Richard Hall (born 25 October 1971) Jamaican former
professional boxer
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who competed from 1993 to 2013. He held the interim
WBA light heavyweight
Light heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports.
Boxing
Professional
In professional boxing, the division is above and up to , falling between super middleweight and cruiserweight (boxing), cruiserweight.
The light heavyweight class has ...
title, and challenged for world titles three times.
Career
Hall won the interim
World Boxing Association
The World Boxing Association (WBA), formerly known as the National Boxing Association (NBA), is an international professional boxing organization based in Panama. The WBA awards its world championship title at the professional level.
Founded ...
light heavyweight title against
Anthony Bigeni and lost other world title bids against
Roy Jones Jr.
Roy Levesta Jones Jr. (born January 16, 1969) is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight. As an amateur he r ...
and
Dariusz Michalczewski
Dariusz Tomasz Michalczewski (born 5 May 1968) is a Polish-German professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2005. He held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the WBA, IBF, WBO and lineal light heavyweight titles ...
(twice).
Hall has also fought
Byron Mitchell,
Denton Daley
Denton Eric Daley (born March 18, 1982) is a Canadian former professional boxer who competed from 2010 to 2017. He challenged for the WBA interim cruiserweight title in 2014 and at regional level held the WBC- NABF, Canadian, and Commonwealth ...
and
O'Neil Bell.
Professional boxing record
See also
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List of southpaw stance boxers
This is a list of southpaw stance boxers. Southpaw is a boxing term that designates the stance where the boxer has his right hand and right foot forward, leading with right jabs, and following with a left cross right hook. Southpaw is the normal s ...
References
External links
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1971 births
Living people
Jamaican male boxers
Boxers from Kingston, Jamaica
Southpaw boxers
Cruiserweight boxers
Light-heavyweight boxers