As of May 2017, Anthony Joshua is ranked as the world's best heavyweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and BoxRec, the second British boxer, after which British professional boxer, to win both a gold medal at the Olympics and a world title by a major professional sanctioning body, as well as being the first British heavyweight to do so?
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Anthony Joshua As of May 2017, Joshua is ranked as the world's best heavyweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and BoxRec, and second best by "The Ring". His knockout-to-win ratio stands at 100%. Joshua is the second British boxer, after James DeGale, to win both a gold medal at the Olympics and a world title by a major professional sanctioning body, as well as being the first British heavyweight to do so. He is also the second boxer, after Joe Frazier, to win a world heavyweight title whilst still reigning as Olympic champion at the top weight.
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James DeGale James Frederick DeGale, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 3 February 1986) is a British professional boxer. He has held the IBF super-middleweight title since 2015, having previously held the British super-middleweight title from 2010 to 2011, and the European super-middleweight title from 2011 to 2012. As of May 2017, he is ranked as the world's best super-middleweight by "The Ring" magazine and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and third by BoxRec. As an amateur, DeGale represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics, winning a gold medal in the middleweight division. By later becoming IBF champion, he became the first British boxer ever to have won both an Olympic gold medal and a professional world title.
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Thomas Oosthuizen Thomas Oosthuizen ( ; born 2 April 1988) is a South African professional boxer. He is a two-time former IBO world champion, having held the super-middleweight title from 2011 to 2014, and the light-heavyweight title in 2015.
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Michael Alldis Michael Alldis ( (1968--) 25 1968 (age (2017)-(1968)-((11)<(05)or(11)==(05)and(30)<(25)) ) ) born in London is an English amateur bantamweight and professional bantam/super bantam/feather/super featherweight boxer of the 1990s and 2000s, who as an amateur was runner-up for the 1966 Amateur Boxing Association of England bantamweight (54 kg) title, against Patrick Mullings (St Patricks ABC), boxing out of Crawley ABC, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British super bantamweight title, and Commonwealth super bantamweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Organization (WBO) Inter-Continental super bantamweight title against Laureano Ramírez, Commonwealth featherweight title against Billy Hardy, BBBofC British featherweight title against Paul Ingle, and International Boxing Organization (IBO) super bantamweight title against Simon Ramoni, his professional fighting weight varied from 118 lb , i.e. bantamweight to 129 lb , i.e. super featherweight. Michael Alldis was trained by James Cook, and managed by Barry Hearn.
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Kenny Anderson (boxer) Kenneth John W. "Kenny" Anderson (born 5 January 1983 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish professional boxer and former Commonwealth Games light-heavyweight gold medalist. He's also the current British super middleweight champion after beating Robin Reid for the vacant belt.
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Tony Yoka Tony Victor James Yoka (born 28 April 1992) is a French professional boxer. As an amateur he represented France at the 2016 Olympics, winning a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division; he also represented France at the 2015 AIBA World Boxing Championships, winning gold.
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Anthony Nelson (boxer) Anthony 'Babyface' Nelson (born November 9, 1985 in South Shields), is an English professional super flyweight boxer who has won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Northern (England) Area super flyweight title, British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) English Super flyweight title, and Commonwealth Super flyweight title.
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Joshua Buatsi Joshua Buatsi (born 14 March 1993) is a Ghanaian-born British boxer who competed and won a Bronze Medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the light heavyweight division. He turned professional on 5 June 2017, signing with Matchroom. He is managed by world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.
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James Obede Toney James Obede "Hot Ice" Toney ( (1980--) 05 1980 (age (2017)-(1980)-((11)<(08)or(11)==(08)and(30)<(05)) ) ) born in Accra is a Ghanaian professional middle/super middle/light heavy/cruiserweight boxer of the 2000s and 2010s who won the African Boxing Union (ABU) middleweight title, World Boxing Council (WBC) International middleweight title, and Commonwealth middleweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Council (WBC) International middleweight title against Sergey Tatevosyan, and North American Boxing Federation (NABF) super middleweight title, North American Boxing Association (NABA) super middleweight title, and World Boxing Council (WBC) Continental Americas super middleweight title, against Lucian Bute, his professional fighting weight varied from 157 lb , i.e. middleweight to 185 lb , i.e. cruiserweight.
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Seleman Kidunda Seleman Kidunda (born January 2, 1984 in Ruvuma) is a Tanzanian boxer. He competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Kidunda also competed in the Men's welterweight event at the 2012 Summer Olympics but lost to Moldovan Vasile Belous in the first round. The loss was blamed on several referee mistakes. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where he was the Tanzanian flag-barer, he lost in the first round to Kehinde Ademuyiwa. He took up the sport of boxing after seeing Mike Tyson box on television and was named Tanzanian Boxer of the Year by the Tanzania Sports Writers Association.
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Errol Spence Errol Spence Jr. (born March 3, 1990) is an American professional boxer who has held the IBF welterweight title since May 2017. As an amateur he won three consecutive United States national championships in the welterweight division and represented the U.S. at the 2012 Olympics, where he reached the welterweight quarter-finals. As of June 2017, Spence is ranked as the world's second best welterweight by "The Ring" magazine, third by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and fourth by BoxRec.
