldrick Taylor]]|
title=[[IBF Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Rafael Pineda]]|
years=1990 Mar 17 – 1991 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Frankie Randall]]|
title=[[WBC Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Oscar De La Hoya]]|
years=1994 May 7 – 1996 Jun 7
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chavez, Julio Cesar}}
[[Category:Mexican American Boxers]]

[[Category:World Super Featherweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Three Division World Champions]]
[[Category:Mexican World Champions]]
[[Category:Mexican American Boxers]]

[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]
[[Category:Chavez Family]]

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

2019-01-08T11:07:10Z

Mthompson95: /* Unified Titles */He never was undisputed.

[[File:FloydMayweatherHeadshot3.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Floyd Mayweather Jr.]]
<boxer>000352</boxer>
*'''Trainers:''' [[Floyd Mayweather|Floyd Mayweather Sr.]] (1977-2000, 2006, 2013-2017), [[Roger Mayweather]] (2000-2013)
*'''Managers:''' [[Floyd Mayweather|Floyd Mayweather Sr.]] (1996-1999), [[James Prince]] (1999-2003), [[Al Haymon]] (2004-2017)
*'''Promoters:''' [[Top Rank Boxing Promotions|Top Rank]] (1996-2006), [[Goossen Tutor Promotions]] (2006), [[Golden Boy Promotions]] (2007-2014), Mayweather Promotions (2014-2017)
*'''[[:Category:Floyd Mayweather Jr. Gallery|Floyd Mayweather Jr. Gallery]]

== Amateur Highlights ==
[[File:Mayweather-Sanchez 293616.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather against Augie Sanchez at the 1996 United States Olympic Box-offs.]]
[[File:Mayweather wins a bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather's hand is raised after defeating Bakhtiyar Tilegenov at the 1996 Olympics.]]
[[File:Floydgallbpg-vertical.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather against Lorenzo Aragon in the quarterfinals of the 1996 Olympics.]]
[[File:Floyd-mayweather-bronze-1996-atlanta.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather reacts to losing a controversial decision to Serafim Todorov in the semifinals of the 1996 Olympics.]]
*Amateur Record: Usually recorded as [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.geocities.ws/pedrinet/mayweather.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dwww.geocities.ws/pedrinet/mayweather.html%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DF1u%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official 84-6] but one more defeat has since been found.
*1993 National [[Golden Gloves]] Light Flyweight Champion. Results:
**Salvador Casillas W 3
**Domenic Filane W 3
**Willie Seenn W 3
**Juan Anzures W 3
**[[Eric Morel]] W 3
*1994 National [[Golden Gloves]] Flyweight Champion. Results:
**[[Isidro Garcia]] W 3
**Julian Stevens W 3
**Juan Anzures W 3
**Nick Molinari W 3
**Linton Nichols W 3
*1994 United States Junior National Championships. Results:
**Nick Molinari W 3
**[[Arnulfo Bravo]] L 3
*Lost on points to [[Martin Castillo]] at a 1994 United States vs. Mexico dual meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
*Lost on points to [[Carlos Navarro]] at the 1995 United States Pan American Games Trials.
*Lost on points to [[Juan Carlos Ramirez]] at a 1995 United States vs. Mexico dual meet at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA.
*1995 United States featherweight representative at the World Championships in Berlin, Germany. Results:
**1st Round - Defeated Marian Leondraliu (Romania) (8-7)
**2nd Round - Lost to Noureddine Medjihoud (Algeria) (6-8)
*1995 [[United States Amateur Featherweight Champions|United States Amateur Featherweight Champion]]. Results:
**Jesse Byers W 3
**Raul Basulto W 3
**[[Augie Sanchez]] W 3
**James Baker WO
*1995 National Police Athletic League Featherweight Champion. Results:
**Ernest Rodriguez W 3
**Shavonn Price RSC 1
**Elizondo Gilbert RSC 3
**[[Carlos Navarro]] W 3
**Carmello Ramos W 3
*Dec 1995 Moscow Russia Trigran Ouzlian (Geo) L WO
*1996 National [[Golden Gloves]] Featherweight Champion. Results:
**[[Jose Hernandez]] W 3
**Hector Cruz W 3
**Chad Jaquillard W 3
**Adriel Pebenito W 3
**[[Martin O'Malley]] W 3
*1996 United States [[Olympics|Olympic]] Trials. Results:
**Defeated William Jenkins (RSC-3)
**Defeated James Baker (RSCH-1)
**Lost to [[Augie Sanchez]] (11-12)
**Defeated [[Carlos Navarro]] (31-11) in Challengers Bracket
*1996 United States [[Olympics|Olympic]] Box-offs. Results:
**Defeated [[Augie Sanchez]] (12-8)
**Defeated [[Augie Sanchez]] (20-10)
*1996 Featherweight Bronze Medalist for the United States at the [[Olympics]] in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Results:
**1st Round - Defeated Bakhtiyar Tilegenov (Kazakhstan) (RSCI-2)
**2nd Round - Defeated [[Artur Gevorgyan]] (Armenia) (16-3)
**Quarterfinals - Defeated [[Lorenzo Aragon]] (Cuba) (12-11)
**Semifinals - Lost to [[Serafim Todorov]] (Bulgaria) (9-10)

== Professional Highlights ==
[[File:Floyd-4.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather wearing WBC and IBF title belts.]]
[[File:Box_a_mayweather-hernadez_mb_288x162.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Genaro Hernandez]]
[[File:Mayweather_corrales_275.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Diego Corrales]]
[[File:Images2 floydcastillo2.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Jose Luis Castillo I]]
[[File:Index.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Jose Luis Castillo II]]
[[File:Gatti_Mayweather_2005.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Arturo Gatti]]
[[File:9a355cf97bb655a11377730d9a2d9d8c_crop_exact.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Oscar De La Hoya]]
[[File:Article-0-02D5BC42000005DC-606_468x301.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Ricky Hatton]]
[[File:1920c3a6999b74c227a11787a9444d31-getty-88742971em034 floyd mayweat.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Juan Manuel Marquez]]
[[File:Mayweather.mosley.8.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Shane Mosley]]
[[File:Mayweather-Cotto-2012.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto]]
[[File:Floyd-mayweather-alvarez.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Saul Alvarez]]
[[File:Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao 472030658.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao]]
[[File:TELEMMGLPICT000138437887 trans NvBQzQNjv4Bq3XmyF3YIL3K1caQxZsZv2Ssm-UOV8 Q90I8 c5Af0yY.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor]]
{{#ev:youtube|B_bBKvgBCQY}}
{{#ev:youtube|0-SrUAu9SFQ}}

== Professional Record ==
*Has a record of 26-0 (10 KO) in world title fights.
*Has a record of 23-0 (9 KO) in lineal title fights.
*Has a record of 24-0 (7 KO) against former or current world titlists:
**Won against [[Genaro Hernandez]], [[Gregorio Vargas]], [[Diego Corrales]], [[Carlos Alberto Hernandez|Carlos Hernandez]], [[Jesus Chavez]], [[Jose Luis Castillo]] (twice), [[DeMarcus Corley]], [[Arturo Gatti]], [[Sharmba Mitchell]], [[Zab Judah]], [[Carlos Manuel Baldomir|Carlos Baldomir]], [[Oscar De La Hoya]], [[Ricky Hatton]], [[Juan Manuel Marquez]], [[Shane Mosley]], [[Victor Ortiz (of California)|Victor Ortiz]], [[Miguel Cotto]], [[Robert Guerrero]], [[Saul Alvarez]], [[Marcos Maidana]] (twice), [[Manny Pacquiao]], and [[Andre Berto]].
*Has a record of 13-0 (3 KO) against former or current lineal titlists:
**Won against [[Genaro Hernandez]], [[Diego Corrales]], [[Jose Luis Castillo]] (twice), [[Zab Judah]], [[Carlos Manuel Baldomir|Carlos Baldomir]], [[Oscar De La Hoya]], [[Ricky Hatton]], [[Juan Manuel Marquez]], [[Shane Mosley]], [[Miguel Cotto]], [[Saul Alvarez]], and [[Manny Pacquiao]].
*Has a record of 2-0 (1 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
**Won against [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/gatti.html Arturo Gatti] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/delahoya.html Oscar De La Hoya].

== Year-By-Year Record ==
*1996: 2(1)-0
*1997: 10(9)-0
*1998: 7(5)-0
*1999: 3(2)-0
*2000: 2(1)-0
*2001: 3(2)-0
*2002: 2-0
*2003: 2(1)-0
*2004: 1-0
*2005: 3(3)-0
*2006: 2-0
*2007: 2(1)-0
*2008: Did not fight (retired)
*2009: 1-0
*2010: 1-0
*2011: 1(1)-0
*2012: 1-0
*2013: 2-0
*2014: 2-0
*2015: 2-0
*2016: Did not fight (retired)
*2017: 1(1)-0

== Regional & Minor Titles ==
*[[IBO]] Welterweight Title (April 2006; 1 defense)
*[[IBA]] Welterweight Title (November 2006; 0 defenses)
*[[WBC]] Diamond Super Welterweight Title (May 2012; 0 defenses)

== World Titles ==
*[[WBC]] Super Featherweight Title (1998-2002; 8 defenses)
*[[WBC]] Lightweight Title (2002-2004; 3 defenses)
*[[WBC]] Super Lightweight Title (2005; 0 defenses)
*[[IBF]] Welterweight Title (2006; 0 defenses)
*(2) [[WBC]] Welterweight Title (2006-2008; 1 defense, 2011-2015; 5 defenses)
*(2) [[WBC]] Super Welterweight Title (2007; 0 defenses, 2013-2015; 1 defense)
*[[WBA]] Super Welterweight Super Title (2012-2016; 1 defense)
*[[WBA]] Welterweight Super Title (2014-2016; 3 defenses)
*[[WBO]] Welterweight Title (2015; 0 defenses)

== Unified Titles ==
*Unified Junior Middleweight Title (2013-2015; [[WBA]], [[WBC]])
*(2) Unified Welterweight Title (2014-2015; [[WBC]], [[WBA]], 2015; [[WBC]], [[WBA]], [[WBO]])
*Simultaneously held [[WBC]] Welterweight Title and [[WBC]] Junior Middleweight Title (2007)
**Vacated [[WBC]] Junior Middleweight Title in 2007
**Vacated [[WBC]] Welterweight Title in 2008
*Simultaneously held [[WBC]] Welterweight Title and [[WBA]] Junior Middleweight Title (2012-2015)
*Simultaneously held [[WBC]] Welterweight Title and Unified Junior Middleweight Title ([[WBA]], [[WBC]]) (2013-2015)
*Simultaneously held Unified Welterweight Title ([[WBC]], [[WBA]]) and Unified Junior Middleweight Title ([[WBA]], [[WBC]]) (2014-2015)
*Simultaneously held Unified Welterweight Title ([[WBC]], [[WBA]], [[WBO]]) and Unified Junior Middleweight Title ([[WBA]], [[WBC]]) (2015)
**Stripped of [[WBO]] Welterweight Title in 2015
**Vacated [[WBC]] Welterweight Title and [[WBC]] Junior Middleweight Title in 2015
**Vacated [[WBA]] Welterweight Title and [[WBA]] Junior Middleweight Title in 2016

== The Ring Magazine Titles ==
*World Lightweight Title (2002-2004)
*(2) World Welterweight Title (2006-2008, 2013-2015)
*World Junior Middleweight Title (2013-2015)

== Lineal Titles ==
*World Junior Lightweight Title (1998-2002)
*World Lightweight Title (2002-2004)
*(2) World Welterweight Title (2006-2008, 2010-2015)
*World Junior Middleweight Title (2013-2015)

== Awards & Recognition ==
*(3) [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] (2007, 2013, 2015)
*(2) [[The Ring Magazine]] [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] (1998, 2007)
*(5) [[The Ring Magazine]] [[Ring Magazine Event of the Year|Event of the Year]] (2007, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2015)
*[[The Ring Magazine]] [[Ring Magazine Comeback of the Year|Comeback of the Year]] (2009)
*[[KO Magazine]] [[KO Magazine Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] (1998)
*(6) Best Fighter ESPY Award (2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014)
*(2) [[ESPN]] Fighter of the Year (2007, 2013)
*[[Sports Illustrated]] Round of the Year (2010; 2nd round [[Shane Mosley vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|vs. Shane Mosley]])
*[[Sports Illustrated]] Fighter of the Year (2015)
*[http://www.emmyonline.org/sports Sports Emmy Award] for [http://cdn.emmyonline.org/sports_37th_winners.pdf Outstanding Edited Sports Coverage] (2016; Executive Producer for [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto|Mayweather vs. Berto]]: Epilogue)
*Named the [http://espn.go.com/sports/boxing/greatest/featureVideo?page=greatest4150 48th greatest boxer of all-time] by [[ESPN]] in 2007.
*Named the [http://www.boxing.com/the_100_greatest_fighters_of_all_time_part_six_50_41.html 47th greatest boxer of all-time] by [http://www.boxing.com Boxing.com] in 2013.
*Named the 12th greatest boxer since World War II by a panel of experts in [[The Ring Magazine]] in 2014.
*Named the [http://sports.yahoo.com/news/where-floyd-mayweather--manny-pacquiao-rank-amongst-all-time-boxing-greats-062113734-boxing.html 19th greatest boxer of all-time] by a panel of experts from Yahoo! Sports in 2015.
*Named the [http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/14970037/ranking-top-25-pound-pound-boxers-25-years greatest pound-for-pound boxer of the last 25 years] by a panel of experts from [[ESPN]] in 2016.

== Notes ==
*Started boxing shortly after he started walking.
*One of only five boxers to win a world title in at least five weight divisions ([[Thomas Hearns]], [[Sugar Ray Leonard]], [[Oscar De La Hoya]], [[Manny Pacquiao]]).
*One of only two boxers to win a lineal title in at least four weight divisions ([[Manny Pacquiao]]).
*Holds the record for most world titles held simultaneously (5; WBC, WBA, WBO Welterweight Titles and WBA, WBC Super Welterweight Titles).
*Ranked #1 pound-for-pound by [[The Ring Magazine|The Ring]] from July 2005 until his first retirement in June 2008 and from December 2012 until his second retirement in September 2015.
*Retired for the first time in his career on June 6, 2008, cancelling a planned rematch against [[Oscar De La Hoya]]. Came out of retirement in 2009 to fight [[Juan Manuel Marquez]].
*Retired for the second time in his career in 2015 after defeating [[Andre Berto]]. Came out of retirement in 2017 to fight [[Conor McGregor]].
*Retired for the third time in his career in 2017 after defeating [[Conor McGregor]].
*Son of retired boxer and trainer [[Floyd Mayweather|Floyd Mayweather Sr.]]
*Nephew of retired boxers and trainers [[Roger Mayweather]] and [[Jeff Mayweather]].
*Half-brother of boxer [[Justin Mayweather Jones]].

== Career Earnings ==
*Forbes Magazine releases an annual list of the world's highest paid athletes. Mayweather's placements:
**2007: #16 with [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/25/sports-tiger_woods-biz-sports-cz_kb_1026athletes_slide_17.html $26.5 million]
**2010: #2 with [http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/20/most-valuable-athletes-and-teams-business-sports-sportsmoney-fifty-fifty-athletes_slide_3.html $65 million]
**2012: #1 with [http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mli45igdi/1-floyd-mayweather/ $85 million]
**2013: #14 with [http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mli45mmlg/14-floyd-mayweather-4/ $34 million]
**2014: #1 with [http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mli45eimdj/1-floyd-mayweather/ $105 million]
**2015: #1 with [http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mli45fdide/1-floyd-mayweather-jr/ $300 million]
**2016: #16 with [http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mli45ffmhh/16-floyd-mayweather/ $44 million]
**2018: #1 with [https://www.forbes.com/profile/floyd-mayweather/?list=athletes $285 million]

== Live Gates ==
*The Nevada State Athletic Commission maintains a list of [http://boxing.nv.gov/results/Top_Boxing_Gates/ Nevada's top 35 largest grossing boxing gates]. Mayweather's placements:
**1. (05/02/2015) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao|W UD12 Manny Pacquiao]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $72,198,500.00
**2. (08/26/2017) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Conor McGregor|W TKO10 Conor McGregor]] (T-Mobile Arena) $55,414,865.79
**5. (09/14/2013) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Saul Alvarez|W MD12 Saul Alvarez]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $20,003,150.00
**6. (05/05/2007) [[Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W SD12 Oscar De La Hoya]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $18,419,200.00
**8. (05/03/2014) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana|W MD12 Marcos Maidana]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $15,024,400.00
**9. (09/13/2014) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Marcos Rene Maidana (2nd meeting)|W UD12 Marcos Maidana]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $14,899,150.00
**17. (05/05/2012) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Miguel Cotto|W UD12 Miguel Cotto]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $12,000,150.00
**20. (05/01/2010) [[Shane Mosley vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W UD12 Shane Mosley]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $11,032,100.00
**24. (12/08/2007) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Ricky Hatton|W TKO10 Ricky Hatton]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $10,393,950.00
**25. (09/12/2015) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto|W UD12 Andre Berto]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $10,062,500.00
**26. (05/04/2013) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Robert Guerrero|W UD12 Robert Guerrero]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $9,922,350.00
**28. (09/17/2011) [[Victor Ortiz vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W KO4 Victor Ortiz]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $9,000,000.00

== Pay-Per-View History ==
*1. (06/25/2005) [[Arturo Gatti vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W RTD6 Arturo Gatti]] "Thunder & Lightning" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2098832 365,000 buys and $16,500,000 in revenue]
*2. (04/08/2006) [[Zab Judah vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W UD12 Zab Judah]] "Sworn Enemies" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2408638 375,000 buys and $16,800,000 in revenue]
*3. (11/04/2006) [[Carlos Manuel Baldomir vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W UD12 Carlos Baldomir]] "Pretty Risky" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2657809 325,000 buys and $16,300,000 in revenue]
*4. (05/05/2007) [[Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W SD12 Oscar De La Hoya]] "The World Awaits" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2865349 2,480,000 buys and $136,000,000 in revenue]
*5. (12/08/2007) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Ricky Hatton|W TKO10 Ricky Hatton]] "Undefeated" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3158134 920,000 buys and $50,000,000 in revenue]
*6. (09/19/2009) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez|W UD12 Juan Manuel Marquez]] "Number One/Número Uno" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=4502922 1,100,000 buys and $55,600,000 in revenue]
*7. (05/01/2010) [[Shane Mosley vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W UD12 Shane Mosley]] "Who R U Picking?" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=5180941 1,400,000 buys and $78,300,000 in revenue]
*8. (09/17/2011) [[Victor Ortiz vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W KO4 Victor Ortiz]] "Star Power" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=7160303 1,250,000 buys and $78,440,000 in revenue]
*9. (05/05/2012) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Miguel Cotto|W UD12 Miguel Cotto]] "Ring Kings" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=7919965 1,500,000 buys and $94,000,000 in revenue]
*10. (05/04/2013) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Robert Guerrero|W UD12 Robert Guerrero]] "May Day" ([[Showtime]] PPV) [http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/9262663/floyd-mayweather-jr-robert-guerrero-exceeds-1-million-pay-per-view-buys Showtime claims over 1,000,000 buys and $60,000,000 in revenue.] [http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/source--mayweather-maidana-ii-does-925-000-pay-per-view-buys-182401464.html Industry sources claim 840,000 buys.]
*11. (09/14/2013) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Saul Alvarez|W MD12 Saul Alvarez]] "The One" ([[Showtime]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=9694996 2,200,000 buys and $150,000,000 in revenue]
*12. (05/03/2014) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana|W MD12 Marcos Maidana]] "The Moment" ([[Showtime]] PPV) Unreleased. [http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/source--mayweather-maidana-ii-does-925-000-pay-per-view-buys-182401464.html Industry sources claim 900,000 buys.]
*13. (09/13/2014) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Marcos Rene Maidana (2nd meeting)|W UD12 Marcos Maidana]] "Mayhem" ([[Showtime]] PPV) Unreleased. [http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/source--mayweather-maidana-ii-does-925-000-pay-per-view-buys-182401464.html Industry sources claim 925,000 buys.]
*14. (05/02/2015) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao|W UD12 Manny Pacquiao]] "The Fight of the Century" ([[HBO]]/[[Showtime]] PPV) [http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/12872711/floyd-mayweather-manny-pacquiao-fight-shatters-all-live-gate-record 4,600,000 buys and $410,000,000 in revenue]
*15. (09/12/2015) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto|W UD12 Andre Berto]] "High Stakes" ([[Showtime]] PPV) Unreleased. [http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/13681951/floyd-mayweather-andre-berto-fight-disappoints-pay-per-view-sales Industry sources claim 400,000 buys.]
*16. (08/26/2017) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Conor McGregor|W TKO10 Conor McGregor]] "The Money Fight" ([[Showtime]] PPV) [http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/21770652/floyd-mayweather-conor-mcgregor-43-million-domestic-ppv-buys-600-million 4,300,000 buys]
*Totals (approximate): [http://espn.go.com/blog/dan-rafael/post/_/id/12732/mayweather-pacquiao-on-ppv-a-perfect-storm 24,000,000 buys and $1,700,000,000 in revenue]

== RIZIN.14 ==
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Tenshin Nasukawa was announced on November 5, 2018. Even though a ruleset and weight class weren't announced, Mayweather called the match a "Special Bout". Mayweather vs. Nasukawa was shades of the 1976 exhibition match between World Heavyweight Champion [[Muhammad Ali]] and [[Antonio Inoki]], which was fought under special rules.

On November 7, 2018, Mayweather called the fight off claiming he never agreed to an official match. Mayweather said that he had agreed to an exhibition match, which was to be put on for a small group of wealthy spectators. This exhibition match was previously arranged as a “Special Bout” purely for entertainment purposes with no intentions of being represented as an official fight card nor televised worldwide. The fight was later re-arranged as a three-round boxing exhibition match to be contested at the welterweight limit of 147 lbs.

On December 31, 2018, Mayweather faced Nasukawa in Saitama, Japan in the main event of RIZIN.14. Mayweather weighed 147 lbs, while Nasukawa weighed 137 lbs. Mayweather floored Nasukawa three times before the end of the first round. Nasukawa's corner threw in the towel after the third knockdown, and Nasukawa was left in tears after being humbled by the retired Mayweather.

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Genaro Hernandez]]|
title=[[WBC Super Featherweight Champion]]|
after=[[Sirimongkol Singwancha]]|
years=1998 Oct 3 – 2002 Apr 20 '''Vacated'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Jose Luis Castillo]]|
title=[[WBC Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Jose Luis Castillo]]|
years=2002 Apr 20 – 2004 May '''Vacated'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Arturo Gatti]]|
title=[[WBC Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Junior Witter]]|
years=2005 Jun 25 – 2006 Mar '''Vacated'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Zab Judah]]|
title=[[IBF Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Kermit Cintron]]|
years=2006 Apr 8 – 2006 Jun 20 '''Vacated'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Carlos Manuel Baldomir|Carlos Baldomir]]|
title=[[WBC Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Andre Berto]]|
years=2006 Nov 4 – 2008 Jun 6 '''Retired'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Oscar De La Hoya]]|
title=[[WBC Light Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Vernon Forrest]]|
years=2007 May 5 – 2007 Jul 4 '''Vacated'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Victor Ortiz (of California)|Victor Ortiz]]|
title=[[WBC Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Danny Oscar Garcia|Danny Garcia]]|
years=2011 Sep 17 – 2015 Nov 4 '''Retired'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Miguel Cotto]] Super Champion|
title=[[WBA Light Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Erislandy Lara]] Super Champion|
years=2012 May 5 – 2016 Jan '''Super Champion''' '''Retired'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Saul Alvarez]]|
title=[[WBC Light Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Jermell Charlo]]|
years=2013 Sep 14 – 2015 Nov 4 '''Retired'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Marcos Maidana]]|
title=[[WBA Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Keith Thurman]] Super Champion|
years=2014 May 3 – 2016 Jan '''Super Champion''' '''Retired'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Manny Pacquiao]]|
title=[[WBO Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Timothy Bradley|Timothy Bradley Jr.]]|
years=2015 May 2 – 2015 July 6 '''Stripped'''|
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mayweather, Floyd Jr.}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:National Golden Gloves Champions]]
[[Category:United States Amateur Champions]]
[[Category:1996 Olympians]]
[[Category:American Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Bronze Medalists]]
[[Category:World Super Featherweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Middleweight Champions]]
[[Category:Five Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:Mayweather Family]]
[[Category:Children of Famous Boxers]]
[[Category:Undefeated Boxers]]
[[Category:Promoters]]

Tyson Fury

2019-01-08T10:38:35Z

Mthompson95: /* Career Notes */

[[File:TysonFury1.jpg|250px|thumb|left]]
<boxer>479205</boxer>
'''Trainer:''' [[Steve Egan]] (2008-2009), [[Robert McCracken]] (2009), [[Hugh Fury]] (2009-2012), [[Peter Fury]] (2012-2017), [[Ben Davison]] (2017-) 
'''Promoter:''' [[Mick Hennessy]] (2008-2018), [[Frank Warren]] (2018-) 
'''Management:''' [[MTK Global]] (2017-) 
==Amateur Career==
*Amateur Record: 31-4 (26 KO's)
*'''2006''' Chemnitz City Cup Gold medalist (junior division) in Chemnitz, Germany (+91kg):
**Defeated [[Paul Mueller]] (Germany) RSCO 3
*'''2006''' World Junior Championships Bronze medalist in Agadir, Morocco (+91kg):
**Defeated [[Ilham Khatamov]] (Azerbaijan) 21:11
**Defeated [[Istvan Bernath]] (Hungary) RSC
**Lost to [[Sardor Abdullayev]] (Uzbekistan) 31:36
**Lost to [[David Price]] (England) 8:22
*'''2007''' Donbass Junior Cup Silver medalist in Donetsk, Ukraine (+91kg):
**Defeated [[Vladimir Bandura]] (Ukraine) RSCO 2
**Lost to [[Ivan Bezverkhiy]] (Ukraine) 10:23
*'''2007''' European Union Junior Championships Gold medalist in Warsaw, Poland (+91kg):
**Defeated [[Danil Vlassov]] (Estonia) RSC 1
**Defeated [[Istvan Bernath]] (Hungary) AB 3
*'''2007''' European Junior Championships Silver medalist in Sombor, Serbia (+91kg):
**Defeated [[Andrija Kekovic]] (Serbia) AB 3
**Defeated [[Ivan Bezverkhiy]] (Ukraine) AB 4
**Lost to [[Maxim Babanin]] (Russia) 11-24

==Regional & Minor Titles==
*[[BBBoC]] English heavyweight title x2
*[[Commonwealth Boxing Council]] heavyweight title
*[[BBBoC]] British heavyweight title x2
*Irish heavyweight title
*[[WBO]] Inter-Continental heavyweight title
*[[EBU]] (European) heavyweight title
*[[WBO]] International heavyweight title
*[[IBO]] World heavyweight title

== Career Notes ==
*Has a record of 1-0-1 in world title fights
*Has a record of 2-0-1 against former or current world champions
*Won against [[Steve Cunningham]] & [[Wladimir Klitschko]].
**Drew with [[Deontay Wilder]].

==Notes==
*Tyson Fury was born two and a half months premature and weighed just one pound. "The doctors told me there was not much chance of him living, and I had lost two daughters in the same way who had been born prematurely," said John Fury, his father. "They told me there was not much hope for him. It was 1988, [[Mike Tyson]] was in his pomp as world heavyweight champion, and so I said 'Let's call him Tyson...' The doctors just looked at me and smiled."
*Fury is from a family of boxers, which includes father [[John Fury|"Gypsy" John Fury]], brother [[Young (Hughie) Fury|Young Fury]], uncles [[Hugh Fury]] and [[Peter Fury]], and cousins [[Phill Fury]] and [[Hughie Fury]]. Tyson is also related to [[Andy Lee]], [[Hosea Burton]] and [[Zac Burton]].
*The Furys are [[Wikipedia:Irish Travellers|Irish Travellers]].

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Wladimir Klitschko]]|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Charles Martin]]|
years=2015 Nov 28 – 2015 Dec 8 '''Stripped'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Wladimir Klitschko]]|
title=[[WBO Heavyweight Champion]]|
years=2015 Nov 28 – 2016 Oct 12 '''Vacated'''|
after=[[Joseph Parker]]|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Wladimir Klitschko]]|
title=[[IBO Heavyweight Champion]]|
years=2015 Nov 28 – 2016 Oct 12 '''Vacated'''|
after=[[Anthony Joshua]]|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Wladimir Klitschko]] Super Champion|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Anthony Joshua]] Super Champion|
years=2015 Nov 28 – 2016 Oct 12 '''Super Champion''' '''Vacated'''|
}}
{{end box}}
'''[[:Category:Tyson Fury Gallery|Tyson Fury Gallery]]'''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fury, Tyson}}
[[Category:Commonwealth Boxing Council Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:ABA Champions]]
[[Category:Fury Family]]
[[Category:English World Champions]]
[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:Undefeated Boxers]]

Diosbelys Hurtado

2018-12-31T09:55:26Z

Mthompson95: /* Regional & Minor Titles */

[[File:Diosbelys Hurtado.jpg|left|200px]]
<boxer>006093</boxer>

== Career Factoids ==

*Record in world title fights: 1-2 (1 KO)
*Record against former, current and future world titlists: 1-3-1 (1 KO)
**Won against: [[Randall Bailey]]
**Lost against: [[Pernell Whitaker]], [[Kostya Tszyu]], [[Vivian Harris]]
**Drew against: [[Ricardo Mayorga]]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Sharmba Mitchell]] Lost bid for Super Championship|
title=[[WBA Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Vivian Harris]] Regular Champion|
years=2002 May 11 – 2002 Oct 19 '''Regular Champion'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurtado, Diosbelys}}
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Cuban World Champions]]

==Regional & Minor Titles==
WBC FECARBOX Super Lightweight Title (1997)

IBA Intercontinental Super Lightweight Title (2000)

IBA World Super Lightweight Title (2002)

IBA World Super Lightweight Title (2002)

WBO Latino Welterweight Title (2009)

WBO Latino Welterweight Title (2009)

==Amateur Factoids==
*Amateur Record: 221-20
*'''1990''' World Junior Championships Bronze medalist at Featherweight, in Lima, Peru.
** Defeated [[Bo Hum Baik]] (South Korea) RSC-1
** Defeated [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Soviet Union) 5-0
**Lost to [[Alan Vaughan]] (England) 16-19
*'''1992''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Light Welterweight, in Santiago, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Sandeep Kumar]] (India) RSC 2
**Lost to [[Hector Vinent]] (Cuba) 3-15
*'''1993''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Mario Kindelan]] 10-1
** Defeated [[Damian Austin]] +3-3
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 17-11
*'''1994''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Pablo Rojas]] 2-0
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 11-5
*'''1994''' AIBA Challenge Match Winner at Lightweight, in Dublin, Ireland.
** Defeated [[Larry Nicholson]] (United States) 19-12
*'''1994''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Lightweight, in Cienfuegos, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Hocine Soltani]] (Algeria) +2-2 (13-9)
** Defeated [[Saad Varooq]] (India) 2-0
**Lost to [[Julio Gonzalez]] (Cuba) 9-12
*'''1994''' Goodwill Games participant at Lightweight, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
**Lost to [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Russia) 5-10

Diosbelys Hurtado

2018-12-31T09:55:13Z

Mthompson95: /* Regional & Minor Titles */

[[File:Diosbelys Hurtado.jpg|left|200px]]
<boxer>006093</boxer>

== Career Factoids ==

*Record in world title fights: 1-2 (1 KO)
*Record against former, current and future world titlists: 1-3-1 (1 KO)
**Won against: [[Randall Bailey]]
**Lost against: [[Pernell Whitaker]], [[Kostya Tszyu]], [[Vivian Harris]]
**Drew against: [[Ricardo Mayorga]]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Sharmba Mitchell]] Lost bid for Super Championship|
title=[[WBA Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Vivian Harris]] Regular Champion|
years=2002 May 11 – 2002 Oct 19 '''Regular Champion'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurtado, Diosbelys}}
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Cuban World Champions]]

==Regional & Minor Titles==
[WBC FECARBOX Super Lightweight Title (1997)

IBA Intercontinental Super Lightweight Title (2000)

IBA World Super Lightweight Title (2002)

IBA World Super Lightweight Title (2002)

WBO Latino Welterweight Title (2009)

WBO Latino Welterweight Title (2009)

==Amateur Factoids==
*Amateur Record: 221-20
*'''1990''' World Junior Championships Bronze medalist at Featherweight, in Lima, Peru.
** Defeated [[Bo Hum Baik]] (South Korea) RSC-1
** Defeated [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Soviet Union) 5-0
**Lost to [[Alan Vaughan]] (England) 16-19
*'''1992''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Light Welterweight, in Santiago, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Sandeep Kumar]] (India) RSC 2
**Lost to [[Hector Vinent]] (Cuba) 3-15
*'''1993''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Mario Kindelan]] 10-1
** Defeated [[Damian Austin]] +3-3
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 17-11
*'''1994''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Pablo Rojas]] 2-0
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 11-5
*'''1994''' AIBA Challenge Match Winner at Lightweight, in Dublin, Ireland.
** Defeated [[Larry Nicholson]] (United States) 19-12
*'''1994''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Lightweight, in Cienfuegos, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Hocine Soltani]] (Algeria) +2-2 (13-9)
** Defeated [[Saad Varooq]] (India) 2-0
**Lost to [[Julio Gonzalez]] (Cuba) 9-12
*'''1994''' Goodwill Games participant at Lightweight, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
**Lost to [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Russia) 5-10

Diosbelys Hurtado

2018-12-31T09:54:32Z

Mthompson95: /* Amateur Factoids */

[[File:Diosbelys Hurtado.jpg|left|200px]]
<boxer>006093</boxer>

== Career Factoids ==

*Record in world title fights: 1-2 (1 KO)
*Record against former, current and future world titlists: 1-3-1 (1 KO)
**Won against: [[Randall Bailey]]
**Lost against: [[Pernell Whitaker]], [[Kostya Tszyu]], [[Vivian Harris]]
**Drew against: [[Ricardo Mayorga]]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Sharmba Mitchell]] Lost bid for Super Championship|
title=[[WBA Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Vivian Harris]] Regular Champion|
years=2002 May 11 – 2002 Oct 19 '''Regular Champion'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurtado, Diosbelys}}
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Cuban World Champions]]

==Regional & Minor Titles==
[[Jaime Balboa]]
WBC FECARBOX Super Lightweight Title (1997)

[[Cosme Rivera]]
IBA Intercontinental Super Lightweight Title (2000)

[[Ricky Quiles]]
IBA World Super Lightweight Title (2002)

[[Randall Bailey]]
IBA World Super Lightweight Title (2002)

[[Arturo Morua]]
WBO Latino Welterweight Title (2009)

[[Manuel Garnica]]
WBO Latino Welterweight Title (2009)

==Amateur Factoids==
*Amateur Record: 221-20
*'''1990''' World Junior Championships Bronze medalist at Featherweight, in Lima, Peru.
** Defeated [[Bo Hum Baik]] (South Korea) RSC-1
** Defeated [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Soviet Union) 5-0
**Lost to [[Alan Vaughan]] (England) 16-19
*'''1992''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Light Welterweight, in Santiago, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Sandeep Kumar]] (India) RSC 2
**Lost to [[Hector Vinent]] (Cuba) 3-15
*'''1993''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Mario Kindelan]] 10-1
** Defeated [[Damian Austin]] +3-3
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 17-11
*'''1994''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Pablo Rojas]] 2-0
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 11-5
*'''1994''' AIBA Challenge Match Winner at Lightweight, in Dublin, Ireland.
** Defeated [[Larry Nicholson]] (United States) 19-12
*'''1994''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Lightweight, in Cienfuegos, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Hocine Soltani]] (Algeria) +2-2 (13-9)
** Defeated [[Saad Varooq]] (India) 2-0
**Lost to [[Julio Gonzalez]] (Cuba) 9-12
*'''1994''' Goodwill Games participant at Lightweight, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
**Lost to [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Russia) 5-10

Diosbelys Hurtado

2018-12-30T18:44:02Z

Mthompson95: /* Amateur factoids */

[[File:Diosbelys Hurtado.jpg|left|200px]]
<boxer>006093</boxer>

== Career Factoids ==

*Record in world title fights: 1-2 (1 KO)
*Record against former, current and future world titlists: 1-3-1 (1 KO)
**Won against: [[Randall Bailey]]
**Lost against: [[Pernell Whitaker]], [[Kostya Tszyu]], [[Vivian Harris]]
**Drew against: [[Ricardo Mayorga]]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Sharmba Mitchell]] Lost bid for Super Championship|
title=[[WBA Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Vivian Harris]] Regular Champion|
years=2002 May 11 – 2002 Oct 19 '''Regular Champion'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurtado, Diosbelys}}
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Cuban World Champions]]

==Regional & Minor Titles==
[[Jaime Balboa]]
WBC FECARBOX Super Lightweight Title (1997)

[[Cosme Rivera]]
IBA Intercontinental Super Lightweight Title (2000)

[[Ricky Quiles]]
IBA World Super Lightweight Title (2002)

[[Randall Bailey]]
IBA World Super Lightweight Title (2002)

[[Arturo Morua]]
WBO Latino Welterweight Title (2009)

[[Manuel Garnica]]
WBO Latino Welterweight Title (2009)

==Amateur factoids==
*Amateur Record: 221-20
*'''1990''' World Junior Championships Bronze medalist at Featherweight, in Lima, Peru.
** Defeated [[Bo Hum Baik]] (South Korea) RSC-1
** Defeated [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Soviet Union) 5-0
**Lost to [[Alan Vaughan]] (England) 16-19
*'''1992''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Light Welterweight, in Santiago, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Sandeep Kumar]] (India) RSC 2
**Lost to [[Hector Vinent]] (Cuba) 3-15
*'''1993''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Mario Kindelan]] 10-1
** Defeated [[Damian Austin]] +3-3
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 17-11
*'''1994''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Pablo Rojas]] 2-0
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 11-5
*'''1994''' AIBA Challenge Match Winner at Lightweight, in Dublin, Ireland.
** Defeated [[Larry Nicholson]] (United States) 19-12
*'''1994''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Lightweight, in Cienfuegos, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Hocine Soltani]] (Algeria) +2-2 (13-9)
** Defeated [[Saad Varooq]] (India) 2-0
**Lost to [[Julio Gonzalez]] (Cuba) 9-12
*'''1994''' Goodwill Games participant at Lightweight, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
**Lost to [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Russia) 5-10

Diosbelys Hurtado

2018-12-30T18:43:26Z

Mthompson95: /* Career Factoids */

[[File:Diosbelys Hurtado.jpg|left|200px]]
<boxer>006093</boxer>

== Career Factoids ==

*Record in world title fights: 1-2 (1 KO)
*Record against former, current and future world titlists: 1-3-1 (1 KO)
**Won against: [[Randall Bailey]]
**Lost against: [[Pernell Whitaker]], [[Kostya Tszyu]], [[Vivian Harris]]
**Drew against: [[Ricardo Mayorga]]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Sharmba Mitchell]] Lost bid for Super Championship|
title=[[WBA Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Vivian Harris]] Regular Champion|
years=2002 May 11 – 2002 Oct 19 '''Regular Champion'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurtado, Diosbelys}}
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Cuban World Champions]]

==Regional & Minor Titles==
[[Jaime Balboa]]
WBC FECARBOX Super Lightweight Title (1997)

[[Cosme Rivera]]
IBA Intercontinental Super Lightweight Title (2000)

[[Ricky Quiles]]
IBA World Super Lightweight Title (2002)

[[Randall Bailey]]
IBA World Super Lightweight Title (2002)

[[Arturo Morua]]
WBO Latino Welterweight Title (2009)

[[Manuel Garnica]]
WBO Latino Welterweight Title (2009)

==Amateur factoids==
*Amateur Record: 221-20
*'''1990''' World Junior Championships Bronze medalist at Featherweight, in Lima, Peru.
** Defeated [[Bo Hum Baik]] (South Korea) RSC-1
** Defeated [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Soviet Union) 5-0
**Lost to [[Alan Vaughan]] (England) 16-19
*'''1992''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Light Welterweight, in Santiago, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Sandeep Kumar]] (India) RSC 2
**Lost to [[Hector Vinent]] (Cuba) 3-15
*'''1993''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Mario Kindelan]] 10-1
** Defeated [[Damian Austin]] +3-3
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 17-11
*'''1994''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Pablo Rojas]] 2-0
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 11-5
*'''1994''' AIBA Challenge Match Winner at Lightweight, in Dublin, Ireland.
** Defeated [[Larry Nicholson]] (United States) 19-12
*'''1994''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Lightweight, in Cienfuegos, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Hocine Soltani]] (Algeria) +2-2 (13-9)
** Defeated [[Saad Varooq]] (India) 2-0
**Lost to [[Julio Gonzalez]] (Cuba) 9-12
*'''1994''' Goodwill Games participant at Lightweight, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
**Lost to [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Russia) 5-10

