"defence against Eric ""Butterbean"" Esch at the Syndicate nightclub in Blackpool, England. American former world heavyweight champion, Tim Witherspoon made a guest appearance. Gavin 'One Armed Bandit' Nicholls cruised through the rankings with two impressive performances on home turf in 2012. The rest of the middleweight division didn't want no aggro so he was crowned champion by Default. European Boxing Federation The European Boxing Federation (EBF) is a boxing governing body and sanctioning organisation created in 2005. Although the organisation is called European it lists its title holders as world champions. The organisation is based mainly in the United Kingdom"
"was named the #1 heavyweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization. In 2007, he was ranked #4 on ESPN.com's 50 Greatest Boxers of all-time list. In 2002 ""The Ring"" ranked Louis #4 on their 80 best fighters of the last 80 years list. Louis was also ranked #1 on ""The Ring""s list of 100 Greatest Punchers of All Time. Louis is also remembered in sports outside of boxing. An indoor sports venue is named after him in Detroit, the Joe Louis Arena, where the Detroit Red Wings played their NHL games from 1979 to 2017. In 1936,"
"Eric Boon Eric Boon (28 December 1919 – 19 January 1981) was a champion British lightweight boxer. Born in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, he was known by the nicknames Boy Boon and the Fen Tiger. Of a total of 119 fights, he won 92 (KO 62), lost 21 (KO 13) and drew 5. He beat Dave Crowley on 15 December 1938 to become British Lightweight Champion, a title he held for three years until 12 August 1944. His match against Arthur Danahar from the Harringay Arena was the first televised boxing match, broadcast on BBC television and shown live in several cinemas"
"on March 28, 1999, knocking his opponent out in 34 seconds. After his five-year winning streak was brought to an end with a majority decision defeat by heavyweight Billy Zumbrun in August 2001, he fought his first ten rounder against fifty-two-year-old former world heavyweight champion Larry Holmes at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia on July 27, 2002. While Holmes won a unanimous decision, Esch was credited with a controversial knockdown in the final round, which was later shown in filmed replays as not being a knockdown, no punch having landed, and it was a slip; and Holmes only reeled"
"Archie Moore Archie Moore (born Archibald Lee Wright; December 13, 1916 – December 9, 1998) was an American professional boxer and the longest reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion of all time (December 1952 – May 1962). He had one of the longest professional careers in the history of the sport, competing from 1935 to 1963. Nicknamed ""The Mongoose"", and then ""The Old Mongoose"" in the latter half of his career, Moore was a highly strategical and defensive boxer, with a great chin and durability. Archie Moore ranks fourth on ""The Ring""s list of ""100 greatest punchers of all time"". Moore"
"divorced in 2017. In 2015, Eubank adopted the nickname of his deceased father, ""English"", to privately perpetuate his memory and to publicly differentiate himself from the budding boxing career of his son Chris Jr. Chris Eubank Christopher Livingstone Eubank (born 8 August 1966) is a British professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 1998. He held the WBO middleweight and super-middleweight titles, and is ranked by BoxRec as the fourth best British super-middleweight boxer of all time. He reigned as world champion for over five years, was undefeated in his first ten years as a professional, and remained undefeated at"
"Possibly Bostice's greatest claim to fame is his being featured as a boxer on the line up of EAs Knockout Kings 2001 for the PlayStation and PS2. David Bostice David Bostice (born April 3, 1972, in Los Angeles, California) is an American heavyweight boxer. Nicknamed ""The Boss"", Bostice is known for being a regular fighter on ESPN fight cards, and is a heavyweight clubfighter who fought several significant fighters of his era. Bostice turned pro in 1996 and was relegated to being a heavyweight journeyman after a loss to Wladimir Klitschko in 2000. Bostice is often used as a gatekeeper"
"the opportunity to fight for a world title. </ref>http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/38283</ref> Holmes was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2008. Larry Holmes Larry Holmes (born November 3, 1949) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to 2002. He grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, which gave birth to his boxing nickname of ""The Easton Assassin"". Holmes, whose left jab is rated among the best in boxing history, held the WBC heavyweight title from 1978 to 1983, ""The Ring"" magazine and lineal heavyweight titles from 1980 to 1985, and the inaugural IBF heavyweight title from 1983 to 1985."
