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	List of heavyweight boxing champions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jeffries was the first champion to relinquish the title, announcing his retirement and declaring that the winner of a match between Marvin Hart and Jack Root would be the next legitimate champion.
		All sanctioning bodies withdrew recognition of Ali as champion for his refusal to be inducted into the United States Army subsequent to being drafted in early 1967.
		In early 2000 the World Boxing Association and Lewis were sued by representatives of John Ruiz claiming that they had reneged on an agreement by which Ruiz would have fought Lewis for the WBA title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Heavyweight_Champions (888 words)

	Boxing's Heavyweight Champions Book by Richard Rainbolt - Gene Tunney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gene learned how to box because he was tired of being pushed around by neighborhood gangs.
		The bout was with an Australian heavyweight, and Tunney won by a knockout.
		He was as smart with his money as he was with his boxing skills.
	www.genetunney.org /heavyweight.html (691 words)

	Encyclopedia: Max Schmeling
		He was so affected that when he finally won the world Heavyweight crown in 1937, he said he would not consider himself a champion until he beat Schmeling in a rematch.
		A former New York boxing commissioner who had become a Coca-Cola executive offered him the postwar soft drink franchise in Germany, and he became a successful businessman and one of Germany's most respected philanthropists.
		He is a member of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame, and he compiled a record of 56 wins, 10 losses and 4 draws with 40 wins by knockout.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Max-Schmeling (3064 words)

	Heavyweight Boxing Champions \| Sport \| Pub Quiz Help
		Boxing has many ruling bodies, each of which has a world champion belt and title holder, so it can get quite confusing trying to follow who is the current world champion heavyweight boxer.
		Listed below are the past champions from 5 of the major boxing organisations since 1970.
		For clarity I've listed the champion boxers in a flowchart sort of way with the 5 boxing ruling bodies listed across the top and the consecutive boxing champs running down the columns in alternating dark and light colours.
	www.pubquizhelp.34sp.com /sport/boxing_champions.html (121 words)

	Boxing: Hot * Hot * Hot * Boxing on the Net
		Laila Ali, the daughter of perhaps the signature heavyweight champion of the last century, led a class of "famous daughters" into the sport of Women's boxing.
		Although she is reluctant to compare pro boxing with the Tough Woman competitions early in her fight career, the victories she gained in her Tough Woman days gave Shelley confidence which is a definite advantage in any sport.
		LAS VEGAS - The World Boxing Association's 84th annual convention is next week (October 31-November 5) in South Korea and WBA heavyweight champion John "The Quietman" Ruiz is petitioning the organization to mandate random testing for performance enhancing drugs and to maintain the current two-year bam from WBA ratings for any boxer who violates..
	www.hotboxingnews.com (6875 words)

	HickokSports.com - Sports History - Boxing: Heavyweight Champions
		One famous early heavyweight titlist, Bob Fitzsimmons, weighed only 167 pounds when he won the championship in 1897, and there were a couple of challengers for the title who weighed even less.
		However, that didn't prevent light heavyweight boxers from fighting for the heavyweight title; it simply meant that a fighter over 175 pounds could fight only as a heavyweight.
		Some other champions recognized by New York (NY), Great Britain (GBR), Europe and the European Boxing Union (EBU) are also included, if they seemed to be genuine claimants and /or later won recognition from an international body.
	www.hickoksports.com /history/boxchheavy.shtml (338 words)

	HickokSports.com - Sports History - Boxing: Light Heavyweight Champions
		On April 22, 1903, Root defeated Charles "Kid" McCoy to become the first light heavyweight champion, and the division has flourished ever since.
		This was the final of a tournament in Chicago to determine the new NBA champion
		Olin won general recognition as the light heavyweight champion.
	www.hickoksports.com /history/boxchltheavy.shtml (408 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Boxing \| Holyfield pledges to fight on
		Holyfield said on a visit to the All-Africa Games in Nigeria that his decision was based on a promise he made to his son.
		Holyfield insisted that despite his age, he is fit and in great shape to mix it up reigning champions Lennox Lewis, James Toney and Roy Jones Jr.
		Holyfield has not owned a title since losing the WBA crown to John Ruiz in 2001 and his only victory in three years came in June of 2002 when doctors forced Hasim Rahman to stop with a swollen bruise on his forehead.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/boxing/3198098.stm (235 words)

