Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is a retired United StatesAmerican Boxingboxer. He was the List of undisputed
boxing champions#Heavyweightundisputed heavyweight champion and remains the youngest man ever to win the World Boxing CouncilWBC,
World Boxing AssociationWBA and International Boxing FederationIBF world heavyweight titles. He won the WBC title at just
20 years, 4 months and 22 days old, after defeating Trevor Berbick by a TKO in the second round.
Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 - April 12, 1981), better known as Joe Louis, was the world List of Heavyweight Championsheavyweight
boxing champion from 1937 to 1949. Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, Louis helped elevate boxing from a nadir in popularity in the
post-Jack Dempsey era by establishing a reputation as an honest, hardworking fighter at a time when the sport was dominated
by gambling interests.
Oscar De La Hoya (born February 4, 1973) — nicknamed "The Golden Boy" — is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. He
won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel
Sr. , and brother Joel Jr. were all boxers. De La Hoya was Ring Magazine's "Fighter of the Year" in 1995 and Ring Magazine's
top-rated Pound for Pound fighter in the world in 1997.
George Edward Foreman is an American two-time former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic gold medalist, and famously
successful entrepreneur. He became the oldest man ever to become heavyweight boxing champion of the world when, at age 45,
he knocked out Michael Moorer, to reclaim the title he held 20 years earlier. He has been named one of the 25 greatest fighters
of all time by Ring magazine.
Evander Holyfield (born October 19, 1962) is a professional boxingboxer from the United States and a multiple world champion
in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal". Holyfield won the bronze medal
in the Light Heavyweight division at the 1984 Summer Olympics after a controversial disqualification in the semifinal. He
is the only boxer to win the heavyweight title four times.
Sugar Ray Leonard (born Ray Charles Leonard on May 17, 1956) is a retired American professional boxer . Named Fighter of the
Decade for the 1980s, he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time, winning world titles at multiple weights
and engaging in contests with such celebrated opponents as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler.
He was named after the singing legend Ray Charles. Leonard was given the nickname "Sugar" by his wife Juanita Wilkinson.