"Electroshock (wrestler) Edgar Luna Pozos (born April 22, 1970) is a Mexican ""Luchador"" or professional wrestler best known under the ring name Electroshock, which he has used while working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) since 1997. Pozos is married to ""luchadora"" Lady Apache and is the brother of Luchador Charly Manson. As Electroshock Pozos has been a member of the groups Los Vipers, ""La Legión Extranjera"" and ""Los Wagnermaniacos"". He is the winner of the 2009 ""Rey de Reyes"" (""King of Kings"") tournament and a one-time AAA Mega Champion. Edgar Pozos was born in"
"Karl Gotch Charles Istaz (August 3, 1924 – July 28, 2007) was a Belgian professional wrestler and trainer, best known by his ring name Karl Gotch. In Japan, Gotch was known as the ""God of Wrestling"" due to his influence in shaping the Japanese professional wrestling style. Istaz was born in Antwerp, Belgium, but grew up in Hamburg, Germany. He learned Greco-Roman wrestling in his early years and from the beginning he was a very well known sportsman. He wrestled in ""The Hippodroom"", a notable sports center in Antwerp, where amateur fights like boxing matches, savate matches and wrestling matches"
"Erick Stevens Eric Koenreich (born March 12, 1982) is an American former professional wrestler. He is best known by his ring name Erick Stevens and for his time Ring of Honor. Stevens debuted in May 2003 after completing his training with Roderick Strong. He began working for the now defunct NWA Florida promotion and eventually won the 2005 Rage in the Cage, an annual cage match battle royal that rewarded the winner with a heavyweight championship shot. Before Stevens could capitalize and challenge then champion Bruce Santee for the belt, however, the promotion folded. Shortly after Stevens was involved in"
"Eddie Edwards (wrestler) Eric Maher (born December 30, 1983) is an American professional wrestler signed to Impact Wrestling under the ring name Eddie Edwards, where he is a former one-time Impact World Champion, two-time X Division Champion and a five-time World Tag Team Champion with Davey Richards. Edwards has also wrestled for Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a former World Champion, the inaugural Television Champion and a two-time World Tag Team Champion with his partner Davey Richards as The American Wolves. He won ROH's Survival of the Fittest tournament in November 2010 which propelled him to win the"
"the following year, but made repeated comebacks. He was unsuccessful in three further attempts (against Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Oliver McCall) to regain the heavyweight title, the last in 1995. Holmes fought for the final time in 2002, against the 334lb Eric ""Butterbean"" Esch, and ended his career with a record of 69 wins and 6 losses. He is frequently ranked as one of the greatest heavyweights of all time and has been inducted into both the International Boxing Hall of Fame and World Boxing Hall of Fame. Holmes was the fourth of twelve children born to John and"
"greatest boxer of all time by sportswriters, fellow boxers, and trainers. The phrase ""pound for pound"", was created by sportswriters for him during his career as a way to compare boxers irrespective of weight. Hall of Fame fighters such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Roberto Durán and Sugar Ray Leonard have ranked Robinson as the greatest pound-for-pound boxer in history. In 1997, ""The Ring"" ranked him as the best pound-for-pound fighter in history, and in 1999 he was named ""welterweight of the century"", ""middleweight of the century"", and overall ""fighter of the century"" by the Associated Press. In 2007 ESPN.com"
"lightest divisions from Minimumweight (105 lbs), Light Flyweight (108 lbs), Flyweight (112 lbs) to Super Flyweight (115 lbs). Gamez did it on October 9, 2000. Some boxers have managed to win four titles and become Quintuple Champions. Quadruple champion In different sports when a sportsman wins four crowns, titles, medals, belts or another distinctions is called a Quadruple Champion. In boxing, a quadruple champion is a boxer who has won world titles in four different weight classes. The first ever man to earn that enormous distinction was Thomas Hearns on October 29, 1987. Hearns won his first four titles at"
"Larry Holmes Larry Holmes (born November 3, 1949) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to 2002. He grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, which gave birth to his boxing nickname of ""The Easton Assassin"". Holmes, whose left jab is rated among the best in boxing history, held the WBC heavyweight title from 1978 to 1983, ""The Ring"" magazine and lineal heavyweight titles from 1980 to 1985, and the inaugural IBF heavyweight title from 1983 to 1985. He made 20 successful title defenses, placing him third all time, behind only Joe Louis at 25 and Wladimir Klitschko at"
