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Middleweight
Middleweight is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Professional In professional boxing, the middleweight division is contested above and up to . Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the Bare-knuckle boxing, bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler (boxer), Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1867. Chandler won, becoming known as the American middleweight champion. The first middleweight fight with gloves ''may'' have been between George Fulljames and Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey (no relation to the more famous heavyweight Jack Dempsey). Current world champions Current world rankings =''The Ring''= As of April 29, 2025. Keys: : Current ''The Ring (magazine), The Ring'' world champion =BoxRec= As of , . Longest reigning world middleweight champions Below is a list of longest reigning middleweight champions in boxing measured by the individual's lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennady Golovkin
Gennadiy Gennadyevich Golovkin (; also spelled Gennady; born 8 April 1982), often known by his nickname "GGG" or "Triple G", is a Kazakhstani professional boxer. He has held multiple middleweight world championships, and is a two-time former unified champion. He held the World Boxing Association (WBA) (Super version), World Boxing Council (WBC) and International Boxing Federation (IBF) titles at varying points between 2014 and 2023, and challenged once for the undisputed super middleweight championship in 2022. He is also a former International Boxing Organization (IBO) middleweight champion, having held the title twice between 2011 and 2023. Golovkin was ranked as the world's best boxer, pound for pound, from September 2017 to September 2018 by '' The Ring'' magazine. He was also ranked as the world's best active middleweight by ''The Ring'', Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, ESPN, and BoxRec. In 2010, Golovkin won the WBA interim middleweight title by defeating Milton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins Jr. (born January 15, 1965) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2016. He is one of the most successful boxers of the past three decades, having held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the undisputed championship at middleweight from 2001 to 2005, and the lineal championship at light heavyweight from 2011 to 2012. Hopkins first became a world champion by winning the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) middleweight title in 1995. He compiled 20 defenses against 17 opponents, with 19 wins as a result of his no-contest bout against Robert Allen. In 2001, Hopkins successfully unified the middleweight division by defeating Félix Trinidad to win the World Boxing Association (WBA) ( Super version), World Boxing Council (WBC), ''Ring'' magazine and lineal titles. A victory over Oscar De La Hoya for the World Boxing Organization (WBO) title in 2004 cemented Hopkins' status as undisputed champion, while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Eubank Jr
Christopher Livingstone Eubank Jr. (born 18 September 1989) is a British professional boxer. He has held the International Boxing Organization (IBO) middleweight title since 2024. Previously, he held the World Boxing Association (WBA) interim middleweight title twice between 2015 and 2021. He also held the (IBO) super-middleweight title twice between 2017 and 2019. At regional level, he held the British middleweight title in 2016. He is the son of former two-division world champion boxer, Chris Eubank Sr. Early life Eubank Jr. was born in Hove, East Sussex, the son of boxer Chris Eubank and Karron Suzanne Stephen-Martin. He was a pupil at Brighton College, Shoreham College for one year, and Spring Valley High School in Las Vegas for two years. Eubank featured alongside his father in the reality TV series '' At Home with the Eubanks''. At the age of 16, Eubank Jr. and his brother Sebastian (1991–2021) moved to the United States to live with a guardian named Irene Hutton. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jermall Charlo
Jermall Charlo (; born May 19, 1990) is an American professional boxer. He has held world championships in two weight classes, including the International Boxing Federation (IBF) light middleweight title from 2015 to 2017 and the World Boxing Council (WBC) middleweight title from 2019 to 2024. His identical twin brother, Jermell Charlo, is also a professional boxer who was the undisputed light middleweight world champion. Early life Jermall is older than his identical twin Jermell by one minute. Both brothers are graduates of Alief Hastings High School in Houston, Texas. Amateur career They began boxing when they started following their father, himself a former boxer, into the gym. As an amateur, Jermall was hopeful for a spot on the 2008 U.S. Olympic team but was forced to back out due to a toe injury. He competed in the amateur ranks for one more year and finished with a record of 65 wins and 6 losses. Professional career Light middleweight Early career On August 12, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erislandy Lara
Erislandy Lara Santoya (born 11 April 1983) is a Cuban-American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight title since 2023 ( Regular version from 2021 to 2023). Previously he held the WBA super welterweight title (Regular and Super versions) between 2014 and 2021. In a career lasting over 16 years, Lara has long been regarded as one of the world's most technically skilled boxers. He was captain of the Cuban national amateur team, winning a welterweight gold medal at the 2005 World Championships as well as three consecutive Cuban national championships from 2005 to 2007. Amateur career In 2003 and 2004, Lara lost four times against two-time world champion Lorenzo Aragón. In 2005 after Aragon stepped down, Lara bested his countryman Yudel Jhonson Cedeno repeatedly and was sent to the world championships. There he avenged an earlier loss to Russian Andrey Balanov, beat Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Munguía
Jaime Aarón Munguía Escobedo (born 6 October 1996) is a Mexican professional boxer. He held the WBO junior middleweight title from 2018 to 2019. Professional career Light middleweight Munguía vs. Ali Munguía turned professional in 2013 and compiled a record of 28-0 before challenging and beating American Sadam Ali on 12 May 2018 for the WBO junior middleweight title. Munguía vs. Smith In his first defense on 21 July 2018, Munguía scored a unanimous decision victory over former light middleweight champion Liam Smith, with scores of 119-108, 117-110 and 116-111. Munguía had knocked Smith down in the sixth round. Munguía vs. Cook Munguía scored a third-round technical knockout victory against Brandon Cook on the undercard of Canelo Álvarez vs Gennady Golovkin II on 15 September 2018 for another successful defense of his world title. Munguía vs. Hogan On 13 April 2019, Munguía returned to defend his title against mandatory challenger Dennis Hogan. Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janibek Alimkhanuly