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Sharmba Mitchell]] Lost bid for Super Championship|
title=[[WBA Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Vivian Harris]] Regular Champion|
years=2002 May 11 – 2002 Oct 19 '''Regular Champion'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurtado, Diosbelys}}
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Cuban World Champions]]

Diosbelys Hurtado

2018-12-30T18:41:53Z

Mthompson95: /* Career Factoids */

[[File:Diosbelys Hurtado.jpg|left|200px]]
<boxer>006093</boxer>

== Career Factoids ==

*Record in world title fights: 1-2 (1 KO)
*Record against former, current and future world titlists: 1-3-1 (1 KO)
**Won against: [[Randall Bailey]]
**Lost against: [[Pernell Whitaker]], [[Kostya Tszyu]], [[Vivian Harris]]
**Drew against: [[Ricardo Mayorga]]

==Regional & Minor Titles==
[[Jaime Balboa]]
WBC FECARBOX Super Lightweight Title (1997)

[[Cosme Rivera]]
IBA Intercontinental Super Lightweight Title (2000)

[[Ricky Quiles]]
IBA World Super Lightweight Title (2002)

[[Randall Bailey]]
IBA World Super Lightweight Title (2002)

[[Arturo Morua]]
WBO Latino Welterweight Title (2009)

[[Manuel Garnica]]
WBO Latino Welterweight Title (2009)

==Amateur factoids==
*Amateur Record: 221-20
*'''1990''' World Junior Championships Bronze medalist at Featherweight, in Lima, Peru.
** Defeated [[Bo Hum Baik]] (South Korea) RSC-1
** Defeated [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Soviet Union) 5-0
**Lost to [[Alan Vaughan]] (England) 16-19
*'''1992''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Light Welterweight, in Santiago, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Sandeep Kumar]] (India) RSC 2
**Lost to [[Hector Vinent]] (Cuba) 3-15
*'''1993''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Mario Kindelan]] 10-1
** Defeated [[Damian Austin]] +3-3
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 17-11
*'''1994''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Pablo Rojas]] 2-0
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 11-5
*'''1994''' AIBA Challenge Match Winner at Lightweight, in Dublin, Ireland.
** Defeated [[Larry Nicholson]] (United States) 19-12
*'''1994''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Lightweight, in Cienfuegos, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Hocine Soltani]] (Algeria) +2-2 (13-9)
** Defeated [[Saad Varooq]] (India) 2-0
**Lost to [[Julio Gonzalez]] (Cuba) 9-12
*'''1994''' Goodwill Games participant at Lightweight, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
**Lost to [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Russia) 5-10

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Sharmba Mitchell]] Lost bid for Super Championship|
title=[[WBA Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Vivian Harris]] Regular Champion|
years=2002 May 11 – 2002 Oct 19 '''Regular Champion'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurtado, Diosbelys}}
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Cuban World Champions]]

Diosbelys Hurtado

2018-12-30T18:37:26Z

Mthompson95: /* Career Factoids */

[[File:Diosbelys Hurtado.jpg|left|200px]]
<boxer>006093</boxer>

== Career Factoids ==

*Record in world title fights: 1-2 (1 KO)
*Record against former, current and future world titlists: 1-3-1 (1 KO)
**Won against: [[Randall Bailey]]
**Lost against: [[Pernell Whitaker]], [[Kostya Tszyu]], [[Vivian Harris]]
**Drew against: [[Ricardo Mayorga]]

*Regional & Minor Titles
[[Jaime Balboa]]
WBC FECARBOX Super Lightweight Title (1997)

[[Cosme Rivera]]
IBA Intercontinental Super Lightweight Title (2000)

[[Ricky Quiles]]
IBA World Super Lightweight Title (2002)

[[Randall Bailey]]
IBA World Super Lightweight Title (2002)

[[Arturo Morua]]
WBO Latino Welterweight Title (2009)

[[Manuel Garnica]]
WBO Latino Welterweight Title (2009)

*Amateur Record: 221-20
*'''1990''' World Junior Championships Bronze medalist at Featherweight, in Lima, Peru.
** Defeated [[Bo Hum Baik]] (South Korea) RSC-1
** Defeated [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Soviet Union) 5-0
**Lost to [[Alan Vaughan]] (England) 16-19
*'''1992''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Light Welterweight, in Santiago, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Sandeep Kumar]] (India) RSC 2
**Lost to [[Hector Vinent]] (Cuba) 3-15
*'''1993''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Mario Kindelan]] 10-1
** Defeated [[Damian Austin]] +3-3
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 17-11
*'''1994''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Pablo Rojas]] 2-0
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 11-5
*'''1994''' AIBA Challenge Match Winner at Lightweight, in Dublin, Ireland.
** Defeated [[Larry Nicholson]] (United States) 19-12
*'''1994''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Lightweight, in Cienfuegos, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Hocine Soltani]] (Algeria) +2-2 (13-9)
** Defeated [[Saad Varooq]] (India) 2-0
**Lost to [[Julio Gonzalez]] (Cuba) 9-12
*'''1994''' Goodwill Games participant at Lightweight, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
**Lost to [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Russia) 5-10

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Sharmba Mitchell]] Lost bid for Super Championship|
title=[[WBA Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Vivian Harris]] Regular Champion|
years=2002 May 11 – 2002 Oct 19 '''Regular Champion'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurtado, Diosbelys}}
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Cuban World Champions]]

Diosbelys Hurtado

2018-12-30T18:01:46Z

Mthompson95: /* Career Factoids */

[[File:Diosbelys Hurtado.jpg|left|200px]]
<boxer>006093</boxer>

== Career Factoids ==
*Amateur Record: 221-20
*'''1990''' World Junior Championships Bronze medalist at Featherweight, in Lima, Peru.
** Defeated [[Bo Hum Baik]] (South Korea) RSC-1
** Defeated [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Soviet Union) 5-0
**Lost to [[Alan Vaughan]] (England) 16-19
*'''1992''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Light Welterweight, in Santiago, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Sandeep Kumar]] (India) RSC 2
**Lost to [[Hector Vinent]] (Cuba) 3-15
*'''1993''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Mario Kindelan]] 10-1
** Defeated [[Damian Austin]] +3-3
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 17-11
*'''1994''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Pablo Rojas]] 2-0
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 11-5
*'''1994''' AIBA Challenge Match Winner at Lightweight, in Dublin, Ireland.
** Defeated [[Larry Nicholson]] (United States) 19-12
*'''1994''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Lightweight, in Cienfuegos, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Hocine Soltani]] (Algeria) +2-2 (13-9)
** Defeated [[Saad Varooq]] (India) 2-0
**Lost to [[Julio Gonzalez]] (Cuba) 9-12
*'''1994''' Goodwill Games participant at Lightweight, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
**Lost to [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Russia) 5-10

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Sharmba Mitchell]] Lost bid for Super Championship|
title=[[WBA Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Vivian Harris]] Regular Champion|
years=2002 May 11 – 2002 Oct 19 '''Regular Champion'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurtado, Diosbelys}}
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Cuban World Champions]]

Vitali Klitschko

2018-12-29T16:21:11Z

Mthompson95: /* Professional Career */

[[File:VK 01 2048.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Vitali Klitschko]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2018 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/klitschko.html]]]
<boxer>007033</boxer>
'''Trainer:''' [[Fritz Sdunek]] 
'''Manager:''' Self 
'''Cut Man:''' [[Joe Souza]]

'''Vitali Klitschko''' (Ukrainian: ''Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Klychko'') is a former [[WBO]], [[WBC]] and [[Ring Magazine|Ring Magazine]] World Heavyweight Champion.

'''[[:Category:Vitali Klitschko Gallery|Vitali Klitschko Gallery]]'''

==Amateur Career==
*Klitschko won 195 of 210 amateur bouts.
*1994 Ukrainian Super Heavyweight representative at the World Cup in Bangkok, Thailand. Results:
** Defeated [[Young Hyu Ahn]] (South Korea) RSCH-5
** Lost to [[Svilen Rusinov]] (Bulgaria) PTS (9-10)
*1994 Super Heavyweight Silver Medalist at the Military World Championships in Tunis, Tunisia.
** Lost to [[Alexei Lezin]] (Russia) PTS (1-10) in the final
*1995 Super Heavyweight Silver Medalist at the World Championships in Berlin, Germany. Results:
** Defeated [[Gitas Juskevicius]] (Lithuania) RSC-2
** Defeated [[Attila Levin]] (Sweden) RET-2
** Defeated [[Rene Monse]] (Germany) PTS (6-5)
** Lost to [[Alexei Lezin]] (Russia) PTS (3-12)
*1995 Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the Military World Championships in Ariccia, Italy. Results:
** Defeated [[Kenneth Horsley]] (USA) RET-1
** Defeated [[Svilen Rusinov]] (Bulgaria) RSC-1
** Defeated [[Alexei Lezin]] (Russia) PTS (10-6)

==Doping Suspension==
Klitschko tested positive for a banned substance in 1996, received a two-year suspension and was thrown off the Ukrainian boxing team for the Atlanta [[Olympics]]. He had planned to box at super heavyweight while his younger brother, [[Wladimir Klitschko]], planned to compete as a heavyweight. Wladimir, who was struggling to make weight, took over the super heavyweight slot and went on to win the gold medal.

Klitschko revealed in his 2004 autobiography that he turned to steroids after aggravating an old leg injury he had sustained in a kickboxing tournament. He said he went to a Ukrainian doctor who gave him something that would heal it, but he didn't check the doping list.

==Professional Career==
*Has a record of 0-1-0 (0 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
**Lost against: [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/lewislennox.html Lennox Lewis]

*Record in world title fights: 15-2 (12 KO's)

*Record against former, current and future world titlists: 7-2 (6 KO's)

°Won against: [[Herbie Hide]], [[Corrie Sanders]], [[Samuel Peter]], [[Juan Carlos Gomez]], [[Shannon Briggs]], [[Tomasz Adamek]], [[Manuel Charr]].

°Lost against: [[Chris Byrd]], [[Lennox Lewis]].

Klitschko knocked out [[Herbie Hide]] in two rounds to win the [[WBO]] heavyweight title on [[Herbie Hide vs. Vitali Klitschko|June 26, 1999]]. He lost the title to [[Chris Byrd]] in his third defense on [[Vitali Klitschko vs. Chris Byrd|April 1, 2000]]. Klitschko, comfortably ahead on points, retired after the ninth round due to an injured shoulder. It was his first loss after 27 consecutive knockout wins.

Klitschko fought [[Lennox Lewis]] for the [[WBC]] and [[Ring Magazine]] heavyweight titles on [[Lennox Lewis vs. Vitali Klitschko|June 21, 2003]]. He was a late substitute for [[Kirk Johnson]], who pulled out of the fight because of an injury. Klitschko gave Lewis a much tougher fight than most expected. However, Lewis opened bad cuts over both of Klitschko's eyes, which led to the fight being stopped after the sixth round. Klitschko was ahead 58-56 on all three official scorecards.

After Lewis retired, Klitschko stopped [[Corrie Sanders]] in eight rounds to win the vacant [[WBC]] and [[Ring Magazine]] heavyweight titles on [[Vitali Klitschko vs. Corrie Sanders|April 24, 2004]]. Klitschko's first title defense was an eighth-round TKO of [[Danny Williams]] on [[Vitali Klitschko vs. Danny Williams|December 11, 2004]]. He was then scheduled to face [[Hasim Rahman]] on April 30, 2005, but the fight was postponed when Klitschko pulled a muscle in his upper thigh while jogging. The fight was rescheduled for June 18, but pushed back again because the thigh muscle wasn't fully healed. The next date, July 23, had to be changed after Klitschko had minor back surgery. The fourth date for the fight was November 12, but Klitschko then injured his knee while sparring and had to have surgery. Promoter [[Bob Arum]] said the fight could be rescheduled for March 2006, but Klitschko, frustrated by his injuries, announced his retirement on November 9, 2005.

At the [[WBC]] gala on December 20, 2005, Klitschko was appointed "Champion Emeritus." The status gave him the right to become the "immediate mandatory official challenger" if he chose to fight again.

Klitschko returned to the ring to face [[Samuel Peter]] for the [[WBC ]] heavyweight title on [[Vitali Klitschko vs. Samuel Peter|October 11, 2008]]. It was his first fight in 46 months. Klitschko dominated the fight, and Peter retired in his corner after the eighth round.

During his second reign as WBC heavyweight champion, Klitschko successfully defended the title nine times. He defeated [[Juan Carlos Gomez]], [[Chris Arreola]], [[Kevin Johnson]], [[Albert Sosnowski]], [[Shannon Briggs]], [[Odlanier Solis]], [[Tomasz Adamek]], [[Dereck Chisora]] and [[Manuel Charr]].

On December 16, 2013, Klitschko vacated the WBC heavyweight title. He said he doesn't expect to fight again as he pursues a presidential bid in his home country of Ukraine. The WBC once again named him "Champion Emeritus."

==Political Career==
Klitschko ran for mayor of Kiev and the Ukrainian parliament in 2006. The elections were held on March 26. He campaigned on an anti-corruption platform.

He was a supporter of Viktor Yushchenko and his party, ''Our Ukraine''. Klitschko was seen at Yushchenko's side during the 2004 Orange Revolution, which ultimately resulted in Yushchenko's election as president.

Klitschko received 26% of the vote in the mayoral election. He was ahead of incumbent mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko, but trailed businessman Leonid Chernovetskiy. Klitschko's aspirations for parliament were also unsuccessful, as his party received less than 3% of the vote, which was necessary to earn representation in parliament. However, Klitschko was elected as a people's deputy to Kiev City Council.

Klitschko is the head of the UDAR (Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform) political party, which he founded on April 24, 2010.

He won election to Ukraine's parliament on December 15, 2012.

On October 24, 2013, Klitschko announced that he will run for president of Ukraine in 2015.

On March 29, 2014, Klitschko pulled out of the presidential race and announced that he would run for mayor of Kiev.

Klitschko was elected mayor of Kiev on May 25, 2014. He received 57.6 percent of the vote. On November 16, 2015, Klitschko was re-elected with 66.5 percent of the vote.

==Titles Held==
[[File:Klitschkos138044076.jpg|right|400px|thumb|The Klitschko Brothers]]
*[[WBO]] Inter-Continental Heavyweight Title (1998)
*[[EBU]] (European) Heavyweight Title (1998-1999, 2000)
*[[WBO]] Heavyweight Title (1999-2000)
*[[WBA]] Intercontinental Heavyweight Title (2001-2003)
*[[WBC]] Heavyweight Title (2004-2005, 2008-2013)

==Miscellaneous Info==
*Vitali and [[Wladimir Klitschko]] are the first brothers to hold world heavyweight titles at the same time.
*After Wladimir defeated [[David Haye]] on [[Wladimir Klitschko vs. David Haye|July 2, 2011]], all the major heavyweight belts were simultaneously owned by the Klitschko brothers. Wladimir held the [[IBF]], [[WBO]] and [[WBA]] titles, and Vitali held the [[WBC]] title.
*Son of an Air Force Colonel.
*Began boxing at the age of 17.
*Six-time kickboxing world champion, twice as an amateur and four times as a professional. His record was 34-1 with 22 knockouts.
*Earned a Ph.D. in Sports Science

==External Links==
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxing/2389404/Boxing-Klitschko-admits-steroid-abuse.html "Klitschko admits steroid abuse" The Telegraph, November 2, 2004]
*[http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2216803 "Arum: New dates in March ideal" ESPN.com, November 7, 2005]
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=20051110&id=kwNQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YwkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5285,3521481 "Injuries force Klitschko out of the ring" Associated Press, November 10, 2005]
*[http://blog.kievukraine.info/2006/03/klitschko-concedes-defeat-in-kiev.html "Klitschko Concedes Defeat In Kiev Mayoral Race" Kiev Ukraine News Blog , March 28, 2006]
*[http://en.rian.ru/world/20070519/65744787.html "Vitali Klitschko announces second run for Kiev mayor" RIA Novosti, May 19, 2007]
*[http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/10147304/vitali-klitschko-named-wbc-champion-emeritus-vacates-heavyweight-belt "Vitali Klitschko vacates title" ESPN.com, December 16, 2013]
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10731314/Ukraine-Vitali-Klitschko-pulls-out-of-presidential-race.html "Vitali Klitschko pulls out of presidential race" The Telegraph, March 29, 2014]
*[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-05-26/news/sns-rt-us-ukraine-crisis-kiev-20140526_1_eastern-ukraine-khreshchatyk-central-kiev "Boxing champ Vitaly Klitschko becomes mayor of Kiev" Chicago Tribune, May 26, 2014]
*[http://www.reocities.com/pedrinet/vklitschko.html Amateur Record]
*[http://www.klitschko.com/ Klitschko Brothers Official Website]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Herbie Hide]]|
title=[[WBO Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Chris Byrd]]|
years=1999 Jun 26 – 2000 Apr 1
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
years=2004 Apr 24 – 2005 Nov 9 '''Retired'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Samuel Peter]]|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Bermane Stiverne]]|
years=2008 Oct 11 – 2013 Dec 16 '''Retired'''
}}
{{end box}}

==Highlights==
{{#ev:youtube|j0RCsynXm0w}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Klitschko, Vitali}}
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:Ukrainian World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:Klitschko Family|Klitschko, Vitali]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]

Vitali Klitschko

2018-12-29T15:53:46Z

Mthompson95: /* Professional Career */

[[File:VK 01 2048.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Vitali Klitschko]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2018 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/klitschko.html]]]
<boxer>007033</boxer>
'''Trainer:''' [[Fritz Sdunek]] 
'''Manager:''' Self 
'''Cut Man:''' [[Joe Souza]]

'''Vitali Klitschko''' (Ukrainian: ''Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Klychko'') is a former [[WBO]], [[WBC]] and [[Ring Magazine|Ring Magazine]] World Heavyweight Champion.

'''[[:Category:Vitali Klitschko Gallery|Vitali Klitschko Gallery]]'''

==Amateur Career==
*Klitschko won 195 of 210 amateur bouts.
*1994 Ukrainian Super Heavyweight representative at the World Cup in Bangkok, Thailand. Results:
** Defeated [[Young Hyu Ahn]] (South Korea) RSCH-5
** Lost to [[Svilen Rusinov]] (Bulgaria) PTS (9-10)
*1994 Super Heavyweight Silver Medalist at the Military World Championships in Tunis, Tunisia.
** Lost to [[Alexei Lezin]] (Russia) PTS (1-10) in the final
*1995 Super Heavyweight Silver Medalist at the World Championships in Berlin, Germany. Results:
** Defeated [[Gitas Juskevicius]] (Lithuania) RSC-2
** Defeated [[Attila Levin]] (Sweden) RET-2
** Defeated [[Rene Monse]] (Germany) PTS (6-5)
** Lost to [[Alexei Lezin]] (Russia) PTS (3-12)
*1995 Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the Military World Championships in Ariccia, Italy. Results:
** Defeated [[Kenneth Horsley]] (USA) RET-1
** Defeated [[Svilen Rusinov]] (Bulgaria) RSC-1
** Defeated [[Alexei Lezin]] (Russia) PTS (10-6)

==Doping Suspension==
Klitschko tested positive for a banned substance in 1996, received a two-year suspension and was thrown off the Ukrainian boxing team for the Atlanta [[Olympics]]. He had planned to box at super heavyweight while his younger brother, [[Wladimir Klitschko]], planned to compete as a heavyweight. Wladimir, who was struggling to make weight, took over the super heavyweight slot and went on to win the gold medal.

Klitschko revealed in his 2004 autobiography that he turned to steroids after aggravating an old leg injury he had sustained in a kickboxing tournament. He said he went to a Ukrainian doctor who gave him something that would heal it, but he didn't check the doping list.

==Professional Career==
*Has a record of 0-1-0 (0 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
**Lost against: [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/lewislennox.html Lennox Lewis]

Klitschko knocked out [[Herbie Hide]] in two rounds to win the [[WBO]] heavyweight title on [[Herbie Hide vs. Vitali Klitschko|June 26, 1999]]. He lost the title to [[Chris Byrd]] in his third defense on [[Vitali Klitschko vs. Chris Byrd|April 1, 2000]]. Klitschko, comfortably ahead on points, retired after the ninth round due to an injured shoulder. It was his first loss after 27 consecutive knockout wins.

Klitschko fought [[Lennox Lewis]] for the [[WBC]] and [[Ring Magazine]] heavyweight titles on [[Lennox Lewis vs. Vitali Klitschko|June 21, 2003]]. He was a late substitute for [[Kirk Johnson]], who pulled out of the fight because of an injury. Klitschko gave Lewis a much tougher fight than most expected. However, Lewis opened bad cuts over both of Klitschko's eyes, which led to the fight being stopped after the sixth round. Klitschko was ahead 58-56 on all three official scorecards.

After Lewis retired, Klitschko stopped [[Corrie Sanders]] in eight rounds to win the vacant [[WBC]] and [[Ring Magazine]] heavyweight titles on [[Vitali Klitschko vs. Corrie Sanders|April 24, 2004]]. Klitschko's first title defense was an eighth-round TKO of [[Danny Williams]] on [[Vitali Klitschko vs. Danny Williams|December 11, 2004]]. He was then scheduled to face [[Hasim Rahman]] on April 30, 2005, but the fight was postponed when Klitschko pulled a muscle in his upper thigh while jogging. The fight was rescheduled for June 18, but pushed back again because the thigh muscle wasn't fully healed. The next date, July 23, had to be changed after Klitschko had minor back surgery. The fourth date for the fight was November 12, but Klitschko then injured his knee while sparring and had to have surgery. Promoter [[Bob Arum]] said the fight could be rescheduled for March 2006, but Klitschko, frustrated by his injuries, announced his retirement on November 9, 2005.

At the [[WBC]] gala on December 20, 2005, Klitschko was appointed "Champion Emeritus." The status gave him the right to become the "immediate mandatory official challenger" if he chose to fight again.

Klitschko returned to the ring to face [[Samuel Peter]] for the [[WBC ]] heavyweight title on [[Vitali Klitschko vs. Samuel Peter|October 11, 2008]]. It was his first fight in 46 months. Klitschko dominated the fight, and Peter retired in his corner after the eighth round.

During his second reign as WBC heavyweight champion, Klitschko successfully defended the title nine times. He defeated [[Juan Carlos Gomez]], [[Chris Arreola]], [[Kevin Johnson]], [[Albert Sosnowski]], [[Shannon Briggs]], [[Odlanier Solis]], [[Tomasz Adamek]], [[Dereck Chisora]] and [[Manuel Charr]].

On December 16, 2013, Klitschko vacated the WBC heavyweight title. He said he doesn't expect to fight again as he pursues a presidential bid in his home country of Ukraine. The WBC once again named him "Champion Emeritus."

Klitschko had a record of 15-2 in world title fights and was 8-2 against former, current or future world champions.

==Political Career==
Klitschko ran for mayor of Kiev and the Ukrainian parliament in 2006. The elections were held on March 26. He campaigned on an anti-corruption platform.

He was a supporter of Viktor Yushchenko and his party, ''Our Ukraine''. Klitschko was seen at Yushchenko's side during the 2004 Orange Revolution, which ultimately resulted in Yushchenko's election as president.

Klitschko received 26% of the vote in the mayoral election. He was ahead of incumbent mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko, but trailed businessman Leonid Chernovetskiy. Klitschko's aspirations for parliament were also unsuccessful, as his party received less than 3% of the vote, which was necessary to earn representation in parliament. However, Klitschko was elected as a people's deputy to Kiev City Council.

Klitschko is the head of the UDAR (Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform) political party, which he founded on April 24, 2010.

He won election to Ukraine's parliament on December 15, 2012.

On October 24, 2013, Klitschko announced that he will run for president of Ukraine in 2015.

On March 29, 2014, Klitschko pulled out of the presidential race and announced that he would run for mayor of Kiev.

Klitschko was elected mayor of Kiev on May 25, 2014. He received 57.6 percent of the vote. On November 16, 2015, Klitschko was re-elected with 66.5 percent of the vote.

==Titles Held==
[[File:Klitschkos138044076.jpg|right|400px|thumb|The Klitschko Brothers]]
*[[WBO]] Inter-Continental Heavyweight Title (1998)
*[[EBU]] (European) Heavyweight Title (1998-1999, 2000)
*[[WBO]] Heavyweight Title (1999-2000)
*[[WBA]] Intercontinental Heavyweight Title (2001-2003)
*[[WBC]] Heavyweight Title (2004-2005, 2008-2013)

==Miscellaneous Info==
*Vitali and [[Wladimir Klitschko]] are the first brothers to hold world heavyweight titles at the same time.
*After Wladimir defeated [[David Haye]] on [[Wladimir Klitschko vs. David Haye|July 2, 2011]], all the major heavyweight belts were simultaneously owned by the Klitschko brothers. Wladimir held the [[IBF]], [[WBO]] and [[WBA]] titles, and Vitali held the [[WBC]] title.
*Son of an Air Force Colonel.
*Began boxing at the age of 17.
*Six-time kickboxing world champion, twice as an amateur and four times as a professional. His record was 34-1 with 22 knockouts.
*Earned a Ph.D. in Sports Science

==External Links==
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxing/2389404/Boxing-Klitschko-admits-steroid-abuse.html "Klitschko admits steroid abuse" The Telegraph, November 2, 2004]
*[http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2216803 "Arum: New dates in March ideal" ESPN.com, November 7, 2005]
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=20051110&id=kwNQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YwkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5285,3521481 "Injuries force Klitschko out of the ring" Associated Press, November 10, 2005]
*[http://blog.kievukraine.info/2006/03/klitschko-concedes-defeat-in-kiev.html "Klitschko Concedes Defeat In Kiev Mayoral Race" Kiev Ukraine News Blog , March 28, 2006]
*[http://en.rian.ru/world/20070519/65744787.html "Vitali Klitschko announces second run for Kiev mayor" RIA Novosti, May 19, 2007]
*[http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/10147304/vitali-klitschko-named-wbc-champion-emeritus-vacates-heavyweight-belt "Vitali Klitschko vacates title" ESPN.com, December 16, 2013]
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10731314/Ukraine-Vitali-Klitschko-pulls-out-of-presidential-race.html "Vitali Klitschko pulls out of presidential race" The Telegraph, March 29, 2014]
*[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-05-26/news/sns-rt-us-ukraine-crisis-kiev-20140526_1_eastern-ukraine-khreshchatyk-central-kiev "Boxing champ Vitaly Klitschko becomes mayor of Kiev" Chicago Tribune, May 26, 2014]
*[http://www.reocities.com/pedrinet/vklitschko.html Amateur Record]
*[http://www.klitschko.com/ Klitschko Brothers Official Website]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Herbie Hide]]|
title=[[WBO Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Chris Byrd]]|
years=1999 Jun 26 – 2000 Apr 1
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
years=2004 Apr 24 – 2005 Nov 9 '''Retired'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Samuel Peter]]|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Bermane Stiverne]]|
years=2008 Oct 11 – 2013 Dec 16 '''Retired'''
}}
{{end box}}

==Highlights==
{{#ev:youtube|j0RCsynXm0w}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Klitschko, Vitali}}
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:Ukrainian World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:Klitschko Family|Klitschko, Vitali]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]

James (Buddy) McGirt

2018-12-26T03:41:38Z

Mthompson95: /* Career Notes */

[[File:McGirt.JPG|left|200px|left]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2019 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/mcgirt.html]]]
<boxer>000456</boxer>
*'''Trainer:''' [[Al Certo]]
*'''Manager:''' [[Al Certo]]
*'''[[:Category:James (Buddy) McGirt Gallery|James (Buddy) McGirt Gallery]]'''

==Career Notes==
*Amateur record: 54-9.
*Record in world title fights: 5-3 (2 KOs)
*Record against former, current and future world titlists: 6-3 (1 KO)
**Won against [[Saoul Mamby]], [[Joe Manley]], [[Simon Brown]], [[Patrizio Oliva]], [[Genaro Léon]], [[Livingstone Bramble]].
**Lost against [[Meldrick Taylor]], [[Pernell Whitaker]] (twice).
*Inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame in 1998.
*Inducted into the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2019.

==Regional & Minor Titles==
*[[WBC]] Continental Americas super lightweight title (1985-1986, 1987)
*[[IBC (Sanctioning Body)|IBC]] junior middleweight title (1996)

== Trainer ==
[[File:McGirts 119027396.jpg|right|thumb|400px|McGirt and his son, James McGirt Jr.]]
Since his retirement as a boxer, McGirt has become a highly regarded trainer.

He was named 2002 [[Boxing Writers Association of America Trainer of the Year Award|Trainer of the Year]] by the [[Boxing Writers Association of America]].

'''Trains/Trained:'''
*[[Lamon Brewster]]
*[[Nate Campbell]]
*[[J.C. Candelo]]
*[[Joel Casamayor]]
*[[Marianne Chubirka]]
*[[Allen Conyers]]
*[[Vernon Forrest]]
*[[Arturo Gatti]]
*[[Michael Grant]]
*[[Troy Harden]]
*[[Kelsey Jeffries]]
*[[Joel Julio]]
*[[Ievgen Khytrov]]
*[[Jimmy Lange]]
*[[Sergey Lipinets]]
*[[Jason Litzau]] (assistant)
*[[Matthew Macklin]]
*[[Paul Malignaggi]]
*[[James McGirt Jr.]]
*[[Hasim Rahman]]
*[[Paul Smith (Liverpool)|Paul Smith]]
*[[Paul Spadafora]] (assistant)
*[[Antonio Tarver]]
*[[Sherman Williams]]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Terry Marsh]] Retired|
title=[[IBF Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Meldrick Taylor]]|
years=1988 Feb 14 – 1988 Sep 3
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Simon Brown]]|
title=[[WBC Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Pernell Whitaker]]|
years=1991 Nov 29 – 1993 Mar 6
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:McGirt, James (Buddy)}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:Trainers]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]

[[Category:The Contender (TV Series)]]

Evander Holyfield

2018-12-25T21:44:24Z

Mthompson95: /* Professional Achievements */

[[file:Holyfieldface.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
{{ibhof |url=http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/holyfield.html}}
<boxer>000499</boxer>
*'''Trainers:''' [[George Benton]] & [[Lou Duva]] (1984-1992), [[Emanuel Steward]] (1993), [[Don Turner]] (1994-2003), [[Ronnie Shields]] (2004-2008), [[Tommy Brooks]] (2010-2011) 
*'''Managers:''' [[Lou Duva]], Ken Sanders (1984-1990, 2008-2011), [[Shelly Finkel]], [[Jim Thomas]]
*'''Promoter:''' [[Dan Duva]] ([[Main Events]])
*'''Cutmen:''' [[Ace Marotta]] and [[Jim Strickland]]
*'''Conditioning Coach:''' Tim Hallmark
*'''[[:Category:Evander Holyfield Gallery|Evander Holyfield Gallery]]'''

==Amateur Achievements==
[[File:Holyfield 79027848.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield at the 1984 Olympics]]
*'''Record:''' 160-14 with 75 KOs
*1983 U.S. National Championships Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Results:
**[[Arthur Weathers]] TKO 3
**Antonio Sweeney W 3
**Glenn Wiggins TKO 2
**[[Ricky Womack]] L 3
*1983 Pan American Games Silver Medalist (178 lbs) in Caracas, Venezuela. Results:
**Rodolfo Marin (Puerto Rico) W 3 (5-0)
**Carlos Salazar (Venezuela) RSC 2
**[[Pablo Romero]] (Cuba) L 3 (1-4)
*1984 National [[Golden Gloves]] Gold Medalist (178 lbs) in St. Louis, Missouri. Results:
**Sherman Griffin RSC 2
**Jerry Goff RSC 1
**Arthur Weathers RSC 2
*1984 U.S. Olympic Trials Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Fort Worth, Texas. Results:
**Sherman Griffin W 3 (5-0)
**[[Ricky Womack]] L 3 (2-3)
*1984 U.S. Olympic Box-Offs Winner (178 lbs) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Results:
**Ricky Womack W 3 (4-1)
**Ricky Womack W 3 (4-1)
*1984 [[Olympics|Olympic]] Games Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Los Angeles, California. Results:
**Taju Akay (Ghana) RSCH 3
**Ismail Khalil Salman (Iraq) RSCH 2
**Sylvanus Okello (Kenya) W KO 1
**[[Kevin Barry]] (New Zealand) L DQ 2

'''Olympic Disqualification''' 
[[File:Holyfield-Barry 79028351.jpg|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Kevin Barry at the 1984 Olympics]]
Holyfield was disqualified in his light heavyweight semifinal bout with [[Kevin Barry]] of New Zealand for hitting after the break.

Near the end of the second round, with Barry grabbing him around the neck with his left arm, Holyfield pulled back and—just as Yugoslavian referee Gligorije Novicic yelled "Stop!"—slammed a right to the body and a left hook to the head. Barry crumbled to the canvas. He regained his feet, but was very wobbly. Novicic stopped the fight and disqualified Holyfield for hitting on the break. Holyfield, who was dominating the bout, said he didn't hear the referee.

Because he was stopped by a head blow, Barry was medically ineligible to fight for 28 days. As a result, [[Anton Josipovic]] of Yugoslavia, who defeated Mustapha Moussa of Algeria in the other semifinal, was awarded the gold medal on a walkover.

The U.S. filed a protest. The protest was based on three points:
:(1) The punch was started before the referee yelled "stop," thus making it a legal punch.
:(2) The noise level of the crowd was so high that it was doubtful whether Holyfield could have heard the referee at all.
:(3) Barry was in the process of being warned for holding when the incident occurred. And there was a possiblity that the warning would be cause for disqualifying Barry.

The protest was rejected by the [[International Amateur Boxing Association]]. "There is no doubt in the minds of the protest committee," said Colonel Don Hull, the president of AIBA. "They reviewed the film and it is clear that there was a violation and that an illegal blow incapacitated. The referee enforced the rules."

Loring Baker, head of the United States Amateur Boxing Federation, said the referee should have stopped the bout earlier because Barry was flagrantly holding. "Had the referee done his job properly, the fight would have been stopped before the foul occurred," Baker said.

"Novicic blew it," said John Holaus, one of four American officials who worked the competition. "He was going from cautions to warnings and then back to cautions. It's against the rules. Once you issue a warning, you can't go back to cautions. I couldn't believe what I was seeing."

==Professional Achievements==
[[File:HolyfieldBuster.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Buster Douglas in 1990]]
[[File:Bowe vs. Holyfield II 290586.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe in 1993]]
[[File:Holyfield Tyson I 160428480.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson in 1996]]
'''World Titles:'''
*Holyfield is the only fighter to win a portion of the World Heavyweight Championship four times.
*'''[[WBA]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1986-1988) Won the title with a fifteen-round split decision against [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]].
*'''[[IBF]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1987-1988) Won the title with a third-round TKO of [[Ricky Parkey]].
*'''[[WBC]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1988) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Carlos DeLeon]]. Became the first Undisputed World Cruiserweight Champion. Vacated the [[WBA]]/[[WBC]]/[[IBF]] championship to move up to heavyweight.
*'''[[WBC]]/[[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1990-1992) Won the Undisputed [[World Heavyweight Champion|World Heavyweight Championship]] with a third-round KO of [[James (Buster) Douglas|James "Buster" Douglas]]. Lost the title to [[Riddick Bowe]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.
*'''[[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1993-1994) Won the title with a twelve-round majority decision against [[Riddick Bowe]]. Lost the title to [[Michael Moorer]] by a twelve-round majority decision.
*'''[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1996-1999) Won the title with an eleventh-round TKO of [[Mike Tyson]].
*'''[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1997-1999) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Michael Moorer]]. Lost the [[WBA]]/[[IBF]] championship to [[Lennox Lewis]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.
*'''[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion''' (2000-2001) Won the vacant title with a twelve-round unanimous decision against [[John Ruiz]]. Lost the title to [[John Ruiz]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.

'''Minor & Regional Titles:'''
*'''[[WBC]] Continental Americas Heavyweight Championship''' (1989-1990) Won the title with a tenth-round TKO of [[Michael Dokes]]. Vacated the title when he won the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship.
*'''[[USBA]] Heavyweight Championship''' (2006) Won the vacant title with a twelve-round unanimous decision against [[Fres Oquendo]]. Vacated the title.
*'''[[World Boxing Federation|WBF]] Heavyweight Championship''' (2010-2011) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Francois Botha]]. Vacated the title.

'''Record:'''
*Has a record of 16-7-2 (9 KO) in World Title fights.
*Has a record of 19-9-2 (10 KO) against former, current and future world titlists.
**Won against [[Tyrone Booze]], [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]] (twice), [[Ricky Parkey]], [[Ossie Ocasio]], [[Carlos De Leon]], [[Pinklon Thomas]], [[Michael Dokes]], [[James (Buster) Douglas]], [[George Foreman]], [[Larry Holmes]], [[Riddick Bowe]], [[Ray Mercer]], [[Bobby Czyz]], [[Mike Tyson]] (twice), [[Michael Moorer]], [[John Ruiz]], [[Hasim Rahman]]
**Lost against [[Riddick Bowe]] (twice), [[Michael Moorer]], [[Lennox Lewis]], [[John Ruiz]], [[Chris Byrd]], [[James Toney]], [[Sultan Ibragimov]], [[Nikolay Valuev]]
**Drew with [[Lennox Lewis]], [[John Ruiz]]
*Has a record of 7-3-1 (2 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
**Won against [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]] (twice), [[George Foreman]], [[Larry Holmes]], [[Riddick Bowe]], [[Mike Tyson]] (twice).
**Lost against [[Riddick Bowe]] (twice), [[Lennox Lewis]].
**Drew with [[Lennox Lewis]].

==Awards & Recognition==
[[File:97Apr.jpg|right|210px]]
*[[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|''The Ring'' Fighter of the Year]] for 1987, 1996 and 1997.
*The [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] for 1990, 1996 and 1997.
*The [[WBA]] presented Holyfield with the [[Muhammad Ali]] [[:File:AliAwardHolyfield.jpg|Award]] for becoming a three-time heavyweight champion in 1996.
*[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi vs. Evander Holyfield (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Dwight Muhammad Qawi I]] was named the best cruiserweight fight of the 1980s by [[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']].
*[[Michael Dokes vs. Evander Holyfield|Evander Holyfield vs. Michael Dokes]] was named the best heavyweight fight of the 1980s ''The Ring''.
*[[Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe I]] was [[Ring Magazine Fight of the Year|''The Ring'' Fight of the Year]] for 1992, and the tenth round was the [[Ring Magazine Round of the Year|Round of the Year]].
*[[Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson I]] was ''The Ring'' Fight of the Year and [[Ring Magazine Upset of the Year|Upset of the Year]] for 1996.
*[[Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson (2nd meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II]] was [[Ring Magazine Event of the Year|''The Ring'' Event of the Year]] for 1997.
*[[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] ranked Holyfield as the [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|greatest cruiserweight of all-time]] in 1994.
*[[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] ranked Holyfield as the third [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|greatest heavyweight of all-time]] in 1998.
*Inducted into the [[Georgia Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2001.
*''The Ring'' ranked Holyfield as the twenty-third [[The 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years|best fighter of the last 80 years]] in 2002.
*Inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014.

