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2 unusual facts about Light Heavyweight


Chinzô Machida

Chinzô Machida is the older brother of former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida.

Tiffanie Ward

Tiffanie Ward born (February 5, 1984), born in Hacienda Heights, California, trains at a club called Maywood Boxing Club is an Light Heavyweight/165 lbs female boxer, who competed in the 2010 USA Boxing National Championship.


Ali: An American Hero

Cassius Clay (David Ramsey), winner of the gold medal for boxing in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics, rises in the professional ranks and defeats heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston in a stunning upset to capture the title in 1964.

Eugene Hart

Future light heavyweight champion Eddie Mustafa Muhammad knocked Hart out in the fourth round on August 26, 1974, and future middleweight king Vito Antuofermo KOed Hart in the fifth round of their March 11, 1977 match.

Jacob Noe

Noe attended Raleigh-Egypt High School along with fellow Bellator Light Heavyweight and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, who Noe would befriend.

Jonathan Oakey

Oakey, who is a relative of professional rugby player and ex-England coach Ellery Hanley (MBE), is mostly known for his quick classification change in the sport, after beginning his professional career at Light Welterweight and then quickly building up to compete at a Light Heavyweight classification by 2010.

Laudelino Barros

Laudelino José "Lino" de Barros (born June 29, 1975 in Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul) is a Brazilian boxer, who represented his native country in the light heavyweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Marcin Gortat

His father Janusz Gortat was a Polish boxer and a bronze medalist in light heavyweight during the Munich 1972 and Montreal 1976 Olympics, and his mother Alicja Gortat was a representative of the Polish national team in volleyball.

Taiei Kin

On June 25, he fought against Changpuek Kiatsongrit from Thailand for the vacant title of UKF World Light heavyweight championship at the event of "Sanctuary III", but he lost by decision.

UFC 74

The card also featured former heavyweight champion Frank Mir against K-1 veteran Antoni Hardonk; The Ultimate Fighter 3's winner Kendall Grove; the UFC debut of PRIDE veteran Marcus Aurélio; The Ultimate Fighter 2 welterweight winner Joe Stevenson; and former light heavyweight challenger Renato Sobral.


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Ad Santel

Santel lost his World Light Heavyweight Championship to Gobar Goho of Calcutta (now Kolkata), India on 30 August 1921 in San Francisco.

Aldo Traversaro

On 26 November 1977 he won the vacant European light heavyweight title (EBU) against Bunny Johnson, and defended it in 1978 against Rudy Koopmans, Francois Fiol and Avenamar Peralta.

Alex Blanchard

Between 1985 and 1987 he was rated as world's second light heavyweight boxer by the World Boxing Council.

Antonio Nogueira

Antônio Rogério Nogueira (born 1976), light heavyweight mixed martial arts fighter in the UFC

Antonio Tarver vs. Roy Jones, Jr. III

Antonio Tarver vs. Roy Jones, Jr. III, billed as "No Excuses", was a professional boxing match contested on October 1, 2005 the IBO and The Ring light heavyweight championships (both held by Tarver) and the vacant NBA light heavyweight championship.

Attila Bátky

Attila Bátky (born January 23, 1973 in Dunajská Streda, Trnava) is an amateur Slovak Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's light heavyweight category.

Bewegung Nurr

Trollmann won the German light-heavyweight title in 1933, but was stripped of his victory by the Nazis, sterilized, arrested by the Gestapo, and finally murdered in Neuengamme concentration camp.

Black Bob

Bob Tuckett (born 1948), nicknamed Black Bob, professional light heavyweight/cruiserweight boxer of the 1970s

Bobby Cassidy

After his boxing career, Cassidy began training fighters and has worked with two world champions, WBC light heavyweight champion Donny Lalonde and WBO middleweight champion Lonnie Bradley.

Boxing at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's light heavyweight

The men's light heavyweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Bulgaria at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Boyan Radev — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight.

Said Mustafov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light Heavyweight

Byron Mitchell

As of February 2010, Mitchell's comeback had netted him three wins and two losses, His last loss was to current WBA light heavyweight champion Beibut Shumenov, who won and lost two razor thin controversial decisions to Gabriel Campillo.

Championship unification

The titles continued to be defended separately and X-Pac lost the Light Heavyweight Championship to Tajiri a week later.

Darin Allen

On July 19, 1997, Darin Allen fought William Guthrie for the then-vacant IBF World Light Heavyweight title.

Darren Corbett

In March 1999, Corbett's next fight saw him also lose his IBO Inter-Continental Championship to a relative novice in Stephane Allouane, but he rebounded later that year by defeating future British & Commonwealth Light-Heavyweight Champion Neil Simpson to win the IBO Inter-Continental Light-Heavyweight Title, a belt he never lost in the ring.

David Carstens

He won the gold medal in the Light heavyweight competition in Los Angeles, beating Gino Rossi of Italy in the final match.

EliteXC: Heat

Kimbo Slice opted to fight anyway against Seth Petruzelli, a light heavyweight originally scheduled to face Aaron Rosa on the undercard.

