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A professional WWE wrestler, Ronda Rousey was the first UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion and also the first woman to be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame. Earlier, she became the first US woman to win an Olympic medal in judo. Amongst the greatest female MMA fighter, Ronda has also appeared in films like The Expendables 3 and Furious 7.
Oscar De La Hoya is an American retired boxer who won 11 world titles between 1992 and 2008 in six weight classes. Dubbed the Golden Boy of Boxing, Oscar De La Hoya won a gold medal for America at the 1992 Summer Olympics. In 1995, he was named Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine.
Vasyl Lomachenko is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He is widely regarded as the most popular Ukrainian boxer and one of the most successful amateur boxers ever with an impressive record of 396 wins and 1 loss. Known for his exceptional accuracy, creativity, hand speed, athleticism, footwork, and defense, Lomachenko won Olympic gold medals in 2008 and 2012.
Mexican boxer Salvador Sánchez, known by nicknames such as The Invincible Eagle, was a young WBC and lineal featherweight champion. An untimely death at age 23, due to a car crash, cut his career short. He had also appeared in the movie The Last Fight, released posthumously.
Best known for his gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, former boxer James DeGale had also won a Commonwealth bronze and 2 EU silver medals in the middleweight division. In 2021, he took to Instagram to announce that his home had been burgled and his Olympic medal had been stolen.
Known for his quirky ring entrances, such as entering in a palanquin or wearing a Halloween mask, former British boxer Naseem Hamed is also famous for his signature southpaw style. Known as the best featherweight from Britain, he has held numerous titles, such as the WBO and the WBC.
James Forrestal was an American financier who served as the first US Secretary of Defense from 1947 to 1949. He is also remembered for his service as the US Secretary of the Navy from 1944 to 1947. James Forrestal was honored with the Medal of Merit and the Distinguished Service Medal by President Harry S. Truman.
Julio César Chávez Jr. is a Mexican boxer best known for his reign as the WBC middleweight champion from 2011 to 2012. The son of Mexican boxing legend Julio César Chávez, Chávez Jr. is best known for his rivalry against popular contemporaries like Brian Vera and Canelo Álvarez.
Known as The Dark Destroyer, boxer Nigel Benn has been both a middleweight and a super-middleweight world champion. He had also previously been part of the British Army in West Germany and Northern Ireland. He is also known for his rivalry with fellow British boxer Chris Eubank.
Former MMA fighter from Ireland, Joseph Duffy soared to fame fighting for Cage Warriors and The Ultimate Fighter. He also competed as a professional boxer. Also known as Irish Joe, he retired from MMA after losing the match at the UFC Fight Island 2 against Joel Álvarez.
Formerly an undefeated light welterweight champion, boxer Terry Marsh, also known as The Fighting Fireman, made headlines after being accused of the murder of Frank Warren, his former manager, but was acquitted. He was a chess champion in his youth. He contested the elections as “None of the Above X.”
John Riel Casimero is a Filipino boxer and YouTuber. Casimero has held world championship titles in three weight divisions; he has held the IBF junior-flyweight title, the IBF flyweight title, and the WBO bantamweight title. Also a social media celebrity, John Riel Casimero took part in the Battle of the YouTubers tournament in 2021.
Julio Cesar Martinez is a Mexican boxer best known for his WBC flyweight championship reign from 2019 to 2022. In 2021, Julio Cesar Martinez was ranked as the world's best flyweight boxer by BoxRec, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and The Ring magazine.
Jeff Horn is an Australian professional boxer. He held the WBO welterweight title from 2017 to 2018. He represented Australia at the 2012 Olympics as an amateur and reached the quarterfinals of the light-welterweight bracket. He made his professional debut the following year. He moved up to middleweight in 2018. He has worked as a physical education teacher as well.
Ivan Baranchyk is a Belarusian boxer best known for his IBF light-welterweight title reign from 2018 to 2019. He won the vacant title by defeating Sweden's Anthony Yigit via corner retirement. Nicknamed The Beast, Ivan Baranchyk was ranked the fourth-best active light-welterweight in the world by BoxRec and The Ring in 2020.