==Notes==
*During the seventh round of Holyfield's second fight with [[Riddick Bowe]], a man on a motorized paraglider flew into the outdoor arena at [[Caesars Palace]] in Las Vegas and attempted to land in the ring. He crashed into the ring ropes and his chute got caught in the ring lights. The man, who called himself Fan Man, was pulled from the ropes and beaten unconscious by Bowe's security. He was briefly hospitalized and then arrested. After a 21-minute delay, the fight resumed. Holyfield won by a majority decision to regain the [[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Championship.
*After losing to [[Michael Moorer]] in Las Vegas on April 22, 1994, Holyfield was diagnosed with a heart ailment. He was told he had a "diastolic dysfunction of the left ventricle." As a result, he announced his retirement. In June 1994, Holyfield said he was cured by faith healer Benny Hinn and planned to return to boxing. At the insistence of the [[Nevada State Athletic Commission]], he went through a battery of tests at the Mayo Clinic in November 1994 and was given a clean bill of health. Holyfield was told he had been misdiagnosed because he was over-medicated and over-hydrated in the treatment he received after the Moorer fight. In February 1995, Nevada boxing officials voted to lift his medical suspension. He returned to the ring on May 20, 1995, and defeated [[Ray Mercer]] by a ten-round unanimous decision.
*Holyfield fought [[Riddick Bowe]] for the third and final time on November 4, 1995. Holyfield, who later said he was suffering from Hepatitis A, appeared to be completely exhausted by the fifth round. With about a minute left in the fifth round, [[HBO]] commentator [[George Foreman]] stood up and called for the fight to be stopped. "This man is going to end up in a pine box," Foreman said. "He's got heart trouble." Holyfield dropped Bowe early in the sixth round, but was unable to finish him. Bowe came back to stop Holyfield two rounds later.
*Holyfield was first scheduled to fight [[Mike Tyson]] for the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship on June 18, 1990, but those plans were spoiled by [[James (Buster) Douglas]], who knocked out Tyson on February 11, 1990. Holyfield won the title from Douglas and was scheduled to defend it against Tyson on November 8, 1991, but the fight was canceled after Tyson suffered a rib injury during training. Before the fight could be rescheduled, Tyson was convicted of rape and sent to prison. Holyfield finally fought Tyson on November 9, 1996, and stopped him in the eleventh round to win the [[WBA]] Heavyweight Championship.
*During the third round of his rematch with [[Mike Tyson]] on June 28, 1997, Holyfield was bitten twice by Tyson. After he bit a one-inch chunk out of Holyfield's right ear, referee [[Mills Lane]] called time and deducted two points from Tyson. When the fight resumed, Tyson bit Holyfield's left ear. When Lane saw the bite marks on Holyfield's left ear after the third round, he disqualified Tyson.
*Holyfield lost to [[Larry Donald]] by a lopsided twelve-round unanimous decision in New York City on November 13, 2004. It was his third straight defeat. After the fight, the [[New York State Athletic Commission]] medically suspended Holyfield for poor performance. Although Holyfield passed a battery of tests, the commission voted to suspend Holyfield's license indefinitely in August 2005, but lifted the medical suspension that prevented him from fighting in other states.
*On August 29, 2006, Federal Drug Enforcement Agency officials in Alabama raided a compounding pharmacy (a pharmacy that makes its own drugs generically) called Applied Pharmacy Services. Among the documents seized were records stating that, in June 2004, a patient named “Evan Fields” picked up three vials of testosterone and related injection supplies from a doctor in Columbus, Georgia. That same month, Fields received five vials of Saizen (a human growth hormone). In September 2004, according to the documents, Fields underwent treatment for hypogonadism (a condition that results when the sex glands produce little or no hormones). The date of birth, home address, and telephone number listed for Evan Fields in Applied Pharmacy’s records were identical to those of Evander Holyfield. When these facts were made public, Holyfield issued a statement that read in part, “I have never taken an illegal or banned performance enhancing drug of any kind. The use of such substances runs counter to everything I believe about sports and my place in the athletic world.”
*Holyfield's last shot at a major title occurred when he fought [[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion [[Nikolay Valuev]] on December 20, 2008, in Zurich, Switzerland. At the age of 46, Holyfield was trying to become the oldest fighter ever to win a portion of the World Heavyweight Championship. He lost by a controversial twelve-round majority decision. Chris Mannix of ''SI.com'' wrote that Holyfield "absolutely, positively won the fight."
*On June 26, 2014, three years and a month since his last fight, Holyfield officially announced his retirement from boxing at the age of 51.

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]]|
title=[[WBA Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Taoufik Belbouli]]|
years=1986 Jul 12 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Ricky Parkey]]|
title=[[IBF Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Glenn McCrory]]|
years=1987 May 15 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Carlos DeLeon]]|
title=[[WBC Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Carlos DeLeon]]|
years=1988 Apr 9 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[James (Buster) Douglas]]|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]] [[WBA Heavyweight Champion]] [[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Riddick Bowe]]|
years=1990 Oct 25 – 1992 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Riddick Bowe]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]] [[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Michael Moorer]]|
years=1993 Nov 6 – 1994 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Mike Tyson]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
years=1996 Nov 9 – 1999 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Michael Moorer]]|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
years=1997 Nov 8 – 1999 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Lennox Lewis]] Stripped|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[John Ruiz]]|
years=2000 Aug 12 – 2001 Mar 3
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holyfield, Evander}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:National Golden Gloves Champions]]
[[Category:1984 Olympians]]
[[Category:American Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Bronze Medalists]]
[[Category:World Cruiserweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]

==Professional Highlights==
{{#ev:youtube|exsyKuRRqP8}}

Tomasz Adamek

2018-12-25T19:32:07Z

Mthompson95: /* Career Factoids */

[[file:TomaszAdamek.jpg|left|280px|thumb]]
<boxer>014883</boxer>
'''Trainers:''' [[Andrzej Gmitruk]], [[Sam Colonna]], [[Ronnie Shields]], [[Roger Bloodworth]], [[Gus Curren]] (current) 
'''Manager:''' [[Mateusz Borek]] 
'''[[:Category:Tomasz Adamek Gallery|Tomasz Adamek Gallery]]''' 

== Professional Career ==
'''Tomasz Adamek''' was a Polish professional heavyweight boxer known for his incredible punch resistance, for winning the [[International Boxing Federation]] cruiserweight championship, and ''[[Ring Magazine|The Ring]]'' title. He was held the WBC light heavyweight championship, and the IBO cruiserweight championship. His trainer was [[Roger Bloodworth]]; his manager was [[Ziggy Rozalski]]. He was promoted by [[Main Events]].

He is to be distinguished from [[Tomas Adamek]].

== Career Factoids ==
*Had a record of 6-2 (3 KO) in World Title fights.

*Had a record of 3-2 (1 KO) against former or current world titlists.
**Won against [[O'Neil Bell]] and [[Steve Cunningham]] (twice).
**Lost to [[Chad Dawson]] and [[Vitali Klitschko]].

==Regional & Minor Titles Held==
*Republic of Poland International Heavyweight Title
*[[IBF]] North American Heavyweight Title
*[[WBO]] [[NABO]] Heavyweight Title
*[[IBF]] International Heavyweight Title
*[[IBO]] World Cruiserweight Title
*[[WBO]] Inter-Continetal Light Heavyweight Title
*[[IBF]] Inter-Continetal Light Heavyweight Title
*Republic of Poland International Light Heavyweight Title
*[[WBA]] CIS and Slovac Boxing Bureau (CISBB) Light Heavyweight Title
*[[International Boxing Council|IBC]] Inter-Continetal Light Heavyweight Title

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Antonio Tarver]] Stripped|
title=[[WBC Light Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Chad Dawson]]|
years=2005 May 21 – 2007 Feb 3
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Steve Cunningham]]|
title=[[IBF Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Steve Cunningham]]|
years=2008 Dec 11 – 2009 Oct '''Vacated'''|
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adamek, Tomasz}}
[[Category:World Light Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Cruiserweight Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:Polish World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:NABO Heavyweight Champions]]

Lennox Lewis

2018-12-25T14:03:07Z

Mthompson95: /* Profesional Highlights */

[[File:LennoxTitles.jpg|left|250px]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2009 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/lewislennox.html click]]]
<boxer>001853</boxer>
*'''Trainers:''' [[John Davenport]] (1989-1992), [[Pepe Correa]] (1992-1994), [[Emanuel Steward]] (1995-2003)
*'''Manager:''' [[Frank Maloney]], [[Adrian Ogun]]
*'''Promoters:''' [[Panos Eliades]] and [[Frank Maloney]] ([[Panix Promotions]]) (1988-2001), [[Dino Duva]] ([[Main Events]])
*'''Cut Man:''' [[Al Gavin]]
*'''[[:Category:Lennox Lewis Gallery|Lennox Lewis Gallery]]
== Amateur Highlights ==
[[file:Lewis.lennox.am.jpg|right|frame|Lewis won Gold at the 1988 Olympics Photo: Stan Behal/Toronto Sun]]
*Record: Usually listed as being either 85-9 or 94-11. However 85-11 is closer to what the records seem to suggest. With all known Walkover results taken out and Lewis' record is likely 80-10. 5 of his defeats later being avenged.
*Unbeaten in first 3 years of his amateur career before losing aged 15 to 18 year Old Donovan Razor Ruddock.
*1980 Ontario '''Canada''' Junior Championships: Lost a 3:2 decision to [[Razor Ruddock|Donovan Ruddock]] in the middleweight class.
*May 1982 Lost a 3:2 decision to H. Thompson in the '''Canadian''' Junior Championships.
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist for '''Canada''' at the 1983 Junior World Championships in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the 1984 '''Canadian''' Amateur Championships.
*'''Canadian''' Super Heavyweight representative at the 1984 [[Olympics]] in Los Angeles, California, USA. Results:
**Defeated Mohammad Yousuf (Pakistan) RSC 3
**Lost to [[Tyrell Biggs]] (United States) 0-5 (this means all 5 judges had Biggs winning)
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the 1985 '''Canadian''' Amateur Championships.
*Super Heavyweight Silver Medalist for '''Canada''' at the 1985 World Cup Championships in Seoul, South Korea. Results:
**Defeated [[Juan Antonio Diaz]] (Argentina) RET-1
**Lost to Vyacheslav Jakovlev (Soviet Union) 0-5
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the 1986 Canadian Amateur Championships.
*'''Canadian''' Super Heavyweight representative at the 1986 World Amateur Championships in Reno, Nevada, USA. Lost a controversial 3:2 decision to Petar Stoymenov of Bulgaria in his opening round match.
*Lost a 2:1 decision to Jonathan Littles (USA) in Bay City USA in the Tope invitational. He then beat J. Davidson by RSC2 in the same tournament.
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist for '''Canada''' at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.
* Lost in Semi finals to Valeriy Abadzhyan (URS) by RSC3 on a body shot in the TSC Tournament,Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle, Berlin, GDR,October 01-07, 1986.
* Forfeited bout for third Place so is recorded as a loss by walkover to Ladislav Husarik (CZE)
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the 1987 Canadian Amateur Championships.
*Super Heavyweight Silver Medalist for Canada at the 1987 Pan-American Games in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Results:
**Defeated Carlos Barcelete (Brazil) KO 2
**Lost a controversial 4:1 decision to [[Jorge Luis Gonzalez]] (Cuba).
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist for Canada at the 1987 North American Championships in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Defeated Jorge Luis Gonzalez of Cuba by a 2-1 decision in the final.
*Lost a disputed 3-2 decision in the Quarter finals to Ulli Kaden (East Germany) in the Amateur World Cup Oct 26th-31st 1987 Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the March 1988 Canadian Amateur Championships beating R. Ayotte by RET1.
*Silver medalist in the Intercup in West Germany. Lewis beat Crispine Odera (KEN) by RSC2. Then avenged a previous defeat to Petar Stojmenov (BUL) by a 3:2 decision. In the finals Lewis lost a 5:0 points decision to Aleksandr Miroshnichenko (URS).
*Won the Canada Cup by beating Elton Wright (USA) by RET1 in June 1988 in Ottawa, Canada.
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist for Canada at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Results:
**Defeated Chrispine Odera (Kenya) RSC 2
**Defeated [[Ulli Kaden]] (East Germany) RSC 1
**Defeated [[Janusz Zarenkiewicz]] (Poland) WO
**Defeated [[Riddick Bowe]] (United States) RSC 2

== Profesional Highlights ==
[[File:LewisHolyfieldII.jpg|right|frame|Lewis defeated Evander Holyfield in 1999 to become the Unified World Heavyweight Champion Photo: Al Bello/Allsport]]

*Has a record of 3-0-1 (2 KO's) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
°Won against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/holyfield.html Evander Holyfield], [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/tyson.html Mike Tyson] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/klitschko.html Vitali Klitschko].

°Drew with
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/holyfield.html Evander Holyfield].

'''World Titles:'''
*[[WBC]] Heavyweight Champion (1992-1994, 1997-2001, 2001-2004)
*[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion (1999-2000)
*[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion (1999-2001, 2001-2002)

'''Minor & Regional Titles:'''
*[[EBU|European Boxing Union]] Heavyweight Champion (1990-1992)
*[[British Boxing Board of Control]] Heavyweight Champion (1991-1992)
*[[Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion|Commonwealth (British Empire) Heavyweight Champion]] (1990-1992)
*[[International Boxing Council|IBC]] Heavyweight Champion (1995)
*[[IBO]] Heavyweight Champion (1999-2001, 2001-2004)

'''Record:'''
*15-2-1 (10 KO) in World Title fights.
*14-2-1 (9 KO) against former or current world titlists.
**Won against [[Ossie Ocasio]], [[Mike Weaver]], [[Glenn McCrory]], [[Tony Tucker]], [[Frank Bruno]], [[Tommy Morrison]], [[Ray Mercer]], [[Oliver McCall]], [[Henry Akinwande]], [[Shannon Briggs]], [[Evander Holyfield]], [[Hasim Rahman]], [[Mike Tyson]] and [[Vitali Klitschko]]
**Lost against [[Oliver McCall]] and [[Hasim Rahman]]
**Drew with [[Evander Holyfield]]

== Notes ==
*Lewis was born in England and moved to Canada at the age of 12.
*In his early days, Lewis was known as "The Kitchener Thunderbolt," as he learned to box in Kitchener, Ontario. Like Canadian Larry Gains before him, Lewis chose to advance his career in Europe where he could become a big fish in a little pond and get the British people behind him.
*Lewis won the [[Lonsdale Belt]] outright after successfully defending his British Heavyweight Championship against [[Glenn McCrory]] in 1991 and [[Derek Williams]] in 1992.
*Lewis knocked out [[Razor Ruddock]] in two rounds in a WBC title eliminator on October 31, 1992.
*Before [[Riddick Bowe]] defeated [[Evander Holyfield]] to win the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship on November 13, 1992, he signed an agreement with the WBC to make his first title defense—if he should defeat Holyfield—against the winner of the title eliminator between Lewis and Ruddock. The WBC gave Bowe and Lewis until December 13 to reach an agreement or the fight would go to a purse bid. If Bowe refused to meet Lewis, the WBC title would be awarded to Lewis.
*[[Rock Newman]], Bowe's manager, made two offers to Lewis. The first would have guaranteed Lewis $3 million, while giving Bowe 90% of the purse and Lewis 10%. The second offer was for Lewis to refuse the WBC title, have an interim fight in the United States for $2.5 million, and then fight Bowe for $9 million or a percentage to be negotiated. [[Frank Maloney]], the manager of Lewis, rejected both offers and countered with his own proposal: a 75-25 percent split of the purse. Newman turned it down. Maloney later had a change of heart and agreed to the first offer, but Newman told him he was too late. Newman said a deal for Bowe to defend the title against an opponent other than Lewis was imminent.
*On December 14, 1992, Riddick Bowe held a news conference and dumped his WBC title into a garbage can. "If Lewis wants the belt, he has to get it out of the garbage," Bowe said. The WBC then declared Lennox Lewis the new WBC heavyweight champion.
*Lewis was the first British-born boxer to win a world heavyweight title since [[Bob Fitzsimmons]] in 1897.
*The [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] named Lewis [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] for 1999.
*[[Hasim Rahman]]'s knockout of Lewis in 2001 was named [[Ring Magazine Upset of the Year|Upset of the Year]] and [[Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year|Knockout of the Year]] by [[Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']].
*Lewis was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of The Order of The British Empire) in 1999 and the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2002.
*[[Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] named Lewis' 2002 knockout of [[Mike Tyson]] [[Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year|Knockout of the Year]].
*Lewis retired as [[World Heavyweight Champion]] on February 6, 2004.
*Lewis defeated every professional opponent he faced, one of only three World Heavyweight Champions to do so, with [[Rocky Marciano]] and [[Ingemar Johansson]] being the other two. [[Gene Tunney]] and [[Riddick Bowe]] avenged their professional defeats, but Tunney had a no-contest, a draw and a number of [[No decision|no-decision]] fights against boxers he never defeated, and Bowe had a [[no contest|no-contest]] against [[Buster Mathis Jr.]], whom he never defeated.
*Three fighters retired after losing to Lewis: [[Andrew Gerrard]], Noel Quarless and [[Zeljko Mavrovic]].
*Lewis recorded five first-round knockouts and 15 knockouts within three rounds.
*From 2006 to 2010, Lewis worked as a ringside analyst for [[HBO]].
*Lewis was inducted into the [[World Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2008, the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2009 and the [[Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2015.
*Lewis has appeared in a number of television shows and movies: [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507459/ Filmography]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Riddick Bowe]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Oliver McCall]]|
years=1992 Dec 14 – 1994 Sep 24
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Mike Tyson]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
years=1997 Feb 7 – 2001 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Evander Holyfield]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Evander Holyfield]]|
years=1999 Nov 13 – 2000 Apr 29 '''Stripped'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Evander Holyfield]]|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
years=1999 Nov 13 – 2001 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Brian Nielsen]] Stripped|
title=[[IBO Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
years=1999 Nov 13 – 2001 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Vitali Klitschko]]|
years=2001 Nov 17 – 2004 Feb 6 '''Retired'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Chris Byrd]]|
years=2001 Nov 17 – 2002 Sep 5 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
title=[[IBO Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Wladimir Klitschko]]|
years=2001 Nov 17 – 2004 Feb 6 '''Retired'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Lennox}}
[[Category:1984 Olympians]]
[[Category:1988 Olympians]]
[[Category:Canadian Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Gold Medalists]]
[[Category: BBBoC British Title Outright Winners]]
[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:English World Champions]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Boxing Council Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]

Lennox Lewis

2018-12-25T14:01:53Z

Mthompson95: /* Profesional Highlights */

[[File:LennoxTitles.jpg|left|250px]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2009 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/lewislennox.html click]]]
<boxer>001853</boxer>
*'''Trainers:''' [[John Davenport]] (1989-1992), [[Pepe Correa]] (1992-1994), [[Emanuel Steward]] (1995-2003)
*'''Manager:''' [[Frank Maloney]], [[Adrian Ogun]]
*'''Promoters:''' [[Panos Eliades]] and [[Frank Maloney]] ([[Panix Promotions]]) (1988-2001), [[Dino Duva]] ([[Main Events]])
*'''Cut Man:''' [[Al Gavin]]
*'''[[:Category:Lennox Lewis Gallery|Lennox Lewis Gallery]]
== Amateur Highlights ==
[[file:Lewis.lennox.am.jpg|right|frame|Lewis won Gold at the 1988 Olympics Photo: Stan Behal/Toronto Sun]]
*Record: Usually listed as being either 85-9 or 94-11. However 85-11 is closer to what the records seem to suggest. With all known Walkover results taken out and Lewis' record is likely 80-10. 5 of his defeats later being avenged.
*Unbeaten in first 3 years of his amateur career before losing aged 15 to 18 year Old Donovan Razor Ruddock.
*1980 Ontario '''Canada''' Junior Championships: Lost a 3:2 decision to [[Razor Ruddock|Donovan Ruddock]] in the middleweight class.
*May 1982 Lost a 3:2 decision to H. Thompson in the '''Canadian''' Junior Championships.
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist for '''Canada''' at the 1983 Junior World Championships in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the 1984 '''Canadian''' Amateur Championships.
*'''Canadian''' Super Heavyweight representative at the 1984 [[Olympics]] in Los Angeles, California, USA. Results:
**Defeated Mohammad Yousuf (Pakistan) RSC 3
**Lost to [[Tyrell Biggs]] (United States) 0-5 (this means all 5 judges had Biggs winning)
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the 1985 '''Canadian''' Amateur Championships.
*Super Heavyweight Silver Medalist for '''Canada''' at the 1985 World Cup Championships in Seoul, South Korea. Results:
**Defeated [[Juan Antonio Diaz]] (Argentina) RET-1
**Lost to Vyacheslav Jakovlev (Soviet Union) 0-5
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the 1986 Canadian Amateur Championships.
*'''Canadian''' Super Heavyweight representative at the 1986 World Amateur Championships in Reno, Nevada, USA. Lost a controversial 3:2 decision to Petar Stoymenov of Bulgaria in his opening round match.
*Lost a 2:1 decision to Jonathan Littles (USA) in Bay City USA in the Tope invitational. He then beat J. Davidson by RSC2 in the same tournament.
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist for '''Canada''' at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.
* Lost in Semi finals to Valeriy Abadzhyan (URS) by RSC3 on a body shot in the TSC Tournament,Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle, Berlin, GDR,October 01-07, 1986.
* Forfeited bout for third Place so is recorded as a loss by walkover to Ladislav Husarik (CZE)
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the 1987 Canadian Amateur Championships.
*Super Heavyweight Silver Medalist for Canada at the 1987 Pan-American Games in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Results:
**Defeated Carlos Barcelete (Brazil) KO 2
**Lost a controversial 4:1 decision to [[Jorge Luis Gonzalez]] (Cuba).
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist for Canada at the 1987 North American Championships in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Defeated Jorge Luis Gonzalez of Cuba by a 2-1 decision in the final.
*Lost a disputed 3-2 decision in the Quarter finals to Ulli Kaden (East Germany) in the Amateur World Cup Oct 26th-31st 1987 Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the March 1988 Canadian Amateur Championships beating R. Ayotte by RET1.
*Silver medalist in the Intercup in West Germany. Lewis beat Crispine Odera (KEN) by RSC2. Then avenged a previous defeat to Petar Stojmenov (BUL) by a 3:2 decision. In the finals Lewis lost a 5:0 points decision to Aleksandr Miroshnichenko (URS).
*Won the Canada Cup by beating Elton Wright (USA) by RET1 in June 1988 in Ottawa, Canada.
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist for Canada at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Results:
**Defeated Chrispine Odera (Kenya) RSC 2
**Defeated [[Ulli Kaden]] (East Germany) RSC 1
**Defeated [[Janusz Zarenkiewicz]] (Poland) WO
**Defeated [[Riddick Bowe]] (United States) RSC 2

== Profesional Highlights ==
[[File:LewisHolyfieldII.jpg|right|frame|Lewis defeated Evander Holyfield in 1999 to become the Unified World Heavyweight Champion Photo: Al Bello/Allsport]]

*Has a record of 3-0-1 (2 KO's) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]]:
°Won against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/holyfield.html Evander Holyfield], [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/tyson.html Mike Tyson] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/klitschko.html Vitali Klitschko].

°Drew with
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/holyfield.html Evander Holyfield].

'''World Titles:'''
*[[WBC]] Heavyweight Champion (1992-1994, 1997-2001, 2001-2004)
*[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion (1999-2000)
*[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion (1999-2001, 2001-2002)

'''Minor & Regional Titles:'''
*[[EBU|European Boxing Union]] Heavyweight Champion (1990-1992)
*[[British Boxing Board of Control]] Heavyweight Champion (1991-1992)
*[[Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion|Commonwealth (British Empire) Heavyweight Champion]] (1990-1992)
*[[International Boxing Council|IBC]] Heavyweight Champion (1995)
*[[IBO]] Heavyweight Champion (1999-2001, 2001-2004)

'''Record:'''
*15-2-1 (10 KO) in World Title fights.
*14-2-1 (9 KO) against former or current world titlists.
**Won against [[Ossie Ocasio]], [[Mike Weaver]], [[Glenn McCrory]], [[Tony Tucker]], [[Frank Bruno]], [[Tommy Morrison]], [[Ray Mercer]], [[Oliver McCall]], [[Henry Akinwande]], [[Shannon Briggs]], [[Evander Holyfield]], [[Hasim Rahman]], [[Mike Tyson]] and [[Vitali Klitschko]]
**Lost against [[Oliver McCall]] and [[Hasim Rahman]]
**Drew with [[Evander Holyfield]]

== Notes ==
*Lewis was born in England and moved to Canada at the age of 12.
*In his early days, Lewis was known as "The Kitchener Thunderbolt," as he learned to box in Kitchener, Ontario. Like Canadian Larry Gains before him, Lewis chose to advance his career in Europe where he could become a big fish in a little pond and get the British people behind him.
*Lewis won the [[Lonsdale Belt]] outright after successfully defending his British Heavyweight Championship against [[Glenn McCrory]] in 1991 and [[Derek Williams]] in 1992.
*Lewis knocked out [[Razor Ruddock]] in two rounds in a WBC title eliminator on October 31, 1992.
*Before [[Riddick Bowe]] defeated [[Evander Holyfield]] to win the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship on November 13, 1992, he signed an agreement with the WBC to make his first title defense—if he should defeat Holyfield—against the winner of the title eliminator between Lewis and Ruddock. The WBC gave Bowe and Lewis until December 13 to reach an agreement or the fight would go to a purse bid. If Bowe refused to meet Lewis, the WBC title would be awarded to Lewis.
*[[Rock Newman]], Bowe's manager, made two offers to Lewis. The first would have guaranteed Lewis $3 million, while giving Bowe 90% of the purse and Lewis 10%. The second offer was for Lewis to refuse the WBC title, have an interim fight in the United States for $2.5 million, and then fight Bowe for $9 million or a percentage to be negotiated. [[Frank Maloney]], the manager of Lewis, rejected both offers and countered with his own proposal: a 75-25 percent split of the purse. Newman turned it down. Maloney later had a change of heart and agreed to the first offer, but Newman told him he was too late. Newman said a deal for Bowe to defend the title against an opponent other than Lewis was imminent.
*On December 14, 1992, Riddick Bowe held a news conference and dumped his WBC title into a garbage can. "If Lewis wants the belt, he has to get it out of the garbage," Bowe said. The WBC then declared Lennox Lewis the new WBC heavyweight champion.
*Lewis was the first British-born boxer to win a world heavyweight title since [[Bob Fitzsimmons]] in 1897.
*The [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] named Lewis [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] for 1999.
*[[Hasim Rahman]]'s knockout of Lewis in 2001 was named [[Ring Magazine Upset of the Year|Upset of the Year]] and [[Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year|Knockout of the Year]] by [[Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']].
*Lewis was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of The Order of The British Empire) in 1999 and the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2002.
*[[Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] named Lewis' 2002 knockout of [[Mike Tyson]] [[Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year|Knockout of the Year]].
*Lewis retired as [[World Heavyweight Champion]] on February 6, 2004.
*Lewis defeated every professional opponent he faced, one of only three World Heavyweight Champions to do so, with [[Rocky Marciano]] and [[Ingemar Johansson]] being the other two. [[Gene Tunney]] and [[Riddick Bowe]] avenged their professional defeats, but Tunney had a no-contest, a draw and a number of [[No decision|no-decision]] fights against boxers he never defeated, and Bowe had a [[no contest|no-contest]] against [[Buster Mathis Jr.]], whom he never defeated.
*Three fighters retired after losing to Lewis: [[Andrew Gerrard]], Noel Quarless and [[Zeljko Mavrovic]].
*Lewis recorded five first-round knockouts and 15 knockouts within three rounds.
*From 2006 to 2010, Lewis worked as a ringside analyst for [[HBO]].
*Lewis was inducted into the [[World Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2008, the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2009 and the [[Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2015.
*Lewis has appeared in a number of television shows and movies: [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507459/ Filmography]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Riddick Bowe]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Oliver McCall]]|
years=1992 Dec 14 – 1994 Sep 24
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Mike Tyson]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
years=1997 Feb 7 – 2001 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Evander Holyfield]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Evander Holyfield]]|
years=1999 Nov 13 – 2000 Apr 29 '''Stripped'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Evander Holyfield]]|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
years=1999 Nov 13 – 2001 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Brian Nielsen]] Stripped|
title=[[IBO Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
years=1999 Nov 13 – 2001 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Vitali Klitschko]]|
years=2001 Nov 17 – 2004 Feb 6 '''Retired'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Chris Byrd]]|
years=2001 Nov 17 – 2002 Sep 5 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
title=[[IBO Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Wladimir Klitschko]]|
years=2001 Nov 17 – 2004 Feb 6 '''Retired'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Lennox}}
[[Category:1984 Olympians]]
[[Category:1988 Olympians]]
[[Category:Canadian Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Gold Medalists]]
[[Category: BBBoC British Title Outright Winners]]
[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:English World Champions]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Boxing Council Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]

Julio Cesar Chavez

2018-12-25T13:56:16Z

Mthompson95: /* Notes */

[[File:Julio Cesar Chavez.jpg|left|300px]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2011 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/chavez.html click]]]
[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]]
<boxer>008119</boxer>
'''Manager:''' [[Ramon Felix]] 
'''Trainers:''' [[Cristobal Rosas]], [[Emanuel Steward]] (1994-) 
'''[[:Category:Julio Cesar Chavez Gallery|Julio Cesar Chavez Gallery]]''' 

== Notes ==
* Chavez had a purported amateur record of 14-1.
*In his 12th pro fight, Chavez fought Miguel Ruiz on [[Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Miguel Ruiz|March 4, 1981]] in Culiacan, Mexico. Chavez was initially disqualified by the referee for hitting Ruiz after the bell ending the first round, but the result was officially overturned the next day by the Culiacan commission and changed to a 1st-round knockout for Chavez. The commission ruled that Chavez had not hit Ruiz after the bell. Chavez's manager, the late Ramon Felix, was on the Culiacan commission at the time.
*Father of fellow boxers [[Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.]] and [[Omar Chavez]].
*Won his first 87 professional fights.
*Has a record of 31-4-2 (21 KOs) in world title fights.
*Has a record of 18-4-2 (10 KOs) against former world titlists.
**Won against [[Roger Mayweather]] (twice), [[Rocky Lockridge]], [[Juan Laporte]], [[Edwin Rosario]], [[Rafael Limon]], [[Jose Luis Ramirez]], [[Sammy Fuentes]], [[Meldrick Taylor]] (twice), [[Lonnie Smith]], [[Hector Camacho]], [[Greg Haugen]], [[Frankie Randall]] (twice), [[Tony Lopez]], [[Giovanni Parisi]], [[Joey Gamache]].
**Lost against Frankie Randall, [[Oscar De La Hoya]] (twice), [[Kostya Tszyu]].
**Drew with [[Pernell Whitaker]], [[Miguel Angel Gonzalez]].
*Has a record of 2-3-1 (1 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
°Won against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/rosario.html Edwin Rosario] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/camacho.html Hector Camacho].

°Lost against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/delahoya.html Oscar De La Hoya] (twice) and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/tszyu.html Kostya Tszyu].

°Drew with
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/whitaker.html Pernell Whitaker].

== Awards & Recognition ==
*Named the [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|"Fighter of the Year"]] for 1987.
*Named [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|''The Ring'' "Fighter of the Year"]] for 1990.
*[[Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor (1st meeting)|Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor I]] was named [[Ring Magazine Fight of the Year|''The Ring'' "Fight of the Year"]] for 1990 and "Fight of the Decade" for the 1990s.
*Named the 6th [[The Top 50 Fighters of the Last 50 Years|greatest fighter of the last 50 years]] by [[Ring Magazine|''The Ring]] in 1996.
*Named the 18th [[The 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years|greatest fighter of the last 80 years]] by ''The Ring'' 2002.
*Named the 17th greatest fighter of all-time by [[Bert Sugar]] in his 2006 book ''[[Boxing's Greatest Fighters]]''.

== External Link ==
*[http://www.juliocesarchavez.net/ Official Website]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Hector Camacho]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Super Featherweight Champion]]|
after=[[Azumah Nelson]]|
years=1984 Sep 13 – 1987 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Edwin Rosario]]|
title=[[WBA Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Edwin Rosario]]|
years=1987 Nov 21 – 1989 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Jose Luis Ramirez]]|
title=[[WBC Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Pernell Whitaker]]|
years=1988 Oct 29 – 1989 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Roger Mayweather]]|
title=[[WBC Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Frankie Randall]]|
years=1989 May 13 – 1994 Jan 29
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Meldrick Taylor]]|
title=[[IBF Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Rafael Pineda]]|
years=1990 Mar 17 – 1991 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Frankie Randall]]|
title=[[WBC Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Oscar De La Hoya]]|
years=1994 May 7 – 1996 Jun 7
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chavez, Julio Cesar}}
[[Category:Mexican American Boxers]]

[[Category:World Super Featherweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Three Division World Champions]]
[[Category:Mexican World Champions]]
[[Category:Mexican American Boxers]]

[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]
[[Category:Chavez Family]]

Pernell Whitaker

2018-12-25T13:55:17Z

Mthompson95: /* Championship Record */

[[File:Whitaker161748395.jpg|left|300px|thumb|<center>Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker</center>]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2007 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/whitaker.html click]]]
[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]]
<boxer>000555</boxer>
'''Manager:''' [[Shelly Finkel]] 
'''Trainers:''' [[George Benton]] and [[Lou Duva]]
 

'''[[:Category:Pernell Whitaker Gallery|Pernell Whitaker Photo Gallery]]'''

==Amateur Achievements==
[[file:Whitaker 84.jpg|right|thumb|300px|<center>1984 Los Angeles Olympics</center>]]
*Amateur Record: 201-14
*1982 National AAU Lightweight Champion. Results:
**[[Derrick Hudson]] W 3 (5-0)
**Robert Montoya KO 1
**[[Frankie Randall]] W 3 (4-1)
**Ray Ordonio W 3 (5-0)
**Joey Belinc W 3 (5-0)
*Lightweight Silver Medalist for the United States at the 1982 World Championships in Munich, Germany. Results:
**Ismaldi Pineda (Colombia) W 3 (5-0)
**[[Christopher Ossai]] (Nigeria) W 3 (3-2)
**Hussein Khalili (Kenya) W 3 (5-0)
**Milivoj Labudovic (Yugoslavia) W 3 (5-0)
**Angel Herrera (Cuba) L 3 (2-3)
*Lightweight Gold Medalist for the United States at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracus, Venezuela. Results:
**Kenworth Minus (Cuba) KO 1
**[[Angel Beltre]] (Dominican Republic) W 3 (3-2)
**[[Angel Herrera]] (Cuba) W 3 (5-0)
*Lightweight Gold Medalist for the United States at the 1984 [[Olympics]] in Los Angeles, California. Results:
**1st round bye
**[[Adolfo Mendez]] (Nicaragua) W 3 (5-0)
**Geoffrey Nyeko (Uganda) W 3 (5-0)
**[[Reiner Gies]] (West Germany) W 3 (5-0)
**[[Chun Chil-Sung]] (South Korea) W (5-0)
**[[Luis Ortiz]] (Puerto Rico) KO 2

== Championship Record ==
[[File:SI8115.jpg|right|300px|thumb|<center>Sports Illustrated: October 10, 1994</center>]]
*Has a record of 19-3-1 (4 KO's) in world title fights.
*Has a record of 14-3-1 (3 KO's) against former, current or future world titlists.
**Won against [[Alfredo Layne]], [[Roger Mayweather]], [[Greg Haugen]], [[Jose Luis Ramirez]], [[Freddie Pendleton]], [[Azumah Nelson]], [[Juan Nazario]], [[Jorge Paez]], [[Rafael Pineda]], [[James (Buddy) McGirt]] (twice), [[Julio Cesar Vasquez]], [[Jake Rodriguez]], [[Diosbelys Hurtado]]
**Lost against [[Jose Luis Ramirez]], [[Oscar De La Hoya]], [[Felix Trinidad]]
**Drew against [[Julio Cesar Chavez]]
*Has a record of 3-2-1 (0 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
**Won against [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/nelsonazumah.html Azumah Nelson] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/mcgirt.html James McGirt] (twice).
**Lost against [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/delahoya.html Oscar De La Hoya] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/trinidad.html Felix Trinidad].
**Drew with [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/chavez.html Julio Cesar Chavez].

==Minor & Regional Titles==
*[[NABF]] Lightweight Title vs. [[Roger Mayweather]] on March 28, 1987
*[[USBA]] Lightweight Title vs. [[Miguel Santana]] on July 25, 1987

==Awards & Recognition==
*Named [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|The Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year]] and the [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year]] for 1989.
*Named the [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|3rd greatest lightweight of all-time]] in the [[:Ring Magazine: September 2001|September 2001]] issue of [[The Ring Magazine]].
*Inducted into the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2007 and the [[World Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2008.

==Trivia==
*Whitaker is often called Pete by his family and friends. When he was an amateur, they would chant "Sweet Pete" during his bouts. A local newspaper reporter misheard the chant and wrote that the crowd was chanting "Sweet Pea." After it appeared in the newspaper, the "Sweet Pea" nickname stuck.
*Whitaker trained [[Zab Judah]] for his fights with [[Kaizer Mabuza]] and [[Amir Khan]].
*Going into his last 4 bouts his record was 40-1-1 (17 KO's). Both blemishes were highly controversial. He would go 0-3-0-1 in his last 4 bouts partly due to age and partly due his an addiction to cocaine.
{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Greg Haugen]]|
title=[[IBF Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Freddie Pendleton]]|
years=1989 Feb 18 – 1992 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Julio Cesar Chavez]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Miguel Angel Gonzalez]]|
years=1989 Aug 20 – 1992 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Juan Nazario]]|
title=[[WBA Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Joey Gamache]]|
years=1990 Aug 11 – 1992 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Rafael Pineda]]|
title=[[IBF Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Charles Murray]]|
years=1992 Jul 18 – 1993 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[James (Buddy) McGirt]]|
title=[[WBC Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Oscar De La Hoya]]|
years=1993 Mar 6 – 1997 Apr 12
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Julio Cesar Vasquez]]|
title=[[WBA Light Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Carl Daniels]]|
years=1995 Mar 4 – 1995 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitaker, Pernell}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:United States Amateur Champions]]
[[Category:1984 Olympians]]
[[Category:American Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Gold Medalists]]
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Middleweight Champions]]
[[Category:Four Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:Southpaw World Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]
[[Category:NABF Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:Trainers]]

Lennox Lewis

2018-12-25T13:44:17Z

Mthompson95: /* Profesional Highlights */

[[File:LennoxTitles.jpg|left|250px]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2009 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/lewislennox.html click]]]
<boxer>001853</boxer>
*'''Trainers:''' [[John Davenport]] (1989-1992), [[Pepe Correa]] (1992-1994), [[Emanuel Steward]] (1995-2003)
*'''Manager:''' [[Frank Maloney]], [[Adrian Ogun]]
*'''Promoters:''' [[Panos Eliades]] and [[Frank Maloney]] ([[Panix Promotions]]) (1988-2001), [[Dino Duva]] ([[Main Events]])
*'''Cut Man:''' [[Al Gavin]]
*'''[[:Category:Lennox Lewis Gallery|Lennox Lewis Gallery]]
== Amateur Highlights ==
[[file:Lewis.lennox.am.jpg|right|frame|Lewis won Gold at the 1988 Olympics Photo: Stan Behal/Toronto Sun]]
*Record: Usually listed as being either 85-9 or 94-11. However 85-11 is closer to what the records seem to suggest. With all known Walkover results taken out and Lewis' record is likely 80-10. 5 of his defeats later being avenged.
*Unbeaten in first 3 years of his amateur career before losing aged 15 to 18 year Old Donovan Razor Ruddock.
*1980 Ontario '''Canada''' Junior Championships: Lost a 3:2 decision to [[Razor Ruddock|Donovan Ruddock]] in the middleweight class.
*May 1982 Lost a 3:2 decision to H. Thompson in the '''Canadian''' Junior Championships.
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist for '''Canada''' at the 1983 Junior World Championships in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the 1984 '''Canadian''' Amateur Championships.
*'''Canadian''' Super Heavyweight representative at the 1984 [[Olympics]] in Los Angeles, California, USA. Results:
**Defeated Mohammad Yousuf (Pakistan) RSC 3
**Lost to [[Tyrell Biggs]] (United States) 0-5 (this means all 5 judges had Biggs winning)
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the 1985 '''Canadian''' Amateur Championships.
*Super Heavyweight Silver Medalist for '''Canada''' at the 1985 World Cup Championships in Seoul, South Korea. Results:
**Defeated [[Juan Antonio Diaz]] (Argentina) RET-1
**Lost to Vyacheslav Jakovlev (Soviet Union) 0-5
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the 1986 Canadian Amateur Championships.
*'''Canadian''' Super Heavyweight representative at the 1986 World Amateur Championships in Reno, Nevada, USA. Lost a controversial 3:2 decision to Petar Stoymenov of Bulgaria in his opening round match.
*Lost a 2:1 decision to Jonathan Littles (USA) in Bay City USA in the Tope invitational. He then beat J. Davidson by RSC2 in the same tournament.
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist for '''Canada''' at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.
* Lost in Semi finals to Valeriy Abadzhyan (URS) by RSC3 on a body shot in the TSC Tournament,Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle, Berlin, GDR,October 01-07, 1986.
* Forfeited bout for third Place so is recorded as a loss by walkover to Ladislav Husarik (CZE)
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the 1987 Canadian Amateur Championships.
*Super Heavyweight Silver Medalist for Canada at the 1987 Pan-American Games in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Results:
**Defeated Carlos Barcelete (Brazil) KO 2
**Lost a controversial 4:1 decision to [[Jorge Luis Gonzalez]] (Cuba).
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist for Canada at the 1987 North American Championships in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Defeated Jorge Luis Gonzalez of Cuba by a 2-1 decision in the final.
*Lost a disputed 3-2 decision in the Quarter finals to Ulli Kaden (East Germany) in the Amateur World Cup Oct 26th-31st 1987 Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist at the March 1988 Canadian Amateur Championships beating R. Ayotte by RET1.
*Silver medalist in the Intercup in West Germany. Lewis beat Crispine Odera (KEN) by RSC2. Then avenged a previous defeat to Petar Stojmenov (BUL) by a 3:2 decision. In the finals Lewis lost a 5:0 points decision to Aleksandr Miroshnichenko (URS).
*Won the Canada Cup by beating Elton Wright (USA) by RET1 in June 1988 in Ottawa, Canada.
*Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist for Canada at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Results:
**Defeated Chrispine Odera (Kenya) RSC 2
**Defeated [[Ulli Kaden]] (East Germany) RSC 1
**Defeated [[Janusz Zarenkiewicz]] (Poland) WO
**Defeated [[Riddick Bowe]] (United States) RSC 2

== Profesional Highlights ==
[[File:LewisHolyfieldII.jpg|right|frame|Lewis defeated Evander Holyfield in 1999 to become the Unified World Heavyweight Champion Photo: Al Bello/Allsport]]

*Has a record of 3-0-1 (2 KO's) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] Inductees, 4-0-1 (2 KO's) including the amateurs:
°Won against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/bowe.html Riddick Bowe] (amateurs),
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/holyfield.html Evander Holyfield], [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/tyson.html Mike Tyson] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/klitschko.html Vitali Klitschko].