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	Boxingranks.com: Rankings poll, news, feature articles, message board, schedule, memorabilia auctions, surveys, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Former two-time WBC lightweight champion Jose Luis Castillo faces Rolando Reyes in the 12-round main event (contracted weight is 137 pounds) Saturday, Feb. 4, on SHOWTIME (9 p.m.
		ET/PT, delayed on the west coast), Kahren Harutyunyan faces Nonito Donaire for the vacant NABF super flyweight championship and undefeated, hard-hitting Tyrone Harris meets once-beaten, power-punching Israel Hernandez in an eight-round junior lightweight bout.
		Hometown favorite and one of the world’s best pound-for-pound boxers, undisputed welterweight champion Zab “Super” Judah, will put all his belts on the line against WBC No. 1 contender Carlos Baldomir in the main event at The Theater At Madison Square Garden.
	www.boxingranks.com (834 words)

	Tony Tubbs - Psychology Central
		Tony Tubbs was the World Boxing Association Heavyweight champion from 1985 to 1986.
		One of the Lost Generation of heavyweights that won titles in the 1980s, Tubbs had more ability than many of his contemperaries though he certainly did not rank with Larry Holmes or Mike Tyson as the best of that troubled decade.
		He was slated to go to the Olympics in 1980 but the boycott with the Soviets put a stop to his hopes.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Tony_Tubbs (714 words)

	PRIZEFIGHTINGBOOKS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The author provides a listing of a very large number of boxing books that have been written, along with brief descriptions of each one.
		Lastly, as a collector of boxing books I would always be interested to hear from anyone regarding boxing titles, or boxing book collections that you might have available for sale or trade, especially pre-1935 titles.
		Contents include the ring records of the participants, and round by round detail of the fight including drawings of the fighters for each round with dots to indicate where contestants were hit during that round, and a listing of champions from 1857 to 1897.
	www.prizefightingbooks.com (16927 words)

	British Chess Magazine: The Chess Shop and the Bridge Shop
		A short statement appears at his website and has been circulated to the world's chess press, as follows: “I would like to inform the chess community that due to health problems I shall not be able to participate in the Corus Chess Tournament 2006.
		Whilst on the subject of boxing: the Guardian today also has the story of the chess-playing world heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko's retirement from the sport.
		But there is still another world champion - Vladimir Kramnik, holder of the unofficial but more traditional version of the title by virtue of defeating the world's top player, Garry Kasparov, in 2000 and defending it against Peter Leko last year.
	www.bcmchess.co.uk (5180 words)

	World heavyweight boxing champions, who are the greatest? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		World heavyweight boxing champions, who are the greatest?
		Jack Johnson (The Galveston Giant - breakthrough style, smart, great defense, possibly the first of the “modern style” heavyweight champions)
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	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1008118/posts (435 words)

	All-Time Heavyweight Ratings 1881-NOW! Page
		The adaptation of such a system by the powers-that-be in the game would end the confusion of competing SUBJECTIVE Rating Systems.
		The fact that EVERY DECADE for the past 100 years has at least one champion in the top twenty (and the 1970's and 1930's have three each!) suggests the System works.
		This system was inspired by Bob Bordier's "BOXING REGISTRY RATING GUIDE".
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	Boxing's Heavyweight Champions
		Biographies of ten heavyweight prize fighters: John L. Sullivan, Jim Corbett, Robert Fitzsimmons, Jim Jeffries, Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, and Muhammad Ali.
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