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unusual facts about Heavyweight division



Lloyd G. Davies

He said he was an amateur boxer in the heavyweight class and qualified for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles by winning a semifinal tournament but he did not compete in the Games themselves.


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Adam Forsyth

Adam Forsyth (born 31 March 1981 in Kawerau, New Zealand) is an Australian amateur boxer who competed at the 2004 Olympics in the men's heavyweight division.

Daniel Omielańczuk

Daniel Omielańczuk (born August 31, 1982) is a Polish mixed martial artist currently competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship in their Heavyweight division.

Edinanci Silva

Edinanci Fernandes da Silva (born August 23, 1976 in Sousa, Paraíba) is a judoka from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the half heavyweight division (– 78 kg) at the Pan American Games.

Eleider Álvarez

Eléyder Álvarez Baytar (born April 8, 1984 in Apartadó, Colombia) is a Colombian amateur boxer, best known for winning the 2007 Pan American Games in the men's light heavyweight division.

Emad Abdelhalim Ali

Ali is best known for having won the gold medal in the men's super heavyweight division at the 2007 All-Africa Games.

Floyd Cummings

He was a fringe contender in the heavyweight division in the early 1980s, fighting such opponents as Tim Witherspoon, Renaldo Snipes and Mitch Green, losing decisions against all three.

Guto Inocente

Carlos Augusto Inocente Filho (born May 29, 1986), better known as Guto Inocente, is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and kickboxer who competes in the UFC's heavyweight division.

Hamilton Ventura

Hamilton Ventura da Conceicao (born 1983 in Cruz das Almas) is a Brazilian amateur boxer best known to win a silver medal at the 2006 South American Games in the men's light heavyweight division.

Heywood L. Edwards

He competed for the United States in freestyle wrestling in the 1928 Summer Olympics, earning 4th place in the light heavyweight division.

Inter-Allied Games

Ralph Parcaut - Gold Medal, Light Heavyweight Division, Catch as Catch Can Wrestling

Jesse Ruíz

Despite his sudden loss at the Pan American Games, Ruíz had granted his qualifying place to represent Mexico at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, after winning silver for the men's heavyweight division at the FILA Pan American Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament in Orlando, Florida.

José Ibañez

He won the silver medal at the 1975 Pan American Games in the men's heavyweight division (+ 93 kg), after a loss in the final against USA's Allen Coage.

Jürgen Fanghänel

Jürgen Fanghänel (born August 1, 1951 in Limbach-Oberfrohna, Saxony) is a retired male boxer, who won the bronze medal for East Germany in the men's heavyweight division (91 kg) at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Kerron Speid

Kerron Speid (born May 24, 1972) is a retired male boxer from Jamaica, who won the bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada, together with Brazil's Marcelino Novaes.

Klemetsen

Ole Klemetsen (born 1971), retired Norwegian boxer in the Light Heavyweight division

Marcelino Novaes

Marcelino Novaes Rodrigues Fil (born July 9, 1967, in São Paulo) is a retired boxer from Brazil, who won the bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 1999 Pan American Games, together with Jamaica's Kerron Speid.

Philip S. Cifarelli

In 1952 at 16 years of age he entered the Mens Light-Heavyweight Division of the Golden Gloves Boxing league where he earned an impressive winning record over a short boxing career in which he was never knocked down and lost only one bout.

Rubalcaba

Alexis Rubalcaba (born 1972), retired boxer from Cuba, who competed in the Super Heavyweight division