°Drew with
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/holyfield.html Evander Holyfield].

'''World Titles:'''
*[[WBC]] Heavyweight Champion (1992-1994, 1997-2001, 2001-2004)
*[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion (1999-2000)
*[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion (1999-2001, 2001-2002)

'''Minor & Regional Titles:'''
*[[EBU|European Boxing Union]] Heavyweight Champion (1990-1992)
*[[British Boxing Board of Control]] Heavyweight Champion (1991-1992)
*[[Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion|Commonwealth (British Empire) Heavyweight Champion]] (1990-1992)
*[[International Boxing Council|IBC]] Heavyweight Champion (1995)
*[[IBO]] Heavyweight Champion (1999-2001, 2001-2004)

'''Record:'''
*15-2-1 (10 KO) in World Title fights.
*14-2-1 (9 KO) against former or current world titlists.
**Won against [[Ossie Ocasio]], [[Mike Weaver]], [[Glenn McCrory]], [[Tony Tucker]], [[Frank Bruno]], [[Tommy Morrison]], [[Ray Mercer]], [[Oliver McCall]], [[Henry Akinwande]], [[Shannon Briggs]], [[Evander Holyfield]], [[Hasim Rahman]], [[Mike Tyson]] and [[Vitali Klitschko]]
**Lost against [[Oliver McCall]] and [[Hasim Rahman]]
**Drew with [[Evander Holyfield]]

== Notes ==
*Lewis was born in England and moved to Canada at the age of 12.
*In his early days, Lewis was known as "The Kitchener Thunderbolt," as he learned to box in Kitchener, Ontario. Like Canadian Larry Gains before him, Lewis chose to advance his career in Europe where he could become a big fish in a little pond and get the British people behind him.
*Lewis won the [[Lonsdale Belt]] outright after successfully defending his British Heavyweight Championship against [[Glenn McCrory]] in 1991 and [[Derek Williams]] in 1992.
*Lewis knocked out [[Razor Ruddock]] in two rounds in a WBC title eliminator on October 31, 1992.
*Before [[Riddick Bowe]] defeated [[Evander Holyfield]] to win the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship on November 13, 1992, he signed an agreement with the WBC to make his first title defense—if he should defeat Holyfield—against the winner of the title eliminator between Lewis and Ruddock. The WBC gave Bowe and Lewis until December 13 to reach an agreement or the fight would go to a purse bid. If Bowe refused to meet Lewis, the WBC title would be awarded to Lewis.
*[[Rock Newman]], Bowe's manager, made two offers to Lewis. The first would have guaranteed Lewis $3 million, while giving Bowe 90% of the purse and Lewis 10%. The second offer was for Lewis to refuse the WBC title, have an interim fight in the United States for $2.5 million, and then fight Bowe for $9 million or a percentage to be negotiated. [[Frank Maloney]], the manager of Lewis, rejected both offers and countered with his own proposal: a 75-25 percent split of the purse. Newman turned it down. Maloney later had a change of heart and agreed to the first offer, but Newman told him he was too late. Newman said a deal for Bowe to defend the title against an opponent other than Lewis was imminent.
*On December 14, 1992, Riddick Bowe held a news conference and dumped his WBC title into a garbage can. "If Lewis wants the belt, he has to get it out of the garbage," Bowe said. The WBC then declared Lennox Lewis the new WBC heavyweight champion.
*Lewis was the first British-born boxer to win a world heavyweight title since [[Bob Fitzsimmons]] in 1897.
*The [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] named Lewis [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] for 1999.
*[[Hasim Rahman]]'s knockout of Lewis in 2001 was named [[Ring Magazine Upset of the Year|Upset of the Year]] and [[Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year|Knockout of the Year]] by [[Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']].
*Lewis was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of The Order of The British Empire) in 1999 and the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2002.
*[[Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] named Lewis' 2002 knockout of [[Mike Tyson]] [[Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year|Knockout of the Year]].
*Lewis retired as [[World Heavyweight Champion]] on February 6, 2004.
*Lewis defeated every professional opponent he faced, one of only three World Heavyweight Champions to do so, with [[Rocky Marciano]] and [[Ingemar Johansson]] being the other two. [[Gene Tunney]] and [[Riddick Bowe]] avenged their professional defeats, but Tunney had a no-contest, a draw and a number of [[No decision|no-decision]] fights against boxers he never defeated, and Bowe had a [[no contest|no-contest]] against [[Buster Mathis Jr.]], whom he never defeated.
*Three fighters retired after losing to Lewis: [[Andrew Gerrard]], Noel Quarless and [[Zeljko Mavrovic]].
*Lewis recorded five first-round knockouts and 15 knockouts within three rounds.
*From 2006 to 2010, Lewis worked as a ringside analyst for [[HBO]].
*Lewis was inducted into the [[World Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2008, the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2009 and the [[Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2015.
*Lewis has appeared in a number of television shows and movies: [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507459/ Filmography]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Riddick Bowe]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Oliver McCall]]|
years=1992 Dec 14 – 1994 Sep 24
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Mike Tyson]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
years=1997 Feb 7 – 2001 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Evander Holyfield]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Evander Holyfield]]|
years=1999 Nov 13 – 2000 Apr 29 '''Stripped'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Evander Holyfield]]|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
years=1999 Nov 13 – 2001 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Brian Nielsen]] Stripped|
title=[[IBO Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
years=1999 Nov 13 – 2001 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Vitali Klitschko]]|
years=2001 Nov 17 – 2004 Feb 6 '''Retired'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Chris Byrd]]|
years=2001 Nov 17 – 2002 Sep 5 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Hasim Rahman]]|
title=[[IBO Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Wladimir Klitschko]]|
years=2001 Nov 17 – 2004 Feb 6 '''Retired'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Lennox}}
[[Category:1984 Olympians]]
[[Category:1988 Olympians]]
[[Category:Canadian Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Gold Medalists]]
[[Category: BBBoC British Title Outright Winners]]
[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:English World Champions]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Boxing Council Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]

Chris Byrd

2018-12-25T13:03:30Z

Mthompson95: /* Professional Career */

[[file:Byrd_shot.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Chris Byrd]]
<boxer>004923</boxer> 
 
== Amateur Career ==
*Amateur Record: 290-25
*1988 Olympic Trials: Lost to eventual United States representative [[Todd Foster]] in the quarterfinals of the Light Welterweight competition
*1989 United States Amateur Light Welterweight Champion
*1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle, WA: Lost to [[Torsten Schmitz]] (East Germany) in the quarterfinals of the Light Middleweight competition
*1991 United States Amateur Middleweight Champion
*1991 World Championships: Lost to [[Ramon Garbey]] (Cuba) in Middleweight competition
*1992 United States Amateur Middleweight Champion
*1992 Middleweight Gold Medalist at Canada Cup. Results:
**[[Justin Crawford]] (Australia) won on points
**[[Joe Laryea]] (Ghana) won on points
**[[Igor Anashkin]] (Russia) won on points
*1992 Olympic Trials Middleweight winner in Worcester, MA. Results:
**[[Derrick James]], won on points
**[[William Joppy]], won on points
**[[Mike DeMoss]], won on points
*1992 Olympic Box-Off Middleweight winner in Phoenix, AZ. Results:
**[[Mike DeMoss]], won on points
*1992 Middleweight Silver Medalist at the [[Olympics]] in Barcelona, Spain. Results:
**[[Mark Edwards]] (Great Britain) 21-3
**[[Alexander Lebziak]] (Russia/Unified Team) 16-7
**[[Ahmed Dine]] (Algeria) 21-2
**[[Chris Johnson]] (Canada) 17-3
**[[Ariel Hernandez]] (Cuba) 7-12

== Professional Career ==
*Has a record of 2-0 (1 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
**Won against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/klitschko.html Vitali Klitschko] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/holyfield.html Evander Holyfield].

*Won the vacant [[USBA]] Heavyweight Championship with a sixth-round TKO of [[Mike Rouse]] on March 28, 1995.
*Won the vacant [[WBU]] International Heavyweight Championship with a twelve-round unanimous decision against [[Phil Jackson]] on November 21, 1995.
*Stopped in five rounds by [[Ike Ibeabuchi]] on March 20, 1999.
*Upset [[Vitali Klitschko]] by a ninth-round TKO to win the [[WBO]] Heavyweight Championship on April 1, 2000.
*Lost the WBO Heavyweight Championship to [[Wladimir Klitschko]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision on October 14, 2000.
*Defeated [[Maurice Harris]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision to regain the USBA Heavyweight Championship on May 12, 2001.
*Upset [[David Tua]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision on August 18, 2001 to become the mandatory [[IBF]] heavyweight challenger.
*Defeated [[Evander Holyfield]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision to win the vacant [[IBF]] Heavyweight Championship on December 14, 2002.
*Lost the IBF Heavyweight Championship in his fifth defense to Wladimir Klitschko on April 22, 2006. Byrd was stopped in the seventh round.
*Lost to [[Alexander Povetkin]] by a eleventh-round TKO on October 27, 2007.
*Dropped down to light heavyweight and fought [[Shaun George]] on May 16, 2008. Looking gaunt at 174 pounds, Byrd was knocked out in the ninth round.
*In his last fight, Byrd stopped Matthias Sandow in four rounds in a cruiserweight fight on March 21, 2009.

== Boxing Family ==
*His father, [[Joe Byrd]], was his trainer.
*His mother, Rose Byrd, was his assistant trainer.
*Younger brother of fellow professional boxers [[Patrick Byrd]], [[Tracy Byrd]], and [[Tim Byrd]].
*Cousin of former WBO Heavyweight Champion [[Lamon Brewster]].

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Vitali Klitschko]]|
title=[[WBO Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Wladimir Klitschko]]|
years=2000 Apr 1 – 2000 Oct 14
}}
{{succession box|
before=[[Lennox Lewis]] Vacated|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Wladimir Klitschko]]|
years=2002 Dec 14 – 2006 Apr 22
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Byrd, Chris}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:United States Amateur Champions]]
[[Category:1992 Olympians]]
[[Category:American Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Silver Medalists]]
[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:Southpaw World Champions]]
[[Category:Byrd Family]]

Julio Cesar Chavez

2018-12-25T12:38:19Z

Mthompson95: /* Notes */

[[File:Julio Cesar Chavez.jpg|left|300px]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2011 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/chavez.html click]]]
[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]]
<boxer>008119</boxer>
'''Manager:''' [[Ramon Felix]] 
'''Trainers:''' [[Cristobal Rosas]], [[Emanuel Steward]] (1994-) 
'''[[:Category:Julio Cesar Chavez Gallery|Julio Cesar Chavez Gallery]]''' 

== Notes ==
* Chavez had a purported amateur record of 14-1.
*In his 12th pro fight, Chavez fought Miguel Ruiz on [[Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Miguel Ruiz|March 4, 1981]] in Culiacan, Mexico. Chavez was initially disqualified by the referee for hitting Ruiz after the bell ending the first round, but the result was officially overturned the next day by the Culiacan commission and changed to a 1st-round knockout for Chavez. The commission ruled that Chavez had not hit Ruiz after the bell. Chavez's manager, the late Ramon Felix, was on the Culiacan commission at the time.
*Father of fellow boxers [[Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.]] and [[Omar Chavez]].
*Won his first 87 professional fights.
*Has a record of 31-4-2 (21 KOs) in world title fights.
*Has a record of 18-4-2 (10 KOs) against former world titlists.
**Won against [[Roger Mayweather]] (twice), [[Rocky Lockridge]], [[Juan Laporte]], [[Edwin Rosario]], [[Rafael Limon]], [[Jose Luis Ramirez]], [[Sammy Fuentes]], [[Meldrick Taylor]] (twice), [[Lonnie Smith]], [[Hector Camacho]], [[Greg Haugen]], [[Frankie Randall]] (twice), [[Tony Lopez]], [[Giovanni Parisi]], [[Joey Gamache]].
**Lost against Frankie Randall, [[Oscar De La Hoya]] (twice), [[Kostya Tszyu]].
**Drew with [[Pernell Whitaker]], [[Miguel Angel Gonzalez]].
*Has a record of 2-3-1 (1 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
°Won against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/rosario.html Edwin Rosario] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/camacho.html Hector Camacho].

°Lost against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/delahoya.html Oscar De La Hoya] (twice) and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/tszyu.html Kostya Tszyu].

°Drew against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/whitaker.html Pernell Whitaker].

== Awards & Recognition ==
*Named the [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|"Fighter of the Year"]] for 1987.
*Named [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|''The Ring'' "Fighter of the Year"]] for 1990.
*[[Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor (1st meeting)|Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor I]] was named [[Ring Magazine Fight of the Year|''The Ring'' "Fight of the Year"]] for 1990 and "Fight of the Decade" for the 1990s.
*Named the 6th [[The Top 50 Fighters of the Last 50 Years|greatest fighter of the last 50 years]] by [[Ring Magazine|''The Ring]] in 1996.
*Named the 18th [[The 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years|greatest fighter of the last 80 years]] by ''The Ring'' 2002.
*Named the 17th greatest fighter of all-time by [[Bert Sugar]] in his 2006 book ''[[Boxing's Greatest Fighters]]''.

== External Link ==
*[http://www.juliocesarchavez.net/ Official Website]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Hector Camacho]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Super Featherweight Champion]]|
after=[[Azumah Nelson]]|
years=1984 Sep 13 – 1987 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Edwin Rosario]]|
title=[[WBA Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Edwin Rosario]]|
years=1987 Nov 21 – 1989 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Jose Luis Ramirez]]|
title=[[WBC Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Pernell Whitaker]]|
years=1988 Oct 29 – 1989 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Roger Mayweather]]|
title=[[WBC Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Frankie Randall]]|
years=1989 May 13 – 1994 Jan 29
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Meldrick Taylor]]|
title=[[IBF Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Rafael Pineda]]|
years=1990 Mar 17 – 1991 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Frankie Randall]]|
title=[[WBC Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Oscar De La Hoya]]|
years=1994 May 7 – 1996 Jun 7
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chavez, Julio Cesar}}
[[Category:Mexican American Boxers]]

[[Category:World Super Featherweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Three Division World Champions]]
[[Category:Mexican World Champions]]
[[Category:Mexican American Boxers]]

[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]
[[Category:Chavez Family]]

Evander Holyfield

2018-12-25T12:10:16Z

Mthompson95: /* Professional Achievements */

[[file:Holyfieldface.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
{{ibhof |url=http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/holyfield.html}}
<boxer>000499</boxer>
*'''Trainers:''' [[George Benton]] & [[Lou Duva]] (1984-1992), [[Emanuel Steward]] (1993), [[Don Turner]] (1994-2003), [[Ronnie Shields]] (2004-2008), [[Tommy Brooks]] (2010-2011) 
*'''Managers:''' [[Lou Duva]], Ken Sanders (1984-1990, 2008-2011), [[Shelly Finkel]], [[Jim Thomas]]
*'''Promoter:''' [[Dan Duva]] ([[Main Events]])
*'''Cutmen:''' [[Ace Marotta]] and [[Jim Strickland]]
*'''Conditioning Coach:''' Tim Hallmark
*'''[[:Category:Evander Holyfield Gallery|Evander Holyfield Gallery]]'''

==Amateur Achievements==
[[File:Holyfield 79027848.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield at the 1984 Olympics]]
*'''Record:''' 160-14 with 75 KOs
*1983 U.S. National Championships Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Results:
**[[Arthur Weathers]] TKO 3
**Antonio Sweeney W 3
**Glenn Wiggins TKO 2
**[[Ricky Womack]] L 3
*1983 Pan American Games Silver Medalist (178 lbs) in Caracas, Venezuela. Results:
**Rodolfo Marin (Puerto Rico) W 3 (5-0)
**Carlos Salazar (Venezuela) RSC 2
**[[Pablo Romero]] (Cuba) L 3 (1-4)
*1984 National [[Golden Gloves]] Gold Medalist (178 lbs) in St. Louis, Missouri. Results:
**Sherman Griffin RSC 2
**Jerry Goff RSC 1
**Arthur Weathers RSC 2
*1984 U.S. Olympic Trials Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Fort Worth, Texas. Results:
**Sherman Griffin W 3 (5-0)
**[[Ricky Womack]] L 3 (2-3)
*1984 U.S. Olympic Box-Offs Winner (178 lbs) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Results:
**Ricky Womack W 3 (4-1)
**Ricky Womack W 3 (4-1)
*1984 [[Olympics|Olympic]] Games Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Los Angeles, California. Results:
**Taju Akay (Ghana) RSCH 3
**Ismail Khalil Salman (Iraq) RSCH 2
**Sylvanus Okello (Kenya) W KO 1
**[[Kevin Barry]] (New Zealand) L DQ 2

'''Olympic Disqualification''' 
[[File:Holyfield-Barry 79028351.jpg|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Kevin Barry at the 1984 Olympics]]
Holyfield was disqualified in his light heavyweight semifinal bout with [[Kevin Barry]] of New Zealand for hitting after the break.

Near the end of the second round, with Barry grabbing him around the neck with his left arm, Holyfield pulled back and—just as Yugoslavian referee Gligorije Novicic yelled "Stop!"—slammed a right to the body and a left hook to the head. Barry crumbled to the canvas. He regained his feet, but was very wobbly. Novicic stopped the fight and disqualified Holyfield for hitting on the break. Holyfield, who was dominating the bout, said he didn't hear the referee.

Because he was stopped by a head blow, Barry was medically ineligible to fight for 28 days. As a result, [[Anton Josipovic]] of Yugoslavia, who defeated Mustapha Moussa of Algeria in the other semifinal, was awarded the gold medal on a walkover.

The U.S. filed a protest. The protest was based on three points:
:(1) The punch was started before the referee yelled "stop," thus making it a legal punch.
:(2) The noise level of the crowd was so high that it was doubtful whether Holyfield could have heard the referee at all.
:(3) Barry was in the process of being warned for holding when the incident occurred. And there was a possiblity that the warning would be cause for disqualifying Barry.

The protest was rejected by the [[International Amateur Boxing Association]]. "There is no doubt in the minds of the protest committee," said Colonel Don Hull, the president of AIBA. "They reviewed the film and it is clear that there was a violation and that an illegal blow incapacitated. The referee enforced the rules."

Loring Baker, head of the United States Amateur Boxing Federation, said the referee should have stopped the bout earlier because Barry was flagrantly holding. "Had the referee done his job properly, the fight would have been stopped before the foul occurred," Baker said.

"Novicic blew it," said John Holaus, one of four American officials who worked the competition. "He was going from cautions to warnings and then back to cautions. It's against the rules. Once you issue a warning, you can't go back to cautions. I couldn't believe what I was seeing."

==Professional Achievements==
[[File:HolyfieldBuster.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Buster Douglas in 1990]]
[[File:Bowe vs. Holyfield II 290586.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe in 1993]]
[[File:Holyfield Tyson I 160428480.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson in 1996]]
'''World Titles:'''
*Holyfield is the only fighter to win a portion of the World Heavyweight Championship four times.
*'''[[WBA]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1986-1988) Won the title with a fifteen-round split decision against [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]].
*'''[[IBF]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1987-1988) Won the title with a third-round TKO of [[Ricky Parkey]].
*'''[[WBC]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1988) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Carlos DeLeon]]. Became the first Undisputed World Cruiserweight Champion. Vacated the [[WBA]]/[[WBC]]/[[IBF]] championship to move up to heavyweight.
*'''[[WBC]]/[[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1990-1992) Won the Undisputed [[World Heavyweight Champion|World Heavyweight Championship]] with a third-round KO of [[James (Buster) Douglas|James "Buster" Douglas]]. Lost the title to [[Riddick Bowe]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.
*'''[[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1993-1994) Won the title with a twelve-round majority decision against [[Riddick Bowe]]. Lost the title to [[Michael Moorer]] by a twelve-round majority decision.
*'''[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1996-1999) Won the title with an eleventh-round TKO of [[Mike Tyson]].
*'''[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1997-1999) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Michael Moorer]]. Lost the [[WBA]]/[[IBF]] championship to [[Lennox Lewis]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.
*'''[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion''' (2000-2001) Won the vacant title with a twelve-round unanimous decision against [[John Ruiz]]. Lost the title to [[John Ruiz]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.

'''Minor & Regional Titles:'''
*'''[[WBC]] Continental Americas Heavyweight Championship''' (1989-1990) Won the title with a tenth-round TKO of [[Michael Dokes]]. Vacated the title when he won the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship.
*'''[[USBA]] Heavyweight Championship''' (2006) Won the vacant title with a twelve-round unanimous decision against [[Fres Oquendo]]. Vacated the title.
*'''[[World Boxing Federation|WBF]] Heavyweight Championship''' (2010-2011) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Francois Botha]]. Vacated the title.

'''Record:'''
*Has a record of 16-7-2 (9 KO) in World Title fights.
*Has a record of 19-9-2 (10 KO) against former, current and future world titlists.
**Won against [[Tyrone Booze]], [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]] (twice), [[Ricky Parkey]], [[Ossie Ocasio]], [[Carlos De Leon]], [[Pinklon Thomas]], [[Michael Dokes]], [[James (Buster) Douglas]], [[George Foreman]], [[Larry Holmes]], [[Riddick Bowe]], [[Ray Mercer]], [[Bobby Czyz]], [[Mike Tyson]] (twice), [[Michael Moorer]], [[John Ruiz]], [[Hasim Rahman]]
**Lost against [[Riddick Bowe]] (twice), [[Michael Moorer]], [[Lennox Lewis]], [[John Ruiz]], [[Chris Byrd]], [[James Toney]], [[Sultan Ibragimov]], [[Nikolay Valuev]]
**Drew with [[Lennox Lewis]], [[John Ruiz]]
**Has a record of 7-3-1 (2 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
**Won against [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]] (twice), [[George Foreman]], [[Larry Holmes]], [[Riddick Bowe]], [[Mike Tyson]] (twice).
**Lost against [[Riddick Bowe]] (twice), [[Lennox Lewis]].
**Drew with [[Lennox Lewis]].

==Awards & Recognition==
[[File:97Apr.jpg|right|210px]]
*[[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|''The Ring'' Fighter of the Year]] for 1987, 1996 and 1997.
*The [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] for 1990, 1996 and 1997.
*The [[WBA]] presented Holyfield with the [[Muhammad Ali]] [[:File:AliAwardHolyfield.jpg|Award]] for becoming a three-time heavyweight champion in 1996.
*[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi vs. Evander Holyfield (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Dwight Muhammad Qawi I]] was named the best cruiserweight fight of the 1980s by [[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']].
*[[Michael Dokes vs. Evander Holyfield|Evander Holyfield vs. Michael Dokes]] was named the best heavyweight fight of the 1980s ''The Ring''.
*[[Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe I]] was [[Ring Magazine Fight of the Year|''The Ring'' Fight of the Year]] for 1992, and the tenth round was the [[Ring Magazine Round of the Year|Round of the Year]].
*[[Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson I]] was ''The Ring'' Fight of the Year and [[Ring Magazine Upset of the Year|Upset of the Year]] for 1996.
*[[Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson (2nd meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II]] was [[Ring Magazine Event of the Year|''The Ring'' Event of the Year]] for 1997.
*[[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] ranked Holyfield as the [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|greatest cruiserweight of all-time]] in 1994.
*[[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] ranked Holyfield as the third [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|greatest heavyweight of all-time]] in 1998.
*Inducted into the [[Georgia Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2001.
*''The Ring'' ranked Holyfield as the twenty-third [[The 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years|best fighter of the last 80 years]] in 2002.
*Inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014.

==Notes==
*During the seventh round of Holyfield's second fight with [[Riddick Bowe]], a man on a motorized paraglider flew into the outdoor arena at [[Caesars Palace]] in Las Vegas and attempted to land in the ring. He crashed into the ring ropes and his chute got caught in the ring lights. The man, who called himself Fan Man, was pulled from the ropes and beaten unconscious by Bowe's security. He was briefly hospitalized and then arrested. After a 21-minute delay, the fight resumed. Holyfield won by a majority decision to regain the [[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Championship.
*After losing to [[Michael Moorer]] in Las Vegas on April 22, 1994, Holyfield was diagnosed with a heart ailment. He was told he had a "diastolic dysfunction of the left ventricle." As a result, he announced his retirement. In June 1994, Holyfield said he was cured by faith healer Benny Hinn and planned to return to boxing. At the insistence of the [[Nevada State Athletic Commission]], he went through a battery of tests at the Mayo Clinic in November 1994 and was given a clean bill of health. Holyfield was told he had been misdiagnosed because he was over-medicated and over-hydrated in the treatment he received after the Moorer fight. In February 1995, Nevada boxing officials voted to lift his medical suspension. He returned to the ring on May 20, 1995, and defeated [[Ray Mercer]] by a ten-round unanimous decision.
*Holyfield fought [[Riddick Bowe]] for the third and final time on November 4, 1995. Holyfield, who later said he was suffering from Hepatitis A, appeared to be completely exhausted by the fifth round. With about a minute left in the fifth round, [[HBO]] commentator [[George Foreman]] stood up and called for the fight to be stopped. "This man is going to end up in a pine box," Foreman said. "He's got heart trouble." Holyfield dropped Bowe early in the sixth round, but was unable to finish him. Bowe came back to stop Holyfield two rounds later.
*Holyfield was first scheduled to fight [[Mike Tyson]] for the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship on June 18, 1990, but those plans were spoiled by [[James (Buster) Douglas]], who knocked out Tyson on February 11, 1990. Holyfield won the title from Douglas and was scheduled to defend it against Tyson on November 8, 1991, but the fight was canceled after Tyson suffered a rib injury during training. Before the fight could be rescheduled, Tyson was convicted of rape and sent to prison. Holyfield finally fought Tyson on November 9, 1996, and stopped him in the eleventh round to win the [[WBA]] Heavyweight Championship.
*During the third round of his rematch with [[Mike Tyson]] on June 28, 1997, Holyfield was bitten twice by Tyson. After he bit a one-inch chunk out of Holyfield's right ear, referee [[Mills Lane]] called time and deducted two points from Tyson. When the fight resumed, Tyson bit Holyfield's left ear. When Lane saw the bite marks on Holyfield's left ear after the third round, he disqualified Tyson.
*Holyfield lost to [[Larry Donald]] by a lopsided twelve-round unanimous decision in New York City on November 13, 2004. It was his third straight defeat. After the fight, the [[New York State Athletic Commission]] medically suspended Holyfield for poor performance. Although Holyfield passed a battery of tests, the commission voted to suspend Holyfield's license indefinitely in August 2005, but lifted the medical suspension that prevented him from fighting in other states.
*On August 29, 2006, Federal Drug Enforcement Agency officials in Alabama raided a compounding pharmacy (a pharmacy that makes its own drugs generically) called Applied Pharmacy Services. Among the documents seized were records stating that, in June 2004, a patient named “Evan Fields” picked up three vials of testosterone and related injection supplies from a doctor in Columbus, Georgia. That same month, Fields received five vials of Saizen (a human growth hormone). In September 2004, according to the documents, Fields underwent treatment for hypogonadism (a condition that results when the sex glands produce little or no hormones). The date of birth, home address, and telephone number listed for Evan Fields in Applied Pharmacy’s records were identical to those of Evander Holyfield. When these facts were made public, Holyfield issued a statement that read in part, “I have never taken an illegal or banned performance enhancing drug of any kind. The use of such substances runs counter to everything I believe about sports and my place in the athletic world.”
*Holyfield's last shot at a major title occurred when he fought [[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion [[Nikolay Valuev]] on December 20, 2008, in Zurich, Switzerland. At the age of 46, Holyfield was trying to become the oldest fighter ever to win a portion of the World Heavyweight Championship. He lost by a controversial twelve-round majority decision. Chris Mannix of ''SI.com'' wrote that Holyfield "absolutely, positively won the fight."
*On June 26, 2014, three years and a month since his last fight, Holyfield officially announced his retirement from boxing at the age of 51.

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]]|
title=[[WBA Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Taoufik Belbouli]]|
years=1986 Jul 12 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Ricky Parkey]]|
title=[[IBF Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Glenn McCrory]]|
years=1987 May 15 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Carlos DeLeon]]|
title=[[WBC Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Carlos DeLeon]]|
years=1988 Apr 9 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[James (Buster) Douglas]]|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]] [[WBA Heavyweight Champion]] [[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Riddick Bowe]]|
years=1990 Oct 25 – 1992 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Riddick Bowe]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]] [[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Michael Moorer]]|
years=1993 Nov 6 – 1994 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Mike Tyson]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
years=1996 Nov 9 – 1999 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Michael Moorer]]|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
years=1997 Nov 8 – 1999 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Lennox Lewis]] Stripped|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[John Ruiz]]|
years=2000 Aug 12 – 2001 Mar 3
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holyfield, Evander}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:National Golden Gloves Champions]]
[[Category:1984 Olympians]]
[[Category:American Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Bronze Medalists]]
[[Category:World Cruiserweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]

==Professional Highlights==
{{#ev:youtube|exsyKuRRqP8}}

Evander Holyfield

2018-12-25T12:08:34Z

Mthompson95: /* Professional Achievements */

[[file:Holyfieldface.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
{{ibhof |url=http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/holyfield.html}}
<boxer>000499</boxer>
*'''Trainers:''' [[George Benton]] & [[Lou Duva]] (1984-1992), [[Emanuel Steward]] (1993), [[Don Turner]] (1994-2003), [[Ronnie Shields]] (2004-2008), [[Tommy Brooks]] (2010-2011) 
*'''Managers:''' [[Lou Duva]], Ken Sanders (1984-1990, 2008-2011), [[Shelly Finkel]], [[Jim Thomas]]
*'''Promoter:''' [[Dan Duva]] ([[Main Events]])
*'''Cutmen:''' [[Ace Marotta]] and [[Jim Strickland]]
*'''Conditioning Coach:''' Tim Hallmark
*'''[[:Category:Evander Holyfield Gallery|Evander Holyfield Gallery]]'''

==Amateur Achievements==
[[File:Holyfield 79027848.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield at the 1984 Olympics]]
*'''Record:''' 160-14 with 75 KOs
*1983 U.S. National Championships Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Results:
**[[Arthur Weathers]] TKO 3
**Antonio Sweeney W 3
**Glenn Wiggins TKO 2
**[[Ricky Womack]] L 3
*1983 Pan American Games Silver Medalist (178 lbs) in Caracas, Venezuela. Results:
**Rodolfo Marin (Puerto Rico) W 3 (5-0)
**Carlos Salazar (Venezuela) RSC 2
**[[Pablo Romero]] (Cuba) L 3 (1-4)
*1984 National [[Golden Gloves]] Gold Medalist (178 lbs) in St. Louis, Missouri. Results:
**Sherman Griffin RSC 2
**Jerry Goff RSC 1
**Arthur Weathers RSC 2
*1984 U.S. Olympic Trials Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Fort Worth, Texas. Results:
**Sherman Griffin W 3 (5-0)
**[[Ricky Womack]] L 3 (2-3)
*1984 U.S. Olympic Box-Offs Winner (178 lbs) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Results:
**Ricky Womack W 3 (4-1)
**Ricky Womack W 3 (4-1)
*1984 [[Olympics|Olympic]] Games Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Los Angeles, California. Results:
**Taju Akay (Ghana) RSCH 3
**Ismail Khalil Salman (Iraq) RSCH 2
**Sylvanus Okello (Kenya) W KO 1
**[[Kevin Barry]] (New Zealand) L DQ 2

'''Olympic Disqualification''' 
[[File:Holyfield-Barry 79028351.jpg|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Kevin Barry at the 1984 Olympics]]
Holyfield was disqualified in his light heavyweight semifinal bout with [[Kevin Barry]] of New Zealand for hitting after the break.

Near the end of the second round, with Barry grabbing him around the neck with his left arm, Holyfield pulled back and—just as Yugoslavian referee Gligorije Novicic yelled "Stop!"—slammed a right to the body and a left hook to the head. Barry crumbled to the canvas. He regained his feet, but was very wobbly. Novicic stopped the fight and disqualified Holyfield for hitting on the break. Holyfield, who was dominating the bout, said he didn't hear the referee.

Because he was stopped by a head blow, Barry was medically ineligible to fight for 28 days. As a result, [[Anton Josipovic]] of Yugoslavia, who defeated Mustapha Moussa of Algeria in the other semifinal, was awarded the gold medal on a walkover.

The U.S. filed a protest. The protest was based on three points:
:(1) The punch was started before the referee yelled "stop," thus making it a legal punch.
:(2) The noise level of the crowd was so high that it was doubtful whether Holyfield could have heard the referee at all.
:(3) Barry was in the process of being warned for holding when the incident occurred. And there was a possiblity that the warning would be cause for disqualifying Barry.

The protest was rejected by the [[International Amateur Boxing Association]]. "There is no doubt in the minds of the protest committee," said Colonel Don Hull, the president of AIBA. "They reviewed the film and it is clear that there was a violation and that an illegal blow incapacitated. The referee enforced the rules."

Loring Baker, head of the United States Amateur Boxing Federation, said the referee should have stopped the bout earlier because Barry was flagrantly holding. "Had the referee done his job properly, the fight would have been stopped before the foul occurred," Baker said.

"Novicic blew it," said John Holaus, one of four American officials who worked the competition. "He was going from cautions to warnings and then back to cautions. It's against the rules. Once you issue a warning, you can't go back to cautions. I couldn't believe what I was seeing."

==Professional Achievements==
[[File:HolyfieldBuster.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Buster Douglas in 1990]]
[[File:Bowe vs. Holyfield II 290586.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe in 1993]]
[[File:Holyfield Tyson I 160428480.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson in 1996]]
'''World Titles:'''
*Holyfield is the only fighter to win a portion of the World Heavyweight Championship four times.
*'''[[WBA]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1986-1988) Won the title with a fifteen-round split decision against [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]].
*'''[[IBF]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1987-1988) Won the title with a third-round TKO of [[Ricky Parkey]].
*'''[[WBC]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1988) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Carlos DeLeon]]. Became the first Undisputed World Cruiserweight Champion. Vacated the [[WBA]]/[[WBC]]/[[IBF]] championship to move up to heavyweight.
*'''[[WBC]]/[[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1990-1992) Won the Undisputed [[World Heavyweight Champion|World Heavyweight Championship]] with a third-round KO of [[James (Buster) Douglas|James "Buster" Douglas]]. Lost the title to [[Riddick Bowe]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.
*'''[[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1993-1994) Won the title with a twelve-round majority decision against [[Riddick Bowe]]. Lost the title to [[Michael Moorer]] by a twelve-round majority decision.
*'''[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1996-1999) Won the title with an eleventh-round TKO of [[Mike Tyson]].
*'''[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1997-1999) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Michael Moorer]]. Lost the [[WBA]]/[[IBF]] championship to [[Lennox Lewis]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.
*'''[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion''' (2000-2001) Won the vacant title with a twelve-round unanimous decision against [[John Ruiz]]. Lost the title to [[John Ruiz]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.

'''Minor & Regional Titles:'''
*'''[[WBC]] Continental Americas Heavyweight Championship''' (1989-1990) Won the title with a tenth-round TKO of [[Michael Dokes]]. Vacated the title when he won the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship.
*'''[[USBA]] Heavyweight Championship''' (2006) Won the vacant title with a twelve-round unanimous decision against [[Fres Oquendo]]. Vacated the title.
*'''[[World Boxing Federation|WBF]] Heavyweight Championship''' (2010-2011) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Francois Botha]]. Vacated the title.

'''Record:'''
*Has a record of 16-7-2 (9 KO) in World Title fights.
*Has a record of 19-9-2 (10 KO) against former, current and future world titlists.
**Won against [[Tyrone Booze]], [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]] (twice), [[Ricky Parkey]], [[Ossie Ocasio]], [[Carlos De Leon]], [[Pinklon Thomas]], [[Michael Dokes]], [[James (Buster) Douglas]], [[George Foreman]], [[Larry Holmes]], [[Riddick Bowe]], [[Ray Mercer]], [[Bobby Czyz]], [[Mike Tyson]] (twice), [[Michael Moorer]], [[John Ruiz]], [[Hasim Rahman]]
**Lost against [[Riddick Bowe]] (twice), [[Michael Moorer]], [[Lennox Lewis]], [[John Ruiz]], [[Chris Byrd]], [[James Toney]], [[Sultan Ibragimov]], [[Nikolay Valuev]]
**Drew with [[Lennox Lewis]], [[John Ruiz]]
**Has a record of 7-3-1 (2 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees: [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]] (twice), [[George Foreman]], [[Larry Holmes]], [[Riddick Bowe]], [[Mike Tyson]] (twice).
**Lost against [[Riddick Bowe]] (twice), [[Lennox Lewis]].
**Drew with [[Lennox Lewis]].

==Awards & Recognition==
[[File:97Apr.jpg|right|210px]]
*[[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|''The Ring'' Fighter of the Year]] for 1987, 1996 and 1997.
*The [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] for 1990, 1996 and 1997.
*The [[WBA]] presented Holyfield with the [[Muhammad Ali]] [[:File:AliAwardHolyfield.jpg|Award]] for becoming a three-time heavyweight champion in 1996.
*[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi vs. Evander Holyfield (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Dwight Muhammad Qawi I]] was named the best cruiserweight fight of the 1980s by [[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']].
*[[Michael Dokes vs. Evander Holyfield|Evander Holyfield vs. Michael Dokes]] was named the best heavyweight fight of the 1980s ''The Ring''.
*[[Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe I]] was [[Ring Magazine Fight of the Year|''The Ring'' Fight of the Year]] for 1992, and the tenth round was the [[Ring Magazine Round of the Year|Round of the Year]].
*[[Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson I]] was ''The Ring'' Fight of the Year and [[Ring Magazine Upset of the Year|Upset of the Year]] for 1996.
*[[Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson (2nd meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II]] was [[Ring Magazine Event of the Year|''The Ring'' Event of the Year]] for 1997.
*[[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] ranked Holyfield as the [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|greatest cruiserweight of all-time]] in 1994.
*[[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] ranked Holyfield as the third [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|greatest heavyweight of all-time]] in 1998.
*Inducted into the [[Georgia Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2001.
*''The Ring'' ranked Holyfield as the twenty-third [[The 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years|best fighter of the last 80 years]] in 2002.
*Inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014.

==Notes==
*During the seventh round of Holyfield's second fight with [[Riddick Bowe]], a man on a motorized paraglider flew into the outdoor arena at [[Caesars Palace]] in Las Vegas and attempted to land in the ring. He crashed into the ring ropes and his chute got caught in the ring lights. The man, who called himself Fan Man, was pulled from the ropes and beaten unconscious by Bowe's security. He was briefly hospitalized and then arrested. After a 21-minute delay, the fight resumed. Holyfield won by a majority decision to regain the [[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Championship.
*After losing to [[Michael Moorer]] in Las Vegas on April 22, 1994, Holyfield was diagnosed with a heart ailment. He was told he had a "diastolic dysfunction of the left ventricle." As a result, he announced his retirement. In June 1994, Holyfield said he was cured by faith healer Benny Hinn and planned to return to boxing. At the insistence of the [[Nevada State Athletic Commission]], he went through a battery of tests at the Mayo Clinic in November 1994 and was given a clean bill of health. Holyfield was told he had been misdiagnosed because he was over-medicated and over-hydrated in the treatment he received after the Moorer fight. In February 1995, Nevada boxing officials voted to lift his medical suspension. He returned to the ring on May 20, 1995, and defeated [[Ray Mercer]] by a ten-round unanimous decision.
*Holyfield fought [[Riddick Bowe]] for the third and final time on November 4, 1995. Holyfield, who later said he was suffering from Hepatitis A, appeared to be completely exhausted by the fifth round. With about a minute left in the fifth round, [[HBO]] commentator [[George Foreman]] stood up and called for the fight to be stopped. "This man is going to end up in a pine box," Foreman said. "He's got heart trouble." Holyfield dropped Bowe early in the sixth round, but was unable to finish him. Bowe came back to stop Holyfield two rounds later.
*Holyfield was first scheduled to fight [[Mike Tyson]] for the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship on June 18, 1990, but those plans were spoiled by [[James (Buster) Douglas]], who knocked out Tyson on February 11, 1990. Holyfield won the title from Douglas and was scheduled to defend it against Tyson on November 8, 1991, but the fight was canceled after Tyson suffered a rib injury during training. Before the fight could be rescheduled, Tyson was convicted of rape and sent to prison. Holyfield finally fought Tyson on November 9, 1996, and stopped him in the eleventh round to win the [[WBA]] Heavyweight Championship.
*During the third round of his rematch with [[Mike Tyson]] on June 28, 1997, Holyfield was bitten twice by Tyson. After he bit a one-inch chunk out of Holyfield's right ear, referee [[Mills Lane]] called time and deducted two points from Tyson. When the fight resumed, Tyson bit Holyfield's left ear. When Lane saw the bite marks on Holyfield's left ear after the third round, he disqualified Tyson.
*Holyfield lost to [[Larry Donald]] by a lopsided twelve-round unanimous decision in New York City on November 13, 2004. It was his third straight defeat. After the fight, the [[New York State Athletic Commission]] medically suspended Holyfield for poor performance. Although Holyfield passed a battery of tests, the commission voted to suspend Holyfield's license indefinitely in August 2005, but lifted the medical suspension that prevented him from fighting in other states.
*On August 29, 2006, Federal Drug Enforcement Agency officials in Alabama raided a compounding pharmacy (a pharmacy that makes its own drugs generically) called Applied Pharmacy Services. Among the documents seized were records stating that, in June 2004, a patient named “Evan Fields” picked up three vials of testosterone and related injection supplies from a doctor in Columbus, Georgia. That same month, Fields received five vials of Saizen (a human growth hormone). In September 2004, according to the documents, Fields underwent treatment for hypogonadism (a condition that results when the sex glands produce little or no hormones). The date of birth, home address, and telephone number listed for Evan Fields in Applied Pharmacy’s records were identical to those of Evander Holyfield. When these facts were made public, Holyfield issued a statement that read in part, “I have never taken an illegal or banned performance enhancing drug of any kind. The use of such substances runs counter to everything I believe about sports and my place in the athletic world.”
*Holyfield's last shot at a major title occurred when he fought [[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion [[Nikolay Valuev]] on December 20, 2008, in Zurich, Switzerland. At the age of 46, Holyfield was trying to become the oldest fighter ever to win a portion of the World Heavyweight Championship. He lost by a controversial twelve-round majority decision. Chris Mannix of ''SI.com'' wrote that Holyfield "absolutely, positively won the fight."
*On June 26, 2014, three years and a month since his last fight, Holyfield officially announced his retirement from boxing at the age of 51.

