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List Of British Cruiserweight Boxing Champions
List of British cruiserweight boxing champions is a table showing the Boxing, boxers who have won the British cruiserweight (boxing), cruiserweight title, which has been the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) since 1985. A champion will often voluntarily relinquish the title in order to fight for a higher-ranked championship, such as the List of current world boxing champions, world or European Boxing Union, European. Where the date on which a champion relinquished the title is unclear, the date of the last BBBoC sanctioned fight is shown. r – Champion relinquished title. s – Champion stripped of title. See also * List of British heavyweight boxing champions * List of British light-heavyweight boxing champions * List of British super-middleweight boxing champions * List of British middleweight boxing champions * List of British light-middleweight boxing champions * List of British welterweight boxing champions * List of British lightweight boxing champions * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time. Although the term "boxing" is commonly attributed to western boxing, in which only fists are involved, it has developed in different ways in different geographical areas and cultures of the World. In global terms, "boxing" today is also a set of combat sports focused on Strike (attack), striking, in which two opponents face each other in a fight using at least their fists, and possibly involving other actions, such as kicks, Elbow (strike), elbow strikes, Knee (strike), knee strikes, and headbutts, depending on the rules. Some of these variants are the bare-knuckle boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, Lethwei, savate, and Sanda (sport), sanda. Boxing techniques have been incorporated into many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Williams (boxer)
Leon Williams (born 6 November 1983) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2009 to 2012. He held the British Cruiserweight title from 2011 to 2012. Williams won the Southern Area title in October 2010 with a points win over JJ Ojuederie. This was followed, however, by a second-round knockout by Richard Turba. Williams became British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture ... cruiserweight champion following his controversial defeat of Robert Norton on 21 October 2011. Most observers had Norton comfortably winning the fight. Williams lost the British title in January 2012 when he was stopped in the final round by Shane McPhilbin. This time, Williams was well ahead on the cards and had dropped McPhilbin earlier in the fight, but a late barrage by McPh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of British Heavyweight Boxing Champions
List of British heavyweight boxing champions is a table showing the Boxing, boxers who have won the British heavyweight title, which has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club since 1891, and the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) since 1929. A champion will often voluntarily relinquish the title in order to fight for a higher-ranked championship, such as the List of current world boxing champions, world or European Boxing Union, European. Where the date on which a champion relinquished the title is unclear, the date of the last BBBoC sanctioned fight is shown. r – Champion relinquished title. s – Champion stripped of title. See also * List of British cruiserweight boxing champions * List of British light-heavyweight boxing champions * List of British super-middleweight boxing champions * List of British middleweight boxing champions * List of British light-middleweight boxing champions * List of British welterweight boxing champions * List of British l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viddal Riley
Viddal Ethan Danso Riley (born 7 July 1997) is an English professional boxer, rapper and internet personality. At regional level, he has held the British cruiserweight title since April 2025. As an amateur, he won a silver medal at the 2013 European Junior Championships. Early life Viddal Riley was born on 7 July 1997 in Hackney, London, but raised in Tottenham, London. He attended Northumberland Park Community School in the Northumberland Park area of Tottenham in the London Borough of Haringey, England. While he was still an amateur boxer, Riley had a day job as a personal trainer at a GymBox gym in Stratford, London. It was here that he first met and trained several YouTube personalities, including KSI. The two fights between KSI and Logan Paul brought Riley huge publicity and exposure. Amateur career Riley started his boxing career at six years old when he was introduced to the sport by his father Derrick Riley. As a young amateur, he trained at West Ham Boxing Club. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheavon Clarke
Cheavon Clarke (born 14 December 1990) is a Jamaican-British professional boxer. At regional level, he held the British cruiserweight title from 2024 to April 2025. As an amateur, he won a silver medal at the 2017 European Championships; and bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth and 2019 European Games. Amateur career Clarke competed for Jamaica in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Scotland. After changing allegiances to represent Great Britain and England, he won a silver medal at the 2017 European Championships. He won a bronze medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia and also won bronze at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus. Clarke competed at the 2019 World Championships in Yekaterinburg, Russia and the delayed Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics but failed to win a medal at either event. Professional career Clarke turned professional in January 2022, signing a promotional deal with Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing and made his pro-debut on 27 February that year knocking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Chamberlain
Isaac Chamberlain (born 3 March 1994) is a British professional boxer. He held the British and Commonwealth cruiserweight titles from 2023 to 2024. Professional career Chamberlain made his professional debut in January 2015, defeating Moses Matovu in a four-round points victory. In September 2016, Chamberlain won the BBBofC Southern Area cruiserweight title with a points victory over Wadi Camacho. He fought London rival Lawrence Okolie on 3 February 2018 at the O2 Arena in a Sky Sports card headlined "British Beef", losing a wide unanimous decision after having been knocked down twice. In preparation for the fight, Chamberlain visited Ukraine to spar with cruiserweights Oleksandr Usyk and Mateusz Masternak. Chamberlain has worked as a sparring partner for former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. Sky Sports Sky Sports is a group of British broadcasting of sports events, subscription sports channels operated by the satellite television, satellite pay televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikael Lawal
