Who was the first boxer to win three successive Olympic Heavyweight titles?
"each in athletics and judo (both of which were won by women). The most significant Cuban highlight of the Games came from Mijaín López, who successfully defended his super heavyweight title in Greco-Roman wrestling, matching a historic ""three-peat"" effort with Russian legend Alexander Karelin in the same sport category. Moreover, Lopez joined heavyweight boxers Teófilo Stevenson (1972–1980) and Félix Savón (1992–2000) as the only Cubans to ever achieve three successive Olympic titles. Boxers Robeisy Ramírez (bantamweight), Arlen López (middleweight), and Julio César La Cruz (light heavyweight) contributed three of the country's gold medals through their respective weight categories, while reigning"
"first triple champion of boxing was Bob Fitzsimmons when he added the Light Heavyweight (175 lbs) crown to his World Middleweight (160 lbs) and Heavyweight (200+ lbs) belts on November 25, 1903. Barney Ross was the first boxer to simultaneously hold world titles in two different weight classes when he won World Lightweight (135 lbs) title and World Light Welterweight (140 lbs) against Tony Canzoneri on June 23, 1933. Later Ross won the World Welterweight (147 lbs) Title from Jimmy McLarnin on May 28, 1934. Henry Armstrong was the first man to hold three titles in three divisions simultaneously. He"
"Olympics 6 consecutive heavyweight World Championships — Félix Savón Note: winner of 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals (1992–2000) 6 consecutive titles at World Championships — Ryoko Tani 31 fights 28 fights 22 fights — Megumi Fujii Longest unbeaten streak 37 fights (36 wins, 1 no contest) — Igor Vovchanchyn Since matches have predetermined outcomes, winning streaks in professional wrestling are orchestrated by the wrestling organizations. ""173 consecutive matches"" — Bill Goldberg Note: While the tally of 173 matches was listed by World Championship Wrestling as the legitimate total, it is fictitious number. WCW inflated the win count to make Goldberg"
"look more dominant. ""914 days unbeaten"" — Asuka 249+ matches 21 consecutive matches — The Undertaker, (known as The Streak) Note: Included 1 win via disqualification (1993). 3 consecutive Olympics titles (tie) 187 consecutive matches including 1964 Tokyo Olympics — Osamu Watanabe Note: The only modern Olympian to go unbeaten throughout his entire career. 6 consecutive Men's heavyweight Olympic titles — USSR Note: excluding boycotted Los Angeles Olympics 13 years including 3 consecutive Olympics titles (1988–1996) — Alexander Karelin 6 consecutive Men's heavyweight Olympic titles — USSR Note: excluding boycotted Los Angeles Olympics 4 consecutive Olympics titles — Kaori Icho"
"László Papp László Papp (25 March 1926 – 16 October 2003) was a Hungarian professional boxer from Budapest. A southpaw, he won gold medals in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. In his final Olympic competition, he beat José Torres later the professional light-heavyweight world champion, for the gold medal, to become the first boxer in Olympic history to win three successive gold medals. It was a remarkable run of Olympic Boxing supremacy, in that of his 13 Olympic fights, he won 12 of them"
"Lennox Lewis Lennox Claudius Lewis, , (born 2 September 1965) is a former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003. He is a three-time world heavyweight champion, a two-time lineal champion, and remains the last heavyweight to hold the undisputed title. Holding dual British and Canadian citizenship, Lewis represented Canada as an amateur at the 1988 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division after defeating future world champion Riddick Bowe in the final. In his first three years as a professional, Lewis won several regional heavyweight championships, including the European, British, and Commonwealth titles. After winning"
"Michael Moorer Michael Lee Moorer (born November 12, 1967) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2008. He is a multiple-time world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBO light heavyweight title from 1988 to 1991; the WBO heavyweight title from 1992 to 1993; the unified WBA, IBF, and lineal heavyweight titles in 1994; and the IBF heavyweight title again from 1996 to 1997. Moorer is one of only four men (the others being Muhammad Ali, Evander Holyfield, and Lennox Lewis) to win a heavyweight world title on three separate occasions, as well as"
"lbs) title from Carlos Palomino on January 14, 1979, and finally won a third title when he added the WBC Light Middleweight (154 lbs) title from Maurice Hope on May 23, 1981. When boxing thought that the limit were the level of the new multiple triple champions that barrier were broken by some boxers to create the new level of milestones in boxing: the Quintuple Champions. Triple champion In certain sports, when a sportsman wins three crowns, titles, medals, belts or another distinctions, the athlete is called a triple champion. In boxing, a triple champion is a boxer who has"