Janibek Alimkhanuly (also spelled as Zhanibek Alimkhanuly, born 1 April 1993) is a Kazakh professional boxer and unified middleweight champion who has held the WBO title since 2022, and the IBF title since October 2023. As an amateur, he won gold medals at the 2013 World Championships, 2013 Asian Championships and 2014 Asian Games. He also represented Kazakhstan at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the middleweight division, losing in the quarter-finals. He won the WBO Interim middleweight title on May 21, 2022, before being elevated to full champion on August 30, 2022, and he then won the IBF title on October 14, 2023. Early life Alimkhanuly began boxing at the age of six because of his father and grandfather's love of the sport. His first fight was at six and he lost that match. Professional career Early career Alimkhanuly made his professional debut in 29 Oct 2016 against Milton Núñez, a former opponent of Alimkhanuly's fellow countryman Gennady Golovkin, on 29 October 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamzah Sheeraz
Muhammad Hamzah Sheeraz (born 25 May 1999) is a British professional boxer. He has challenged once for the WBC middleweight title in February 2025. At regional level, he held the European and Commonwealth middleweight titles between 2022 and 2024. Early life Sheeraz was born on 25 May 1999 in Slough in Berkshire, England into a British Asian family. His paternal family belongs to the Janjua clan of Muslim Rajputs, originating in the village of Matore, in the Kahuta Tehsil of Rawalpindi District in Punjab, Pakistan. His father is Kamran Sheeraz, a cricketer who played for Gloucestershire, while his paternal grandfather and uncle were both boxers, the latter winning ten national amateur titles for the Slough and Pinewood Star clubs. His mother is of Muslim Indian descent. Amateur career Sheeraz was first directed to a gym by his uncle at the age of eight and had his first bout at 12. He went on to become a three-time finalist at the national junior championships. However, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryōta Murata
is a Japanese former professional boxer who competed from 2013 to 2022. He held the WBA (Regular) middleweight title twice between 2017 and 2021, and the WBA (Super) middleweight title from 2021 to 2022. As an amateur, he won a silver medal at the 2011 World Championships, and gold the following year at the 2012 Olympics. Amateur career Murata started boxing in the first grade of junior high school. His then trainer was Hiroaki Takami, who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Two years later, he started attending Shinko Boxing Gym in Osaka from his home in Nara City. He was trained under the former Japanese super lightweight champion Hiromu Kuwata at that gym for one year. He proceeded to Minami-Kyoto High School and was coached there by Maekawa Takemoto, who served as the coach of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Murata went on to capture five national titles. Takemoto died in 2010, at the age of 50. However, after his admission to Toyo University, he suffered a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Ryan
Tommy Ryan (born Joseph Youngs; March 31, 1870 – August 3, 1948) was an American-Canadian World Welterweight and World Middleweight boxing champion who fought from 1887 to 1907. His simultaneously holding records in both weight classes was a rare and impressive feat for a boxer. His record is a topic that has been up for debate for decades. As of May 2021, Boxrec.com lists his official record as 82–2–13 (68KO). The International Boxing Hall of Fame lists his record as 86–3–6 (22KO). Others list his record anywhere from 86–3–6 (68KO), to 90–6–11 (70KO), to 84–2–11 (70KO). Some historians have even speculated that he held closer to 90 knockouts. Ryan was posthumously inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the class of 1991. Boxing career Ryan was considered by many one of the greatest Middleweights in boxing history. He was the World Middleweight Champion from 1898 to 1906. Some of his opponents included Mysterious Billy Smith, Kid McCoy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Zerafa
Michael Zerafa (born 25 March 1992) is an Australian professional boxer. He held the Commonwealth light middleweight title in 2018. Boxing career Early in his career, he was the Victorian super-welterweight champion. Zerafa vs. Magomedov On 24 October 2014, he lost to Arif Magomedov in his first fight outside Australia when challenging for the WBO Youth and Asia Pacific middleweight titles. Zerafa vs. Quillin On 12 September 2015, he lost via knockout to Peter Quillin in his second fight outside Australia. The impact of the knockout caused him to leave the arena on a stretcher. Zerafa vs. Kirima On 22 April 2016, Zerafa defeated Yosuke Kirima for the IBF Pan Pacific middleweight title. Zerafa vs. Brook On 5 November 2018, it was announced Zerafa would face Kell Brook at the Sheffield Arena on 8 December 2018, in a WBA super-welterweight title eliminator. He lost the fight via unanimous decision. Zerafa vs. Sherrington On 12 April 2019, Zerafa returned home to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Adames
Carlos Adames (born 7 May 1994) is a Dominican professional boxer. He has held the World Boxing Council (WBC) middleweight title since 2024. Professional career Adames represented the Dominican Republic in the World Series of Boxing between 2014 and 2015, accumulating a 4–2 record. Adames vs. Souffrant Adames made his professional debut in July 2015, defeating Jeff Souffrant by unanimous decision after four rounds. Adames vs. Figueroa Adames won the vacant WBA Fedecaribe welterweight title in his seventh bout, beating Kelly Figueroa. Adames vs. Lopez He won another vacant title in his next fight, defeating Patrick Lopez with a fourth-round technical knockout for the WBA Fedelatin title. Adames vs. Molina In July 2017, he defeated welterweight contender Carlos Molina by unanimous decision (110–98, 110–98, 109–99) after eleven rounds. Adames put on a dominant performance, dropping Molina in round two and outclassing him through the rest of the fight. However, the fig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