"Lance Von Erich William Kevin Vaughan (born April 24, 1960) is a retired American professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Lance Von Erich. Vaughan started wrestling in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)'s Pacific Northwest territory as Ricky Vaughan in 1984. He feuded with Bobby Jaggers. In October 1985, when Mike Von Erich was unable to wrestle due to toxic shock syndrome, Vaughan went to World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) to take his place in the feud against the Fabulous Freebirds. He adopted the name Lance Von Erich and was billed as the son of Fritz Von Erich's ""brother"""
"28, 2007 in Tampa, Florida at the age of 82. Karl Gotch Charles Istaz (August 3, 1924 – July 28, 2007) was a Belgian professional wrestler and trainer, best known by his ring name Karl Gotch. In Japan, Gotch was known as the ""God of Wrestling"" due to his influence in shaping the Japanese professional wrestling style. Istaz was born in Antwerp, Belgium, but grew up in Hamburg, Germany. He learned Greco-Roman wrestling in his early years and from the beginning he was a very well known sportsman. He wrestled in ""The Hippodroom"", a notable sports center in Antwerp, where"
"in the late 1980s. In what would be his final fight, in 2003, Lewis defeated Vitali Klitschko in a bloody encounter. He vacated his remaining titles and retired from boxing in 2004. Lewis often referred to himself as ""the pugilist specialist"". He was tall, with an reach, and weighed about during his boxing prime. He is regarded by many as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time, and one of the greatest British fighters of all time. He has the fourth longest combined title streak in post-war heavyweight history at 15 title bouts. In 1999 he was named"
"Ed Lewis (wrestler) Robert Herman Julius Friedrich (June 30, 1891 – August 8, 1966), better known by the ring name Ed ""Strangler"" Lewis, was an American professional wrestler. During his professional wrestling career, which spanned four decades, Lewis was a four-time World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Born in Nekoosa, Wisconsin, Friedrich began wrestling at the age of 14, using the ring name Ed ""Strangler"" Lewis, first in Louisville, Kentucky in tribute of 1890s star Evan ""Strangler"" Lewis. It was also stated in the A&E documentary ""The Unreal Story of Professional Wrestling"" that he was dubbed the Strangler after a match in"
"fist, he often defeated the contender often by knocked out with a fist. He received the nickname from Muay Thai fans """"ไอ้หมัดไซโคลนนรก"""" (""Ai-Mud-Cyclone-Na-Rok""; lit: ""Fist of the Hell Cyclone"") Because his fists were effective. He was backed by his promoter Songchai, to turn to professional boxing career in 1994 along with Pichit Chor Siriwat in junior flyweight division by Cuba's Ismael Salas is a trainer. He made four wins and was won vacant PABA super flyweight with a Russian boxer and defeated the title once, including five consecutive wins. On August 24, 1996 he challenge the WBA super flyweight world"
"Érik Morales Érik Isaac Morales Elvira (; born September 1, 1976) is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2012. He is the first Mexican-born boxer in history to win world titles in four different weight classes, having held the WBC super bantamweight title from 1997 to 2000; the WBC featherweight twice between 2001 and 2003; the unified WBC and IBF super featherweight titles in 2004; and the WBC super lightweight title from 2011 to 2012. Morales defeated fifteen world champions during the course of his career, and is famous for his trilogies with fellow Mexican legend"
"Fritz Von Erich Jack Barton Adkisson Sr. (August 16, 1929 – September 10, 1997) was an American professional wrestler known more under the ring name Fritz Von Erich, better known today as a wrestling promoter and the patriarch of the Von Erich family. He was also the owner of the World Class Championship Wrestling territory. Adkisson attended Southern Methodist University, where he threw discus and played football. He has been reported to have played with the now defunct Dallas Texans of the NFL (not the AFL team which became the Kansas City Chiefs), but this is not true. He was"
"1973. He was represented at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony by his elderly daughter, Julia Weiss. Mickey Welch Michael Francis Welch (July 4, 1859 – July 30, 1941), nicknamed ""Smiling Mickey"", was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He stood tall and weighed . He was the third pitcher to accumulate 300 career victories. Welch was born in Brooklyn, New York, and played 13 seasons in the major leagues, three with the Troy Trojans, and 10 with the New York Gothams/Giants. He was very successful with an effective curveball, a change of pace, and a version of the screwball. During"
"Earl Caddock Earl Caddock (February 27, 1888 – August 25, 1950) was an American professional wrestler and World Heavyweight Champion who was active in the early portion of the twentieth century. As the first man to bill himself as ""The Man of 1,000 Holds"" (a nickname used many times since), Caddock was one of professional wrestling's biggest stars between the years of 1915 and 1922. Earl Caddock was born February 27, 1888 in Huron, South Dakota to parents of German Jewish heritage. His family name may have been ""Caddach,"" ""Craddock,"" or ""Caddack,"" but he used the spelling ""Caddock"" exclusively throughout"
