Wp/kus/Light heavyweight

Light heavyweight, ka ba buon ye junior cruiserweight bɛɛ light cruiserweight, anɛ tɛbisim zi’esim ninwisigir di’ema ni.

Zaba (Boxing)

Professional

Pʋʋginɛ, bakir la ɛɛnti yinɛ pounds kɔbiga nɛ pisyuobʋ nɛ anii (168 pounds) dinɛ zɛm nɛ (76 kg) ka paae 175 pounds dinɛ zɛm nɛ (79 kg), ka di zi’esim an super middleweight nɛ cruiserweight.

Light-heavyweight zi’esim la paam boxing greatest champion nam bɛdegʋ. Ba sieba anɛ: Bernard Hopkins (onɛ da di dunia wʋsa kpɛŋ (world title), Tommy Loughran, Billy Conn, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, Michael Moorer, Bob Foster, Ann Wolfe, Michael Spinks, Dariusz Michalczewski, Roy Jones Jr., Sergey Kovalev nɛ Zsolt Erdei.

Light heavyweight champion nam bɛdegʋ pʋ nyaŋi nya’ heavyweight crown ti paae sankanɛ ka Michael Spinks lieb yiiga light heavyweight champion di heavyweight championship. Bob Fitzsimmons da di light-heavyweight championship on da kɔ’ɔŋi o heavyweight championship la. Great heavyweight champion nam, Ezzard Charles nɛ Floyd Patterson, da pin’ilnɛ an light heavyweight. Charles da nyaŋ Archie Moore nɛ Joey Maximnɔɔrim babiga non-title bouts ni ka naan lieb heavyweight champion ka Patterson mɛ da kɔ’ɔŋ eight-round tis Joey Maxim ka naan lieb heavyweight champion. Evander Holyfield da naan light-heavyweight division dʋ’ ruiserweight division ka tɔlisi paae heavyweight division ka sɔ’ pʋ nya’ nɛ o ka o an heavyweight champion ya’as.

Dunia wʋsa banɛ di

Sanctioning Body	Reign Began	Champion	Record	Defenses
WBA	September 18, 2017	Dmitry Bivol	21–0 (11 KO)	10
WBC	October 18, 2019	Artur Beterbiev	19–0 (19 KO)	4
IBF	November 11, 2017	Artur Beterbiev	19–0 (19 KO)	7
WBO	June 18, 2022	Artur Beterbiev	19–0 (19 KO)	1

Dunia wʋsa zi’esim

The Ring

Din yi June 20, 2023.^[1]

Keys:

Dunia wʋsa Ring champion nam

Rank	Name	Record (W–L–D)	Title(s)
C	vacant
1	Dmitry Bivol	21–0 (11 KO)	WBA
2	Artur Beterbiev	19–0 (19 KO)	IBF, WBC, WBO
3	Callum Smith	29–1 (21 KO)
4	Gilberto Ramírez	44–1 (30 KO)
5	Joe Smith Jr.	28–4 (22 KO)
6	Anthony Yarde	22–3 (21 KO)
7	Joshua Buatsi	17–0 (13 KO)
8	Dan Azeez	19–0 (13 KO)
9	Oleksandr Gvozdyk	19–1 (15 KO)
10	Michael Eifert	12–1 (4 KO)

BoxRec

Din yi 24 May 2022.^[2]

Rank	Name	Record (W–L–D)	Points	Title(s)
1	Dmitry Bivol	20–0 (11 KO)	591.9	WBA
2	Artur Beterbiev	18–0 (18 KO)	194.0	WBC, IBF, WBO
3	Callum Smith	28–1 (20 KO)	188.5
4	Gilberto Ramirez	43–0 (29 KO)	144.2
5	Joe Smith Jr.	28–3 (22 KO)	127.2
6	Maxim Vlasov	46–4 (26 KO)	70.65
7	Jean Pascal	36–6–1 (20 KO)	63.58
8	Marcus Browne	24–2 (16 KO)	58.90
9	Joshua Buatsi	15–0 (13 KO)	38.34
10	Sullivan Barrera	22–4 (14 KO)	29.16

