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  Alexis Argüello
  Alexis Argüello (April 19, 1952 – July 1, 2009), also known by the stage name El Flaco Explosivo (lit. "The Explosive Thin Man"), was a Nicaraguan professional boxer and politician. As a boxer he was a three-time world champion. His trainer was Lupe Sanchez. After his retirement from boxing, Argüello became active in Nicaraguan politics and in November 2008 he was elected mayor of Managua, the nation's capital city. He allegedly committed suicide on July 1, 2009.
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  Apollo Creed
  Apollo Creed (born circa 1943 - died August 31, 1985 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a fictional character from the Rocky films, initially portrayed as the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World. He was played by Carl Weathers.
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  Arturo Gatti
  Arturo "Thunder" Gatti (April 15, 1972 – July 11, 2009) was a Canadian professional boxer. Born in Calabria, Italy, and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Gatti relocated to Jersey City, New Jersey, as a teenager. He returned to Montreal after retiring from boxing to work in real estate.
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  Benny Leonard
  Benny Leonard (born Benjamin Leiner; April 17, 1896—April 18, 1947) was an American boxer. He was named as number 8 on Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years.
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• Bernard Hopkins
  Bernard Hopkins, known as the Executioner (born January 15, 1965, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American boxer. He is known for his ten year reign as middleweight world champion in which he successfully defended his title a record 20 times. He is the first fighter to retain all 4 major boxing governing body belts including the Ring Magazine belt in the same fight. In addition to being an active boxer, he is also a minority partner with Golden Boy Promotions.
  http://wn.com/Bernard_Hopkins
• Billy Backus
  Billy Backus, born March 5, 1943 in Canastota, New York, is a former world boxing champion. In the summer of 2006 Backus retired from his correctional facility job and moved to South Carolina.
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  Carlos Monzón
  Carlos Monzón (August 7, 1942 – January 8, 1995) was an Argentine professional boxer who held the world middleweight title for 7 years, during which he successfully defended the title 14 times.
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• Ceferino Garcia
  Ceferino Garcia (August 26, 1906 — January 1, 1981) was a champion boxer born in Naval, Biliran, Philippines. His number of victories are the most ever achieved by a Philippine boxer. He's also the only boxer from the Philippines ever to become world champion at middleweight. He was managed, during the final years of his career by George Parnassus. Ceferino Garcia is commonly referred to as the inventor of the bolo punch. Though a Filipino boxer named Macario Flores was reported to be using the punch in 1924.
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  Chris Byrd
  Chris Cornelius Byrd (born August 15, 1970) is a professional boxer. He is the former WBO and IBF heavyweight champion. His nickname is "Rapid Fire".
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  Chuck Liddell
  Charles David "Chuck" Liddell (born December 17, 1969) is a former Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight champion. Liddell has an extensive striking background in Kenpo karate, Koei-Kan karate and Kickboxing. His Kickboxing record is 20 wins and 2 losses, with 16 of his wins coming by way of knockout. He also has a grappling background in collegiate wrestling.
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• cutman
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• David Tua
  David "Tuamanator" Tua (born 21 November 1972) is a professional Samoan heavyweight boxer, fighting out of South Auckland, New Zealand.
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• Diego Corrales
  Diego "Chico" Corrales (August 25, 1977 – May 7, 2007) was an American boxer and former super featherweight and lightweight world boxing champion. He is most noted for his series of bouts with José Luis Castillo.
  http://wn.com/Diego_Corrales
• Erik Morales
  Érik Isaac Morales Elvira (born September 1, 1976 in Tijuana, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a former five-time world champion at WBC and WBO Super Bantamweight (122 lb), WBC Featherweight (126 lb), WBC Super Featherweight (130 LB)and the IBF Junior Lightweight (130 lb) divisions. He is currently the WBC International welterweight Champ (147 lb) champion. Morales also defeated 15 different world champions during the course of his career and has won 7 titles in five different weight classes. Famous for his trilogies with fellow Mexican legend three-division champion Marco Antonio Barrera and to Filipino boxer seven-division champion Manny Pacquiao. He is considered by many to be one of the finest boxers of his generation. He ranks #49 on ESPN's 50 Greatest Boxers Of All Time, a step ahead of Mike Tyson.