"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"
"two gold medals, in the bantamweight class only two boxers competed. In the featherweight class there were three boxers with Kirk earning the bye in the first round. <br> Oliver Kirk Oliver Leonard Kirk (April 20, 1884 – March 14, 1960) was an American bantamweight and featherweight professional boxer who won two gold medals in Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in Beatrice, Nebraska and died in St. Louis, Missouri. Kirk is the only boxer in Olympic history to ever win two gold medals in two separate weight divisions at the same Olympics. He won gold in"
"only boxer to hold titles in three different weight classes at the same time (featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight). His attempt at winning the middleweight title would be thwarted in 1940. The Second World War brought a lull in competitive boxing, and champion Louis fought mostly exhibitions. After the war, Louis continued his reign, but new stars emerged in other divisions, such as the inimitable featherweight Willie Pep, who won over 200 fights, and most notably Sugar Ray Robinson, widely regarded as the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time. Robinson held the world welterweight title from 1946 to 1951 and the"
"is also a professional boxer, and currently fights in the cruiserweight division. Deontay Wilder Deontay Leshun Wilder (born October 22, 1985) is an American professional boxer. He has held the WBC heavyweight title since 2015, and in doing so became the first American world heavyweight champion in nine years, which was the longest period of time in boxing history without an American heavyweight champion. As an amateur he won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 2008 Olympics. This led to his nickname of ""The Bronze Bomber"", which Wilder coined after Joe Louis, who was known by the"
"the first boxer in any division, and the only heavyweight to date, to hold all four major versions of the world championship (WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO) during his career. This achievement has since been emulated in other weight classes: Bernard Hopkins (middleweight), Jermain Taylor (middleweight), Winky Wright (light middleweight), Joe Calzaghe (super middleweight), Floyd Mayweather Jr. (welterweight), Terence Crawford (light welterweight), Cecilia Brækhus (welterweight) and Oleksandr Usyk (cruiserweight). Only Hopkins, Taylor, Crawford, Brækhus and Usyk held all four titles simultaneously. Bowe's sole loss, to Evander Holyfield in 1993, was avenged in 1995, meaning that he finished their trilogy 2-1"
"Julian Jackson (boxer) Julian Jackson (born September 12, 1960) is a former professional boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands who competed from 1981 to 1998. He is a three-time world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBA super welterweight title from 1987 to 1990, and the WBC middleweight title twice between 1990 and 1995. Possessing formidable knockout power, Jackson is regarded by many as one of the hardest punchers in boxing history, pound for pound, and was ranked number 25 by ""The Ring"" magazine in a 2003 list of ""100 Greatest Punchers"". Jackson represented the United States Virgin"
"only a four boxers to capture more than one medal in the same Olympics. George Finnegan, Charles Mayer, and Oliver Kirk, who also competed in St. Louis, were the others. Harry Spanjer Henry John ""Harry"" Spanjer (January 9, 1873 – July 16, 1958) was an American lightweight and welterweight boxer who competed in the early twentieth century. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and died in St. Petersburg, Florida. The correct spelling of his name is ""Spanjer"" nevertheless many sources misspell his name as ""Spanger"". In the lightweight category of the 1904 Summer Olympics he defeated fellow American Jack"
"to hold them at the same time (from 2011 to 2013). Wladimir is the only unified champion to successfully defend the title against one opponent twice (Tony Thompson in 2008 and 2012). Keys: The list includes championship wins of heavyweight boxers from outside of the United States. It includes only major titles, without The Ring and lineal championships (after 1921). The list includes longest championship streaks of heavyweight boxers by each non-US country. It includes only major titles, without The Ring and lineal championships (after 1921). Keys: Keys: As of 23, 2019. This is the list of the oldest heavyweight"