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]]|
title=[[WBA Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Taoufik Belbouli]]|
years=1986 Jul 12 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Ricky Parkey]]|
title=[[IBF Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Glenn McCrory]]|
years=1987 May 15 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Carlos DeLeon]]|
title=[[WBC Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Carlos DeLeon]]|
years=1988 Apr 9 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[James (Buster) Douglas]]|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]] [[WBA Heavyweight Champion]] [[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Riddick Bowe]]|
years=1990 Oct 25 – 1992 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Riddick Bowe]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]] [[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Michael Moorer]]|
years=1993 Nov 6 – 1994 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Mike Tyson]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
years=1996 Nov 9 – 1999 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Michael Moorer]]|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
years=1997 Nov 8 – 1999 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Lennox Lewis]] Stripped|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[John Ruiz]]|
years=2000 Aug 12 – 2001 Mar 3
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holyfield, Evander}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:National Golden Gloves Champions]]
[[Category:1984 Olympians]]
[[Category:American Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Bronze Medalists]]
[[Category:World Cruiserweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]

==Professional Highlights==
{{#ev:youtube|exsyKuRRqP8}}

Julio Cesar Chavez

2018-12-25T11:50:22Z

Mthompson95: /* Notes */

[[File:Julio Cesar Chavez.jpg|left|300px]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2011 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/chavez.html click]]]
[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]]
<boxer>008119</boxer>
'''Manager:''' [[Ramon Felix]] 
'''Trainers:''' [[Cristobal Rosas]], [[Emanuel Steward]] (1994-) 
'''[[:Category:Julio Cesar Chavez Gallery|Julio Cesar Chavez Gallery]]''' 

== Notes ==
* Chavez had a purported amateur record of 14-1.
*In his 12th pro fight, Chavez fought Miguel Ruiz on [[Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Miguel Ruiz|March 4, 1981]] in Culiacan, Mexico. Chavez was initially disqualified by the referee for hitting Ruiz after the bell ending the first round, but the result was officially overturned the next day by the Culiacan commission and changed to a 1st-round knockout for Chavez. The commission ruled that Chavez had not hit Ruiz after the bell. Chavez's manager, the late Ramon Felix, was on the Culiacan commission at the time.
*Father of fellow boxers [[Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.]] and [[Omar Chavez]].
*Won his first 87 professional fights.
*Has a record of 31-4-2 (21 KOs) in world title fights.
*Has a record of 18-4-2 (10 KOs) against former world titlists.
**Won against [[Roger Mayweather]] (twice), [[Rocky Lockridge]], [[Juan Laporte]], [[Edwin Rosario]], [[Rafael Limon]], [[Jose Luis Ramirez]], [[Sammy Fuentes]], [[Meldrick Taylor]] (twice), [[Lonnie Smith]], [[Hector Camacho]], [[Greg Haugen]], [[Frankie Randall]] (twice), [[Tony Lopez]], [[Giovanni Parisi]], [[Joey Gamache]].
**Lost against Frankie Randall, [[Oscar De La Hoya]] (twice), [[Kostya Tszyu]].
**Drew with [[Pernell Whitaker]], [[Miguel Angel Gonzalez]].
*Has a record of 2-3-1 (1 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
°Won against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/rosario.html Edwin Rosario] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/camacho.htmlhttp://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/camacho.html Hector Camacho].

°Lost against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/delahoya.html Oscar De La Hoya] (twice) and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/tszyu.html Kostya Tszyu].

°Drew against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/whitaker.html Pernell Whitaker].

== Awards & Recognition ==
*Named the [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|"Fighter of the Year"]] for 1987.
*Named [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|''The Ring'' "Fighter of the Year"]] for 1990.
*[[Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor (1st meeting)|Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor I]] was named [[Ring Magazine Fight of the Year|''The Ring'' "Fight of the Year"]] for 1990 and "Fight of the Decade" for the 1990s.
*Named the 6th [[The Top 50 Fighters of the Last 50 Years|greatest fighter of the last 50 years]] by [[Ring Magazine|''The Ring]] in 1996.
*Named the 18th [[The 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years|greatest fighter of the last 80 years]] by ''The Ring'' 2002.
*Named the 17th greatest fighter of all-time by [[Bert Sugar]] in his 2006 book ''[[Boxing's Greatest Fighters]]''.

== External Link ==
*[http://www.juliocesarchavez.net/ Official Website]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Hector Camacho]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Super Featherweight Champion]]|
after=[[Azumah Nelson]]|
years=1984 Sep 13 – 1987 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Edwin Rosario]]|
title=[[WBA Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Edwin Rosario]]|
years=1987 Nov 21 – 1989 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Jose Luis Ramirez]]|
title=[[WBC Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Pernell Whitaker]]|
years=1988 Oct 29 – 1989 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Roger Mayweather]]|
title=[[WBC Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Frankie Randall]]|
years=1989 May 13 – 1994 Jan 29
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Meldrick Taylor]]|
title=[[IBF Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Rafael Pineda]]|
years=1990 Mar 17 – 1991 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Frankie Randall]]|
title=[[WBC Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Oscar De La Hoya]]|
years=1994 May 7 – 1996 Jun 7
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chavez, Julio Cesar}}
[[Category:Mexican American Boxers]]

[[Category:World Super Featherweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Three Division World Champions]]
[[Category:Mexican World Champions]]
[[Category:Mexican American Boxers]]

[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]
[[Category:Chavez Family]]

Julio Cesar Chavez

2018-12-25T11:29:42Z

Mthompson95: /* Notes */

[[File:Julio Cesar Chavez.jpg|left|300px]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2011 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/chavez.html click]]]
[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]]
<boxer>008119</boxer>
'''Manager:''' [[Ramon Felix]] 
'''Trainers:''' [[Cristobal Rosas]], [[Emanuel Steward]] (1994-) 
'''[[:Category:Julio Cesar Chavez Gallery|Julio Cesar Chavez Gallery]]''' 

== Notes ==
* Chavez had a purported amateur record of 14-1.
*In his 12th pro fight, Chavez fought Miguel Ruiz on [[Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Miguel Ruiz|March 4, 1981]] in Culiacan, Mexico. Chavez was initially disqualified by the referee for hitting Ruiz after the bell ending the first round, but the result was officially overturned the next day by the Culiacan commission and changed to a 1st-round knockout for Chavez. The commission ruled that Chavez had not hit Ruiz after the bell. Chavez's manager, the late Ramon Felix, was on the Culiacan commission at the time.
*Father of fellow boxers [[Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.]] and [[Omar Chavez]].
*Won his first 87 professional fights.
*Has a record of 31-4-2 (21 KOs) in world title fights.
*Has a record of 18-4-2 (10 KOs) against former world titlists.
**Won against [[Roger Mayweather]] (twice), [[Rocky Lockridge]], [[Juan Laporte]], [[Edwin Rosario]], [[Rafael Limon]], [[Jose Luis Ramirez]], [[Sammy Fuentes]], [[Meldrick Taylor]] (twice), [[Lonnie Smith]], [[Hector Camacho]], [[Greg Haugen]], [[Frankie Randall]] (twice), [[Tony Lopez]], [[Giovanni Parisi]], [[Joey Gamache]].
**Lost against Frankie Randall, [[Oscar De La Hoya]] (twice), [[Kostya Tszyu]].
**Drew with [[Pernell Whitaker]], [[Miguel Angel Gonzalez]].

*Has a record of 2-3-1 (1 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
*Won against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/rosario.html Edwin Rosario] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/camacho.htmlhttp://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/camacho.html Hector Camacho].
*Lost against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/delahoya.html Oscar De La Hoya] (twice) and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/tszyu.html Kostya Tszyu].
*Drew against
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/whitaker.html Pernell Whitaker].

== Awards & Recognition ==
*Named the [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|"Fighter of the Year"]] for 1987.
*Named [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|''The Ring'' "Fighter of the Year"]] for 1990.
*[[Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor (1st meeting)|Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor I]] was named [[Ring Magazine Fight of the Year|''The Ring'' "Fight of the Year"]] for 1990 and "Fight of the Decade" for the 1990s.
*Named the 6th [[The Top 50 Fighters of the Last 50 Years|greatest fighter of the last 50 years]] by [[Ring Magazine|''The Ring]] in 1996.
*Named the 18th [[The 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years|greatest fighter of the last 80 years]] by ''The Ring'' 2002.
*Named the 17th greatest fighter of all-time by [[Bert Sugar]] in his 2006 book ''[[Boxing's Greatest Fighters]]''.

== External Link ==
*[http://www.juliocesarchavez.net/ Official Website]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Hector Camacho]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Super Featherweight Champion]]|
after=[[Azumah Nelson]]|
years=1984 Sep 13 – 1987 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Edwin Rosario]]|
title=[[WBA Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Edwin Rosario]]|
years=1987 Nov 21 – 1989 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Jose Luis Ramirez]]|
title=[[WBC Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Pernell Whitaker]]|
years=1988 Oct 29 – 1989 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Roger Mayweather]]|
title=[[WBC Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Frankie Randall]]|
years=1989 May 13 – 1994 Jan 29
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Meldrick Taylor]]|
title=[[IBF Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Rafael Pineda]]|
years=1990 Mar 17 – 1991 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Frankie Randall]]|
title=[[WBC Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Oscar De La Hoya]]|
years=1994 May 7 – 1996 Jun 7
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chavez, Julio Cesar}}
[[Category:Mexican American Boxers]]

[[Category:World Super Featherweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Three Division World Champions]]
[[Category:Mexican World Champions]]
[[Category:Mexican American Boxers]]

[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]
[[Category:Chavez Family]]

Evander Holyfield

2018-12-25T11:18:15Z

Mthompson95: /* Professional Achievements */

[[file:Holyfieldface.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
{{ibhof |url=http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/holyfield.html}}
<boxer>000499</boxer>
*'''Trainers:''' [[George Benton]] & [[Lou Duva]] (1984-1992), [[Emanuel Steward]] (1993), [[Don Turner]] (1994-2003), [[Ronnie Shields]] (2004-2008), [[Tommy Brooks]] (2010-2011) 
*'''Managers:''' [[Lou Duva]], Ken Sanders (1984-1990, 2008-2011), [[Shelly Finkel]], [[Jim Thomas]]
*'''Promoter:''' [[Dan Duva]] ([[Main Events]])
*'''Cutmen:''' [[Ace Marotta]] and [[Jim Strickland]]
*'''Conditioning Coach:''' Tim Hallmark
*'''[[:Category:Evander Holyfield Gallery|Evander Holyfield Gallery]]'''

==Amateur Achievements==
[[File:Holyfield 79027848.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield at the 1984 Olympics]]
*'''Record:''' 160-14 with 75 KOs
*1983 U.S. National Championships Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Results:
**[[Arthur Weathers]] TKO 3
**Antonio Sweeney W 3
**Glenn Wiggins TKO 2
**[[Ricky Womack]] L 3
*1983 Pan American Games Silver Medalist (178 lbs) in Caracas, Venezuela. Results:
**Rodolfo Marin (Puerto Rico) W 3 (5-0)
**Carlos Salazar (Venezuela) RSC 2
**[[Pablo Romero]] (Cuba) L 3 (1-4)
*1984 National [[Golden Gloves]] Gold Medalist (178 lbs) in St. Louis, Missouri. Results:
**Sherman Griffin RSC 2
**Jerry Goff RSC 1
**Arthur Weathers RSC 2
*1984 U.S. Olympic Trials Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Fort Worth, Texas. Results:
**Sherman Griffin W 3 (5-0)
**[[Ricky Womack]] L 3 (2-3)
*1984 U.S. Olympic Box-Offs Winner (178 lbs) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Results:
**Ricky Womack W 3 (4-1)
**Ricky Womack W 3 (4-1)
*1984 [[Olympics|Olympic]] Games Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Los Angeles, California. Results:
**Taju Akay (Ghana) RSCH 3
**Ismail Khalil Salman (Iraq) RSCH 2
**Sylvanus Okello (Kenya) W KO 1
**[[Kevin Barry]] (New Zealand) L DQ 2

'''Olympic Disqualification''' 
[[File:Holyfield-Barry 79028351.jpg|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Kevin Barry at the 1984 Olympics]]
Holyfield was disqualified in his light heavyweight semifinal bout with [[Kevin Barry]] of New Zealand for hitting after the break.

Near the end of the second round, with Barry grabbing him around the neck with his left arm, Holyfield pulled back and—just as Yugoslavian referee Gligorije Novicic yelled "Stop!"—slammed a right to the body and a left hook to the head. Barry crumbled to the canvas. He regained his feet, but was very wobbly. Novicic stopped the fight and disqualified Holyfield for hitting on the break. Holyfield, who was dominating the bout, said he didn't hear the referee.

Because he was stopped by a head blow, Barry was medically ineligible to fight for 28 days. As a result, [[Anton Josipovic]] of Yugoslavia, who defeated Mustapha Moussa of Algeria in the other semifinal, was awarded the gold medal on a walkover.

The U.S. filed a protest. The protest was based on three points:
:(1) The punch was started before the referee yelled "stop," thus making it a legal punch.
:(2) The noise level of the crowd was so high that it was doubtful whether Holyfield could have heard the referee at all.
:(3) Barry was in the process of being warned for holding when the incident occurred. And there was a possiblity that the warning would be cause for disqualifying Barry.

The protest was rejected by the [[International Amateur Boxing Association]]. "There is no doubt in the minds of the protest committee," said Colonel Don Hull, the president of AIBA. "They reviewed the film and it is clear that there was a violation and that an illegal blow incapacitated. The referee enforced the rules."

Loring Baker, head of the United States Amateur Boxing Federation, said the referee should have stopped the bout earlier because Barry was flagrantly holding. "Had the referee done his job properly, the fight would have been stopped before the foul occurred," Baker said.

"Novicic blew it," said John Holaus, one of four American officials who worked the competition. "He was going from cautions to warnings and then back to cautions. It's against the rules. Once you issue a warning, you can't go back to cautions. I couldn't believe what I was seeing."

==Professional Achievements==
[[File:HolyfieldBuster.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Buster Douglas in 1990]]
[[File:Bowe vs. Holyfield II 290586.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe in 1993]]
[[File:Holyfield Tyson I 160428480.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson in 1996]]
'''World Titles:'''
*Holyfield is the only fighter to win a portion of the World Heavyweight Championship four times.
*'''[[WBA]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1986-1988) Won the title with a fifteen-round split decision against [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]].
*'''[[IBF]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1987-1988) Won the title with a third-round TKO of [[Ricky Parkey]].
*'''[[WBC]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1988) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Carlos DeLeon]]. Became the first Undisputed World Cruiserweight Champion. Vacated the [[WBA]]/[[WBC]]/[[IBF]] championship to move up to heavyweight.
*'''[[WBC]]/[[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1990-1992) Won the Undisputed [[World Heavyweight Champion|World Heavyweight Championship]] with a third-round KO of [[James (Buster) Douglas|James "Buster" Douglas]]. Lost the title to [[Riddick Bowe]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.
*'''[[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1993-1994) Won the title with a twelve-round majority decision against [[Riddick Bowe]]. Lost the title to [[Michael Moorer]] by a twelve-round majority decision.
*'''[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1996-1999) Won the title with an eleventh-round TKO of [[Mike Tyson]].
*'''[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1997-1999) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Michael Moorer]]. Lost the [[WBA]]/[[IBF]] championship to [[Lennox Lewis]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.
*'''[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion''' (2000-2001) Won the vacant title with a twelve-round unanimous decision against [[John Ruiz]]. Lost the title to [[John Ruiz]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.

'''Minor & Regional Titles:'''
*'''[[WBC]] Continental Americas Heavyweight Championship''' (1989-1990) Won the title with a tenth-round TKO of [[Michael Dokes]]. Vacated the title when he won the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship.
*'''[[USBA]] Heavyweight Championship''' (2006) Won the vacant title with a twelve-round unanimous decision against [[Fres Oquendo]]. Vacated the title.
*'''[[World Boxing Federation|WBF]] Heavyweight Championship''' (2010-2011) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Francois Botha]]. Vacated the title.

'''Record:'''
*Has a record of 16-7-2 (9 KO) in World Title fights.
*Has a record of 19-9-2 (10 KO) against former, current and future world titlists.
**Won against [[Tyrone Booze]], [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]] (twice), [[Ricky Parkey]], [[Ossie Ocasio]], [[Carlos De Leon]], [[Pinklon Thomas]], [[Michael Dokes]], [[James (Buster) Douglas]], [[George Foreman]], [[Larry Holmes]], [[Riddick Bowe]], [[Ray Mercer]], [[Bobby Czyz]], [[Mike Tyson]] (twice), [[Michael Moorer]], [[John Ruiz]], [[Hasim Rahman]]
**Lost against [[Riddick Bowe]] (twice), [[Michael Moorer]], [[Lennox Lewis]], [[John Ruiz]], [[Chris Byrd]], [[James Toney]], [[Sultan Ibragimov]], [[Nikolay Valuev]]
**Drew with [[Lennox Lewis]], [[John Ruiz]]
**Has a record of 7-3-1(2 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees: [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]] (twice), [[George Foreman]], [[Larry Holmes]], [[Riddick Bowe]], [[Mike Tyson]] (twice).
**Lost against [[Riddick Bowe]] (twice), [[Lennox Lewis]].
**Drew with [[Lennox Lewis]].

==Awards & Recognition==
[[File:97Apr.jpg|right|210px]]
*[[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|''The Ring'' Fighter of the Year]] for 1987, 1996 and 1997.
*The [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] for 1990, 1996 and 1997.
*The [[WBA]] presented Holyfield with the [[Muhammad Ali]] [[:File:AliAwardHolyfield.jpg|Award]] for becoming a three-time heavyweight champion in 1996.
*[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi vs. Evander Holyfield (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Dwight Muhammad Qawi I]] was named the best cruiserweight fight of the 1980s by [[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']].
*[[Michael Dokes vs. Evander Holyfield|Evander Holyfield vs. Michael Dokes]] was named the best heavyweight fight of the 1980s ''The Ring''.
*[[Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe I]] was [[Ring Magazine Fight of the Year|''The Ring'' Fight of the Year]] for 1992, and the tenth round was the [[Ring Magazine Round of the Year|Round of the Year]].
*[[Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson I]] was ''The Ring'' Fight of the Year and [[Ring Magazine Upset of the Year|Upset of the Year]] for 1996.
*[[Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson (2nd meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II]] was [[Ring Magazine Event of the Year|''The Ring'' Event of the Year]] for 1997.
*[[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] ranked Holyfield as the [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|greatest cruiserweight of all-time]] in 1994.
*[[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] ranked Holyfield as the third [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|greatest heavyweight of all-time]] in 1998.
*Inducted into the [[Georgia Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2001.
*''The Ring'' ranked Holyfield as the twenty-third [[The 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years|best fighter of the last 80 years]] in 2002.
*Inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014.

==Notes==
*During the seventh round of Holyfield's second fight with [[Riddick Bowe]], a man on a motorized paraglider flew into the outdoor arena at [[Caesars Palace]] in Las Vegas and attempted to land in the ring. He crashed into the ring ropes and his chute got caught in the ring lights. The man, who called himself Fan Man, was pulled from the ropes and beaten unconscious by Bowe's security. He was briefly hospitalized and then arrested. After a 21-minute delay, the fight resumed. Holyfield won by a majority decision to regain the [[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Championship.
*After losing to [[Michael Moorer]] in Las Vegas on April 22, 1994, Holyfield was diagnosed with a heart ailment. He was told he had a "diastolic dysfunction of the left ventricle." As a result, he announced his retirement. In June 1994, Holyfield said he was cured by faith healer Benny Hinn and planned to return to boxing. At the insistence of the [[Nevada State Athletic Commission]], he went through a battery of tests at the Mayo Clinic in November 1994 and was given a clean bill of health. Holyfield was told he had been misdiagnosed because he was over-medicated and over-hydrated in the treatment he received after the Moorer fight. In February 1995, Nevada boxing officials voted to lift his medical suspension. He returned to the ring on May 20, 1995, and defeated [[Ray Mercer]] by a ten-round unanimous decision.
*Holyfield fought [[Riddick Bowe]] for the third and final time on November 4, 1995. Holyfield, who later said he was suffering from Hepatitis A, appeared to be completely exhausted by the fifth round. With about a minute left in the fifth round, [[HBO]] commentator [[George Foreman]] stood up and called for the fight to be stopped. "This man is going to end up in a pine box," Foreman said. "He's got heart trouble." Holyfield dropped Bowe early in the sixth round, but was unable to finish him. Bowe came back to stop Holyfield two rounds later.
*Holyfield was first scheduled to fight [[Mike Tyson]] for the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship on June 18, 1990, but those plans were spoiled by [[James (Buster) Douglas]], who knocked out Tyson on February 11, 1990. Holyfield won the title from Douglas and was scheduled to defend it against Tyson on November 8, 1991, but the fight was canceled after Tyson suffered a rib injury during training. Before the fight could be rescheduled, Tyson was convicted of rape and sent to prison. Holyfield finally fought Tyson on November 9, 1996, and stopped him in the eleventh round to win the [[WBA]] Heavyweight Championship.
*During the third round of his rematch with [[Mike Tyson]] on June 28, 1997, Holyfield was bitten twice by Tyson. After he bit a one-inch chunk out of Holyfield's right ear, referee [[Mills Lane]] called time and deducted two points from Tyson. When the fight resumed, Tyson bit Holyfield's left ear. When Lane saw the bite marks on Holyfield's left ear after the third round, he disqualified Tyson.
*Holyfield lost to [[Larry Donald]] by a lopsided twelve-round unanimous decision in New York City on November 13, 2004. It was his third straight defeat. After the fight, the [[New York State Athletic Commission]] medically suspended Holyfield for poor performance. Although Holyfield passed a battery of tests, the commission voted to suspend Holyfield's license indefinitely in August 2005, but lifted the medical suspension that prevented him from fighting in other states.
*On August 29, 2006, Federal Drug Enforcement Agency officials in Alabama raided a compounding pharmacy (a pharmacy that makes its own drugs generically) called Applied Pharmacy Services. Among the documents seized were records stating that, in June 2004, a patient named “Evan Fields” picked up three vials of testosterone and related injection supplies from a doctor in Columbus, Georgia. That same month, Fields received five vials of Saizen (a human growth hormone). In September 2004, according to the documents, Fields underwent treatment for hypogonadism (a condition that results when the sex glands produce little or no hormones). The date of birth, home address, and telephone number listed for Evan Fields in Applied Pharmacy’s records were identical to those of Evander Holyfield. When these facts were made public, Holyfield issued a statement that read in part, “I have never taken an illegal or banned performance enhancing drug of any kind. The use of such substances runs counter to everything I believe about sports and my place in the athletic world.”
*Holyfield's last shot at a major title occurred when he fought [[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion [[Nikolay Valuev]] on December 20, 2008, in Zurich, Switzerland. At the age of 46, Holyfield was trying to become the oldest fighter ever to win a portion of the World Heavyweight Championship. He lost by a controversial twelve-round majority decision. Chris Mannix of ''SI.com'' wrote that Holyfield "absolutely, positively won the fight."
*On June 26, 2014, three years and a month since his last fight, Holyfield officially announced his retirement from boxing at the age of 51.

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]]|
title=[[WBA Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Taoufik Belbouli]]|
years=1986 Jul 12 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Ricky Parkey]]|
title=[[IBF Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Glenn McCrory]]|
years=1987 May 15 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Carlos DeLeon]]|
title=[[WBC Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Carlos DeLeon]]|
years=1988 Apr 9 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[James (Buster) Douglas]]|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]] [[WBA Heavyweight Champion]] [[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Riddick Bowe]]|
years=1990 Oct 25 – 1992 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Riddick Bowe]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]] [[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Michael Moorer]]|
years=1993 Nov 6 – 1994 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Mike Tyson]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
years=1996 Nov 9 – 1999 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Michael Moorer]]|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
years=1997 Nov 8 – 1999 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Lennox Lewis]] Stripped|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[John Ruiz]]|
years=2000 Aug 12 – 2001 Mar 3
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holyfield, Evander}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:National Golden Gloves Champions]]
[[Category:1984 Olympians]]
[[Category:American Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Bronze Medalists]]
[[Category:World Cruiserweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]

==Professional Highlights==
{{#ev:youtube|exsyKuRRqP8}}

Pernell Whitaker

2018-12-25T10:03:14Z

Mthompson95: /* Championship Record */

[[File:Whitaker161748395.jpg|left|300px|thumb|<center>Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker</center>]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2007 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/whitaker.html click]]]
[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]]
<boxer>000555</boxer>
'''Manager:''' [[Shelly Finkel]] 
'''Trainers:''' [[George Benton]] and [[Lou Duva]]
 

'''[[:Category:Pernell Whitaker Gallery|Pernell Whitaker Photo Gallery]]'''

==Amateur Achievements==
[[file:Whitaker 84.jpg|right|thumb|300px|<center>1984 Los Angeles Olympics</center>]]
*Amateur Record: 201-14
*1982 National AAU Lightweight Champion. Results:
**[[Derrick Hudson]] W 3 (5-0)
**Robert Montoya KO 1
**[[Frankie Randall]] W 3 (4-1)
**Ray Ordonio W 3 (5-0)
**Joey Belinc W 3 (5-0)
*Lightweight Silver Medalist for the United States at the 1982 World Championships in Munich, Germany. Results:
**Ismaldi Pineda (Colombia) W 3 (5-0)
**[[Christopher Ossai]] (Nigeria) W 3 (3-2)
**Hussein Khalili (Kenya) W 3 (5-0)
**Milivoj Labudovic (Yugoslavia) W 3 (5-0)
**Angel Herrera (Cuba) L 3 (2-3)
*Lightweight Gold Medalist for the United States at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracus, Venezuela. Results:
**Kenworth Minus (Cuba) KO 1
**[[Angel Beltre]] (Dominican Republic) W 3 (3-2)
**[[Angel Herrera]] (Cuba) W 3 (5-0)
*Lightweight Gold Medalist for the United States at the 1984 [[Olympics]] in Los Angeles, California. Results:
**1st round bye
**[[Adolfo Mendez]] (Nicaragua) W 3 (5-0)
**Geoffrey Nyeko (Uganda) W 3 (5-0)
**[[Reiner Gies]] (West Germany) W 3 (5-0)
**[[Chun Chil-Sung]] (South Korea) W (5-0)
**[[Luis Ortiz]] (Puerto Rico) KO 2

== Championship Record ==
[[File:SI8115.jpg|right|300px|thumb|<center>Sports Illustrated: October 10, 1994</center>]]
*Has a record of 19-3-1 (4 KO's) in world title fights.
*Has a record of 14-3-1 (3 KO's) against former, current or future world titlists.
**Won against [[Alfredo Layne]], [[Roger Mayweather]], [[Greg Haugen]], [[Jose Luis Ramirez]], [[Freddie Pendleton]], [[Azumah Nelson]], [[Juan Nazario]], [[Jorge Paez]], [[Rafael Pineda]], [[James (Buddy) McGirt]] (twice), [[Julio Cesar Vasquez]], [[Jake Rodriguez]], [[Diosbelys Hurtado]]
**Lost against [[Jose Luis Ramirez]], [[Oscar De La Hoya]], [[Felix Trinidad]]
**Drew against [[Julio Cesar Chavez]]
*Has a record of 3-2-1 (0 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
**Won against [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/nelsonazumah.html Azumah Nelson] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/mcgirt.html James McGirt] (twice).
**Lost against [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/delahoya.html Oscar De La Hoya] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/trinidad.html Felix Trinidad].
**Drew against [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/chavez.html Julio Cesar Chavez].

==Minor & Regional Titles==
*[[NABF]] Lightweight Title vs. [[Roger Mayweather]] on March 28, 1987
*[[USBA]] Lightweight Title vs. [[Miguel Santana]] on July 25, 1987

==Awards & Recognition==
*Named [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|The Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year]] and the [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year]] for 1989.
*Named the [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|3rd greatest lightweight of all-time]] in the [[:Ring Magazine: September 2001|September 2001]] issue of [[The Ring Magazine]].
*Inducted into the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2007 and the [[World Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2008.

==Trivia==
*Whitaker is often called Pete by his family and friends. When he was an amateur, they would chant "Sweet Pete" during his bouts. A local newspaper reporter misheard the chant and wrote that the crowd was chanting "Sweet Pea." After it appeared in the newspaper, the "Sweet Pea" nickname stuck.
*Whitaker trained [[Zab Judah]] for his fights with [[Kaizer Mabuza]] and [[Amir Khan]].
*Going into his last 4 bouts his record was 40-1-1 (17 KO's). Both blemishes were highly controversial. He would go 0-3-0-1 in his last 4 bouts partly due to age and partly due his an addiction to cocaine.
{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Greg Haugen]]|
title=[[IBF Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Freddie Pendleton]]|
years=1989 Feb 18 – 1992 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Julio Cesar Chavez]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Miguel Angel Gonzalez]]|
years=1989 Aug 20 – 1992 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Juan Nazario]]|
title=[[WBA Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Joey Gamache]]|
years=1990 Aug 11 – 1992 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Rafael Pineda]]|
title=[[IBF Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Charles Murray]]|
years=1992 Jul 18 – 1993 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[James (Buddy) McGirt]]|
title=[[WBC Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Oscar De La Hoya]]|
years=1993 Mar 6 – 1997 Apr 12
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Julio Cesar Vasquez]]|
title=[[WBA Light Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Carl Daniels]]|
years=1995 Mar 4 – 1995 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitaker, Pernell}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:United States Amateur Champions]]
[[Category:1984 Olympians]]
[[Category:American Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Gold Medalists]]
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Middleweight Champions]]
[[Category:Four Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:Southpaw World Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]
[[Category:NABF Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:Trainers]]

James (Buddy) McGirt

2018-12-25T03:03:09Z

Mthompson95: /* Career Notes */

[[File:McGirt.JPG|left|200px|left]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2019 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/mcgirt.html]]]
<boxer>000456</boxer>
*'''Trainer:''' [[Al Certo]]
*'''Manager:''' [[Al Certo]]
*'''[[:Category:James (Buddy) McGirt Gallery|James (Buddy) McGirt Gallery]]'''

==Career Notes==
*Amateur record: 54-9.
*Record in world title fights: 5-3 (2 KOs)
*Record against former, current and future world titlists: 6-3 (1 KO)
**Won against [[Saoul Mamby]], [[Joe Manley]], [[Simon Brown]], [[Patrizio Oliva]], [[Genaro Léon]], [[Livingstone Bramble]].
**Lost against [[Meldrick Taylor]], [[Pernell Whitaker]] (twice).
*Inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame in 1998.
*Inducted into the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] 2019.

==Regional & Minor Titles==
*[[WBC]] Continental Americas super lightweight title (1985-1986, 1987)
*[[IBC (Sanctioning Body)|IBC]] junior middleweight title (1996)

== Trainer ==
[[File:McGirts 119027396.jpg|right|thumb|400px|McGirt and his son, James McGirt Jr.]]
Since his retirement as a boxer, McGirt has become a highly regarded trainer.

He was named 2002 [[Boxing Writers Association of America Trainer of the Year Award|Trainer of the Year]] by the [[Boxing Writers Association of America]].

'''Trains/Trained:'''
*[[Lamon Brewster]]
*[[Nate Campbell]]
*[[J.C. Candelo]]
*[[Joel Casamayor]]
*[[Marianne Chubirka]]
*[[Allen Conyers]]
*[[Vernon Forrest]]
*[[Arturo Gatti]]
*[[Michael Grant]]
*[[Troy Harden]]
*[[Kelsey Jeffries]]
*[[Joel Julio]]
*[[Ievgen Khytrov]]
*[[Jimmy Lange]]
*[[Sergey Lipinets]]
*[[Jason Litzau]] (assistant)
*[[Matthew Macklin]]
*[[Paul Malignaggi]]
*[[James McGirt Jr.]]
*[[Hasim Rahman]]
*[[Paul Smith (Liverpool)|Paul Smith]]
*[[Paul Spadafora]] (assistant)
*[[Antonio Tarver]]
*[[Sherman Williams]]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Terry Marsh]] Retired|
title=[[IBF Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Meldrick Taylor]]|
years=1988 Feb 14 – 1988 Sep 3
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Simon Brown]]|
title=[[WBC Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Pernell Whitaker]]|
years=1991 Nov 29 – 1993 Mar 6
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:McGirt, James (Buddy)}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:Trainers]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]

[[Category:The Contender (TV Series)]]

Pernell Whitaker

2018-12-25T03:02:16Z

Mthompson95: /* Championship Record */

[[File:Whitaker161748395.jpg|left|300px|thumb|<center>Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker</center>]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2007 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/whitaker.html click]]]
[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]]
<boxer>000555</boxer>
'''Manager:''' [[Shelly Finkel]] 
'''Trainers:''' [[George Benton]] and [[Lou Duva]]
 

'''[[:Category:Pernell Whitaker Gallery|Pernell Whitaker Photo Gallery]]'''

==Amateur Achievements==
[[file:Whitaker 84.jpg|right|thumb|300px|<center>1984 Los Angeles Olympics</center>]]
*Amateur Record: 201-14
*1982 National AAU Lightweight Champion. Results:
**[[Derrick Hudson]] W 3 (5-0)
**Robert Montoya KO 1
**[[Frankie Randall]] W 3 (4-1)
**Ray Ordonio W 3 (5-0)
**Joey Belinc W 3 (5-0)
*Lightweight Silver Medalist for the United States at the 1982 World Championships in Munich, Germany. Results:
**Ismaldi Pineda (Colombia) W 3 (5-0)
**[[Christopher Ossai]] (Nigeria) W 3 (3-2)
**Hussein Khalili (Kenya) W 3 (5-0)
**Milivoj Labudovic (Yugoslavia) W 3 (5-0)
**Angel Herrera (Cuba) L 3 (2-3)
*Lightweight Gold Medalist for the United States at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracus, Venezuela. Results:
**Kenworth Minus (Cuba) KO 1
**[[Angel Beltre]] (Dominican Republic) W 3 (3-2)
**[[Angel Herrera]] (Cuba) W 3 (5-0)
*Lightweight Gold Medalist for the United States at the 1984 [[Olympics]] in Los Angeles, California. Results:
**1st round bye
**[[Adolfo Mendez]] (Nicaragua) W 3 (5-0)
**Geoffrey Nyeko (Uganda) W 3 (5-0)
**[[Reiner Gies]] (West Germany) W 3 (5-0)
**[[Chun Chil-Sung]] (South Korea) W (5-0)
**[[Luis Ortiz]] (Puerto Rico) KO 2

== Championship Record ==
[[File:SI8115.jpg|right|300px|thumb|<center>Sports Illustrated: October 10, 1994</center>]]
*Has a record of 19-3-1 (4 KO's) in world title fights.
*Has a record of 14-3-1 (3 KO's) against former, current or future world titlists.
**Won against [[Alfredo Layne]], [[Roger Mayweather]], [[Greg Haugen]], [[Jose Luis Ramirez]], [[Freddie Pendleton]], [[Azumah Nelson]], [[Juan Nazario]], [[Jorge Paez]], [[Rafael Pineda]], [[James (Buddy) McGirt]] (twice), [[Julio Cesar Vasquez]], [[Jake Rodriguez]], [[Diosbelys Hurtado]]
**Lost against [[Jose Luis Ramirez]], [[Oscar De La Hoya]], [[Felix Trinidad]]
**Drew against [[Julio Cesar Chavez]]
*Has a record of 3-2-1 (0 KO's) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
**Won against [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/nelsonazumah.html Azumah Nelson] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/mcgirt.html James McGirt] (twice).
**Lost against [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/delahoya.html Oscar De La Hoya] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/trinidad.html Felix Trinidad].
**Drew against [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/chavez.html Julio Cesar Chavez].

==Minor & Regional Titles==
*[[NABF]] Lightweight Title vs. [[Roger Mayweather]] on March 28, 1987
*[[USBA]] Lightweight Title vs. [[Miguel Santana]] on July 25, 1987

==Awards & Recognition==
*Named [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|The Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year]] and the [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year]] for 1989.
*Named the [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|3rd greatest lightweight of all-time]] in the [[:Ring Magazine: September 2001|September 2001]] issue of [[The Ring Magazine]].
*Inducted into the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2007 and the [[World Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2008.

==Trivia==
*Whitaker is often called Pete by his family and friends. When he was an amateur, they would chant "Sweet Pete" during his bouts. A local newspaper reporter misheard the chant and wrote that the crowd was chanting "Sweet Pea." After it appeared in the newspaper, the "Sweet Pea" nickname stuck.
*Whitaker trained [[Zab Judah]] for his fights with [[Kaizer Mabuza]] and [[Amir Khan]].
*Going into his last 4 bouts his record was 40-1-1 (17 KO's). Both blemishes were highly controversial. He would go 0-3-0-1 in his last 4 bouts partly due to age and partly due his an addiction to cocaine.
{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Greg Haugen]]|
title=[[IBF Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Freddie Pendleton]]|
years=1989 Feb 18 – 1992 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Julio Cesar Chavez]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Miguel Angel Gonzalez]]|
years=1989 Aug 20 – 1992 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Juan Nazario]]|
title=[[WBA Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Joey Gamache]]|
years=1990 Aug 11 – 1992 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Rafael Pineda]]|
title=[[IBF Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Charles Murray]]|
years=1992 Jul 18 – 1993 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[James (Buddy) McGirt]]|
title=[[WBC Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Oscar De La Hoya]]|
years=1993 Mar 6 – 1997 Apr 12
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Julio Cesar Vasquez]]|
title=[[WBA Light Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Carl Daniels]]|
years=1995 Mar 4 – 1995 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitaker, Pernell}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:United States Amateur Champions]]
[[Category:1984 Olympians]]
[[Category:American Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Gold Medalists]]
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Middleweight Champions]]
[[Category:Four Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:Southpaw World Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]
[[Category:NABF Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:Trainers]]

James (Buddy) McGirt

2018-12-25T03:00:06Z

Mthompson95: /* Career Notes */

[[File:McGirt.JPG|left|200px|left]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2019 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:
[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/mcgirt.html]]]
<boxer>000456</boxer>
*'''Trainer:''' [[Al Certo]]
*'''Manager:''' [[Al Certo]]
*'''[[:Category:James (Buddy) McGirt Gallery|James (Buddy) McGirt Gallery]]'''

==Career Notes==
*Amateur record: 54-9.
*Record in world title fights: 5-3 (2 KOs)
*Record against former, current and future world titlists: 6-3 (1 KO)
**Won against [[Saoul Mamby]], [[Joe Manley]], [[Simon Brown]], [[Patrizio Oliva]], [[Genaro Léon]], [[Livingstone Bramble]].
**Lost against [[Meldrick Taylor]], [[Pernell Whitaker]] (twice).
*Inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame in 1998.
*Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame 2019.

==Regional & Minor Titles==
*[[WBC]] Continental Americas super lightweight title (1985-1986, 1987)
*[[IBC (Sanctioning Body)|IBC]] junior middleweight title (1996)

== Trainer ==
[[File:McGirts 119027396.jpg|right|thumb|400px|McGirt and his son, James McGirt Jr.]]
Since his retirement as a boxer, McGirt has become a highly regarded trainer.