Mikael Lawal is a British professional boxer who held the British cruiserweight title from 27 November 2022 until October 2023. Early life Lawal was born in Lagos, Nigeria but moved to the UK at age 1. He lived in the UK until the age of 13 when he moved back to Nigeria with his mother, who died a short while later. Lawal, then aged 14, moved in with his birth father and his stepmother. He claims he did not get along with his stepmother, who he has said told his father lies about him so that he would be beaten. Eventually Lawal says he ran away from home, where he lived on the streets for a short period before visiting the British High Commission, after which he was placed in an orphanage, before eventually receiving a temporary passport and returning to the UK at age 16. Lawal began living in a hostel, where his key worker referred him to boxing as a means to deal with his behaviour and anger issues. He immediately took an interest to the sport but after a while began to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Billam-Smith
Chris Billam-Smith (born 2 August 1990) is an English professional boxer. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) cruiserweight title from 2023 to 2024. At regional level, he held the European, British, and Commonwealth cruiserweight titles between 2019 and 2022. Amateur career After training on and off as a youngster, Smith began to take boxing seriously at the age of 16. During a career in which he compiled a record of 32–11 while representing Poole ABC, he fought in several ABA Championships, reaching the finals in 2013 and 2016; losing to C.Harrington 90 kg and losing out to Jack Massey at 86 kg and Cheavon Clarke at 91 kg respectively. Professional career Billam-Smith made his professional debut on 16 September 2017 under the tutelage of Shane McGuigan, scoring a first-round technical knockout (TKO) victory over Russ Henshaw at the O2 Academy in Bournemouth, Dorset. After compiling a record of 9–0 (8 KO), he faced fellow undefeated British prosp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Riakporhe
Richard Riakporhe (born 5 January 1990) is a professional boxer who held the British Boxing Board of Control, British Cruiserweight (boxing), cruiserweight title from 2019 to 2020. Early life Born on 5 January 1990 to Nigerian parents, Richard Riakporhe grew up on the Aylesbury Estate in Walworth, London. At the age of 15, he was stabbed in the chest outside a house party, requiring emergency surgery to drain his lungs of blood. Riakporhe had a late start to boxing; first stepping into a gym, the Lynn ABC, at the age of 19. Alongside boxing as an amateur he continued in pursuit of further education, studying at college and eventually moving on to Kingston University in south west London, earning a degree in marketing communications and advertising in 2015. Professional career Riakporhe made his professional debut on 6 August 2016, scoring a four-round points decision (PTS) victory over Jason Jones at the York Hall in London. Following a second win in 2016 – a technical knockou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Okolie
Lawrence Okolie (born 16 December 1992) is a British professional boxer. He has held world championships in two weight classes, including the World Boxing Council (WBC) bridgerweight title in 2024, and the World Boxing Organization (WBO) cruiserweight title from 2021 to 2023. At regional level, he held the Commonwealth title twice between 2018 and 2019; the British title from 2018 to 2019; and the European title in 2019. Personal life Okolie was born in Hackney, London to Nigerian parents of Igbo descent. He grew up in Stoke Newington and attended Stoke Newington School. While watching Anthony Joshua fighting in the 2012 Summer Olympics super heavyweight final, he decided to take boxing seriously and set a goal to make the 2016 Olympics. He is a supporter of BoxWise, a UK-based non-profit social enterprise based around boxing. Amateur career Okolie represented Team GB as a heavyweight at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He beat Igor Pawel Jakubowski from Poland on points and made it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matty Askin
Matthew Askin (born 24 December 1988) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2008 to 2018. He held the British cruiserweight title from 2017 to 2018 and challenged once for the Commonwealth cruiserweight title in 2015. Amateur career Askin boxed for the Pool of Life Amateur Boxing Club and was crowned the 2008 Senior ABA champion at cruiserweight. Professional career Askin turned professional in November 2008 after signing with promoter Steve Wood and defeated Paul Bonson at The Tower Ballroom in Blackpool Blackpool is a seaside town in Lancashire, England. It is located on the Irish Sea coast of the Fylde peninsula, approximately north of Liverpool and west of Preston, Lancashire, Preston. It is the main settlement in the Borough of Blackpool .... In January 2009 he signed with promoter Ricky Hatton and has since taken his record to 11 wins without defeat. During 2011 Sky Sports short listed Askin as a prospect to watch in 2011. In March 2011 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ovill McKenzie
Ovill McKenzie (born 26 November 1979) is a Jamaican-British former professional boxer who competed from 2003 to 2015. He challenged once for the IBF cruiserweight title in 2015. At regional level, he held the Commonwealth light heavyweight title twice between 2006 and 2013, and the British and Commonwealth cruiserweight titles from 2014 to 2015. Professional career McKenzie's professional career begun on 6 March 2003, with a victory over fellow debutant Leigh Alliss at Ashton Gate the home of Bristol City. He followed this victory up 10 April 2003, with a win over Welshman Nathan King in Wales. However, three straight defeats followed his initial winning start and he registered losses to Pinky Burton, Peter Haymer and Courtney Fry before finishing 2003 with a victory over Edwin Cleary to finish his inaugural year as a pro, with a record of 3-3. His second year of professional boxing saw another set of mixed results, fighting five times in 2004, he lost on three occasions, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