  http://wn.com/Erik_Morales
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  Ezzard Charles
  Ezzard Mack Charles (July 7, 1921 – May 28, 1975) was an African-American professional boxer and former world heavyweight champion. He holds wins over numerous Hall of Fame fighters in three different weight classes. Charles retired with a record of 93 wins, 25 losses and 1 draw.
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  Fedor Emelianenko
  Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko (, ) (born September 28, 1976) is a Russian heavyweight mixed martial artist. He is the current World Alliance of Mixed Martial Arts (WAMMA) Heavyweight Champion and the last holder of the Pride Heavyweight Championship. He has won numerous tournaments and accolades in multiple sports, most notably the Pride 2004 Grand Prix and the World Combat Sambo championship on four occasions, as well as medaling in the Russian national Judo championship.
  http://wn.com/Fedor_Emelianenko
• Floyd Mayweather
  http://wn.com/Floyd_Mayweather
• Floyd Mayweather Jr
  http://wn.com/Floyd_Mayweather_Jr
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  Gene Tunney
  James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-1928 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927. Tunney's successful title defense against Dempsey is one of the most famous bouts in boxing history and is known as The Long Count Fight. Tunney retired as an undefeated heavyweight after his victory over Tom Heeney in 1928.
  http://wn.com/Gene_Tunney
• George Foreman
  George Edward Foreman (born January 10, 1949) is an American two-time former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic gold medalist, ordained Baptist minister, author and successful entrepreneur.
  http://wn.com/George_Foreman
• Harry Greb
  Harry Greb (June 6, 1894 – October 22, 1926) was an American boxer. He was World Middleweight boxing Champion from 1923 to 1926 and American Light Heavyweight title holder 1922–1923. He fought a recorded 303 times in his 13 year-career, against the best opposition the talent-rich 1910's & 20's could provide him, frequently squaring off against light-heavyweights and even heavyweights.
  http://wn.com/Harry_Greb
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  Henry Armstrong
  Henry Jackson Jr. (December 12, 1912, Columbus, Mississippi - October 22, 1988, Los Angeles, California) was a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong. He is universally regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time by many boxing critics and fellow professionals.
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  Homer
  Homer (Ancient Greek: , Hómēros)
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• Humberto Soto
  Armando Humberto Soto Ochoa (born May 11, 1980 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer in the Lightweight division. He is a former WBC Super Featherweight champion and the current WBC Lightweight champion.
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  Irish people
  The Irish people (, na hÉireannaigh, na Gaedhil) are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years (according to archaeological studies, see Prehistoric Ireland), with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded have legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha Dé Danann and the Milesians the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic ancestry, and still serving as a term for the Irish race today. The main groups that interacted with the Irish in the Middle Ages include the Scottish people and the Vikings, with the Icelanders especially having some Irish descent. The Anglo-Norman invasion of the High Middle Ages, the English plantations and the subsequent English rule of the country introduced the Normans and Flemish into Ireland. Welsh, Picts, Bretons, and small parties of Gauls and even Anglo-Saxons are known in Ireland from much earlier times.
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• Irish-American
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  Jack Broughton
  John "Jack" Broughton (c. 1703 or 1704 – January 8, 1789) was an English bare-knuckle fighter. He was the first person to ever codify a set of rules to be used in such contests; prior to this the "rules" that existed were very loosely defined and tended to vary from contest to contest. His seven rules of how boxing would be conducted at his amphitheatre (the largest and most influential at that time) evolved later into the London Prize Ring rules are widely regarded as the foundation stone of the sport that would become boxing, prior to the development of the Marquess of Queensberry rules in the 1860s.