Gojko Kačar

His uncle Slobodan Kačar won the Light Heavyweight Olympic Gold medal in boxing in 1980 competing for Yugoslavia.

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.

Jack Delaney

Delaney was rewarded with a title shot against light heavyweight champion Berlanbach, in a 15-round fight, co-promoted by Roderick James "Jess" McMahon and Tex Rickard.

Jack O'Brien

Philadelphia Jack O'Brien (1878–1942), American Boxer, former light heavyweight boxing champion of the world

Jake O'Brien

O'Brien was expected to make his debut with the DREAM promotion on July 10 in a Light Heavyweight bout against former Strikeforce and DREAM Champion Gegard Mousasi at Dream 15.

Jesse Valdez

In 1972, Valdez, who is of Mexican-American descent, qualified for the U.S. national team by defeating future world light-heavyweight champion Eddie Mustafa Muhammad.

Kavanagh College

Brian Verdon McCleary (1891–1980) - All Black (1924–1925) played on the Invincibles tour; New Zealand and Australasian amateur and professional light-heavyweight and heavyweight boxing champion (Christian Brothers)

Mark Muñoz

Muñoz was one of the chosen few to be relocated to WEC's sister promotion—which is also owned and produced by Zuffa—along with light heavyweight champion Steve Cantwell, light heavyweight contenders Brian Stann and Steve Steinbeiss and middleweight contenders Chael Sonnen and Nissen Osterneck.

Marvin Johnson

Johnson lost to Matthew Saad Muhammad and Lottie Mwale in the build-up but won a world title—the WBC light heavyweight version—from fellow southpaw Mate Parlov of Yugoslavia with a 10th-round KO in Italy in December 1978, then lost that same title the following April, in front of his hometown Indianapolis fans, in a rematch to Muhammad in what was perhaps 1979's Fight of the Year for many observers.

Nathan Cleverly

In October 2008, Cleverly landed a shot at the vacant Commonwealth light heavyweight title topping the bill for the first time in his career at the Everton Park Sports Centre in Liverpool.

Noel Magee

The following week Eastwood lined up a fight with the then unbeaten Commonwealth Light Heavyweight Title holder Garry Delaney.

Oracle Arena

Five of boxer Andre Ward's fights; against Edison Miranda, Mikkel Kessler, Sakio Bika, Allan Green, and most notably knocking out light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson.

Philadelphia Jack O'Brien

Nat Fleischer, founder and editor of The Ring Magazine, ranked O'Brien as the No. 2 All-Time Light Heavyweight, and Charley Rose ranked him as the No. 3 All-Time Light Heavyweight.

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.

Red Burman

He later beat Al Hart (16-6 coming in) by second round knockout, but lost to world Light-Heavyweight champions Melio Bettina and Joey Maxim, both by ten round decisions.

Renata Ribeiro

She is married to former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Maurício Rua

Richard Caramanolis

On 2 Febrary 1984 he won the European light heavyweight title (EBU) against Rudy Koopmans, extending his winning streak to 27–0.

Roger Hollett

Following his fight with Hicks, Hollett returned to the Maximum Fighting Championship at MFC 19 on December 5, 2008 against Emanuel Newton in a bout for the vacant MFC Light Heavyweight Championship.

Thomas Ulrich

He then won his next eight bouts, setting up a shot at WBC Light Heavyweight Title holder Tomasz Adamek in 2005.

Tom Bogs

He lost to John Conteh in a bid to regain the European light-heavyweight title, and retired from boxing in 1974.

Tommy Loughran

Loughran fought many middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight champions in his career, including Gene Tunney, Jack Sharkey and Georges Carpentier.

Tonga at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games

Heamasi Sekona won a bronze in the light heavyweight class of boxing without winning a single bout.

UFC 49

It featured the anticipated rubber match between Light Heavyweight Champion Vitor Belfort and Randy Couture, following a disappointing doctor's stoppage in their last encounter at UFC 46.

Wanderlei Silva

Silva culminated his IVC career by winning the promotion's Light Heavyweight belt with a submission win over Eugene Jackson in the IVC 10 show on April 27, 1999.

Weightlifting at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 82.5 kg

The men's light-heavyweight event was part of the weightlifting programme at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight

The Greco-Roman light heavyweight was one of four Greco-Roman wrestling weight classes contested on the Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme.

Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle light heavyweight

The men's freestyle light heavyweight was a freestyle wrestling event held as part of the Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics programme.

Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle light heavyweight

The men's freestyle light heavyweight was a freestyle wrestling event held as part of the Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics programme.

Wrestling at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle light heavyweight

The men's freestyle light heavyweight was a freestyle wrestling event held as part of the Wrestling at the 1928 Summer Olympics programme.

Yurik Vardanyan

The following year, Vardanyan moved up to middle-heavyweight for a competition in Donetsk, in which he set all the division's world records, but decided to move back down to light heavyweight for the World and European Championships in Lille.