"well as spread the ideals of sports into other areas. Nikolai Valuev Nikolai Sergeyevich Valuev (; born 21 August 1973) is a Russian politician and former professional boxer. In boxing, he competed from 1993 to 2009, and held the WBA heavyweight title twice between 2005 and 2009. Standing at a height of and a peak weight of , Valuev is best known for being the tallest and heaviest world champion in boxing history. Valuev was born on 21 August 1973, in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). He is of ethnic Russian descent, but he also had"
"Sten Suvio Sten ""Stepa"" Suvio (born ""Schuschin"", 25 November 1911 – 19 October 1988) was a Finnish boxer who won the welterweight contest at the 1936 Summer Olympics. He then turned professional and by 1949 accumulated a record of 34 wins (15 knockouts), 9 losses and 3 draws. Suvio started as a football player, wrestler and speed skater before changing to boxing in 1927. He placed second at the national championships in 1929 and 1930, and then won four consecutive amateur titles in 1933–36. Suvio fought in the Continuation War and was wounded in a hand in 1941. After recovering"
"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"
"Deontay Wilder Deontay Leshun Wilder (born October 22, 1985) is an American professional boxer. He has held the WBC heavyweight title since 2015, and in doing so became the first American world heavyweight champion in nine years, which was the longest period of time in boxing history without an American heavyweight champion. As an amateur he won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 2008 Olympics. This led to his nickname of ""The Bronze Bomber"", which Wilder coined after Joe Louis, who was known by the nickname of ""The Brown Bomber"". Wilder is particularly known for his formidable"
"the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. He is one of just three boxers who did not win gold at the same Olympics in which they were presented with the trophy, the others being Kenyan featherweight Philip Waruinge (bronze at the 1968 Games) and American light middleweight Roy Jones Jr. (silver at the 1988 Games). American boxers are the most successful with six awards, while Kazakhstani boxers have won the trophy on three occasions. In the 2016 Games, two Val Barker Trophies were presented for the first time, one for men and one for women; women's boxing made its Olympic debut"
"WBC Heavyweight Champion after knocking out Hasim Rahman on 12 August 2006. The reigning WBA,WBC, IBF and IBO middleweight champion is Kazakh boxer Gennady Golovkin. Natascha Ragosina, representing Russia, but from Karaganda held seven versions of the women's super middleweight title, and two heavyweight titles during her boxing career. She holds the record as the longest-reigning WBA female super middleweight champion, and the longest-reigning WBC female super middleweight champion. Skier Vladimir Smirnov won seven medals in total in the 1988, 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics, including a gold in the 50 km competition in 1994. He also won 11 medals"
"held by the World Boxing Association at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, where he had once boxed. A separate service had been held at his home in Kasuwbe, twenty miles north of Tokyo. Ohba was dubbed ""The Eternal Champion,"" because he was undefeated in world title bouts and died while still reigning champion. He had been planning on relinquishing his flyweight title to challenge for the bantamweight title before his death. His professional record was 35-2-1 (16KOs). Ohba was part of the 2015 class of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Masao Ohba Masao Ohba (大場 政夫, October 21, 1949 –"
"on September 7, 2016 at the age of 92, while in hospice care. Norbert Schemansky Norbert ""Norb"" Schemansky (May 30, 1924 – September 7, 2016) was an American weightlifter. He was the first weightlifter to win four Olympic medals, despite missing the 1956 Summer Olympics due to back problems. He won a silver medal in the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, a gold in the 1952 Summer Olympics and bronzes in the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics. Schemansky was a three-time world champion and a Pan American and Olympic games gold medalist. During his long weightlifting career (1947–1972) he set 13"
"in the 1964 Olympic boxing tournament in Tokyo. Here are his results from that event: Jorma Limmonen Jorma Johannes Limmonen (29 September 1934 – 27 November 2012) was a Finnish boxer who competed in the featherweight division in the 1960 and 1964 Olympics. He won a bronze medal in 1960, losing in a semifinal to the eventual champion Francesco Musso, and was eliminated in the second bout in 1964. Limmonen won ten consecutive national titles in 1953–64, which remains a national record. He retired in 1964 and later worked as a boxing coach and a sports journalist. In 2006 he"