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  Jack Dempsey
  William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey ("The Manassa Mauler") (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983) was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926. Dempsey's aggressive style and exceptional punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history. Many of his fights set financial and attendance records, including the first million dollar gate. He is listed #10 on ''The Ring's'' list of all-time heavyweights and #7 among its Top 100 Greatest Punchers. He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
  http://wn.com/Jack_Dempsey
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  Jack Johnson (boxer)
  John Arthur ("Jack") Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the “Galveston Giant”, was an American boxer, the second African American Boxing Champion, and the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915).
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• Jake LaMotta
  Giacobe LaMotta (born July 10, 1921), better known as Jake LaMotta, nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" and "The Raging Bull", is an Italian-American former world middleweight champion boxer who was famously portrayed by Robert De Niro in the film Raging Bull.
  http://wn.com/Jake_LaMotta
• James Figg
  James Figg (1695 – 7 December 1734) was an English bare-knuckle boxer. He is universally recognized the first English bare-knuckle boxing champion, reigning from 1719 to 1730 or 1734. Figg was also a great fencer. He was born in Thame in Oxfordshire and fought his early prize fights there. In 1719 he started his own school and taught boxing, fencing, and quarterstaff. William Hogarth painted his portrait. Figg was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1992.
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  James J. Corbett
  James John "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (September 1, 1866 – February 18, 1933) was a heavyweight boxing champion, best known as the man who defeated the great John L. Sullivan. He also coached boxing at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. He stood at , with a reach of .
  http://wn.com/James_J_Corbett
• James Toney
  James Nathanial Toney (born August 24, 1968) is an American professional heavyweight boxer and mixed martial artist who is known for his victory over aging former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield in round 9 on Oct 4, 2003.
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• Jerry Quarry
  Jerry Quarry (May 15, 1945 - January 3, 1999), nicknamed “The Bellflower Bomber,” was an American heavyweight boxer.
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  Joe Frazier
  Joseph William "Joe" Frazier, known as '''Smokin' Joe''' (; born January 12, 1944), is a former Olympic and World Heavyweight boxing champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a brief comeback in 1981.
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  Joe Louis
  Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981), better known as Joe Louis, was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949. Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, Louis helped elevate boxing from a nadir in popularity in the post-Jack Dempsey era by establishing a reputation as an honest, hardworking fighter at a time when the sport was dominated by gambling interests. Louis's championship reign lasted 140 consecutive months, during which he participated in 27 championship fights, including 25 successful title defenses – all records for the heavyweight division. In 2005, Louis was named the greatest heavyweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization,
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  John Duddy
  :''This article is about John Duddy, the Irish boxer. For the Scottish murderer, see Shepherd's Bush murders. For the man shot dead on Bloody Sunday in Derry, see Bloody Sunday (1972).''
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• John Graham Chambers
  John Graham Chambers (12 February 1843 – 4 March 1883) was a Welsh sportsman. He rowed for Cambridge, founded inter-varsity sports, became English Champion walker, coached four winning Boat-Race crews, devised the Queensberry Rules, staged the Cup Final and the Thames Regatta, instituted championships for billiards, boxing, cycling, wrestling and athletics, rowed beside Webb as he swam the Channel and edited a national newspaper.
  http://wn.com/John_Graham_Chambers
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  John L. Sullivan
  John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15, 1858 – February 2, 1918), also known as the Boston Strong Boy, was recognized as the first heavyweight champion of gloved boxing from February 7, 1881 to 1892, and is generally recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing under the London Prize Ring rules. He was the first American sports hero to become a national celebrity and the first American athlete to earn over one million dollars.
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  Juan Manuel Márquez
  Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez (born August 23, 1973), is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the fourth Mexican boxer to become a three-division world champion, where he won eight world titles in three different boxing weight classes.
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  Julio César Chávez
  Julio César Chávez (born on July 12, 1962 in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico) is a retired Mexican professional boxer.