	Name	Title Reign	Title Recognition	Successful Defenses	Beaten opponents	Fights
1.	Archie Moore	9 years, 4 months, 24 days	NYSAC, NBA	9	7	^[3]^[4]
2.	Dariusz Michalczewski	9 years, 1 months, 8 days	IBF, WBA, WBO	23	20	^[5]
3.	Gus Lesnevich	7 years, 2 months, 2 days	NYSAC, NBA	5	3	^[6]
4.	Bob Foster	6 years, 0 months, 23 days	WBC, WBA	14	13	^[7]
5.	Dmitry Bivol	6 years, 1 week and 2 days	WBA	10	10	^[8]
6.	Artur Beterbiev	5 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 2 days	IBF, WBC, WBO	7	7	^[9]
7.	Zsolt Erdei	5 years, 9 months, 27 days	WBO	11	10	^[10]
8.	Adonis Stevenson	5 years, 5 months, 24 days	WBC	9	9	^[11]
9.	Charles Williams	5 years, 4 months, 21 days	IBF	8	8	^[12]
10.	Roy Jones Jr.	5 years, 2 months, 25 days	WBC, IBF, WBA (Super)	11	11	^[13]
11.	Virgil Hill	4 years, 9 months, 15 days	WBA	10	10	^[14]
12.	Maxie Rosenbloom	4 years, 4 months, 22 days	NYSAC, NBA	7	6	^[15]
13.	Michael Spinks	4 years, 2 months, 3 days	IBF, WBA, WBC	10	10	^[16]
14.	Battling Levinsky	3 years, 11 months, 19 days	World	1	1	^[17]^[18]
15.	Victor Galindez	3 years, 9 months, 8 days	WBA	10	7	^[19]^[20]

Amateur

Amateur boxing, light heavyweight anɛ weight division kanɛ gaad 165 pounds (75 kg) ka mɛ paae 178 pounds (81 kg), ka bɛ middleweight nɛ heavyweight sʋʋgʋn.

Olympic champion

· 1920 – Eddie Eagan (USA)

· 1924 – Harry Mitchell (GBR)

· 1928 – Víctor Avendaño (ARG)

· 1932 – David Carstens (RSA)

· 1936 – Roger Michelot (FRA)

· 1948 – George Hunter (RSA)

· 1952 – Norvel Lee (USA)

· 1956 – James Boyd (USA)

· 1960 – Cassius Clay (USA)

· 1964 – Cosimo Pinto (ITA)

· 1968 – Danas Pozniakas (URS)

· 1972 – Mate Parlov (YUG)

· 1976 – Leon Spinks (USA)

· 1980 – Slobodan Kacar (YUG)

· 1984 – Anton Josipović (YUG)

· 1988 – Andrew Maynard (USA)

· 1992 – Torsten May (GER)

· 1996 – Vassiliy Jirov (KAZ)

· 2000 – Aleksandr Lebziak (RUS)

· 2004 – Andre Ward (USA)

· 2008 – Zhang Xiaoping (CHN)

· 2012 – Egor Mekhontsev (RUS)

· 2016 – Julio César La Cruz (CUB)

· 2020 – Arlen López (CUB)

Gbanvɛɛnsa

[1] ttps://www.ringtv.com/ratings/?weightclass=274

[2] ttps://boxrec.com/en/ratings?r%5Brole%5D=proboxer&r%5Bsex%5D=M&r%5Bdivision%5D=Light+Heavyweight&r%5Bcountry%5D=&r%5Bstance%5D=&r%5Bstatus%5D=a&r_go=

[3] ttps://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/8995

[4] ttps://archive.org/details/TheBoxingRegisterInternationalBoxingHallOfFameOfficialRecordBook

[5] ttps://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/4141

[6] ttps://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/010346

[7] ttps://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/9000

[8] ttps://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/703924

[9] ttps://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/646981

[10] ttps://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/23935

[11] ttps://boxrec.com/en/amateurboxer/372003

[12] ttps://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/340

[13] ttps://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/774820

[14] ttps://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/479

[15] ttps://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/011349

[16] ttps://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/1286

[17] ttps://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/10598?&offset=100

[18] ttps://archive.org/details/TheBoxingRegisterInternationalBoxingHallOfFameOfficialRecordBook

[19] ttps://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/18206

[20] ttps://archive.org/details/TheBoxingRegisterInternationalBoxingHallOfFameOfficialRecordBook

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