He was named 2002 [[Boxing Writers Association of America Trainer of the Year Award|Trainer of the Year]] by the [[Boxing Writers Association of America]].

'''Trains/Trained:'''
*[[Lamon Brewster]]
*[[Nate Campbell]]
*[[J.C. Candelo]]
*[[Joel Casamayor]]
*[[Marianne Chubirka]]
*[[Allen Conyers]]
*[[Vernon Forrest]]
*[[Arturo Gatti]]
*[[Michael Grant]]
*[[Troy Harden]]
*[[Kelsey Jeffries]]
*[[Joel Julio]]
*[[Ievgen Khytrov]]
*[[Jimmy Lange]]
*[[Sergey Lipinets]]
*[[Jason Litzau]] (assistant)
*[[Matthew Macklin]]
*[[Paul Malignaggi]]
*[[James McGirt Jr.]]
*[[Hasim Rahman]]
*[[Paul Smith (Liverpool)|Paul Smith]]
*[[Paul Spadafora]] (assistant)
*[[Antonio Tarver]]
*[[Sherman Williams]]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Terry Marsh]] Retired|
title=[[IBF Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Meldrick Taylor]]|
years=1988 Feb 14 – 1988 Sep 3
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Simon Brown]]|
title=[[WBC Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Pernell Whitaker]]|
years=1991 Nov 29 – 1993 Mar 6
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:McGirt, James (Buddy)}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:Trainers]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]

[[Category:The Contender (TV Series)]]

Pernell Whitaker

2018-12-25T02:57:28Z

Mthompson95: /* Championship Record */

[[File:Whitaker161748395.jpg|left|300px|thumb|<center>Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker</center>]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2007 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/whitaker.html click]]]
[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]]
<boxer>000555</boxer>
'''Manager:''' [[Shelly Finkel]] 
'''Trainers:''' [[George Benton]] and [[Lou Duva]]
 

'''[[:Category:Pernell Whitaker Gallery|Pernell Whitaker Photo Gallery]]'''

==Amateur Achievements==
[[file:Whitaker 84.jpg|right|thumb|300px|<center>1984 Los Angeles Olympics</center>]]
*Amateur Record: 201-14
*1982 National AAU Lightweight Champion. Results:
**[[Derrick Hudson]] W 3 (5-0)
**Robert Montoya KO 1
**[[Frankie Randall]] W 3 (4-1)
**Ray Ordonio W 3 (5-0)
**Joey Belinc W 3 (5-0)
*Lightweight Silver Medalist for the United States at the 1982 World Championships in Munich, Germany. Results:
**Ismaldi Pineda (Colombia) W 3 (5-0)
**[[Christopher Ossai]] (Nigeria) W 3 (3-2)
**Hussein Khalili (Kenya) W 3 (5-0)
**Milivoj Labudovic (Yugoslavia) W 3 (5-0)
**Angel Herrera (Cuba) L 3 (2-3)
*Lightweight Gold Medalist for the United States at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracus, Venezuela. Results:
**Kenworth Minus (Cuba) KO 1
**[[Angel Beltre]] (Dominican Republic) W 3 (3-2)
**[[Angel Herrera]] (Cuba) W 3 (5-0)
*Lightweight Gold Medalist for the United States at the 1984 [[Olympics]] in Los Angeles, California. Results:
**1st round bye
**[[Adolfo Mendez]] (Nicaragua) W 3 (5-0)
**Geoffrey Nyeko (Uganda) W 3 (5-0)
**[[Reiner Gies]] (West Germany) W 3 (5-0)
**[[Chun Chil-Sung]] (South Korea) W (5-0)
**[[Luis Ortiz]] (Puerto Rico) KO 2

== Championship Record ==
[[File:SI8115.jpg|right|300px|thumb|<center>Sports Illustrated: October 10, 1994</center>]]
*Has a record of 19-3-1 (4 KO) in world title fights.
*Has a record of 14-3-1 (3 KO) against former, current or future world titlists.
**Won against [[Alfredo Layne]], [[Roger Mayweather]], [[Greg Haugen]], [[Jose Luis Ramirez]], [[Freddie Pendleton]], [[Azumah Nelson]], [[Juan Nazario]], [[Jorge Paez]], [[Rafael Pineda]], [[James (Buddy) McGirt]] (twice), [[Julio Cesar Vasquez]], [[Jake Rodriguez]], [[Diosbelys Hurtado]]
**Lost against [[Jose Luis Ramirez]], [[Oscar De La Hoya]], [[Felix Trinidad]]
**Drew against [[Julio Cesar Chavez]]
*Has a record of 3-2-1 (0 KO's) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
**Won against [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/nelsonazumah.html Azumah Nelson] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/mcgirt.html James McGirt] (twice).
**Lost against [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/delahoya.html Oscar De La Hoya] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/trinidad.html Felix Trinidad].
**Drew against [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/chavez.html Julio Cesar Chavez].

==Minor & Regional Titles==
*[[NABF]] Lightweight Title vs. [[Roger Mayweather]] on March 28, 1987
*[[USBA]] Lightweight Title vs. [[Miguel Santana]] on July 25, 1987

==Awards & Recognition==
*Named [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|The Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year]] and the [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year]] for 1989.
*Named the [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|3rd greatest lightweight of all-time]] in the [[:Ring Magazine: September 2001|September 2001]] issue of [[The Ring Magazine]].
*Inducted into the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2007 and the [[World Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2008.

==Trivia==
*Whitaker is often called Pete by his family and friends. When he was an amateur, they would chant "Sweet Pete" during his bouts. A local newspaper reporter misheard the chant and wrote that the crowd was chanting "Sweet Pea." After it appeared in the newspaper, the "Sweet Pea" nickname stuck.
*Whitaker trained [[Zab Judah]] for his fights with [[Kaizer Mabuza]] and [[Amir Khan]].
*Going into his last 4 bouts his record was 40-1-1 (17 KO's). Both blemishes were highly controversial. He would go 0-3-0-1 in his last 4 bouts partly due to age and partly due his an addiction to cocaine.
{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Greg Haugen]]|
title=[[IBF Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Freddie Pendleton]]|
years=1989 Feb 18 – 1992 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Julio Cesar Chavez]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Miguel Angel Gonzalez]]|
years=1989 Aug 20 – 1992 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Juan Nazario]]|
title=[[WBA Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Joey Gamache]]|
years=1990 Aug 11 – 1992 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Rafael Pineda]]|
title=[[IBF Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Charles Murray]]|
years=1992 Jul 18 – 1993 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[James (Buddy) McGirt]]|
title=[[WBC Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Oscar De La Hoya]]|
years=1993 Mar 6 – 1997 Apr 12
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Julio Cesar Vasquez]]|
title=[[WBA Light Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Carl Daniels]]|
years=1995 Mar 4 – 1995 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitaker, Pernell}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:United States Amateur Champions]]
[[Category:1984 Olympians]]
[[Category:American Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Gold Medalists]]
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Middleweight Champions]]
[[Category:Four Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:Southpaw World Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]
[[Category:NABF Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:Trainers]]

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

2018-12-25T02:15:21Z

Mthompson95: /* Major World Titles */

[[File:FloydMayweatherHeadshot3.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Floyd Mayweather Jr.]]
<boxer>000352</boxer>
*'''Trainers:''' [[Floyd Mayweather|Floyd Mayweather Sr.]] (1977-2000, 2006, 2013-2017), [[Roger Mayweather]] (2000-2013)
*'''Managers:''' [[Floyd Mayweather|Floyd Mayweather Sr.]] (1996-1999), [[James Prince]] (1999-2003), [[Al Haymon]] (2004-2017)
*'''Promoters:''' [[Top Rank Boxing Promotions|Top Rank]] (1996-2006), [[Goossen Tutor Promotions]] (2006), [[Golden Boy Promotions]] (2007-2014), Mayweather Promotions (2014-2017)
*'''[[:Category:Floyd Mayweather Jr. Gallery|Floyd Mayweather Jr. Gallery]]

== Amateur Highlights ==
[[File:Mayweather-Sanchez 293616.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather against Augie Sanchez at the 1996 United States Olympic Box-offs.]]
[[File:Mayweather wins a bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather's hand is raised after defeating Bakhtiyar Tilegenov at the 1996 Olympics.]]
[[File:Floydgallbpg-vertical.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather against Lorenzo Aragon in the quarterfinals of the 1996 Olympics.]]
[[File:Floyd-mayweather-bronze-1996-atlanta.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather reacts to losing a controversial decision to Serafim Todorov in the semifinals of the 1996 Olympics.]]
*Amateur Record: Usually recorded as [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.geocities.ws/pedrinet/mayweather.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dwww.geocities.ws/pedrinet/mayweather.html%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DF1u%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official 84-6] but one more defeat has since been found.
*1993 National [[Golden Gloves]] Light Flyweight Champion. Results:
**Salvador Casillas W 3
**Domenic Filane W 3
**Willie Seenn W 3
**Juan Anzures W 3
**[[Eric Morel]] W 3
*1994 National [[Golden Gloves]] Flyweight Champion. Results:
**[[Isidro Garcia]] W 3
**Julian Stevens W 3
**Juan Anzures W 3
**Nick Molinari W 3
**Linton Nichols W 3
*1994 United States Junior National Championships. Results:
**Nick Molinari W 3
**[[Arnulfo Bravo]] L 3
*Lost on points to [[Martin Castillo]] at a 1994 United States vs. Mexico dual meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
*Lost on points to [[Carlos Navarro]] at the 1995 United States Pan American Games Trials.
*Lost on points to [[Juan Carlos Ramirez]] at a 1995 United States vs. Mexico dual meet at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA.
*1995 United States featherweight representative at the World Championships in Berlin, Germany. Results:
**1st Round - Defeated Marian Leondraliu (Romania) (8-7)
**2nd Round - Lost to Noureddine Medjihoud (Algeria) (6-8)
*1995 [[United States Amateur Featherweight Champions|United States Amateur Featherweight Champion]]. Results:
**Jesse Byers W 3
**Raul Basulto W 3
**[[Augie Sanchez]] W 3
**James Baker WO
*1995 National Police Athletic League Featherweight Champion. Results:
**Ernest Rodriguez W 3
**Shavonn Price RSC 1
**Elizondo Gilbert RSC 3
**[[Carlos Navarro]] W 3
**Carmello Ramos W 3
*Dec 1995 Moscow Russia Trigran Ouzlian (Geo) L WO
*1996 National [[Golden Gloves]] Featherweight Champion. Results:
**[[Jose Hernandez]] W 3
**Hector Cruz W 3
**Chad Jaquillard W 3
**Adriel Pebenito W 3
**[[Martin O'Malley]] W 3
*1996 United States [[Olympics|Olympic]] Trials. Results:
**Defeated William Jenkins (RSC-3)
**Defeated James Baker (RSCH-1)
**Lost to [[Augie Sanchez]] (11-12)
**Defeated [[Carlos Navarro]] (31-11) in Challengers Bracket
*1996 United States [[Olympics|Olympic]] Box-offs. Results:
**Defeated [[Augie Sanchez]] (12-8)
**Defeated [[Augie Sanchez]] (20-10)
*1996 Featherweight Bronze Medalist for the United States at the [[Olympics]] in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Results:
**1st Round - Defeated Bakhtiyar Tilegenov (Kazakhstan) (RSCI-2)
**2nd Round - Defeated [[Artur Gevorgyan]] (Armenia) (16-3)
**Quarterfinals - Defeated [[Lorenzo Aragon]] (Cuba) (12-11)
**Semifinals - Lost to [[Serafim Todorov]] (Bulgaria) (9-10)

== Professional Highlights ==
[[File:Floyd-4.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather wearing WBC and IBF title belts.]]
[[File:Box_a_mayweather-hernadez_mb_288x162.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Genaro Hernandez]]
[[File:Mayweather_corrales_275.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Diego Corrales]]
[[File:Images2 floydcastillo2.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Jose Luis Castillo I]]
[[File:Index.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Jose Luis Castillo II]]
[[File:Gatti_Mayweather_2005.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Arturo Gatti]]
[[File:9a355cf97bb655a11377730d9a2d9d8c_crop_exact.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Oscar De La Hoya]]
[[File:Article-0-02D5BC42000005DC-606_468x301.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Ricky Hatton]]
[[File:1920c3a6999b74c227a11787a9444d31-getty-88742971em034 floyd mayweat.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Juan Manuel Marquez]]
[[File:Mayweather.mosley.8.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Shane Mosley]]
[[File:Mayweather-Cotto-2012.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto]]
[[File:Floyd-mayweather-alvarez.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Saul Alvarez]]
[[File:Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao 472030658.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao]]
[[File:TELEMMGLPICT000138437887 trans NvBQzQNjv4Bq3XmyF3YIL3K1caQxZsZv2Ssm-UOV8 Q90I8 c5Af0yY.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor]]
{{#ev:youtube|B_bBKvgBCQY}}
{{#ev:youtube|0-SrUAu9SFQ}}

== Professional Record ==
*Has a record of 26-0 (10 KO) in world title fights.
*Has a record of 23-0 (9 KO) in lineal title fights.
*Has a record of 24-0 (7 KO) against former or current world titlists:
**Won against [[Genaro Hernandez]], [[Gregorio Vargas]], [[Diego Corrales]], [[Carlos Alberto Hernandez|Carlos Hernandez]], [[Jesus Chavez]], [[Jose Luis Castillo]] (twice), [[DeMarcus Corley]], [[Arturo Gatti]], [[Sharmba Mitchell]], [[Zab Judah]], [[Carlos Manuel Baldomir|Carlos Baldomir]], [[Oscar De La Hoya]], [[Ricky Hatton]], [[Juan Manuel Marquez]], [[Shane Mosley]], [[Victor Ortiz (of California)|Victor Ortiz]], [[Miguel Cotto]], [[Robert Guerrero]], [[Saul Alvarez]], [[Marcos Maidana]] (twice), [[Manny Pacquiao]], and [[Andre Berto]].
*Has a record of 13-0 (3 KO) against former or current lineal titlists:
**Won against [[Genaro Hernandez]], [[Diego Corrales]], [[Jose Luis Castillo]] (twice), [[Zab Judah]], [[Carlos Manuel Baldomir|Carlos Baldomir]], [[Oscar De La Hoya]], [[Ricky Hatton]], [[Juan Manuel Marquez]], [[Shane Mosley]], [[Miguel Cotto]], [[Saul Alvarez]], and [[Manny Pacquiao]].
*Has a record of 2-0 (1 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:
**Won against [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/gatti.html Arturo Gatti] and [http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/delahoya.html Oscar De La Hoya].

== Year-By-Year Record ==
*1996: 2(1)-0
*1997: 10(9)-0
*1998: 7(5)-0
*1999: 3(2)-0
*2000: 2(1)-0
*2001: 3(2)-0
*2002: 2-0
*2003: 2(1)-0
*2004: 1-0
*2005: 3(3)-0
*2006: 2-0
*2007: 2(1)-0
*2008: Did not fight (retired)
*2009: 1-0
*2010: 1-0
*2011: 1(1)-0
*2012: 1-0
*2013: 2-0
*2014: 2-0
*2015: 2-0
*2016: Did not fight (retired)
*2017: 1(1)-0

== Regional & Minor Titles ==
*[[IBO]] Welterweight Title (April 2006; 1 defense)
*[[IBA]] Welterweight Title (November 2006; 0 defenses)
*[[WBC]] Diamond Super Welterweight Title (May 2012; 0 defenses)

== World Titles ==
*[[WBC]] Super Featherweight Title (1998-2002; 8 defenses)
*[[WBC]] Lightweight Title (2002-2004; 3 defenses)
*[[WBC]] Super Lightweight Title (2005; 0 defenses)
*[[IBF]] Welterweight Title (2006; 0 defenses)
*(2) [[WBC]] Welterweight Title (2006-2008; 1 defense, 2011-2015; 5 defenses)
*(2) [[WBC]] Super Welterweight Title (2007; 0 defenses, 2013-2015; 1 defense)
*[[WBA]] Super Welterweight Super Title (2012-2016; 1 defense)
*[[WBA]] Welterweight Super Title (2014-2016; 3 defenses)
*[[WBO]] Welterweight Title (2015; 0 defenses)

== Major World Titles ==
*Unified Junior Middleweight Title (2013-2015; [[WBA]], [[WBC]])
*(2) Unified Welterweight Title (2014-2015; [[WBC]], [[WBA]], 2015; [[WBC]], [[WBA]], [[WBO]])
*Simultaneously held [[WBC]] Welterweight Title and [[WBC]] Junior Middleweight Title (2007)
**Vacated [[WBC]] Junior Middleweight Title in 2007
**Vacated [[WBC]] Welterweight Title in 2008
*Simultaneously held [[WBC]] Welterweight Title and [[WBA]] Junior Middleweight Title (2012-2015)
*Simultaneously held [[WBC]] Welterweight Title and Unified Junior Middleweight Title ([[WBA]], [[WBC]]) (2013-2015)
*Simultaneously held Unified Welterweight Title ([[WBC]], [[WBA]]) and Unified Junior Middleweight Title ([[WBA]], [[WBC]]) (2014-2015)
*Simultaneously held Unified Welterweight Title ([[WBC]], [[WBA]], [[WBO]]) and Unified Junior Middleweight Title ([[WBA]], [[WBC]]) (2015)
**Stripped of [[WBO]] Welterweight Title in 2015
**Vacated [[WBC]] Welterweight Title and [[WBC]] Junior Middleweight Title in 2015
**Vacated [[WBA]] Welterweight Title and [[WBA]] Junior Middleweight Title in 2016

== The Ring Magazine Titles ==
*World Lightweight Title (2002-2004)
*(2) World Welterweight Title (2006-2008, 2013-2015)
*World Junior Middleweight Title (2013-2015)

== Lineal Titles ==
*World Junior Lightweight Title (1998-2002)
*World Lightweight Title (2002-2004)
*(2) World Welterweight Title (2006-2008, 2010-2015)
*World Junior Middleweight Title (2013-2015)

== Awards & Recognition ==
*(3) [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] (2007, 2013, 2015)
*(2) [[The Ring Magazine]] [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] (1998, 2007)
*(5) [[The Ring Magazine]] [[Ring Magazine Event of the Year|Event of the Year]] (2007, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2015)
*[[The Ring Magazine]] [[Ring Magazine Comeback of the Year|Comeback of the Year]] (2009)
*[[KO Magazine]] [[KO Magazine Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] (1998)
*(6) Best Fighter ESPY Award (2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014)
*(2) [[ESPN]] Fighter of the Year (2007, 2013)
*[[Sports Illustrated]] Round of the Year (2010; 2nd round [[Shane Mosley vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|vs. Shane Mosley]])
*[[Sports Illustrated]] Fighter of the Year (2015)
*[http://www.emmyonline.org/sports Sports Emmy Award] for [http://cdn.emmyonline.org/sports_37th_winners.pdf Outstanding Edited Sports Coverage] (2016; Executive Producer for [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto|Mayweather vs. Berto]]: Epilogue)
*Named the [http://espn.go.com/sports/boxing/greatest/featureVideo?page=greatest4150 48th greatest boxer of all-time] by [[ESPN]] in 2007.
*Named the [http://www.boxing.com/the_100_greatest_fighters_of_all_time_part_six_50_41.html 47th greatest boxer of all-time] by [http://www.boxing.com Boxing.com] in 2013.
*Named the 12th greatest boxer since World War II by a panel of experts in [[The Ring Magazine]] in 2014.
*Named the [http://sports.yahoo.com/news/where-floyd-mayweather--manny-pacquiao-rank-amongst-all-time-boxing-greats-062113734-boxing.html 19th greatest boxer of all-time] by a panel of experts from Yahoo! Sports in 2015.
*Named the [http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/14970037/ranking-top-25-pound-pound-boxers-25-years greatest pound-for-pound boxer of the last 25 years] by a panel of experts from [[ESPN]] in 2016.

== Notes ==
*Started boxing shortly after he started walking.
*One of only five boxers to win a world title in at least five weight divisions ([[Thomas Hearns]], [[Sugar Ray Leonard]], [[Oscar De La Hoya]], [[Manny Pacquiao]]).
*One of only two boxers to win a lineal title in at least four weight divisions ([[Manny Pacquiao]]).
*Holds the record for most world titles held simultaneously (5; WBC, WBA, WBO Welterweight Titles and WBA, WBC Super Welterweight Titles).
*Ranked #1 pound-for-pound by [[The Ring Magazine|The Ring]] from July 2005 until his first retirement in June 2008 and from December 2012 until his second retirement in September 2015.
*Retired for the first time in his career on June 6, 2008, cancelling a planned rematch against [[Oscar De La Hoya]]. Came out of retirement in 2009 to fight [[Juan Manuel Marquez]].
*Retired for the second time in his career in 2015 after defeating [[Andre Berto]]. Came out of retirement in 2017 to fight [[Conor McGregor]].
*Retired for the third time in his career in 2017 after defeating [[Conor McGregor]].
*Son of retired boxer and trainer [[Floyd Mayweather|Floyd Mayweather Sr.]]
*Nephew of retired boxers and trainers [[Roger Mayweather]] and [[Jeff Mayweather]].
*Half-brother of boxer [[Justin Mayweather Jones]].

== Career Earnings ==
*Forbes Magazine releases an annual list of the world's highest paid athletes. Mayweather's placements:
**2007: #16 with [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/25/sports-tiger_woods-biz-sports-cz_kb_1026athletes_slide_17.html $26.5 million]
**2010: #2 with [http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/20/most-valuable-athletes-and-teams-business-sports-sportsmoney-fifty-fifty-athletes_slide_3.html $65 million]
**2012: #1 with [http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mli45igdi/1-floyd-mayweather/ $85 million]
**2013: #14 with [http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mli45mmlg/14-floyd-mayweather-4/ $34 million]
**2014: #1 with [http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mli45eimdj/1-floyd-mayweather/ $105 million]
**2015: #1 with [http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mli45fdide/1-floyd-mayweather-jr/ $300 million]
**2016: #16 with [http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mli45ffmhh/16-floyd-mayweather/ $44 million]
**2018: #1 with [https://www.forbes.com/profile/floyd-mayweather/?list=athletes $285 million]

== Live Gates ==
*The Nevada State Athletic Commission maintains a list of [http://boxing.nv.gov/results/Top_Boxing_Gates/ Nevada's top 35 largest grossing boxing gates]. Mayweather's placements:
**1. (05/02/2015) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao|W UD12 Manny Pacquiao]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $72,198,500.00
**2. (08/26/2017) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Conor McGregor|W TKO10 Conor McGregor]] (T-Mobile Arena) $55,414,865.79
**5. (09/14/2013) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Saul Alvarez|W MD12 Saul Alvarez]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $20,003,150.00
**6. (05/05/2007) [[Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W SD12 Oscar De La Hoya]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $18,419,200.00
**8. (05/03/2014) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana|W MD12 Marcos Maidana]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $15,024,400.00
**9. (09/13/2014) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Marcos Rene Maidana (2nd meeting)|W UD12 Marcos Maidana]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $14,899,150.00
**17. (05/05/2012) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Miguel Cotto|W UD12 Miguel Cotto]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $12,000,150.00
**20. (05/01/2010) [[Shane Mosley vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W UD12 Shane Mosley]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $11,032,100.00
**24. (12/08/2007) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Ricky Hatton|W TKO10 Ricky Hatton]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $10,393,950.00
**25. (09/12/2015) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto|W UD12 Andre Berto]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $10,062,500.00
**26. (05/04/2013) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Robert Guerrero|W UD12 Robert Guerrero]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $9,922,350.00
**28. (09/17/2011) [[Victor Ortiz vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W KO4 Victor Ortiz]] ([[MGM Grand]]) $9,000,000.00

== Pay-Per-View History ==
*1. (06/25/2005) [[Arturo Gatti vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W RTD6 Arturo Gatti]] "Thunder & Lightning" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2098832 365,000 buys and $16,500,000 in revenue]
*2. (04/08/2006) [[Zab Judah vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W UD12 Zab Judah]] "Sworn Enemies" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2408638 375,000 buys and $16,800,000 in revenue]
*3. (11/04/2006) [[Carlos Manuel Baldomir vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W UD12 Carlos Baldomir]] "Pretty Risky" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2657809 325,000 buys and $16,300,000 in revenue]
*4. (05/05/2007) [[Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W SD12 Oscar De La Hoya]] "The World Awaits" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2865349 2,480,000 buys and $136,000,000 in revenue]
*5. (12/08/2007) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Ricky Hatton|W TKO10 Ricky Hatton]] "Undefeated" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3158134 920,000 buys and $50,000,000 in revenue]
*6. (09/19/2009) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez|W UD12 Juan Manuel Marquez]] "Number One/Número Uno" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=4502922 1,100,000 buys and $55,600,000 in revenue]
*7. (05/01/2010) [[Shane Mosley vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W UD12 Shane Mosley]] "Who R U Picking?" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=5180941 1,400,000 buys and $78,300,000 in revenue]
*8. (09/17/2011) [[Victor Ortiz vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.|W KO4 Victor Ortiz]] "Star Power" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=7160303 1,250,000 buys and $78,440,000 in revenue]
*9. (05/05/2012) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Miguel Cotto|W UD12 Miguel Cotto]] "Ring Kings" ([[HBO]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=7919965 1,500,000 buys and $94,000,000 in revenue]
*10. (05/04/2013) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Robert Guerrero|W UD12 Robert Guerrero]] "May Day" ([[Showtime]] PPV) [http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/9262663/floyd-mayweather-jr-robert-guerrero-exceeds-1-million-pay-per-view-buys Showtime claims over 1,000,000 buys and $60,000,000 in revenue.] [http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/source--mayweather-maidana-ii-does-925-000-pay-per-view-buys-182401464.html Industry sources claim 840,000 buys.]
*11. (09/14/2013) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Saul Alvarez|W MD12 Saul Alvarez]] "The One" ([[Showtime]] PPV) [http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=9694996 2,200,000 buys and $150,000,000 in revenue]
*12. (05/03/2014) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana|W MD12 Marcos Maidana]] "The Moment" ([[Showtime]] PPV) Unreleased. [http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/source--mayweather-maidana-ii-does-925-000-pay-per-view-buys-182401464.html Industry sources claim 900,000 buys.]
*13. (09/13/2014) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Marcos Rene Maidana (2nd meeting)|W UD12 Marcos Maidana]] "Mayhem" ([[Showtime]] PPV) Unreleased. [http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/source--mayweather-maidana-ii-does-925-000-pay-per-view-buys-182401464.html Industry sources claim 925,000 buys.]
*14. (05/02/2015) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao|W UD12 Manny Pacquiao]] "The Fight of the Century" ([[HBO]]/[[Showtime]] PPV) [http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/12872711/floyd-mayweather-manny-pacquiao-fight-shatters-all-live-gate-record 4,600,000 buys and $410,000,000 in revenue]
*15. (09/12/2015) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto|W UD12 Andre Berto]] "High Stakes" ([[Showtime]] PPV) Unreleased. [http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/13681951/floyd-mayweather-andre-berto-fight-disappoints-pay-per-view-sales Industry sources claim 400,000 buys.]
*16. (08/26/2017) [[Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Conor McGregor|W TKO10 Conor McGregor]] "The Money Fight" ([[Showtime]] PPV) [http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/21770652/floyd-mayweather-conor-mcgregor-43-million-domestic-ppv-buys-600-million 4,300,000 buys]
*Totals (approximate): [http://espn.go.com/blog/dan-rafael/post/_/id/12732/mayweather-pacquiao-on-ppv-a-perfect-storm 24,000,000 buys and $1,700,000,000 in revenue]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Genaro Hernandez]]|
title=[[WBC Super Featherweight Champion]]|
after=[[Sirimongkol Singwancha]]|
years=1998 Oct 3 – 2002 Apr 20 '''Vacated'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Jose Luis Castillo]]|
title=[[WBC Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Jose Luis Castillo]]|
years=2002 Apr 20 – 2004 May '''Vacated'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Arturo Gatti]]|
title=[[WBC Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Junior Witter]]|
years=2005 Jun 25 – 2006 Mar '''Vacated'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Zab Judah]]|
title=[[IBF Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Kermit Cintron]]|
years=2006 Apr 8 – 2006 Jun 20 '''Vacated'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Carlos Manuel Baldomir|Carlos Baldomir]]|
title=[[WBC Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Andre Berto]]|
years=2006 Nov 4 – 2008 Jun 6 '''Retired'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Oscar De La Hoya]]|
title=[[WBC Light Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Vernon Forrest]]|
years=2007 May 5 – 2007 Jul 4 '''Vacated'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Victor Ortiz (of California)|Victor Ortiz]]|
title=[[WBC Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Danny Oscar Garcia|Danny Garcia]]|
years=2011 Sep 17 – 2015 Nov 4 '''Retired'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Miguel Cotto]] Super Champion|
title=[[WBA Light Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Erislandy Lara]] Super Champion|
years=2012 May 5 – 2016 Jan '''Super Champion''' '''Retired'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Saul Alvarez]]|
title=[[WBC Light Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Jermell Charlo]]|
years=2013 Sep 14 – 2015 Nov 4 '''Retired'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Marcos Maidana]]|
title=[[WBA Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Keith Thurman]] Super Champion|
years=2014 May 3 – 2016 Jan '''Super Champion''' '''Retired'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Manny Pacquiao]]|
title=[[WBO Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Timothy Bradley|Timothy Bradley Jr.]]|
years=2015 May 2 – 2015 July 6 '''Stripped'''|
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mayweather, Floyd Jr.}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:National Golden Gloves Champions]]
[[Category:United States Amateur Champions]]
[[Category:1996 Olympians]]
[[Category:American Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Bronze Medalists]]
[[Category:World Super Featherweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Middleweight Champions]]
[[Category:Five Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:Mayweather Family]]
[[Category:Children of Famous Boxers]]
[[Category:Undefeated Boxers]]
[[Category:Promoters]]

Deontay Wilder vs. Luis Ortiz (1st meeting)

2018-12-05T17:41:06Z

Mthompson95: /* Notes */

[[File:WildervsOrtiz.jpg|330px|right]]
<fight>2216256</fight>
*'''[[WBC]] World Heavyweight Title''' (7th defence by Wilder)
*'''Promoters:''' [[Lou DiBella]] ([[DiBella Entertainment]]) & [[Tom Brown]] ([[TGB Promotions]])
*'''Ring Announcer:''' [[Jimmy Lennon Jr.]]
*'''Aired On:''' [[Showtime Championship Boxing]] (Main Event), [[Sky Sports (UK)| Sky Sports]]

== Notes ==
*Ortiz down once in round five and twice in round ten. Upon the last knockdown, the referee immediately waves off the bout without starting a count.
*Wilder earned $2.1 million for the fight, Ortiz earned $500,000. [https://www.cbssports.com/boxing/news/deontay-wilder-vs-luis-ortiz-what-are-the-purses-for-heavyweight-title-fight/]

Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury (1st meeting)

2018-12-04T00:17:12Z

Mthompson95: /* CompuBox Punch Statistics */

[[File:Deontay-Wilder-vs.-Tyson-Fury.jpg|325px|thumb|left|Wilder vs. Fury Fight Poster]]
<fight>2281110</fight>
*'''Promoter:''' [[Frank Warren]] ([[Queensberry Promotions]]), [[Tom Brown]] ([[TGB Promotions]])
*'''Aired On:''' [[Showtime]], [[BT Sport]]

== World Boxing Council World Heavyweight Title ==

Wilder retained his WBC World Heavyweight title on a split decision draw, marking the first time both the 40-0 Wilder and the 27-0 Tyson Fury did not win. Maintaining a consistent herky jerky style with nonstop feigning and continuous foot movement, the bigger and taller Fury had reach advantage and ultimately proved hard to hit, and appeared to win rounds three through eight, with other rounds somewhat closer. Wilder bloodied Fury's nose with jabs in the fourth round. Referee [[Jack Reiss]] had only to deal with occasional holding by Fury whenever Wilder tried to get inside. Wilder missed punches when his reach fell short, but he did drop Fury about a minute in the ninth round from what appeared to be a short glancing right hand to the left ear. Fury beat the count, and Wilder could not land another big shot despite his 10-8 round. Instead, Fury landed hard rights in the the remainder of the ninth round and early in the tenth round. At times, Fury showboated, putting his hands behind his back, and sticking out his tongue, but Wilder remain composed and focused. A solid right-left combination from Wilder floored Fury onto his back in the twelfth and final round, who looked out but somehow got up and beat the count yet again, and finished the bout.

Ringside commentator [[Paul Malignaggi]] felt Fury won the bout, and stated judge [[Alejandro Rochin]]'s 115-111 scorecard was wrong. Fury was graceful and grateful after the bout, embracing Wilder warmly, thanking Wilder for the opportunity and stating "God Bless America", and making chicken gestures in reference to the other heavyweight champion, [[Anthony Joshua]] still not fighting either himself nor Wilder. Ringside commentator and boxing historian Steve Farhood had it 115-111 for Fury. Not everyone agreed.

Fury held the lineal heavyweight title coming into this bout, having taken two and a half years off to seek treatment for alcoholism, cocaine addiction, and depression, and had to come down from almost 400 pounds to 256 under the guidance of trainer Ben Davison. [[Freddie Roach]] and [[Ricky Hatton]] were also in his corner. Trainer [[Mark Breland]] was in Wilder's corner. This was not the first time two undefeated heavyweight champions had met in a heavyweight titular contest. 26-0 Smokin' [[Joe Frazier]] dropped the then 31-0 [[Muhammad Ali]] in round 15 and went on to retain the linear world heavyweight title at Madison Square Garden in 1971.

Both Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury, in the post fight commentary, entertained the possibility of a USA Showtime rematch in the future. Wilder had a mandatory rematch clause in his contract if he had lost the bout. USA Showtime broadcast the four main event bouts on the eleven bout card, including heavyweight [[Luis Ortiz]]' tenth round stoppage of [[Travis Kauffman]] in a scheduled 10 rounder. Wilder's younger brother, 2-0 cruiserweight [[Marsellos Wilder]], opened the card with a four round unanimous decision over David Damore. Former heavyweight contender [[Chris Arreola]] and 2016 Olympic Games Super Heavyweight Silver Medalist [[Joe Joyce]] both won on the untelevised portion of the card. Boxers in attendance at ringside included [[Evander Holyfield]], [[Floyd Mayweather Jr.]], and [[Riddick Bowe]].

== CompuBox Punch Statistics ==

* Punches Landed & Thrown: Tyson Fury 84 of 327, Deontay Wilder 71 of 430
* Power Shots Landed & Thrown: Tyson Fury 38 of 104, Deontay Wilder 31 of 182
* Jabs Landed & Thrown: Tyson Fury 46 of 223, Deontay Wilder 40 of 248

== Boxing Trivia ==

Seven undefeated world heavyweight champions existed at the time of this bout, claimants to both major and minor versions of the world title: [[Deontay Wilder]] (40-0), holder of the World Boxing Council version of the world heavyweight title; [[Tyson Fury]] (27-0), holder of the lineal heavyweight title; [[Anthony Joshua]] (22-0), holder of the World Boxing Association Super World Heavyweight title, World Boxing Organization World Heavyweight Title, International Boxing Federal World Heavyweight Title, and International Boxing Organization World Heavyweight Title; claimant [[Trevor Bryan]] (20-0), holder of the World Boxing Association regular version of the world heavyweight title; [[Michael Wallisch]] (19-0), holder of the Global Boxing Union version of the World Heavyweight title; [[Erzen Rrustemi]] (13-0), the World Boxing Federation World Heavyweight titleholder; and [[Alexander Frank]] (15-0-1), holder of the Universal Boxing Organization version of the world heavyweight title. Not all were undefeated, however. [[Ivica Perkovic]], holder of the World Boxing Union (German Version) World Heavyweight title, with an undistinguished record of 26-34.

== Notes ==
*Attendance: 17,698.

Tyson Fury

2018-12-02T12:31:51Z

Mthompson95: /* Career Notes */

[[File:TysonFury1.jpg|250px|thumb|left]]
<boxer>479205</boxer>
'''Trainer:''' [[Steve Egan]] (2008-2009), [[Robert McCracken]] (2009), [[Hugh Fury]] (2009-2012), [[Peter Fury]] (2012-2017), [[Ben Davison]] (2017-) 
'''Promoter:''' [[Mick Hennessy]] (2008-2018), [[Frank Warren]] (2018-) 
'''Management:''' [[MTK Global]] (2017-) 
==Amateur Career==
*Amateur Record: 31-4 (26 KO's)
*'''2006''' Chemnitz City Cup Gold medalist (junior division) in Chemnitz, Germany (+91kg):
**Defeated [[Paul Mueller]] (Germany) RSCO 3
*'''2006''' World Junior Championships Bronze medalist in Agadir, Morocco (+91kg):
**Defeated [[Ilham Khatamov]] (Azerbaijan) 21:11
**Defeated [[Istvan Bernath]] (Hungary) RSC
**Lost to [[Sardor Abdullayev]] (Uzbekistan) 31:36
**Lost to [[David Price]] (England) 8:22
*'''2007''' Donbass Junior Cup Silver medalist in Donetsk, Ukraine (+91kg):
**Defeated [[Vladimir Bandura]] (Ukraine) RSCO 2
**Lost to [[Ivan Bezverkhiy]] (Ukraine) 10:23
*'''2007''' European Union Junior Championships Gold medalist in Warsaw, Poland (+91kg):
**Defeated [[Danil Vlassov]] (Estonia) RSC 1
**Defeated [[Istvan Bernath]] (Hungary) AB 3
*'''2007''' European Junior Championships Silver medalist in Sombor, Serbia (+91kg):
**Defeated [[Andrija Kekovic]] (Serbia) AB 3
**Defeated [[Ivan Bezverkhiy]] (Ukraine) AB 4
**Lost to [[Maxim Babanin]] (Russia) 11-24

==Regional & Minor Titles==
*[[BBBoC]] English heavyweight title x2
*[[Commonwealth Boxing Council]] heavyweight title
*[[BBBoC]] British heavyweight title x2
*Irish heavyweight title
*[[WBO]] Inter-Continental heavyweight title
*[[EBU]] (European) heavyweight title
*[[WBO]] International heavyweight title
*[[IBO]] World heavyweight title

== Career Notes ==
*Has a record of 1-0-1 in world title fights
*Has a record of 2-0-1 against former or current world champions
*Won against [[Steve Cunningham]] & [[Wladimir Klitschko]]
**Drew with [[Deontay Wilder]].

==Notes==
*Tyson Fury was born two and a half months premature and weighed just one pound. "The doctors told me there was not much chance of him living, and I had lost two daughters in the same way who had been born prematurely," said John Fury, his father. "They told me there was not much hope for him. It was 1988, [[Mike Tyson]] was in his pomp as world heavyweight champion, and so I said 'Let's call him Tyson...' The doctors just looked at me and smiled."
*Fury is from a family of boxers, which includes father [[John Fury|"Gypsy" John Fury]], brother [[Young (Hughie) Fury|Young Fury]], uncles [[Hugh Fury]] and [[Peter Fury]], and cousins [[Phill Fury]] and [[Hughie Fury]]. Tyson is also related to [[Andy Lee]], [[Hosea Burton]] and [[Zac Burton]].
*The Furys are [[Wikipedia:Irish Travellers|Irish Travellers]].