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  Khaosai Galaxy
  Khaosai Galaxy (, born, May 15, 1959) is a former professional Thai super flyweight boxer and Muaythai kickboxer. Khaosai defended his WBA world title 19 times in seven years (1984-1991), winning 16 of his title fights by knockouts. A member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame he is widely considered as one of the greatest boxing champions of all time. He is listed #19 on Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
  http://wn.com/Khaosai_Galaxy
• Larry Holmes
  Larry Holmes (born November 3, 1949) is a former professional boxer. He grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, hence his boxing nickname, "The Easton Assassin."
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  Lennox Lewis
  Lennox Claudius Lewis, CM, CBE (born September 2, 1965) is a retired boxer and the most recent Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion. As an amateur he won gold representing Canada at the 1988 Olympic Games as an amateur after defeating future World Heavyweight Champion Riddick Bowe in the final.
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  Manny Pacquiao
  Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao (; born December 17, 1978), also known as Manny Pacquiao, is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is a seven-division world champion, the first boxer in history to win nine world titles in seven different weight divisions. He is also the first boxer in history to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the 2000s by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA). He is also a three-time BWAA and The Ring "Fighter of the Year" in 2006, 2008 and 2009.
  http://wn.com/Manny_Pacquiao
• Marvin Hagler
  http://wn.com/Marvin_Hagler
• Max Baer (boxer)
  Maximilian Adelbert Baer (February 11, 1909 – November 21, 1959) was an American boxer of the 1930s, one-time Heavyweight Champion of the World, actor, entertainer, professional wrestler and referee.
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  Max Schmeling
  Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (September 28, 1905 – October 2, 2005) was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in the late 1930s transcended boxing, and became worldwide social events because of their national associations. He was ranked 55 on Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
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• Mexican-American
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• Michael Carbajal
  Michael Carbajal (born September 17, 1967 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American four-time world boxing champion of Mexican descent. His nickname was "Little Hands Of Stone," after his favorite boxer,"Hands Of Stone" Roberto Durán.
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• Micky Ward
  "Irish" Micky Ward (born October 4, 1965) is a retired junior welterweight professional boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts. He is best known for his trilogy of fights with the late Arturo Gatti.
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  Miguel Cotto
  Miguel Ángel Cotto Vázquez (born October 29, 1980) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. As an amateur, Cotto represented Puerto Rico in the lightweight and light welterweight divisions at various international events including the 1999 Pan American Games, the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 1998 Junior World Championships where he won a silver medal. Cotto began his professional career in 2001, and on September 11, 2004, he defeated Kelson Pinto for the WBO junior welterweight championship. He defended the title successfully a total of six times, before vacating it when he ascended to the welterweight division.
  http://wn.com/Miguel_Cotto
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  Mike Tyson
  Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American boxer. Tyson was the undisputed heavyweight champion and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles. He won the WBC title when he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old, after defeating Trevor Berbick by a TKO in the second round.
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  Muhammad Ali
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  Nonito Donaire
  Nonito Donaire, Jr. (born on November 16, 1982) is a Filipino professional boxer. He is a two-division world champion. He is a known switch-hitter with the ability to fight either southpaw or orthodox.
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• Oscar de la Hoya
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• Pernell Whitaker
  Pernell Whitaker (born January 2, 1964), nicknamed "Sweet Pea", is a retired American professional boxer. A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Whitaker was the lightweight silver medalist at the 1982 World Championships, followed by the gold medal at the 1983 Pan American Games and the 1984 Olympics, and then embarked on a pro career in which he became world champion in four different weight divisions. During his career he has fought world champions such as Julio César Chávez, Oscar De La Hoya and Félix Trinidad. For his achievements, he was named the 1989 Fighter of the year by Ring Magazine.
  http://wn.com/Pernell_Whitaker
• pound for pound
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• Rafael Ortiz Huertas
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  Ray Mancini
  Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini (born Raymond Michael Mancino; March 4, 1961) is a retired Italian-American boxer. He held the World Boxing Association lightweight championship for two years in the 1980s. Mancini inherited his distinctive nickname from his father, veteran boxer Lenny "Boom Boom" Mancini, who laid the foundation for his son's career. The name, however, perfectly suited the younger Mancini's wild, "whirlwind" fighting style. Ray Mancini is also the nephew of award-winning composer Henry Mancini.