"the Olympics to this day. Hackenschmidt was a major reason for this. The H. J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports at the Todd-McLean Library and Special Collections in Austin, Texas, has a digitized version of a nearly 600-page scrapbook owned for decades by Hackenschmidt and bequeathed by his widow Rachel. The international Georg Hackenschmidt Memorial in Greco-Roman wrestling has been held in Tartu since 1969. George Hackenschmidt Georg Karl Julius Hackenschmidt ( – 19 February 1968) was an early 20th-century Baltic German strongman and professional wrestler who is recognized as professional wrestling's first world heavyweight champion. Hackenschmidt"
"Ingemar Johansson Jens Ingemar ""Ingo"" Johansson (; 22 September 1932 – 30 January 2009) was a Swedish professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1963. He held the world heavyweight title from 1959 to 1960, and was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United States. Johansson won the title by defeating Floyd Patterson via third-round stoppage, after flooring him seven times in that round. For this achievement, Johansson was awarded the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year—the only non-American to do so in the belt's entire 27-year existence—and was named the Associated Press Male Athlete of"
"""The President, the World Champion and I"" by Lali Moroshkina. <br> Georgi Kandelaki Georgi Kandelaki () (born April 10, 1974 in Variani, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union) is a former boxer and current boxing administrator. He competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics, at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships he became the first Georgian to win a World Championship, and from 2002 to 2003 held the World Boxing Union heavyweight title. He is of Caucasus Greek descent. Kandelaki was born in the village of Variani and was introduced to boxing by his father, Tarash Kandelaki. In 1991, he completed"
"medal in the light middleweight division. Jones is considered by many to be one of the best boxers of all time, pound for pound, and left his mark in the sport's history when he won the WBA heavyweight title in 2003, becoming the first former middleweight champion to win a heavyweight title in 106 years. Prior to that, in 1999, he became the undisputed light heavyweight champion by unifying the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles. During his prime, Jones was known for possessing exceptional hand speed, athleticism, movement and reflexes. As of February 2018, Jones holds the record for the"
"Ken Norton Kenneth Howard Norton Sr. (August 9, 1943 – September 18, 2013) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1967 to 1981, and held the WBC heavyweight title in 1978. He is best known for his trilogy with Muhammad Ali, in which Norton won the first fight by split decision, and controversially lost the latter two fights by split and unanimous decision, respectively. Norton also fought a slugfest with Larry Holmes in 1978, narrowly losing a split decision. Having officially retired from boxing in 1981, Norton was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1992. Norton"
"United Kingdom tied USA for most wins in WBO Heavyweight title fights with 8. WBO struggled with receiving credibility at first, but by the beginning of the 2000s, the WBA was giving the same recognition to WBO champions as it did to WBC and IBF champions. WBO, WBC, IBF and WBA are all recognized as major boxing organizations by each other and the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Riddick Bowe remains the only heavyweight boxer to win all four world titles (WBA, WBC and IBF in 1992–93 and WBO in 1995), while Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko are the only brothers"
"two Argentinians to be an Olympic gold medalists in the London Olympics of 1948. Perez reigned as World Champion from 1954-1960. As an amateur he fought 125 bouts. Turning professional in 1952, he fought 92 fights (84 wins, 7 losses and 1 draw), in which he won 57 fights by knockout, a record that places him in an elite group of boxers who have won more than 50 fights by knockous. He made nine successful defenses of the world title, in total winning 18 titles. He is considered one of the three greatest flyweight boxers in history alongside Miguel Canto"
"Former Boxers and Associates gave him a similar honor. Laurie, 85, died December 26, 2002, at Beachwood Nursing and Health Care Center. Survivors included one son, Joseph. Louis Laurie Louis ""Lou"" Daniel Laurie (November 19, 1917 – December 26, 2002) was an American boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936, he won the bronze medal in the flyweight class after winning the third-place fight against Alfredo Carlomagno. At the time, the two losing semifinalists met in a bout for the bronze medal. Laurie was born to an Italian father and a Slovak mother in Cleveland, Ohio. Lou"