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Wladimir Klitschko]]|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Charles Martin]]|
years=2015 Nov 28 – 2015 Dec 8 '''Stripped'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Wladimir Klitschko]]|
title=[[WBO Heavyweight Champion]]|
years=2015 Nov 28 – 2016 Oct 12 '''Vacated'''|
after=[[Joseph Parker]]|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Wladimir Klitschko]]|
title=[[IBO Heavyweight Champion]]|
years=2015 Nov 28 – 2016 Oct 12 '''Vacated'''|
after=[[Anthony Joshua]]|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Wladimir Klitschko]] Super Champion|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Anthony Joshua]] Super Champion|
years=2015 Nov 28 – 2016 Oct 12 '''Super Champion''' '''Vacated'''|
}}
{{end box}}
'''[[:Category:Tyson Fury Gallery|Tyson Fury Gallery]]'''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fury, Tyson}}
[[Category:Commonwealth Boxing Council Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:ABA Champions]]
[[Category:Fury Family]]
[[Category:English World Champions]]
[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:Undefeated Boxers]]

Evander Holyfield

2018-11-13T10:14:34Z

Mthompson95:

[[file:Holyfieldface.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2011 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/holyfield.html click]]]

<boxer>000499</boxer>
*'''Trainers:''' [[George Benton]] & [[Lou Duva]] (1984-1992), [[Emanuel Steward]] (1993), [[Don Turner]] (1994-2003), [[Ronnie Shields]] (2004-2008), [[Tommy Brooks]] (2010-2011) 
*'''Managers:''' [[Lou Duva]], Ken Sanders (1984-1990, 2008-2011), [[Shelly Finkel]], [[Jim Thomas]]
*'''Promoter:''' [[Dan Duva]] ([[Main Events]])
*'''Cutmen:''' [[Ace Marotta]] and [[Jim Strickland]]
*'''Conditioning Coach:''' Tim Hallmark
*'''[[:Category:Evander Holyfield Gallery|Evander Holyfield Gallery]]'''

==Amateur Achievements==
[[File:Holyfield 79027848.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield at the 1984 Olympics]]
*'''Record:''' 160-14 with 75 KOs
*1983 U.S. National Championships Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Results:
**[[Arthur Weathers]] TKO 3
**Antonio Sweeney W 3
**Glenn Wiggins TKO 2
**[[Ricky Womack]] L 3
*1983 Pan American Games Silver Medalist (178 lbs) in Caracas, Venezuela. Results:
**Rodolfo Marin (Puerto Rico) W 3 (5-0)
**Carlos Salazar (Venezuela) RSC 2
**[[Pablo Romero]] (Cuba) L 3 (1-4)
*1984 National [[Golden Gloves]] Gold Medalist (178 lbs) in St. Louis, Missouri. Results:
**Sherman Griffin RSC 2
**Jerry Goff RSC 1
**Arthur Weathers RSC 2
*1984 U.S. Olympic Trials Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Fort Worth, Texas. Results:
**Sherman Griffin W 3 (5-0)
**[[Ricky Womack]] L 3 (2-3)
*1984 U.S. Olympic Box-Offs Winner (178 lbs) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Results:
**Ricky Womack W 3 (4-1)
**Ricky Womack W 3 (4-1)
*1984 [[Olympics|Olympic]] Games Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Los Angeles, California. Results:
**Taju Akay (Ghana) RSCH 3
**Ismail Khalil Salman (Iraq) RSCH 2
**Sylvanus Okello (Kenya) W KO 1
**[[Kevin Barry]] (New Zealand) L DQ 2

'''Olympic Disqualification''' 
[[File:Holyfield-Barry 79028351.jpg|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Kevin Barry at the 1984 Olympics]]
Holyfield was disqualified in his light heavyweight semifinal bout with [[Kevin Barry]] of New Zealand for hitting after the break.

Near the end of the second round, with Barry grabbing him around the neck with his left arm, Holyfield pulled back and—just as Yugoslavian referee Gligorije Novicic yelled "Stop!"—slammed a right to the body and a left hook to the head. Barry crumbled to the canvas. He regained his feet, but was very wobbly. Novicic stopped the fight and disqualified Holyfield for hitting on the break. Holyfield, who was dominating the bout, said he didn't hear the referee.

Because he was stopped by a head blow, Barry was medically ineligible to fight for 28 days. As a result, [[Anton Josipovic]] of Yugoslavia, who defeated Mustapha Moussa of Algeria in the other semifinal, was awarded the gold medal on a walkover.

The U.S. filed a protest. The protest was based on three points:
:(1) The punch was started before the referee yelled "stop," thus making it a legal punch.
:(2) The noise level of the crowd was so high that it was doubtful whether Holyfield could have heard the referee at all.
:(3) Barry was in the process of being warned for holding when the incident occurred. And there was a possiblity that the warning would be cause for disqualifying Barry.

The protest was rejected by the [[International Amateur Boxing Association]]. "There is no doubt in the minds of the protest committee," said Colonel Don Hull, the president of AIBA. "They reviewed the film and it is clear that there was a violation and that an illegal blow incapacitated. The referee enforced the rules."

Loring Baker, head of the United States Amateur Boxing Federation, said the referee should have stopped the bout earlier because Barry was flagrantly holding. "Had the referee done his job properly, the fight would have been stopped before the foul occurred," Baker said.

"Novicic blew it," said John Holaus, one of four American officials who worked the competition. "He was going from cautions to warnings and then back to cautions. It's against the rules. Once you issue a warning, you can't go back to cautions. I couldn't believe what I was seeing."

==Professional Achievements==
[[File:HolyfieldBuster.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Buster Douglas in 1990]]
[[File:Bowe vs. Holyfield II 290586.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe in 1993]]
[[File:Holyfield Tyson I 160428480.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson in 1996]]
'''World Titles:'''
*Holyfield is the only fighter to win a portion of the World Heavyweight Championship four times.
*'''[[WBA]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1986-1988) Won the title with a fifteen-round split decision against [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]].
*'''[[IBF]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1987-1988) Won the title with a third-round TKO of [[Ricky Parkey]].
*'''[[WBC]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1988) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Carlos DeLeon]]. Became the first Undisputed World Cruiserweight Champion. Vacated the [[WBA]]/[[WBC]]/[[IBF]] championship to move up to heavyweight.
*'''[[WBC]]/[[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1990-1992) Won the Undisputed [[World Heavyweight Champion|World Heavyweight Championship]] with a third-round KO of [[James (Buster) Douglas|James "Buster" Douglas]]. Lost the title to [[Riddick Bowe]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.
*'''[[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1993-1994) Won the title with a twelve-round majority decision against [[Riddick Bowe]]. Lost the title to [[Michael Moorer]] by a twelve-round majority decision.
*'''[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1996-1999) Won the title with an eleventh-round TKO of [[Mike Tyson]].
*'''[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1997-1999) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Michael Moorer]]. Lost the [[WBA]]/[[IBF]] championship to [[Lennox Lewis]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.
*'''[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion''' (2000-2001) Won the vacant title with a twelve-round unanimous decision against [[John Ruiz]]. Lost the title to [[John Ruiz]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.

'''Minor & Regional Titles:'''
*'''[[WBC]] Continental Americas Heavyweight Championship''' (1989-1990) Won the title with a tenth-round TKO of [[Michael Dokes]]. Vacated the title when he won the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship.
*'''[[USBA]] Heavyweight Championship''' (2006) Won the vacant title with a twelve-round unanimous decision against [[Fres Oquendo]]. Vacated the title.
*'''[[World Boxing Federation|WBF]] Heavyweight Championship''' (2010-2011) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Francois Botha]]. Vacated the title.

'''Record:'''
*Has a record of 16-7-2 (9 KO) in World Title fights.
*Has a record of 19-9-2 (10 KO) against former, current and future world titlists.
**Won against [[Tyrone Booze]], [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]] (twice), [[Ricky Parkey]], [[Ossie Ocasio]], [[Carlos De Leon]], [[Pinklon Thomas]], [[Michael Dokes]], [[James (Buster) Douglas]], [[George Foreman]], [[Larry Holmes]], [[Riddick Bowe]], [[Ray Mercer]], [[Bobby Czyz]], [[Mike Tyson]] (twice), [[Michael Moorer]], [[John Ruiz]], [[Hasim Rahman]]
**Lost against [[Riddick Bowe]] (twice), [[Michael Moorer]], [[Lennox Lewis]], [[John Ruiz]], [[Chris Byrd]], [[James Toney]], [[Sultan Ibragimov]], [[Nikolay Valuev]]
**Drew with [[Lennox Lewis]], [[John Ruiz]]
**Has a record of 7-3-1(2 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]] (twice),[[George Foreman]], [[Larry Holmes]],[[Riddick Bowe]],[[Mike Tyson]] (twice)
**Lost against [[Riddick Bowe]] (twice),[[Lennox Lewis]]
**Drew with [[Lennox Lewis]]

==Awards & Recognition==
[[File:97Apr.jpg|right|210px]]
*[[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|''The Ring'' Fighter of the Year]] for 1987, 1996 and 1997.
*The [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] for 1990, 1996 and 1997.
*The [[WBA]] presented Holyfield with the [[Muhammad Ali]] [[:File:AliAwardHolyfield.jpg|Award]] for becoming a three-time heavyweight champion in 1996.
*[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi vs. Evander Holyfield (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Dwight Muhammad Qawi I]] was named the best cruiserweight fight of the 1980s by [[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']].
*[[Michael Dokes vs. Evander Holyfield|Evander Holyfield vs. Michael Dokes]] was named the best heavyweight fight of the 1980s ''The Ring''.
*[[Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe I]] was [[Ring Magazine Fight of the Year|''The Ring'' Fight of the Year]] for 1992, and the tenth round was the [[Ring Magazine Round of the Year|Round of the Year]].
*[[Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson I]] was ''The Ring'' Fight of the Year and [[Ring Magazine Upset of the Year|Upset of the Year]] for 1996.
*[[Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson (2nd meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II]] was [[Ring Magazine Event of the Year|''The Ring'' Event of the Year]] for 1997.
*[[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] ranked Holyfield as the [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|greatest cruiserweight of all-time]] in 1994.
*[[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] ranked Holyfield as the third [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|greatest heavyweight of all-time]] in 1998.
*Inducted into the [[Georgia Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2001.
*''The Ring'' ranked Holyfield as the twenty-third [[The 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years|best fighter of the last 80 years]] in 2002.
*Inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014.

==Notes==
*During the seventh round of Holyfield's second fight with [[Riddick Bowe]], a man on a motorized paraglider flew into the outdoor arena at [[Caesars Palace]] in Las Vegas and attempted to land in the ring. He crashed into the ring ropes and his chute got caught in the ring lights. The man, who called himself Fan Man, was pulled from the ropes and beaten unconscious by Bowe's security. He was briefly hospitalized and then arrested. After a 21-minute delay, the fight resumed. Holyfield won by a majority decision to regain the [[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Championship.
*After losing to [[Michael Moorer]] in Las Vegas on April 22, 1994, Holyfield was diagnosed with a heart ailment. He was told he had a "diastolic dysfunction of the left ventricle." As a result, he announced his retirement. In June 1994, Holyfield said he was cured by faith healer Benny Hinn and planned to return to boxing. At the insistence of the [[Nevada State Athletic Commission]], he went through a battery of tests at the Mayo Clinic in November 1994 and was given a clean bill of health. Holyfield was told he had been misdiagnosed because he was over-medicated and over-hydrated in the treatment he received after the Moorer fight. In February 1995, Nevada boxing officials voted to lift his medical suspension. He returned to the ring on May 20, 1995, and defeated [[Ray Mercer]] by a ten-round unanimous decision.
*Holyfield fought [[Riddick Bowe]] for the third and final time on November 4, 1995. Holyfield, who later said he was suffering from Hepatitis A, appeared to be completely exhausted by the fifth round. With about a minute left in the fifth round, [[HBO]] commentator [[George Foreman]] stood up and called for the fight to be stopped. "This man is going to end up in a pine box," Foreman said. "He's got heart trouble." Holyfield dropped Bowe early in the sixth round, but was unable to finish him. Bowe came back to stop Holyfield two rounds later.
*Holyfield was first scheduled to fight [[Mike Tyson]] for the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship on June 18, 1990, but those plans were spoiled by [[James (Buster) Douglas]], who knocked out Tyson on February 11, 1990. Holyfield won the title from Douglas and was scheduled to defend it against Tyson on November 8, 1991, but the fight was canceled after Tyson suffered a rib injury during training. Before the fight could be rescheduled, Tyson was convicted of rape and sent to prison. Holyfield finally fought Tyson on November 9, 1996, and stopped him in the eleventh round to win the [[WBA]] Heavyweight Championship.
*During the third round of his rematch with [[Mike Tyson]] on June 28, 1997, Holyfield was bitten twice by Tyson. After he bit a one-inch chunk out of Holyfield's right ear, referee [[Mills Lane]] called time and deducted two points from Tyson. When the fight resumed, Tyson bit Holyfield's left ear. When Lane saw the bite marks on Holyfield's left ear after the third round, he disqualified Tyson.
*Holyfield lost to [[Larry Donald]] by a lopsided twelve-round unanimous decision in New York City on November 13, 2004. It was his third straight defeat. After the fight, the [[New York State Athletic Commission]] medically suspended Holyfield for poor performance. Although Holyfield passed a battery of tests, the commission voted to suspend Holyfield's license indefinitely in August 2005, but lifted the medical suspension that prevented him from fighting in other states.
*On August 29, 2006, Federal Drug Enforcement Agency officials in Alabama raided a compounding pharmacy (a pharmacy that makes its own drugs generically) called Applied Pharmacy Services. Among the documents seized were records stating that, in June 2004, a patient named “Evan Fields” picked up three vials of testosterone and related injection supplies from a doctor in Columbus, Georgia. That same month, Fields received five vials of Saizen (a human growth hormone). In September 2004, according to the documents, Fields underwent treatment for hypogonadism (a condition that results when the sex glands produce little or no hormones). The date of birth, home address, and telephone number listed for Evan Fields in Applied Pharmacy’s records were identical to those of Evander Holyfield. When these facts were made public, Holyfield issued a statement that read in part, “I have never taken an illegal or banned performance enhancing drug of any kind. The use of such substances runs counter to everything I believe about sports and my place in the athletic world.”
*Holyfield's last shot at a major title occurred when he fought [[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion [[Nikolay Valuev]] on December 20, 2008, in Zurich, Switzerland. At the age of 46, Holyfield was trying to become the oldest fighter ever to win a portion of the World Heavyweight Championship. He lost by a controversial twelve-round majority decision. Chris Mannix of ''SI.com'' wrote that Holyfield "absolutely, positively won the fight."
*On June 26, 2014, three years and a month since his last fight, Holyfield officially announced his retirement from boxing at the age of 51.

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]]|
title=[[WBA Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Taoufik Belbouli]]|
years=1986 Jul 12 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Ricky Parkey]]|
title=[[IBF Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Glenn McCrory]]|
years=1987 May 15 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Carlos DeLeon]]|
title=[[WBC Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Carlos DeLeon]]|
years=1988 Apr 9 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[James (Buster) Douglas]]|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]] [[WBA Heavyweight Champion]] [[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Riddick Bowe]]|
years=1990 Oct 25 – 1992 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Riddick Bowe]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]] [[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Michael Moorer]]|
years=1993 Nov 6 – 1994 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Mike Tyson]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
years=1996 Nov 9 – 1999 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Michael Moorer]]|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
years=1997 Nov 8 – 1999 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Lennox Lewis]] Stripped|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[John Ruiz]]|
years=2000 Aug 12 – 2001 Mar 3
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holyfield, Evander}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:National Golden Gloves Champions]]
[[Category:1984 Olympians]]
[[Category:American Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Bronze Medalists]]
[[Category:World Cruiserweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]

==Professional Highlights==
{{#ev:youtube|exsyKuRRqP8}}

Evander Holyfield

2018-11-13T10:12:37Z

Mthompson95: FIXED THE DIAGRAM TO ALIGN IT TOGETHER WITH THE PAGE.

[[file:Holyfieldface.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right| Class of 2011 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/holyfield.html}}click]]]

<boxer>000499</boxer>
*'''Trainers:''' [[George Benton]] & [[Lou Duva]] (1984-1992), [[Emanuel Steward]] (1993), [[Don Turner]] (1994-2003), [[Ronnie Shields]] (2004-2008), [[Tommy Brooks]] (2010-2011) 
*'''Managers:''' [[Lou Duva]], Ken Sanders (1984-1990, 2008-2011), [[Shelly Finkel]], [[Jim Thomas]]
*'''Promoter:''' [[Dan Duva]] ([[Main Events]])
*'''Cutmen:''' [[Ace Marotta]] and [[Jim Strickland]]
*'''Conditioning Coach:''' Tim Hallmark
*'''[[:Category:Evander Holyfield Gallery|Evander Holyfield Gallery]]'''

==Amateur Achievements==
[[File:Holyfield 79027848.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield at the 1984 Olympics]]
*'''Record:''' 160-14 with 75 KOs
*1983 U.S. National Championships Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Results:
**[[Arthur Weathers]] TKO 3
**Antonio Sweeney W 3
**Glenn Wiggins TKO 2
**[[Ricky Womack]] L 3
*1983 Pan American Games Silver Medalist (178 lbs) in Caracas, Venezuela. Results:
**Rodolfo Marin (Puerto Rico) W 3 (5-0)
**Carlos Salazar (Venezuela) RSC 2
**[[Pablo Romero]] (Cuba) L 3 (1-4)
*1984 National [[Golden Gloves]] Gold Medalist (178 lbs) in St. Louis, Missouri. Results:
**Sherman Griffin RSC 2
**Jerry Goff RSC 1
**Arthur Weathers RSC 2
*1984 U.S. Olympic Trials Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Fort Worth, Texas. Results:
**Sherman Griffin W 3 (5-0)
**[[Ricky Womack]] L 3 (2-3)
*1984 U.S. Olympic Box-Offs Winner (178 lbs) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Results:
**Ricky Womack W 3 (4-1)
**Ricky Womack W 3 (4-1)
*1984 [[Olympics|Olympic]] Games Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Los Angeles, California. Results:
**Taju Akay (Ghana) RSCH 3
**Ismail Khalil Salman (Iraq) RSCH 2
**Sylvanus Okello (Kenya) W KO 1
**[[Kevin Barry]] (New Zealand) L DQ 2

'''Olympic Disqualification''' 
[[File:Holyfield-Barry 79028351.jpg|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Kevin Barry at the 1984 Olympics]]
Holyfield was disqualified in his light heavyweight semifinal bout with [[Kevin Barry]] of New Zealand for hitting after the break.

Near the end of the second round, with Barry grabbing him around the neck with his left arm, Holyfield pulled back and—just as Yugoslavian referee Gligorije Novicic yelled "Stop!"—slammed a right to the body and a left hook to the head. Barry crumbled to the canvas. He regained his feet, but was very wobbly. Novicic stopped the fight and disqualified Holyfield for hitting on the break. Holyfield, who was dominating the bout, said he didn't hear the referee.

Because he was stopped by a head blow, Barry was medically ineligible to fight for 28 days. As a result, [[Anton Josipovic]] of Yugoslavia, who defeated Mustapha Moussa of Algeria in the other semifinal, was awarded the gold medal on a walkover.

The U.S. filed a protest. The protest was based on three points:
:(1) The punch was started before the referee yelled "stop," thus making it a legal punch.
:(2) The noise level of the crowd was so high that it was doubtful whether Holyfield could have heard the referee at all.
:(3) Barry was in the process of being warned for holding when the incident occurred. And there was a possiblity that the warning would be cause for disqualifying Barry.

The protest was rejected by the [[International Amateur Boxing Association]]. "There is no doubt in the minds of the protest committee," said Colonel Don Hull, the president of AIBA. "They reviewed the film and it is clear that there was a violation and that an illegal blow incapacitated. The referee enforced the rules."

Loring Baker, head of the United States Amateur Boxing Federation, said the referee should have stopped the bout earlier because Barry was flagrantly holding. "Had the referee done his job properly, the fight would have been stopped before the foul occurred," Baker said.

"Novicic blew it," said John Holaus, one of four American officials who worked the competition. "He was going from cautions to warnings and then back to cautions. It's against the rules. Once you issue a warning, you can't go back to cautions. I couldn't believe what I was seeing."

==Professional Achievements==
[[File:HolyfieldBuster.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Buster Douglas in 1990]]
[[File:Bowe vs. Holyfield II 290586.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe in 1993]]
[[File:Holyfield Tyson I 160428480.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson in 1996]]
'''World Titles:'''
*Holyfield is the only fighter to win a portion of the World Heavyweight Championship four times.
*'''[[WBA]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1986-1988) Won the title with a fifteen-round split decision against [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]].
*'''[[IBF]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1987-1988) Won the title with a third-round TKO of [[Ricky Parkey]].
*'''[[WBC]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1988) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Carlos DeLeon]]. Became the first Undisputed World Cruiserweight Champion. Vacated the [[WBA]]/[[WBC]]/[[IBF]] championship to move up to heavyweight.
*'''[[WBC]]/[[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1990-1992) Won the Undisputed [[World Heavyweight Champion|World Heavyweight Championship]] with a third-round KO of [[James (Buster) Douglas|James "Buster" Douglas]]. Lost the title to [[Riddick Bowe]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.
*'''[[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1993-1994) Won the title with a twelve-round majority decision against [[Riddick Bowe]]. Lost the title to [[Michael Moorer]] by a twelve-round majority decision.
*'''[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1996-1999) Won the title with an eleventh-round TKO of [[Mike Tyson]].
*'''[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1997-1999) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Michael Moorer]]. Lost the [[WBA]]/[[IBF]] championship to [[Lennox Lewis]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.
*'''[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion''' (2000-2001) Won the vacant title with a twelve-round unanimous decision against [[John Ruiz]]. Lost the title to [[John Ruiz]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.

'''Minor & Regional Titles:'''
*'''[[WBC]] Continental Americas Heavyweight Championship''' (1989-1990) Won the title with a tenth-round TKO of [[Michael Dokes]]. Vacated the title when he won the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship.
*'''[[USBA]] Heavyweight Championship''' (2006) Won the vacant title with a twelve-round unanimous decision against [[Fres Oquendo]]. Vacated the title.
*'''[[World Boxing Federation|WBF]] Heavyweight Championship''' (2010-2011) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Francois Botha]]. Vacated the title.

'''Record:'''
*Has a record of 16-7-2 (9 KO) in World Title fights.
*Has a record of 19-9-2 (10 KO) against former, current and future world titlists.
**Won against [[Tyrone Booze]], [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]] (twice), [[Ricky Parkey]], [[Ossie Ocasio]], [[Carlos De Leon]], [[Pinklon Thomas]], [[Michael Dokes]], [[James (Buster) Douglas]], [[George Foreman]], [[Larry Holmes]], [[Riddick Bowe]], [[Ray Mercer]], [[Bobby Czyz]], [[Mike Tyson]] (twice), [[Michael Moorer]], [[John Ruiz]], [[Hasim Rahman]]
**Lost against [[Riddick Bowe]] (twice), [[Michael Moorer]], [[Lennox Lewis]], [[John Ruiz]], [[Chris Byrd]], [[James Toney]], [[Sultan Ibragimov]], [[Nikolay Valuev]]
**Drew with [[Lennox Lewis]], [[John Ruiz]]
**Has a record of 7-3-1(2 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]] (twice),[[George Foreman]], [[Larry Holmes]],[[Riddick Bowe]],[[Mike Tyson]] (twice)
**Lost against [[Riddick Bowe]] (twice),[[Lennox Lewis]]
**Drew with [[Lennox Lewis]]

==Awards & Recognition==
[[File:97Apr.jpg|right|210px]]
*[[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|''The Ring'' Fighter of the Year]] for 1987, 1996 and 1997.
*The [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] for 1990, 1996 and 1997.
*The [[WBA]] presented Holyfield with the [[Muhammad Ali]] [[:File:AliAwardHolyfield.jpg|Award]] for becoming a three-time heavyweight champion in 1996.
*[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi vs. Evander Holyfield (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Dwight Muhammad Qawi I]] was named the best cruiserweight fight of the 1980s by [[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']].
*[[Michael Dokes vs. Evander Holyfield|Evander Holyfield vs. Michael Dokes]] was named the best heavyweight fight of the 1980s ''The Ring''.
*[[Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe I]] was [[Ring Magazine Fight of the Year|''The Ring'' Fight of the Year]] for 1992, and the tenth round was the [[Ring Magazine Round of the Year|Round of the Year]].
*[[Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson I]] was ''The Ring'' Fight of the Year and [[Ring Magazine Upset of the Year|Upset of the Year]] for 1996.
*[[Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson (2nd meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II]] was [[Ring Magazine Event of the Year|''The Ring'' Event of the Year]] for 1997.
*[[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] ranked Holyfield as the [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|greatest cruiserweight of all-time]] in 1994.
*[[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] ranked Holyfield as the third [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|greatest heavyweight of all-time]] in 1998.
*Inducted into the [[Georgia Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2001.
*''The Ring'' ranked Holyfield as the twenty-third [[The 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years|best fighter of the last 80 years]] in 2002.
*Inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014.

==Notes==
*During the seventh round of Holyfield's second fight with [[Riddick Bowe]], a man on a motorized paraglider flew into the outdoor arena at [[Caesars Palace]] in Las Vegas and attempted to land in the ring. He crashed into the ring ropes and his chute got caught in the ring lights. The man, who called himself Fan Man, was pulled from the ropes and beaten unconscious by Bowe's security. He was briefly hospitalized and then arrested. After a 21-minute delay, the fight resumed. Holyfield won by a majority decision to regain the [[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Championship.
*After losing to [[Michael Moorer]] in Las Vegas on April 22, 1994, Holyfield was diagnosed with a heart ailment. He was told he had a "diastolic dysfunction of the left ventricle." As a result, he announced his retirement. In June 1994, Holyfield said he was cured by faith healer Benny Hinn and planned to return to boxing. At the insistence of the [[Nevada State Athletic Commission]], he went through a battery of tests at the Mayo Clinic in November 1994 and was given a clean bill of health. Holyfield was told he had been misdiagnosed because he was over-medicated and over-hydrated in the treatment he received after the Moorer fight. In February 1995, Nevada boxing officials voted to lift his medical suspension. He returned to the ring on May 20, 1995, and defeated [[Ray Mercer]] by a ten-round unanimous decision.
*Holyfield fought [[Riddick Bowe]] for the third and final time on November 4, 1995. Holyfield, who later said he was suffering from Hepatitis A, appeared to be completely exhausted by the fifth round. With about a minute left in the fifth round, [[HBO]] commentator [[George Foreman]] stood up and called for the fight to be stopped. "This man is going to end up in a pine box," Foreman said. "He's got heart trouble." Holyfield dropped Bowe early in the sixth round, but was unable to finish him. Bowe came back to stop Holyfield two rounds later.
*Holyfield was first scheduled to fight [[Mike Tyson]] for the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship on June 18, 1990, but those plans were spoiled by [[James (Buster) Douglas]], who knocked out Tyson on February 11, 1990. Holyfield won the title from Douglas and was scheduled to defend it against Tyson on November 8, 1991, but the fight was canceled after Tyson suffered a rib injury during training. Before the fight could be rescheduled, Tyson was convicted of rape and sent to prison. Holyfield finally fought Tyson on November 9, 1996, and stopped him in the eleventh round to win the [[WBA]] Heavyweight Championship.
*During the third round of his rematch with [[Mike Tyson]] on June 28, 1997, Holyfield was bitten twice by Tyson. After he bit a one-inch chunk out of Holyfield's right ear, referee [[Mills Lane]] called time and deducted two points from Tyson. When the fight resumed, Tyson bit Holyfield's left ear. When Lane saw the bite marks on Holyfield's left ear after the third round, he disqualified Tyson.
*Holyfield lost to [[Larry Donald]] by a lopsided twelve-round unanimous decision in New York City on November 13, 2004. It was his third straight defeat. After the fight, the [[New York State Athletic Commission]] medically suspended Holyfield for poor performance. Although Holyfield passed a battery of tests, the commission voted to suspend Holyfield's license indefinitely in August 2005, but lifted the medical suspension that prevented him from fighting in other states.
*On August 29, 2006, Federal Drug Enforcement Agency officials in Alabama raided a compounding pharmacy (a pharmacy that makes its own drugs generically) called Applied Pharmacy Services. Among the documents seized were records stating that, in June 2004, a patient named “Evan Fields” picked up three vials of testosterone and related injection supplies from a doctor in Columbus, Georgia. That same month, Fields received five vials of Saizen (a human growth hormone). In September 2004, according to the documents, Fields underwent treatment for hypogonadism (a condition that results when the sex glands produce little or no hormones). The date of birth, home address, and telephone number listed for Evan Fields in Applied Pharmacy’s records were identical to those of Evander Holyfield. When these facts were made public, Holyfield issued a statement that read in part, “I have never taken an illegal or banned performance enhancing drug of any kind. The use of such substances runs counter to everything I believe about sports and my place in the athletic world.”
*Holyfield's last shot at a major title occurred when he fought [[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion [[Nikolay Valuev]] on December 20, 2008, in Zurich, Switzerland. At the age of 46, Holyfield was trying to become the oldest fighter ever to win a portion of the World Heavyweight Championship. He lost by a controversial twelve-round majority decision. Chris Mannix of ''SI.com'' wrote that Holyfield "absolutely, positively won the fight."
*On June 26, 2014, three years and a month since his last fight, Holyfield officially announced his retirement from boxing at the age of 51.

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]]|
title=[[WBA Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Taoufik Belbouli]]|
years=1986 Jul 12 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Ricky Parkey]]|
title=[[IBF Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Glenn McCrory]]|
years=1987 May 15 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Carlos DeLeon]]|
title=[[WBC Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Carlos DeLeon]]|
years=1988 Apr 9 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[James (Buster) Douglas]]|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]] [[WBA Heavyweight Champion]] [[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Riddick Bowe]]|
years=1990 Oct 25 – 1992 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Riddick Bowe]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]] [[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Michael Moorer]]|
years=1993 Nov 6 – 1994 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Mike Tyson]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
years=1996 Nov 9 – 1999 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Michael Moorer]]|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
years=1997 Nov 8 – 1999 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Lennox Lewis]] Stripped|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[John Ruiz]]|
years=2000 Aug 12 – 2001 Mar 3
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holyfield, Evander}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:National Golden Gloves Champions]]
[[Category:1984 Olympians]]
[[Category:American Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Bronze Medalists]]
[[Category:World Cruiserweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]

==Professional Highlights==
{{#ev:youtube|exsyKuRRqP8}}

Gerald McClellan

2018-11-13T10:03:14Z

Mthompson95: He was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame

[[file:Mcclellan.gerald.jpg|left|200px]]
[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]]

<boxer>004252</boxer>
'''Trainers:''' [[Emanuel Steward]], [[Stan Johnson]]
 

'''Gerald McClellan''' is regarded as one of the hardest hitters in the history of boxing. [[The Ring Magazine]] named him the 27th [[:The 100 Greatest Punchers of All-Time!|greatest puncher of all-time]] in 2003.

McClellan was severely injured in his fight with [[WBC]] super middleweight champion [[Nigel Benn]] on February 25, 1995, in London, England.

After being knocked through the ropes and onto the ring apron early in the first round, Benn came back to knock out McClellan in the tenth round.

McClellan suffered a massive blood clot to the brain and underwent an emergency three-and-a-half-hour procedure to remove the clot. The surgery saved his life but, after two months in a coma, he was left blind, hearing impaired, brain damaged and unable to walk. His short-term memory is severely limited, and his long-term memory is selective.

He is cared for by his sisters (Lisa, Sandra and Stacey) in their hometown of Freeport, Illinois.

McClellan receives social security disability and a small WBC pension, but it costs approximately $70,000 per year to take care of him and pay for the round-the-clock assistance that he requires. Astronomical medical bills and the costs of his yearly care exhausted all of the money that he earned as a professional prize fighter. For this reason, McClellan and his family rely on donations to the Gerald McClellan Trust to care for him. [[Roy Jones Jr.]] has donated parts of several fight purses to the trust.

McClellan attended a benefit on his behalf in London in February 2007, which was arranged by Nigel Benn and dubbed a great success. One British website said more than 1,100 people attended. McClellan, according to the website, was so emotional that he had to leave the room.

It was reported in 2012 that McClellan required surgery to have his colon removed.

==Career Overview==
*Outpointed [[Roy Jones Jr.]] in the 156-pound semifinals of the 1988 National [[Golden Gloves]] Tournament. McClellan was outpointed by [[Ray McElroy]] in the final.
*After winning his first ten professional fights by knockout, McClellan lost back-to-back decisions to [[Dennis Milton]] and Ralph Ward.
*Knocked out [[John Mugabi]] in one round to win the [[WBO]] middleweight championship on November 20, 1991. He relinquished the title without defending it.
*Knocked out [[Julian Jackson]] in five rounds to win the WBC middleweight championship on May 8, 1993. It was named [[:Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year|Knockout of the Year]] by [[The Ring Magazine]].
*Fired trainer [[Emanuel Steward]] in 1994. McClellan was angry because he thought Steward was spending too much time with his other fighters.
*Defended the WBC middleweight championship three times before relinquishing it to move up to super middleweight. McClellan won all three title defenses by first-round knockout.
*Won 20 fights by first-round knockout.
*Of his 29 career knockouts, 28 ended in the first 3 rounds. The only knockout he scored beyond the 3rd round was his 5th round KO win over Julian Jackson. The furthest he had gone in his career when entering the Benn fight was into the 8th round on 3 occasions (2 wins by decision and a defeat to Ralph Ward).
*Inducted into the [[World Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2007.

== External Links==
*[http://www.geraldmcclellan.com/index.html Gerald McClellan: The G-Man's Official Website]
*[http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2904695 "Boxer's life caught up in ring of dogs, fighting" By Elizabeth Merrill, ESPN.com, June 19, 2007]
*[http://www.worldboxing101.com/2012/06/26/ring-10-veterans-boxing-foundation-a-beta-bomb-of-brotherhood-part-1-our-suffering-champions/ "Ring 10 Veterans Boxing Foundation: a Beta Bomb of Brotherhood – Part 1, Our Suffering Champions" By Sharon Scrima, WorldBoxing101.com, June 26, 2012]
*[http://realcombatmedia.com/2013/02/gerald-g-man-mcclellan-sister-lisa-mcclellan-speaks-condition/ "Gerald G-Man McClellan: His Sister Lisa McClellan Speaks On His Condition" Real Combat Media, February 11, 2013]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGz-unNi1dU YouTube: Interview with Gerald McClellan 6 Years After the Benn Fight]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Chris Eubank]] Vacated|
title=[[WBO Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Chris Pyatt]]|
years=1991 Nov 20 – 1992 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Julian Jackson]]|
title=[[WBC Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Julian Jackson]]|
years=1993 May 8 – 1994 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:McClellan, Gerald}}
[[Category:United States Amateur Champions]]
[[Category:World Middleweight Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]

Gerald McClellan

2018-11-13T01:38:00Z

Mthompson95:

[[file:Mcclellan.gerald.jpg|left|200px]]
<boxer>004252</boxer>
'''Trainers:''' [[Emanuel Steward]], [[Stan Johnson]]
 

[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]]

'''Gerald McClellan''' is regarded as one of the hardest hitters in the history of boxing. [[The Ring Magazine]] named him the 27th [[:The 100 Greatest Punchers of All-Time!|greatest puncher of all-time]] in 2003.

McClellan was severely injured in his fight with [[WBC]] super middleweight champion [[Nigel Benn]] on February 25, 1995, in London, England.

After being knocked through the ropes and onto the ring apron early in the first round, Benn came back to knock out McClellan in the tenth round.

McClellan suffered a massive blood clot to the brain and underwent an emergency three-and-a-half-hour procedure to remove the clot. The surgery saved his life but, after two months in a coma, he was left blind, hearing impaired, brain damaged and unable to walk. His short-term memory is severely limited, and his long-term memory is selective.

He is cared for by his sisters (Lisa, Sandra and Stacey) in their hometown of Freeport, Illinois.

McClellan receives social security disability and a small WBC pension, but it costs approximately $70,000 per year to take care of him and pay for the round-the-clock assistance that he requires. Astronomical medical bills and the costs of his yearly care exhausted all of the money that he earned as a professional prize fighter. For this reason, McClellan and his family rely on donations to the Gerald McClellan Trust to care for him. [[Roy Jones Jr.]] has donated parts of several fight purses to the trust.

McClellan attended a benefit on his behalf in London in February 2007, which was arranged by Nigel Benn and dubbed a great success. One British website said more than 1,100 people attended. McClellan, according to the website, was so emotional that he had to leave the room.

It was reported in 2012 that McClellan required surgery to have his colon removed.

==Career Overview==
*Outpointed [[Roy Jones Jr.]] in the 156-pound semifinals of the 1988 National [[Golden Gloves]] Tournament. McClellan was outpointed by [[Ray McElroy]] in the final.
*After winning his first ten professional fights by knockout, McClellan lost back-to-back decisions to [[Dennis Milton]] and Ralph Ward.
*Knocked out [[John Mugabi]] in one round to win the [[WBO]] middleweight championship on November 20, 1991. He relinquished the title without defending it.
*Knocked out [[Julian Jackson]] in five rounds to win the WBC middleweight championship on May 8, 1993. It was named [[:Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year|Knockout of the Year]] by [[The Ring Magazine]].
*Fired trainer [[Emanuel Steward]] in 1994. McClellan was angry because he thought Steward was spending too much time with his other fighters.
*Defended the WBC middleweight championship three times before relinquishing it to move up to super middleweight. McClellan won all three title defenses by first-round knockout.
*Won 20 fights by first-round knockout.
*Of his 29 career knockouts, 28 ended in the first 3 rounds. The only knockout he scored beyond the 3rd round was his 5th round KO win over Julian Jackson. The furthest he had gone in his career when entering the Benn fight was into the 8th round on 3 occasions (2 wins by decision and a defeat to Ralph Ward).
*Inducted into the [[World Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 2007.

== External Links==
*[http://www.geraldmcclellan.com/index.html Gerald McClellan: The G-Man's Official Website]
*[http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2904695 "Boxer's life caught up in ring of dogs, fighting" By Elizabeth Merrill, ESPN.com, June 19, 2007]
*[http://www.worldboxing101.com/2012/06/26/ring-10-veterans-boxing-foundation-a-beta-bomb-of-brotherhood-part-1-our-suffering-champions/ "Ring 10 Veterans Boxing Foundation: a Beta Bomb of Brotherhood – Part 1, Our Suffering Champions" By Sharon Scrima, WorldBoxing101.com, June 26, 2012]
*[http://realcombatmedia.com/2013/02/gerald-g-man-mcclellan-sister-lisa-mcclellan-speaks-condition/ "Gerald G-Man McClellan: His Sister Lisa McClellan Speaks On His Condition" Real Combat Media, February 11, 2013]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGz-unNi1dU YouTube: Interview with Gerald McClellan 6 Years After the Benn Fight]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Chris Eubank]] Vacated|
title=[[WBO Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Chris Pyatt]]|
years=1991 Nov 20 – 1992 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Julian Jackson]]|
title=[[WBC Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Julian Jackson]]|
years=1993 May 8 – 1994 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:McClellan, Gerald}}
[[Category:United States Amateur Champions]]
[[Category:World Middleweight Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]

Evander Holyfield

2018-11-13T01:30:27Z

Mthompson95:

[[file:Holyfieldface.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2011 Modern Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/holyfield.html click]]]
[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]]
<boxer>000499</boxer>
*'''Trainers:''' [[George Benton]] & [[Lou Duva]] (1984-1992), [[Emanuel Steward]] (1993), [[Don Turner]] (1994-2003), [[Ronnie Shields]] (2004-2008), [[Tommy Brooks]] (2010-2011) 
*'''Managers:''' [[Lou Duva]], Ken Sanders (1984-1990, 2008-2011), [[Shelly Finkel]], [[Jim Thomas]]
*'''Promoter:''' [[Dan Duva]] ([[Main Events]])
*'''Cutmen:''' [[Ace Marotta]] and [[Jim Strickland]]
*'''Conditioning Coach:''' Tim Hallmark
*'''[[:Category:Evander Holyfield Gallery|Evander Holyfield Gallery]]'''

==Amateur Achievements==
[[File:Holyfield 79027848.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield at the 1984 Olympics]]
*'''Record:''' 160-14 with 75 KOs
*1983 U.S. National Championships Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Results:
**[[Arthur Weathers]] TKO 3
**Antonio Sweeney W 3
**Glenn Wiggins TKO 2
**[[Ricky Womack]] L 3
*1983 Pan American Games Silver Medalist (178 lbs) in Caracas, Venezuela. Results:
**Rodolfo Marin (Puerto Rico) W 3 (5-0)
**Carlos Salazar (Venezuela) RSC 2
**[[Pablo Romero]] (Cuba) L 3 (1-4)
*1984 National [[Golden Gloves]] Gold Medalist (178 lbs) in St. Louis, Missouri. Results:
**Sherman Griffin RSC 2
**Jerry Goff RSC 1
**Arthur Weathers RSC 2
*1984 U.S. Olympic Trials Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Fort Worth, Texas. Results:
**Sherman Griffin W 3 (5-0)
**[[Ricky Womack]] L 3 (2-3)
*1984 U.S. Olympic Box-Offs Winner (178 lbs) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Results:
**Ricky Womack W 3 (4-1)
**Ricky Womack W 3 (4-1)
*1984 [[Olympics|Olympic]] Games Bronze Medalist (178 lbs) in Los Angeles, California. Results:
**Taju Akay (Ghana) RSCH 3
**Ismail Khalil Salman (Iraq) RSCH 2
**Sylvanus Okello (Kenya) W KO 1
**[[Kevin Barry]] (New Zealand) L DQ 2

'''Olympic Disqualification''' 
[[File:Holyfield-Barry 79028351.jpg|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Kevin Barry at the 1984 Olympics]]
Holyfield was disqualified in his light heavyweight semifinal bout with [[Kevin Barry]] of New Zealand for hitting after the break.

Near the end of the second round, with Barry grabbing him around the neck with his left arm, Holyfield pulled back and—just as Yugoslavian referee Gligorije Novicic yelled "Stop!"—slammed a right to the body and a left hook to the head. Barry crumbled to the canvas. He regained his feet, but was very wobbly. Novicic stopped the fight and disqualified Holyfield for hitting on the break. Holyfield, who was dominating the bout, said he didn't hear the referee.