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  Ricardo Dominguez
  Ricardo Dominguez is a professional boxer who is known for his fight with Rafael Ortiz and Zahir Raheem. He started boxing in 1999 and his most recent one is with Zahir Raheem in 2008.
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  Ricky Hatton
  Richard John Hatton MBE, more commonly known as Ricky "the Hitman" Hatton, (born 6 October 1978, in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England), is a British professional boxer. He is a two-time IBF and IBO light welterweight champion, having relinquished the IBF belt, only to move down a weight class and beat Juan Urango.
  http://wn.com/Ricky_Hatton
• Robert Anasi
  Robert Anasi, (born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1966) is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of The Gloves, a nonfiction memoir of his experience boxing in the Golden Gloves competition. The Village Voice named him a "writer on the verge," and called The Gloves "a streetwise loveletter to a dying sport" that "recalls Norman Mailer's metajournalism."
  http://wn.com/Robert_Anasi
• Roberto Durán
  Roberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a retired professional boxer from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. A versatile brawler in the ring, he was nicknamed "Manos de piedra" (or "Hands of Stone") during his career.
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  Rocky Balboa
  Robert "Rocky" Balboa, Sr. is a fictional southpaw boxer and protagonist portrayed by Sylvester Stallone who has appeared in the Rocky series from 1976 to 2006. During the series, he wins the Heavyweight Championship of the World twice. He remains one of the cinema's most beloved movie characters.
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  Rocky Marciano
  Rocky Marciano (September 1, 1923 – August 31, 1969), born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, was an Italian-American boxer and the heavyweight champion of the world from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956. When he retired he became the only heavyweight champion to finish his career undefeated. Remembered for notable victories against Joe Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott, Roland La Starza, Ezzard Charles and Archie Moore. He is considered one of the greatest boxers of all time.
  http://wn.com/Rocky_Marciano
• Roger Mayweather
  Roger Mayweather (born April 24, 1961) is a retired professional boxer. He won two major world titles in two different weight classes. Throughout his career, Mayweather fought against many other boxing champions of the 1980s and 1990s. He is a part of the Mayweather boxing family; his brothers are former welterweight contender Floyd Mayweather Sr. and former IBO super featherweight champion Jeff Mayweather, and his nephew is five-division world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. Roger eventually became Mayweather Jr.'s trainer.
  http://wn.com/Roger_Mayweather
• Roy Jones Jr.
  http://wn.com/Roy_Jones_Jr
• Salvador Sanchez
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  Salvador Sánchez
  Salvador Sánchez Narváez (January 26, 1959 - August 12, 1982) was a Mexican boxer born in the town of Santiago Tianguistenco, Estado de México. Many of his contemporaries as well as boxing writers believe that, had it not been for his premature death, Sanchez could have gone on to become the greatest Featherweight boxer of all time. He is also the uncle of Salvador Sánchez II.
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  Sam Langford
  Sam Langford (March 4, 1883 - January 12, 1956) was a Black Canadian boxing standout of the early part of the 20th century. Called the "Greatest Fighter Nobody Knows," by ESPN. He was rated #2 by The Ring on their list of "100 greatest punchers of all time". Langford was originally from Weymouth Falls, a small community in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was known as the "Boston Bonecrusher", "Boston Terror" or by his most infamous nickname the "Boston Tar Baby," Langford stood only and weighed in his prime.
  http://wn.com/Sam_Langford
• Sonny Liston
  Charles L. "Sonny" Liston (May 8, 1932 (dubious, see below) – December 30, 1970) was a professional boxer and ex-convict known for his toughness, punching power and intimidating appearance who became world heavyweight champion in 1962 by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round. Liston bafflingly failed to live up to his fearsome reputation in an unsuccessful defense of the title against Cassius Clay, underworld connections and an early death—like his unrecorded date of birth—added to the enigma.
