What nationality was the boxer who defeated Len Buchanan in 1972 ?
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Johnny LoBianco Giovanni "Johnny" LoBianco (October 7, 1915 – July 16, 2001) was an American boxing referee for over 30 years, who was referee for a number of championship fights, including several that ended controversially, most notably Roberto Durán's successful 1972 dethroning of Ken Buchanan in which LoBianco ruled Durán the victor by knockout despite having appeared to have hit Buchanan with a low blow.
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Roberto Durán Roberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. Durán was a versatile brawler and in-fighter in the ring, which earned him the nickname of ""Manos de Piedra"" ("Hands of Stone") for his devastating punching power. He is a four-weight world champion, having held titles at lightweight (1972–1979), welterweight (1980), light middleweight (1983–1984), and middleweight (1989), as well as reigns as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion (1978–1979), and the lineal welterweight champion (1980). He is also the second boxer to have competed over a span of five decades, the first being Jack Johnson.
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Viktor Rybakov Viktor Grigorievich Rybakov (Russian: Виктор Григорьевич Рыбаков ) (born May 28, 1956 in Magadan) is a retired boxer, who represented the USSR twice at the Summer Olympics during his career as an amateur. He won the bronze medal in the bantamweight division (– 54 kg) at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, and repeated that feat four years later in Moscow, Soviet Union. He trained at the Trud Voluntary Sports Society until 1976, later - at the Armed Forces sports society.
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Fred Apostoli Alfredo "Fred" Apostoli (February 2, 1913 – November 29, 1973) was a rugged, accomplished body punching middleweight, who was recognized as the world champion when he defeated Marcel Thil on September 23, 1937. Statistical boxing website BoxRec lists Apostoli as the #8 ranked middleweight of all time. He was inducted into the Ring Magazine Hall of Fame in 1978, the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1988, and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2003.
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David Burke (boxer) David Burke (born 3 February 1975 in Liverpool, Merseyside) is an English boxer who won the bronze medal in the Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg) division at the 1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Vejle, Denmark.
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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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Bobby Neill Bobby Neill (born 10 October 1933) is a Scottish former boxer who was British featherweight champion between 1959 and 1960, and later had success as a trainer.
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Tommy Loughran Thomas Patrick Loughran (November 29, 1902 – July 7, 1982) was an American professional boxer and the former World Light Heavyweight Champion. Statistical boxing website BoxRec lists Loughran as the #7 ranked light heavyweight of all time, while "The Ring Magazine" founder Nat Fleischer placed him at #4. The International Boxing Research Organization rates Loughran as the 6th best light heavyweight ever. Loughran was named the "Ring Magazine"'s Fighter of the Year twice, first in 1929 and again 1931. He was inducted into the Ring Magazine Hall of Fame in 1956 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991.
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Al Phillips Al "The Aldgate Tiger" Phillips (25 January 1920 – 7 February 1999) was a Jewish English professional feather/light/welterweight boxer of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, who won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British featherweight title, European Boxing Union (EBU) featherweight title, and British Empire featherweight title, and was a challenger for the British Empire featherweight title, and BBBofC British featherweight title, against Nel Tarleton, and Ronnie Clayton, his professional fighting weight varied from 124+1/2 lb , i.e. featherweight to 137 lb , i.e. welterweight. Al Phillips was ranked as the Number-3 featherweight in the world by The Ring magazine.
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Len Wickwar Len Wickwar (11 March 1911 – 1 June 1980) was a British boxer who fought between 1928 and 1947 as a lightweight.
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Sugar Ray Seales "Sugar" Ray Seales, (born September 4, 1952) was the only American boxer to win a gold medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics. As a professional, he fought middleweight champion Marvin Hagler three times. He is also the former NABF and USBA middleweight champion.
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John Keeton John 'Buster' Keeton (born 19 May 1972) is a British professional boxer fighting out of Sheffield in England, he competes in the cruiserweight division and is a former British cruiserweight champion and three time British title challenger.