Because he was stopped by a head blow, Barry was medically ineligible to fight for 28 days. As a result, [[Anton Josipovic]] of Yugoslavia, who defeated Mustapha Moussa of Algeria in the other semifinal, was awarded the gold medal on a walkover.

The U.S. filed a protest. The protest was based on three points:
:(1) The punch was started before the referee yelled "stop," thus making it a legal punch.
:(2) The noise level of the crowd was so high that it was doubtful whether Holyfield could have heard the referee at all.
:(3) Barry was in the process of being warned for holding when the incident occurred. And there was a possiblity that the warning would be cause for disqualifying Barry.

The protest was rejected by the [[International Amateur Boxing Association]]. "There is no doubt in the minds of the protest committee," said Colonel Don Hull, the president of AIBA. "They reviewed the film and it is clear that there was a violation and that an illegal blow incapacitated. The referee enforced the rules."

Loring Baker, head of the United States Amateur Boxing Federation, said the referee should have stopped the bout earlier because Barry was flagrantly holding. "Had the referee done his job properly, the fight would have been stopped before the foul occurred," Baker said.

"Novicic blew it," said John Holaus, one of four American officials who worked the competition. "He was going from cautions to warnings and then back to cautions. It's against the rules. Once you issue a warning, you can't go back to cautions. I couldn't believe what I was seeing."

==Professional Achievements==
[[File:HolyfieldBuster.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Buster Douglas in 1990]]
[[File:Bowe vs. Holyfield II 290586.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe in 1993]]
[[File:Holyfield Tyson I 160428480.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson in 1996]]
'''World Titles:'''
*Holyfield is the only fighter to win a portion of the World Heavyweight Championship four times.
*'''[[WBA]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1986-1988) Won the title with a fifteen-round split decision against [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]].
*'''[[IBF]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1987-1988) Won the title with a third-round TKO of [[Ricky Parkey]].
*'''[[WBC]] Cruiserweight Champion''' (1988) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Carlos DeLeon]]. Became the first Undisputed World Cruiserweight Champion. Vacated the [[WBA]]/[[WBC]]/[[IBF]] championship to move up to heavyweight.
*'''[[WBC]]/[[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1990-1992) Won the Undisputed [[World Heavyweight Champion|World Heavyweight Championship]] with a third-round KO of [[James (Buster) Douglas|James "Buster" Douglas]]. Lost the title to [[Riddick Bowe]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.
*'''[[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1993-1994) Won the title with a twelve-round majority decision against [[Riddick Bowe]]. Lost the title to [[Michael Moorer]] by a twelve-round majority decision.
*'''[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1996-1999) Won the title with an eleventh-round TKO of [[Mike Tyson]].
*'''[[IBF]] Heavyweight Champion''' (1997-1999) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Michael Moorer]]. Lost the [[WBA]]/[[IBF]] championship to [[Lennox Lewis]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.
*'''[[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion''' (2000-2001) Won the vacant title with a twelve-round unanimous decision against [[John Ruiz]]. Lost the title to [[John Ruiz]] by a twelve-round unanimous decision.

'''Minor & Regional Titles:'''
*'''[[WBC]] Continental Americas Heavyweight Championship''' (1989-1990) Won the title with a tenth-round TKO of [[Michael Dokes]]. Vacated the title when he won the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship.
*'''[[USBA]] Heavyweight Championship''' (2006) Won the vacant title with a twelve-round unanimous decision against [[Fres Oquendo]]. Vacated the title.
*'''[[World Boxing Federation|WBF]] Heavyweight Championship''' (2010-2011) Won the title with an eighth-round TKO of [[Francois Botha]]. Vacated the title.

'''Record:'''
*Has a record of 16-7-2 (9 KO) in World Title fights.
*Has a record of 19-9-2 (10 KO) against former, current and future world titlists.
**Won against [[Tyrone Booze]], [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]] (twice), [[Ricky Parkey]], [[Ossie Ocasio]], [[Carlos De Leon]], [[Pinklon Thomas]], [[Michael Dokes]], [[James (Buster) Douglas]], [[George Foreman]], [[Larry Holmes]], [[Riddick Bowe]], [[Ray Mercer]], [[Bobby Czyz]], [[Mike Tyson]] (twice), [[Michael Moorer]], [[John Ruiz]], [[Hasim Rahman]]
**Lost against [[Riddick Bowe]] (twice), [[Michael Moorer]], [[Lennox Lewis]], [[John Ruiz]], [[Chris Byrd]], [[James Toney]], [[Sultan Ibragimov]], [[Nikolay Valuev]]
**Drew with [[Lennox Lewis]], [[John Ruiz]]
**Has a record of 7-3-1(2 KO) against [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductees:[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]] (twice),[[George Foreman]], [[Larry Holmes]],[[Riddick Bowe]],[[Mike Tyson]] (twice)
**Lost against [[Riddick Bowe]] (twice),[[Lennox Lewis]]
**Drew with [[Lennox Lewis]]

==Awards & Recognition==
[[File:97Apr.jpg|right|210px]]
*[[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|''The Ring'' Fighter of the Year]] for 1987, 1996 and 1997.
*The [[Boxing Writers Association of America]] [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] for 1990, 1996 and 1997.
*The [[WBA]] presented Holyfield with the [[Muhammad Ali]] [[:File:AliAwardHolyfield.jpg|Award]] for becoming a three-time heavyweight champion in 1996.
*[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi vs. Evander Holyfield (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Dwight Muhammad Qawi I]] was named the best cruiserweight fight of the 1980s by [[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']].
*[[Michael Dokes vs. Evander Holyfield|Evander Holyfield vs. Michael Dokes]] was named the best heavyweight fight of the 1980s ''The Ring''.
*[[Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe I]] was [[Ring Magazine Fight of the Year|''The Ring'' Fight of the Year]] for 1992, and the tenth round was the [[Ring Magazine Round of the Year|Round of the Year]].
*[[Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield (1st meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson I]] was ''The Ring'' Fight of the Year and [[Ring Magazine Upset of the Year|Upset of the Year]] for 1996.
*[[Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson (2nd meeting)|Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II]] was [[Ring Magazine Event of the Year|''The Ring'' Event of the Year]] for 1997.
*[[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] ranked Holyfield as the [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|greatest cruiserweight of all-time]] in 1994.
*[[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']] ranked Holyfield as the third [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|greatest heavyweight of all-time]] in 1998.
*Inducted into the [[Georgia Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2001.
*''The Ring'' ranked Holyfield as the twenty-third [[The 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years|best fighter of the last 80 years]] in 2002.
*Inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014.

==Notes==
*During the seventh round of Holyfield's second fight with [[Riddick Bowe]], a man on a motorized paraglider flew into the outdoor arena at [[Caesars Palace]] in Las Vegas and attempted to land in the ring. He crashed into the ring ropes and his chute got caught in the ring lights. The man, who called himself Fan Man, was pulled from the ropes and beaten unconscious by Bowe's security. He was briefly hospitalized and then arrested. After a 21-minute delay, the fight resumed. Holyfield won by a majority decision to regain the [[WBA]]/[[IBF]] Heavyweight Championship.
*After losing to [[Michael Moorer]] in Las Vegas on April 22, 1994, Holyfield was diagnosed with a heart ailment. He was told he had a "diastolic dysfunction of the left ventricle." As a result, he announced his retirement. In June 1994, Holyfield said he was cured by faith healer Benny Hinn and planned to return to boxing. At the insistence of the [[Nevada State Athletic Commission]], he went through a battery of tests at the Mayo Clinic in November 1994 and was given a clean bill of health. Holyfield was told he had been misdiagnosed because he was over-medicated and over-hydrated in the treatment he received after the Moorer fight. In February 1995, Nevada boxing officials voted to lift his medical suspension. He returned to the ring on May 20, 1995, and defeated [[Ray Mercer]] by a ten-round unanimous decision.
*Holyfield fought [[Riddick Bowe]] for the third and final time on November 4, 1995. Holyfield, who later said he was suffering from Hepatitis A, appeared to be completely exhausted by the fifth round. With about a minute left in the fifth round, [[HBO]] commentator [[George Foreman]] stood up and called for the fight to be stopped. "This man is going to end up in a pine box," Foreman said. "He's got heart trouble." Holyfield dropped Bowe early in the sixth round, but was unable to finish him. Bowe came back to stop Holyfield two rounds later.
*Holyfield was first scheduled to fight [[Mike Tyson]] for the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship on June 18, 1990, but those plans were spoiled by [[James (Buster) Douglas]], who knocked out Tyson on February 11, 1990. Holyfield won the title from Douglas and was scheduled to defend it against Tyson on November 8, 1991, but the fight was canceled after Tyson suffered a rib injury during training. Before the fight could be rescheduled, Tyson was convicted of rape and sent to prison. Holyfield finally fought Tyson on November 9, 1996, and stopped him in the eleventh round to win the [[WBA]] Heavyweight Championship.
*During the third round of his rematch with [[Mike Tyson]] on June 28, 1997, Holyfield was bitten twice by Tyson. After he bit a one-inch chunk out of Holyfield's right ear, referee [[Mills Lane]] called time and deducted two points from Tyson. When the fight resumed, Tyson bit Holyfield's left ear. When Lane saw the bite marks on Holyfield's left ear after the third round, he disqualified Tyson.
*Holyfield lost to [[Larry Donald]] by a lopsided twelve-round unanimous decision in New York City on November 13, 2004. It was his third straight defeat. After the fight, the [[New York State Athletic Commission]] medically suspended Holyfield for poor performance. Although Holyfield passed a battery of tests, the commission voted to suspend Holyfield's license indefinitely in August 2005, but lifted the medical suspension that prevented him from fighting in other states.
*On August 29, 2006, Federal Drug Enforcement Agency officials in Alabama raided a compounding pharmacy (a pharmacy that makes its own drugs generically) called Applied Pharmacy Services. Among the documents seized were records stating that, in June 2004, a patient named “Evan Fields” picked up three vials of testosterone and related injection supplies from a doctor in Columbus, Georgia. That same month, Fields received five vials of Saizen (a human growth hormone). In September 2004, according to the documents, Fields underwent treatment for hypogonadism (a condition that results when the sex glands produce little or no hormones). The date of birth, home address, and telephone number listed for Evan Fields in Applied Pharmacy’s records were identical to those of Evander Holyfield. When these facts were made public, Holyfield issued a statement that read in part, “I have never taken an illegal or banned performance enhancing drug of any kind. The use of such substances runs counter to everything I believe about sports and my place in the athletic world.”
*Holyfield's last shot at a major title occurred when he fought [[WBA]] Heavyweight Champion [[Nikolay Valuev]] on December 20, 2008, in Zurich, Switzerland. At the age of 46, Holyfield was trying to become the oldest fighter ever to win a portion of the World Heavyweight Championship. He lost by a controversial twelve-round majority decision. Chris Mannix of ''SI.com'' wrote that Holyfield "absolutely, positively won the fight."
*On June 26, 2014, three years and a month since his last fight, Holyfield officially announced his retirement from boxing at the age of 51.

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]]|
title=[[WBA Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Taoufik Belbouli]]|
years=1986 Jul 12 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Ricky Parkey]]|
title=[[IBF Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Glenn McCrory]]|
years=1987 May 15 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Carlos DeLeon]]|
title=[[WBC Cruiserweight Champion]]|
after=[[Carlos DeLeon]]|
years=1988 Apr 9 – 1988 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[James (Buster) Douglas]]|
title=[[WBC Heavyweight Champion]] [[WBA Heavyweight Champion]] [[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Riddick Bowe]]|
years=1990 Oct 25 – 1992 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Riddick Bowe]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]] [[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Michael Moorer]]|
years=1993 Nov 6 – 1994 Apr 22
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Mike Tyson]]|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
years=1996 Nov 9 – 1999 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Michael Moorer]]|
title=[[IBF Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Lennox Lewis]]|
years=1997 Nov 8 – 1999 Nov 13
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Lennox Lewis]] Stripped|
title=[[WBA Heavyweight Champion]]|
after=[[John Ruiz]]|
years=2000 Aug 12 – 2001 Mar 3
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holyfield, Evander}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:National Golden Gloves Champions]]
[[Category:1984 Olympians]]
[[Category:American Olympians]]
[[Category:Olympic Bronze Medalists]]
[[Category:World Cruiserweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]

==Professional Highlights==
{{#ev:youtube|exsyKuRRqP8}}

Louie Lomeli

2018-10-07T18:42:57Z

Mthompson95:

[[File:1 IBO Lomeli.Louie2.jpg|left|250px]]
<boxer>001743</boxer>[[File:ILBOXINGHOFLOGO IL State Martial Arts Boxing Hall of Fame 2014 logo contender.jpg|right]]
'''Trainer:''' [[Pat La Cassa]] 
'''[[:Category:Louie Lomeli Gallery|Louie Lomeli Photo Gallery]]''' 
 

== Professional Career ==
*'''Louie Lomeli''' had two world title shots: one for the [[IBF]] Lightweight Championship and the other for the vacant [[IBO]] light welterweight title. That bout was the inaugural title bout for the International Boxing Organization.
*Lomeli's biggest win may have been when he defended the Illinois State Lightweight Title, defeating [[Herminio Morales]].

==Trainer==
Trains / Trained:
*[[Angel Hernandez (II)]]

==Titles==

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Vacant]]|
title=[[USA Illinois State lightweight title]]|
after=[[Carmelo Negron]]|
years=1986 May 17 – 1988 November 26 '''Vacated'''|
}}

{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lomeli, Louie}}
[[Category:Mexican American Boxers]]
[[Category:Chicago Park District Sectional Champions]]
[[Category:Illinois State Champions]]
[[Category:Trainers]]
[[Category:Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame Gallery]]
[[Category:Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame]]

Louie Lomeli

2018-10-07T18:33:51Z

Mthompson95:

[[file:1 IBO Lomeli.Louie2.jpg|left|250px]]
<boxer>001743</boxer>[[File:ILBOXINGHOFLOGO IL State Martial Arts Boxing Hall of Fame 2014 logo contender.jpg|right]]
'''Trainer:''' [[Pat La Cassa]] 
'''[[:Category:Louie Lomeli Gallery|Louie Lomeli Photo Gallery]]''' 
 

== Professional Career ==
*'''Louie Lomeli''' had two world title shots: one for the [[IBF]] Lightweight Championship and the other for the vacant [[IBO]] light welterweight title. That bout was the inaugural title bout for the International Boxing Organization.
*Lomeli's biggest win may have been when he defended the Illinois State Lightweight Title, defeating [[Herminio Morales]].

==Trainer==
Trains / Trained:
*[[Angel Hernandez (II)]]

==Titles==

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Vacant]]|
title=[[USA Illinois State lightweight title]]|
after=[[Carmelo Negron]]|
years=1986 May 17 – 1988 November 26 '''Vacated'''|
}}

{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lomeli, Louie}}
[[Category:Mexican American Boxers]]
[[Category:Chicago Park District Sectional Champions]]
[[Category:Illinois State Champions]]
[[Category:Trainers]]
[[Category:Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame Gallery]]
[[Category:Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame]]

Louie Lomeli

2018-10-07T18:30:26Z

Mthompson95:

[[file:1 IBO Lomeli.Louie2.jpg|left|250px]]
<boxer>001743</boxer>[[File:ILBOXINGHOFLOGO IL State Martial Arts Boxing Hall of Fame 2014 logo contender.jpg|right]]
<boxer>001743</boxer>
'''Trainer:''' [[Pat La Cassa]] 
'''[[:Category:Louie Lomeli Gallery|Louie Lomeli Photo Gallery]]''' 
 

== Professional Career ==
*'''Louie Lomeli''' had two world title shots: one for the [[IBF]] Lightweight Championship and the other for the vacant [[IBO]] light welterweight title. That bout was the inaugural title bout for the International Boxing Organization.
*Lomeli's biggest win may have been when he defended the Illinois State Lightweight Title, defeating [[Herminio Morales]].

==Trainer==
Trains / Trained:
*[[Angel Hernandez (II)]]

==Titles==

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Vacant]]|
title=[[USA Illinois State lightweight title]]|
after=[[Carmelo Negron]]|
years=1986 May 17 – 1988 November 26 '''Vacated'''|
}}

{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lomeli, Louie}}
[[Category:Mexican American Boxers]]
[[Category:Chicago Park District Sectional Champions]]
[[Category:Illinois State Champions]]
[[Category:Trainers]]
[[Category:Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame Gallery]]
[[Category:Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame]]

Louie Lomeli

2018-10-07T18:26:14Z

Mthompson95:

[[file:1 IBO Lomeli.Louie2.jpg|left|250px]]
[[File:ILBOXINGHOFLOGO IL State Martial Arts Boxing Hall of Fame 2014 logo contender.jpg|right]]
<boxer>001743</boxer>
'''Trainer:''' [[Pat La Cassa]] 
'''[[:Category:Louie Lomeli Gallery|Louie Lomeli Photo Gallery]]''' 
 

== Professional Career ==
*'''Louie Lomeli''' had two world title shots: one for the [[IBF]] Lightweight Championship and the other for the vacant [[IBO]] light welterweight title. That bout was the inaugural title bout for the International Boxing Organization.
*Lomeli's biggest win may have been when he defended the Illinois State Lightweight Title, defeating [[Herminio Morales]].

==Trainer==
Trains / Trained:
*[[Angel Hernandez (II)]]

==Titles==

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Vacant]]|
title=[[USA Illinois State lightweight title]]|
after=[[Carmelo Negron]]|
years=1986 May 17 – 1988 November 26 '''Vacated'''|
}}

{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lomeli, Louie}}
[[Category:Mexican American Boxers]]
[[Category:Chicago Park District Sectional Champions]]
[[Category:Illinois State Champions]]
[[Category:Trainers]]
[[Category:Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame Gallery]]
[[Category:Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame]]

James (Buddy) McGirt

2018-09-26T16:43:28Z

Mthompson95:

[[File:McGirt 524242541.jpg|left|200px|left]]
<boxer>000456</boxer>
*'''Trainer:''' [[Al Certo]]
*'''Manager:''' [[Al Certo]]
*'''[[:Category:James (Buddy) McGirt Gallery|James (Buddy) McGirt Gallery]]'''

==Career Notes==
*Amateur record: 54-9.
*Record in world title fights: 5-3 (2 KOs)
*Record against former, current and future world titlists: 6-3 (1 KO)
**Won against [[Saoul Mamby]], [[Joe Manley]], [[Simon Brown]], [[Patrizio Oliva]], [[Genaro Léon]], [[Livingstone Bramble]].
**Lost against [[Meldrick Taylor]], [[Pernell Whitaker]] (twice).
*Inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame in 1998.

==Regional & Minor Titles==
*[[WBC]] Continental Americas super lightweight title (1985-1986, 1987)
*[[IBC (Sanctioning Body)|IBC]] junior middleweight title (1996)

== Trainer ==
[[File:McGirts 119027396.jpg|right|thumb|400px|McGirt and his son, James McGirt Jr.]]
Since his retirement as a boxer, McGirt has become a highly regarded trainer.

He was named 2002 [[Boxing Writers Association of America Trainer of the Year Award|Trainer of the Year]] by the [[Boxing Writers Association of America]].

'''Trains/Trained:'''
*[[Lamon Brewster]]
*[[Nate Campbell]]
*[[J.C. Candelo]]
*[[Joel Casamayor]]
*[[Marianne Chubirka]]
*[[Allen Conyers]]
*[[Vernon Forrest]]
*[[Arturo Gatti]]
*[[Michael Grant]]
*[[Troy Harden]]
*[[Kelsey Jeffries]]
*[[Joel Julio]]
*[[Ievgen Khytrov]]
*[[Jimmy Lange]]
*[[Sergey Lipinets]]
*[[Jason Litzau]] (assistant)
*[[Matthew Macklin]]
*[[Paul Malignaggi]]
*[[James McGirt Jr.]]
*[[Hasim Rahman]]
*[[Paul Smith (Liverpool)|Paul Smith]]
*[[Paul Spadafora]] (assistant)
*[[Antonio Tarver]]
*[[Sherman Williams]]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Terry Marsh]] Retired|
title=[[IBF Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Meldrick Taylor]]|
years=1988 Feb 14 – 1988 Sep 3
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Simon Brown]]|
title=[[WBC Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Pernell Whitaker]]|
years=1991 Nov 29 – 1993 Mar 6
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:McGirt, James (Buddy)}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:Trainers]]
[[Category:The Contender (TV Series)]]

Sugar Ray Robinson

2018-09-16T12:39:08Z

Mthompson95:

[[File:Sugar Ray Robinson Pic0040.jpg|left|250px|Sugar Ray Robinson]]
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|right|140px]]
[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]]
<boxer>009625</boxer>
*'''Managers:''' [[Curt Horrmann]], [[George Gainford]]
*'''Trainers:''' [[Soldier Jones]], [[Harry Wiley]], [[Pee Wee Beale]]
*'''[[:Category:Sugar Ray Robinson Gallery|Sugar Ray Robinson Gallery]]

'''Sugar Ray Robinson''' is considered by many boxing historians and enthusiasts to be the greatest pound-for-pound boxer of all-time. Robinson is frequently ranked among the top three boxers ever in both the welterweight and middleweight classes.

== Amateur Achievements ==
Robinson's amateur record is usually listed as 85-0 with 69 knockouts, 40 in the first round. However, he lost to [[Billy Graham]] and [[Patsy Pesca]] under his given name, Walker Smith Jr.

*Won the 1938 New York Metropolitan [[AAU]] Open Championship at bantamweight vs. [[Ed Cappelli]].
*Golden Gloves Titles won in 1939:
**[[New York Golden Gloves|New York Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions]] at featherweight vs. [[Armand Dascenza]]
**[[Intercity Golden Gloves|Intercity Golden Gloves Tournament]] at featherweight vs. [[Tony Ancona]]
**[[New York Daily News Golden Gloves Champions|New York Daily News Golden Gloves Tournament]] at featherweight vs. [[Louis Valentine]]
*Golden Gloves Titles won in 1940:
**[[New York Golden Gloves|New York Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions]] at lightweight vs. [[Jimmy Butler (of Atlanta, GA)|Jimmy Butler]]
**[[Intercity Golden Gloves|Intercity Golden Gloves Tournament]] at lightweight vs. [[Tony Ancona]]
**[[New York Daily News Golden Gloves Champions|New York Daily News Golden Gloves Tournament]] at lightweight vs. [[Andy Nonella]]
*View: [[Sugar Ray Robinson's Golden Gloves Record]]

{{start box}}
{{succession box |
before= [[Tony Saraullo]]|
title= [[New York Golden Gloves|New York Daily News Golden Gloves]] Open Featherweight Champion |
years= 1939 |
after= [[Louis Valentine]]}}
{{succession box | title=[[New York Golden Gloves|New York Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions]] Featherweight Champion | before= [[Tony Saraullo]]| after= [[Frankie Donato]]| years=1939}}
{{succession box |
before= [[Eddie Dempsey]]|
title= [[Intercity Golden Gloves|Intercity Golden Gloves]] Featherweight Champion |
years= 1939 |
after= [[Frankie Donato]]}}

{{succession box |
before= [[Willie Smith (of New York, NY)|Willie Smith]]|
title= [[New York Golden Gloves|New York Daily News Golden Gloves]] Open Lightweight Champion |
years= 1940 |
after= [[Willie Smith (of New York, NY)|Willie Smith]]}}
{{succession box | title=[[New York Golden Gloves|New York Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions]] Lightweight Champion | before= [[Johnny Pleasant]]| after= [[Johnny Green]]| years=1940}}
{{succession box |
before= [[Johnny Pleasant]]|
title= [[Intercity Golden Gloves|Intercity Golden Gloves]] Lightweight Champion |
years= 1940 |
after= [[Johnny Green]]}}
{{end box}}
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

== Awards & Recognition ==
*Named [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] for 1942 and 1951 by [[The Ring Magazine|''The Ring'']].
*Named [[Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] for 1950 by the [[Boxing Writers Association of America]].
*Named Fighter of the Decade for the 1950s by ''The Ring''.
*Inducted into [[Ring Magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame|''The Ring'' Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 1967.
*Inducted into the [[World Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 1981.
*Inducted into the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 1990.
*Named Welterweight Fighter of the Century, Middleweight Fighter of the Century, and Fighter of the Century by the Associated Press in 1999.
*''The Ring'' ranked Robinson as the [[The 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years|best fighter of the last 80 years]] in 2002.
*''The Ring'' ranked Robinson as the 11th [[The 100 Greatest Punchers of All-Time!|greatest puncher of all-time]] in 2003.
*Inducted into the [[Georgia Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2006.
*The United States Postal Service honored Robinson with a [[:Image:Sugarraystamp.jpg|stamp]] in 2006.
*Historian [[Bert Sugar]] ranked Robinson #1 in his 2006 book ''[[Boxing's Greatest Fighters]]''.
*[[ESPN]] ranked Robinson as the greatest fighter in history in 2007.

== Notes ==
*Robinson was born Walker Smith Jr. He got his boxing name when he used the AAU card of an ex-boxer named Ray Robinson.
*According to Robinson's autobiography, [[Sugar Ray (Book)|''Sugar Ray'']], sportswriter Jack Case, after seeing one of Robinson’s amateur performances, said he “sure was a sweet fighter.” Chase called him “Sugar Ray” in one of his sports columns and the now-famous moniker was born.
*Robinson was a coach for the 1941 New York Golden Gloves Team at the Intercity Golden Gloves Tournament held in Chicago.
*Robinson won his first 40 professional fights before losing to [[Jake LaMotta]] on [[Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Jake LaMotta (2nd meeting)|February 5, 1942]]. Robinson then went unbeaten in his next 91 fights.
*Robinson had six fights with Jake LaMotta and won five of them. LaMotta said, "I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes."
*Height dispute: Robinson's height is usually listed as 5'11", but he was often listed as 6'0" early in his career. He was reported as being 5'11½" at the weigh-in for his bout with [[Robert Villemain]] in 1950.
*On February 27, 1943, Robinson was inducted into the United States Army. He toured Army camps with [[Joe Louis]] and boxed exhibitions for soldiers.
*On March 29, 1944, shortly before he was scheduled to set sail for Europe, Robinson disappeared from his barracks at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, New York. Robinson said he fell down the stairs in his barracks and didn't remember anything from the time of the fall until he woke up in a hospital on April 5. According to his file, a stranger found him in the street on April 1 and helped him to a hospital. Robinson received an honorable discharge from the Army as a sergeant on June 3, 1944.
*Robinson won the vacant World Welterweight Championship in his 76th professional fight, defeating [[Tommy Bell]] by a [[Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Tommy Bell (2nd meeting)|15-round unanimous decision]] on December 20, 1950. Robinson would defend the title five times before relinquishing it to fight as a middleweight.
*Robinson defeated Robert Villemain by a 15-round unanimous decision to win the vacant Pennsylvania World Middleweight Championship on June 5, 1950. The state withdrew recognition from World Middleweight champion Jake LaMotta for failure to defend. Robinson stopped LaMotta in 13 rounds to win the undisputed title on [[Jake LaMotta vs. Sugar Ray Robinson (6th meeting)|February 14, 1951]].
*Robinson lost the World Middleweight Championship to [[Randy Turpin]] by a 15-round decision on [[Randy Turpin vs. Sugar Ray Robinson (1st meeting)|July 10, 1951]]. He regained the title from Turpin with a 10th-round knockout on [[Randy Turpin vs. Sugar Ray Robinson (2nd meeting)|September 12, 1951]].
*Robinson unsuccessfully challenged [[Joey Maxim]] for the World Light Heavyweight Championship on [[Joey Maxim vs. Sugar Ray Robinson|June 25, 1952]]. Robinson, way ahead on points, couldn't come out for the 14th round due to heat exhaustion. The temperature at ringside was 103 degrees. It was the only stoppage loss of Robinson's career.
*After losing to Maxim, Robinson retired with a record of 132-3-2.
*Robinson, who once owned an entire block of shops and businesses in Harlem, returned to the ring in 1955 because he needed money.
*Robinson would win and lose the World Middleweight Championship three times between 1955 and 1960.
*Robinson retired for good in 1965 with a record of 174-19-6.
*Robinson defeated fifteen former, reigning or future world champions during his professional career.
*When his boxing career ended, Robinson dabbled in acting. He appeared in such films as ''The Detective'' (starring [[Frank Sinatra]]) and ''Candy'' (starring Marlon Brando). He also appeared on the television shows ''Mission: Impossible'', ''The Mod Squad'' and ''Fantasy Island''.
*In 1969, Robinson founded the Sugar Ray Robinson Youth Foundation in Los Angeles.
*View: [[Sugar Ray Robinson's Exhibition Bouts]]

== Death Info ==
*Robinson died at Brotman Medical Center in Culver City, California. He was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and diabetes.
*Robinson is listed as Sugar Ray Robinson by the California Death Records database and the Social Security Death Records database. His Social Security number was 080-28-1189.
*The California Death Records database list his place of birth as Michigan, and Robinson states in his autobiography that he was born in Detroit. However, his birth certificate list his place of birth as Ailey, Georgia. Robinson said his mother was pregnant with him when she moved from Georgia to Detroit.

== External Links ==
*[http://www.cmgww.com/sports/robinson/about/bio.html Official Website]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=oevGluP5VkkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=sugar+ray+robinson&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sy9UVJTREsKsyASKuYGQDA&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sugar%20ray%20robinson&f=false ''Sugar Ray'' by Sugar Ray Robinson with Dave Anderson, Publisher: Da Capo Press, 1969]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qRAFvgU2WjsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=boxing%27s+greatest+fighters&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Pl5UVLeRMZScygTQ-YCADA&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=boxing%27s%20greatest%20fighters&f=false ''Boxing's Greatest Fighters'' By Bert Randolph Sugar, Publisher: Lyons Press, 2006]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Q_nfLUMzlM0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=sugar+ray+robinson&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sy9UVJTREsKsyASKuYGQDA&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=sugar%20ray%20robinson&f=false ''Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson'' By Wil Haygood, Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009]
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0733124/ Robinson's film credits at IMDb]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Marty Servo]] Vacated|
title=[[World Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Johnny Bratton]] Recognized by [[National Boxing Association|NBA]]|
years=1946 Dec 20 – 1951 Feb 14 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Jake LaMotta]]|
title=[[World Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Randy Turpin]]|
years=1951 Feb 14 – 1951 Jul 10
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Randy Turpin]]|
title=[[World Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Carl (Bobo) Olson]]|
years=1951 Sep 12 – 1952 Dec '''Retired'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Carl (Bobo) Olson]]|
title=[[World Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Gene Fullmer]]|
years=1955 Dec 9 – 1957 Jan 2
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Gene Fullmer]]|
title=[[World Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Carmen Basilio]]|
years=1957 May 1 – 1957 Sep 23
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Carmen Basilio]]|
title=[[World Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Paul Pender]]|
years=1958 Mar 25 – 1960 Jan 22 Robinson was recognized only by New York and Massachusetts when he lost the title. He had been stripped by the [[National Boxing Association|NBA]] due to inactivity.}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, Sugar Ray}}
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Middleweight Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:New York Daily News Golden Gloves Champions]]
[[Category:New York Golden Gloves Champions]]
[[Category:Intercity Golden Gloves Champions]]
[[Category:World War II Veterans]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:Actors]]

Diosbelys Hurtado

2018-09-11T17:43:43Z

Mthompson95: /* Amateur Highlights */

[[File:Diosbelys Hurtado.jpg|left|200px]]
<boxer>006093</boxer>

== Amateur Highlights ==
*Amateur Record: 221-20
*'''1990''' World Junior Championships Bronze medalist at Featherweight, in Lima, Peru.
** Defeated [[Bo Hum Baik]] (South Korea) RSC-1
** Defeated [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Soviet Union) 5-0
**Lost to [[Alan Vaughan]] (England) 16-19
*'''1992''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Light Welterweight, in Santiago, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Sandeep Kumar]] (India) RSC 2
**Lost to [[Hector Vinent]] (Cuba) 3-15
*'''1993''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Mario Kindelan]] 10-1
** Defeated [[Damian Austin]] +3-3
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 17-11
*'''1994''' Cuban National Champion at Lightweight
** Defeated [[Pablo Rojas]] 2-0
** Defeated [[Julio Gonzalez]] 11-5
*'''1994''' AIBA Challenge Match Winner at Lightweight, in Dublin, Ireland.
** Defeated [[Larry Nicholson]] (United States) 19-12
*'''1994''' Cordova Cardin Tournament Silver medalist at Lightweight, in Cienfuegos, Cuba.
** Defeated [[Hocine Soltani]] (Algeria) +2-2 (13-9)
** Defeated [[Saad Varooq]] (India) 2-0
**Lost to [[Julio Gonzalez]] (Cuba) 9-12
*'''1994''' Goodwill Games participant at Lightweight, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
**Lost to [[Paata Gvasalia]] (Russia) 5-10

== Factoids ==
{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Sharmba Mitchell]] Lost bid for Super Championship|
title=[[WBA Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Vivian Harris]] Regular Champion|
years=2002 May 11 – 2002 Oct 19 '''Regular Champion'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurtado, Diosbelys}}
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:Cuban World Champions]]

Danny Oscar Garcia

2018-09-09T04:58:48Z

Mthompson95: /* Professional Record */

[[File:Daniel Oscar Garcia.jpg|250px|left]]
<boxer>429442</boxer>
*'''Trainer:''' [[Angel Garcia]]
*'''Manager:''' [[Al Haymon]]
*'''Promoter:''' [[Golden Boy Promotions]] (former)

== Biography ==
From [http://www.premierboxingchampions.com/danny-garcia Premier Boxing Champions]

Armed with one of boxing’s best left hooks, Danny Garcia established himself as the sport’s consensus 140-pound champion before becoming a two-division champion with a 147-pound world title in 2016. Trained by his father, former boxer Angel Garcia, since he was 10 years old, the Philadelphia-born Garcia appears well on his way to achieving his goal of becoming the “next great Puerto Rican fighter.”

For his second professional bout, then-teenager Garcia was buried on the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather-Ricky Hatton fight in Las Vegas in 2007.

Nearly six years later, Garcia was on another Mayweather undercard in Las Vegas, but under much different circumstances.

Garcia entered his fight against Lucas Matthysse as the 140-pound world champion, and won by unanimous decision to cap a dazzling stretch of seven straight victories over current or former world champions.

It was the type of success he and his father/trainer, former boxer Angel Garcia, had aspired to since they first walked into a Philadelphia boxing gym when Danny was 10 years old.

'''Amateur career and pro debut'''

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Garcia has long wanted to become the “next great Puerto Rican fighter” and appears well on his way to achieving that goal.

After an impressive amateur career in which he went 107-13 and won the 2005 U.S. under-19 national championship and the 2006 U.S. national amateur title, Garcia made a dominant pro debut, knocking Mike Denby down three times in a first-round knockout in November 2007.

'''Victory over Morales'''

Garcia, nicknamed “Swift,” knocked out his first five opponents within the first two rounds, including a second-round TKO of Jesus Villareal on the aforementioned Mayweather-Hatton undercard in December 2007.

Garcia won his first 22 fights (with 14 KOs) to set up a March 2012 bout with legendary Mexican boxer Erik Morales, who won world titles in four different weight classes.

Garcia claimed the 140-pound championship by winning a unanimous decision over Morales, who had been stripped of the title for exceeding the weight limit.

'''Victory over Khan'''

Garcia next took on another champion, Amir Khan, who entered the July 2012 fight in Las Vegas as a 4.4-to-1 betting favorite.

After a slow start, Garcia caught Khan with a left hook that sent the Englishman to the canvas in the third round.

Garcia then knocked Khan down twice more in the fourth round to earn a TKO victory.

'''Garcia vs Matthysse'''

In an October 2012 rematch with Morales, Garcia connected with a lethal left hook in the fourth round that knocked out the Mexican great and sent him into retirement.

Garcia defended his titles with a pair of 12-round unanimous-decision victories over Zab Judah and Lucas Matthysse in 2013, resulting in the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association naming him the city’s pro athlete of the year.

Despite being the champion, Garcia was the underdog in his title defense against Matthysse, who had gained 32 of his 34 victories by KO.

Garcia closed Matthysse’s left eye in the seventh round, and floored the Argentine for the first time in his career in the 11th after taking a direct shot to the chin that knocked out his mouthpiece.

'''Continuing to roll in 2014'''

Garcia successfully fought twice in 2014.

He won a 12-round majority decision over Mauricio Herrera to defend his championship in Puerto Rico in March.

Garcia then annihilated Rod Salka in Brooklyn, New York, in August in a nontitle bout, knocking him down three times to gain a second-round KO.

'''Winning a slim decision over Lamont Peterson'''

Garcia made his Premier Boxing Champions debut against Lamont Peterson in Brooklyn, New York, on April 11, 2015, in a bout televised live on NBC.

Garcia tried to press the action early, but Peterson used his defense and mobility to stay away from the Philadelphia native.

Peterson became more aggressive as the fight progressed, but Garcia did enough in the first half of the bout to win a slim majority decision.

Two of the three judges scored the bout 115-113 in favor of Garcia, while the other scored it 114-114.

According to CompuBox, Garcia landed 173 of 589 punches (29 percent) while Peterson connected on 170 of 494 blows (34 percent).

== Amateur Career ==
*Had 120 amateur bouts.
*'''2005''' United States Under-19 National Champion
*'''2005''' Lightweight Gold Medalist for the United States at the Tammer Tournament in Tampere, Finland. Results were:
**Defeated Erik Roth (Sweden) (24-23)
**Defeated [[Jussi Koivula]] (Finland) (40-23)
**Defeated Faraj Almatboli Derouiche (Jordan) (40-27)
*'''2006''' [[United States Amateur Lightweight Champions|United States Amateur]] Lightweight Champion. Results were:
**Defeated [[(The New) Ray Robinson|Ray Robinson]] (17-14)
**Defeated [[Jerry Belmontes]] (20-12)
**Defeated [[Terence Crawford]] (21-20)
**Defeated [[Luis Ramos]] (30-25)
*'''2006''' U.S. light welterweight representative at the World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan. Results were:
**Lost to Emil Maharramov (Azerbaijan) (RSC-1)
*'''2007''' Light Welterweight Bronze Medalist at the United States Amateur Championships. Results were:
**Defeated [[James Berry]] (23-9)
**Defeated Ronnie Reams (21-5)
**Defeated Hector Ramos (19-18)
**Defeated Andre Sherard (18-13)
**Lost to [[Brad Solomon]] (13-14)
*'''2007''' Light Welterweight Runner-Up at the United States [[Olympics|Olympic]] Trials. Results were:
**Lost to [[Jeremy Bryan]] (14-23)
**Defeated Samuel Martinez (RSCOS-2)
**Defeated [[Mike Dallas Jr.]] (29-21)
**Defeated [[Jeremy Bryan]] (25-21)
**Defeated [[Danny O'Connor]] (25-19)
**Lost to [[Javier Molina]] (12-26)

== Professional Record ==
*Has a record of 7-2 (2 KO) in world title fights.
*Has a record of 11-2 (4 KO) against former or current world titlists.
**Won against [[Nate Campbell]], [[Kendall Holt]], [[Erik Morales]] (twice), [[Amir Khan]], [[Zab Judah]], [[Lucas Martin Matthysse]], [[Lamont Peterson]], [[Paul Malignaggi]], [[Robert Guerrero]] and [[Brandon Rios]].
**Loss against [[Keith Thurman]] & [[Shawn Porter]].
Has a record of 2-0 (1 KO) in fights outside his native United States.

== Regional & Minor Titles ==
*[[WBC]] Youth Intercontinental Super Lightweight Title (December 2009; 0 defenses)
*interim [[WBC]] Youth World Welterweight Title (July 2010; 0 defenses)
*[[WBO]] Inter-Continental Junior Welterweight Title (October 2011; 0 defenses)

== World Titles ==
*[[WBC]] Super Lightweight Title (2012-2015; 5 defenses)
*[[WBA]] Super Lightweight Super Title (2012-2015; 4 defenses)
*[[WBC]] Welterweight Title (2016-2017; 0 defenses)

== The Ring Magazine Titles ==
*World Junior Welterweight Title (2012-2015)

== Transnational Boxing Rankings Board Titles ==
*World Junior Welterweight Title (2013-2015)

== Lineal Titles ==
*World Junior Welterweight Title (2013-2015)

== Awards & Recognition ==
*[[Sports Illustrated]] Breakthrough Performance (2012 [[Danny Garcia vs. Amir Khan|vs. Amir Khan]])

== External Links ==
*[http://www.premierboxingchampions.com/danny-garcia Profile on Premier Boxing Champions]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Erik Morales]] Stripped (failed to make weight)|
title=[[WBC Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Viktor Postol]]|
years=2012 Mar 24 – 2015 Jun 11 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Amir Khan]] Super Champion|
title=[[WBA Light Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Adrien Broner]] Super Champion|
years=2012 Jul 14 – 2015 '''Super Champion''' '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Floyd Mayweather Jr.]] Retired|
title=[[WBC Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Keith Thurman]] |
years=2016 Jan 23 – 2017 March 4 
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Garcia, Danny}}
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:United States Amateur Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]