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Justin Kane Justin Stewart Kane (born 21 December 1981 in Ferntree Gully, Victoria) is a bantamweight boxer from Australia, who won the gold medal in the men's bantamweight division at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, United Kingdom. He represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics, losing in the quarterfinals to Sergey Danilchenko from Ukraine.
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List of British lightweight boxing champions List of British lightweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British lightweight championship. The title has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club since 1909, and later by its replacement British Boxing Board of Control since 1929.
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Don Cockell Donald John "Don" Cockell (22 September 1928 – 18 July 1983) was an English boxer. He fought for most of his career as a light-heavyweight and became the British and European champion at that weight. Later in his career he moved up to heavyweight and held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles. He is best remembered for fighting against Rocky Marciano for the world heavyweight championship. Cockell defeated a number of top heavyweights in his career, including Roland La Starza, Harry Matthews (twice), Tommy Farr, Freddie Beshore, Johnny Arthur, Johnny Williams and Uber Bacilieri. In his earlier incarnation as a Light Heavyweight he defeated top contenders such as Nick Barone, Albert Yvel, Lloyd Marshall and Albert Finch.
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Darkie Smith John "Darkie" Smith (born 1942) is a British former boxer, now employed in boxing training and boxing matchmaking. By birth a Romany Gypsy, Darkie fought in the UK until the age of 30. He served an apprenticeship under the pro trainer George Francis before setting out on his own. Smith has worked as a trainer in the UK, France, Spain, Majorca, the USA and Germany. Fighters trained to world titles include heavyweight Herbie Hide, light heavyweight and cruiserweight Fabrice Tiozzo, super middleweight Christophe Tiozzo and light welterweight Stephen Smith. He has also trained European, Commonwealth and British champions, and worked with other future champions during the early stages of their careers. These fighters include European Heavyweight Champion Zeljko Mavrovic and future world champion Chris Eubank. Darkie's work with Mavrovic drew much attention. Mavrovic was trained exclusively by Smith for five years, winning and defending his European title and finishing with a record of one defeat in thirty bouts. The one defeat amounted to a points decision against world champion Lennox Lewis, in a bout that saw Mavrovic concede a significant weight advantage.
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Samuel Peter Samuel Okon Peter (born September 6, 1980) is a Nigerian-American professional boxer who held the WBC heavyweight title in 2008. He rose to prominence in his early career following a string of knockout wins, at a time when the titles of the heavyweight division were largely fragmented. In March 2008, Peter won a portion of the world heavyweight championship by knocking out Oleg Maskaev to win the WBC title. In October, in what would be his only defense of the title, Peter lost to a returning Vitali Klitschko, who stopped him in eight rounds. Peter is known for his rivalry with the Klitschko brothers, having faced Wladimir twice (in 2005 and 2010) and Vitali once.
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Joe Calzaghe Joseph William Calzaghe, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; born 23 March 1972) is a Welsh former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2008. He is a two-weight world champion, having held the unified WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO, "Ring" magazine, and lineal super-middleweight titles, as well as the "Ring" light-heavyweight title. Calzaghe is the longest-reigning super-middleweight world champion in boxing history, having held the WBO title for over 10 years and making 21 successful defences before moving up to light-heavyweight. As his super-middleweight and light-heavyweight reigns overlapped, he retired with the longest continual time as world champion of any active fighter.
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Larry Donald Larry Ali Donald (born January 6, 1967) is an American former professional boxer. As an amateur he won a bronze medal in the super heavyweight division at the 1991 World Championships and represented the United States at the 1992 Olympics.
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Frank Bruno Franklin Roy "Frank" Bruno, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 16 November 1961) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1982 to 1996. Bruno had a highly publicised and extremely eventful career. The pinnacle of his boxing career was winning the WBC heavyweight title, in what was his fourth world championship challenge. He also held the European heavyweight title earlier in his career. Bruno was one of the most well-loved and recognisable boxers in British history, and faced multiple top-rated heavyweights during his career including two bouts with Mike Tyson and a domestic clash against Lennox Lewis. He won the WBC title in 1995 after defeating Oliver McCall at a packed Wembley Stadium. Bruno was known for his excellent punching power: he won 40 of his 45 bouts and 38 by knockout, giving him a 95% knockout rate from the fights he won; his overall knockout percentage is 84.44%. Like Henry Cooper before him, Bruno has remained a popular celebrity with the British public following his retirement from boxing.
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Andrew Maynard (boxer) Andrew Maynard (born April 8, 1964) is an American former boxer, who won the Light Heavyweight Gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
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Lennox Lewis Lennox Claudius Lewis, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} , {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 2 September 1965) is a former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003. He is a three-time world heavyweight champion, a two-time lineal champion, and remains the last heavyweight to hold the undisputed title. Lewis holds dual British and Canadian citizenship; as an amateur he represented Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division after defeating future world champion Riddick Bowe in the final.
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Daniel Sam Daniel Sam (born 13 August 1981) is an English super heavyweight kickboxer. Currently ranked UK number 1 in the division of Thai Boxing over Chris Knowles, he is signed to the SUPERKOMBAT and GLORY promotions. He is known for his flying knees, devastating low kicks and strong punches.