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Buster Douglas James "Buster" Douglas (born April 7, 1960) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1981 to 1990, and 1996 to 1999. He is best known for his stunning upset of Mike Tyson on February 11, 1990 in Tokyo to win the undisputed heavyweight title. At the time Tyson was undefeated and considered to be the best boxer in the world, as well as one of the most feared heavyweight champions in history due to his domination of the division over the previous three years. The only casino to make odds for the fight (all others declining to do so as they considered the fight such a foregone conclusion) had Douglas as a 42-to-1 underdog for the fight, making his victory, in commentator Jim Lampley's words, "The biggest upset in the history of heavyweight championship fights." Douglas held the title for eight months and two weeks, losing on October 25, 1990 to Evander Holyfield via third-round knockout, in his only title defense.
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Micky Ward George Michael "Micky" Ward Jr. (born October 4, 1965), often known by his nickname of "Irish" Micky Ward, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2003. He challenged once for the IBF light welterweight title in 1997, and held the WBU light welterweight title in 2000. Ward is widely known for his trilogy of fights with Arturo Gatti (two of which received Fight of the Year awards by "The Ring" magazine), as well as his relentless pressure fighting style. In the 2010 film "The Fighter", based on his early career, Ward was portrayed by Mark Wahlberg.
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Tommy Freeman (boxer) Tommy Freeman (January 22, 1904 – February 20, 1986) became a World Welterweight Boxing Champion on September 5, 1930 when he defeated reigning champion Young Jack Thompson. He lost the title to Thompson the following year, on April 14, 1931. Remarkably, the majority of his recorded wins were by knockout, and his losses were few, at under ten percent of his total fights.
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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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Johnny Owen John Richard Owens (7 January 1956 – 4 November 1980) was a professional boxer from Wales who fought under the name Johnny Owen. His fragile appearance earned him many epithets, including 'the Bionic Bantam' and 'the Merthyr Matchstick'. During his brief career, he held the Bantamweight Championships of Great Britain and Europe and became the first ever Welsh holder of the Bantamweight Championship of the Commonwealth. He challenged champion Lupe Pintor for his version of the World Bantamweight title on 19 September 1980, losing a torturously difficult contest by way of twelfth round knockout. Owen never regained consciousness, fell into a coma and died seven weeks later. A statue commemorating his life and career was unveiled in Merthyr Tydfil in 2002.
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Jerry Quarry Jerry Quarry (May 15, 1945 – January 3, 1999), nicknamed "Irish" or "The Bellflower Bomber", was an American heavyweight boxer. Quarry was rated by "Ring Magazine" as the most popular fighter in the sport, from 1968 to 1971, during the peak of his career. His most famous bouts were against world champions Floyd Patterson, Jimmy Ellis, Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton. His professional career record of 53 wins-9 losses-4 draws included wins over some of the best heavyweights of his era, 1965–75. Quarry also had a remarkably successful amateur boxing career.
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Ron Lyle Ronald "Ron" Lyle (February 12, 1941 – November 26, 2011) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1971 to 1980, and in 1995. He challenged once for the undisputed world heavyweight title, losing to Muhammad Ali in 1975. Lyle was known for his punching power, crowd-pleasing fighting style, as well as courage and determination inside the ring. He held notable wins over Buster Mathis, Oscar Bonavena, Jimmy Ellis, Earnie Shavers, Joe Bugner, and Scott LeDoux, but is best known for his slugfest against George Foreman in 1976, which won Fight of the Year honors by "The Ring" magazine.
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Harold Warren Harold Ray Warren (born September 7, 1960 in Corpus Christi, Texas) is a professional boxer in the Welterweight division. He's the former NABF Featherweight, WBC International Super Featherweight, and WBO NABO Lightweight champion.
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Tommy McGovern Thomas Henry "Tommy" McGovern (born 5 February 1924) is a British former boxer who was British lightweight champion between 1951 and 1952 and fought for the European title.
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Brian London Brian Sidney Harper (born 19 June 1934), known professionally as Brian London, is an English retired heavyweight boxer. He was the British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion from 1958 to 1959, and twice challenged for the world heavyweight title, losing to Floyd Patterson in 1959 and Muhammad Ali in 1966, both times via knockout. He was one of a quartet of British boxers, with Henry Cooper, Joe Erskine, and Dick Richardson, who dominated the British boxing scene throughout the 1950s and 1960s.