Boxing greats

Three-time heavyweight champion, and the most famous athlete alive for decades.

Heavyweight · 1960–1981

173 wins, and the fighter every other fighter is measured against.

Welterweight / middleweight · 1940–1965

Youngest heavyweight champion in history, at twenty.

Heavyweight · 1985–2005

World titles in eight different weight divisions — nobody else has more than six.

Flyweight to welterweight · 1995–2021

Retired 50–0, having barely been hit.

Super featherweight to light middleweight · 1996–2017

Twenty-five title defences across nearly twelve years as champion.

Heavyweight · 1934–1951

Olympic gold, then undisputed champion — and a Madison Square Garden headliner.

Lightweight · 2016–present

Six amateur world titles — more than any boxer, of any gender.

Light flyweight · 2000–2023

The only heavyweight champion to retire undefeated.

Heavyweight · 1947–1955

Manos de Piedra — hands of stone, across five decades of fighting.

Lightweight to middleweight · 1968–2001