"Ernie Richardson (curler) Ernest M. Richardson, CM (born August 4, 1931) is a four-time Canadian and world curling champion. Richardson mainly curled with his brother and two cousins, until an injury forced him to replace one of his cousins. He was nicknamed ""The King"", and has been inducted into the World Curling Federation Hall of Fame, the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame. Richardson was the skip of the Regina-based team made up of his brother Garnet and cousins Arnold and Wes during the late 1950s and early 1960s. In 1963, Wes Richardson was"
"Thomas Hearns Thomas ""Tommy"" Hearns (born October 18, 1958) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 2006. Nicknamed the ""Motor City Cobra"", and more famously ""The Hitman"", Hearns' tall and slender build allowed him to move up over fifty pounds in his career and become the first boxer in history to win world titles in four weight divisions: welterweight, light middleweight, middleweight, and light heavyweight. By later winning a super middleweight title, he also became the first to win world titles in five weight divisions. Hearns was named Fighter of the Year by ""The Ring"" magazine"
"reigns. Ric Flair holds the record with nine championship reigns. Lou Thesz holds the record for most cumulative days as champion, with his three reigns totaling 3,749 days. Thesz's first reign of 1,941 days is the longest in the history of the title. The shortest reign belongs to Shane Douglas, who won the title in a tournament at an August 27, 1994 Eastern Championship Wrestling event, but refused the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and threw the belt down, declaring his ECW title to be a world championship in an action that split Eastern Championship Wrestling from the NWA and brought"
"3rd Street, and a statue is at 438 Bridge Street Northwest. The Ketchel Valley neighborhood on Grand Rapids' west side is named in Ketchel's honor. Ketchel is now enshrined in the International Boxing Hall Of Fame. ""The Ring"" in 2004 ranked Ketchel as the eighth-greatest middleweight of all time, behind Harry Greb, Sugar Ray Robinson, Carlos Monzon, Marvin Hagler, Jake LaMotta, Charley Burley, and Tiger Flowers. ""The Ring"" also named Ketchel number six on their list of 100 Best Punchers of All Time. Nat Fleischer, the late ring historian and founding editor of ""The Ring"", considered Stanley to be the"
"Several years later, he managed to defeat world-rated contender, Robbie Epps to earn a ranking of seventh in the world from ""Ring Magazine"" and eighth in the world, from the WBA. ""Irish"" Teddy Mann ""Irish"" Teddy Mann (born September 5, 1951) is the professional nickname of former world-rated middleweight boxing pro, Theodore A. Mannschreck, also known as Ted ""The Irish"" Man. Born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, he moved to the Forked River section of Lacey Township, New Jersey while very young, and it was there that he first developed his lifelong love for the sport of boxing. As an"
"<br> Everett Marshall Everett Marshall (November 4, 1905 - February 10, 1973) was an American professional wrestler who was best known for his work in the late 1930s with what is now National Wrestling Alliance. His ring name was the Blonde Bear. Everett Marshall was born on November 4, 1905 in La Junta, Colorado . His finisher was The Airplane Spin and he liked to use Armlocks and Armpulls. He had a wonderful career of 22 years. He is best known for his work with National Wrestling Alliance. He started his first stint with Midwest Wrestling Association where he won"
"Mickey Welch Michael Francis Welch (July 4, 1859 – July 30, 1941), nicknamed ""Smiling Mickey"", was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He stood tall and weighed . He was the third pitcher to accumulate 300 career victories. Welch was born in Brooklyn, New York, and played 13 seasons in the major leagues, three with the Troy Trojans, and 10 with the New York Gothams/Giants. He was very successful with an effective curveball, a change of pace, and a version of the screwball. During his 13 major league seasons, he posted 20 or more wins nine times, seven in succession. Welch"
"on Prospect Avenue. In 2002, Lewis was voted in by professional wrestlers, historians and writers and inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in Amsterdam, New York. Ed Lewis (wrestler) Robert Herman Julius Friedrich (June 30, 1891 – August 8, 1966), better known by the ring name Ed ""Strangler"" Lewis, was an American professional wrestler. During his professional wrestling career, which spanned four decades, Lewis was a four-time World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Born in Nekoosa, Wisconsin, Friedrich began wrestling at the age of 14, using the ring name Ed ""Strangler"" Lewis, first in Louisville, Kentucky in tribute of 1890s"