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World Heavyweight Champion
WINNER
Includes the "big three" boxing groups: World Boxing Association (WBA, founded 1921 as National Boxing Association); World Boxing Council (WBC, founded 1910 as International Boxing Union); and International Boxing Federation (IBF, broke off from WBA in 1983).
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Muhammad Ali |
Boxing |
17-Jan-1942 |
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Floated like butterfly, stung like bee |
| Max Baer |
Boxing |
11-Feb-1909 |
21-Nov-1959 |
Beat Max Schmeling in 1933 |
| Riddick Bowe |
Boxing |
10-Aug-1967 |
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Twice World Heavyweight Champion |
| James J. Braddock |
Boxing |
7-Jun-1905 |
29-Nov-1974 |
Cinderella Man |
| George Foreman |
Boxing |
10-Jan-1949 |
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Champ knocks out the fat |
| Joe Frazier |
Boxing |
12-Jan-1944 |
7-Nov-2011 |
Smokin' Joe |
| Evander Holyfield |
Boxing |
19-Oct-1962 |
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Ear chewed by Mike Tyson |
| Ingemar Johansson |
Boxing |
22-Sep-1932 |
30-Jan-2009 |
World Heavyweight Champion, 1959-60 |
| Lennox Lewis |
Boxing |
2-Sep-1965 |
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Retired heavyweight champ |
| Sonny Liston |
Boxing |
8-May-1932 |
30-Dec-1970 |
World Heavyweight Champion 1962-64 |
| Joe Louis |
Boxing |
13-May-1914 |
12-Apr-1981 |
The Champ |
| Floyd Patterson |
Boxing |
4-Jan-1935 |
11-May-2006 |
Heavyweight champion at age 21 |
| Max Schmeling |
Boxing |
28-Sep-1905 |
2-Feb-2005 |
Fought Joe Louis twice |
| Leon Spinks |
Boxing |
11-Jul-1953 |
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Olympic boxing champion |
| Michael Spinks |
Boxing |
13-Jul-1956 |
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World Heavyweight Champion 1985-88 |
| Gene Tunney |
Boxing |
25-May-1897 |
7-Nov-1978 |
Heavyweight Boxing Champion, 1926-28 |
| Mike Tyson |
Boxing |
30-Jun-1966 |
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Erratic heavyweight champion |
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