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  Sugar Ray Leonard
  Sugar Ray Leonard (born May 17, 1956 in Wilmington, North Carolina) is a retired professional boxer. He was named Ray Charles Leonard, after his mother's favorite singer, Ray Charles. Leonard was the first boxer to earn more than $100 million in purses, and he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time, winning world titles in five weight divisions and defeating future fellow International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees Wilfred Benítez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Durán and Marvin Hagler. Leonard was named "Boxer of the Decade" for the 1980s, due to his accomplishments.
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  Sugar Ray Robinson
  Sugar Ray Robinson (born Walker Smith Jr., May 3, 1921 – April 12, 1989) was a professional boxer. Frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, Robinson's performances at the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
  http://wn.com/Sugar_Ray_Robinson
• Terry Norris
  Terry Wayne Norris is a retired American boxer and a four-time world champion in the junior middleweight division. Originally from Lubbock, Texas, he fought out of San Diego.
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  Tex Rickard
  George Lewis "Tex" Rickard (January 2, 1870 – January 6, 1929) was an American boxing promoter, founder of the New York Rangers National Hockey League (NHL) franchise, and builder of Madison Square Garden III in New York City. During the 1920s, Tex Rickard was the leading promoter of the day, and he has been compared to P.T. Barnum and Don King. Sports journalist Frank Deford has written that Rickard "first recognized the potential of the star system."
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  Thomas Hearns
  Thomas "Hitman" Hearns was born October 18, 1958 in Memphis, Tennessee. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Detroit, Michigan. He is a retired American boxer. He won 8 world titles in six different weight divisions.
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  Tim Witherspoon
  "Terrible" Tim Witherspoon (born December 27, 1957) is an American boxer who was twice recognized as Heavyweight Champion of the World by a professional boxing sanctioning organization.
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  Tom Cribb
  Tom Cribb (8 July 1781 – 11 May 1848) was an English bare-knuckle boxer of the 19th century, so successful that he became world champion. He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
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• Tony Zale
  Anthony Florian Zaleski (May 29, 1913 – March 20, 1997) was an American boxer. Zale was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, a steel town, which gave him his nickname, "Man of Steel." In addition, he had the reputation of being able to take fearsome punishment and still rally to win, reinforcing that nickname. Zale was known as a strong body puncher, who punished his opponents and steadily wore them down before knocking them out.
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• Vicente Saldivar
  Vicente Saldivar Garcia (commonly known as Vicente Saldivar) born May 3, 1943, was a Mexican Featherweight boxer who has frequenty been ranked amongst the greatest in the history of that division by many noted boxing historians and critics. He has also regularly been cited as one of the finest left-handed fighters of all time.
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• Victor Ortiz
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  Wladimir Klitschko
  Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Klychko (, ; , ; born 25 March 1976) is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer. Wladimir is the unified IBF, IBO, WBO and Ring Magazine Champion. He is currently rated as the number three pound for pound boxer in the world by Boxrec. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC champion.
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  Baghdad
  Baghdad (, , ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is coterminous. Having a population estimated between 7 and 7.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq and the second largest city in the Arab World (after Cairo, Egypt).
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  Birmingham
  Birmingham ( , locally ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county of England. It is the most populous British city outside London with a population of 1,028,700 (2009 estimate), and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the United Kingdom's second most populous Urban Area with a population of 2,284,093 (2001 census). Birmingham's metropolitan area, which includes surrounding towns to which it is closely tied through commuting, is also the United Kingdom's second most populous with a population of 3,683,000.
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  Canastota, New York
  Canastota is a village located inside the Town of Lenox in Madison County, New York, United States. The population was 4,425 at the 2000 census.
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  Crete
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