Heavy Boxing Champions

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1882 - 92	John L. Sullivan
1892 - 97	James J. Corbett
1897 - 99	Bob Fitzsimmons
1899 - 1905	James J. Jeffries
1905 - 06	Marvin Hart
1906 - 08	Tommy Burns
1908 - 15	Jack Johnson
1915 - 19	Jess Willard
1919 - 26	Jack Dempsey
1926 - 28	Gene Tunney
1928 - 30	None
1930 - 32	Max Schmeling
1932 - 33	Jack Sharkey
1933 - 34	Primo Carnera
1934 - 35	Max Baer
1935 - 37	James J. Braddock
1937 - 49	Joe Louis
1949 - 51	Ezzard Charles
1951 - 52	Joe Walcott
1952 - 56	Rocky Marciano
1956 - 59	Floyd Patterson
1959 - 60	Ingemar Johansson
1960 - 62	Floyd Patterson
1962 - 64	Sonny Liston
1964 - 67	Muhammad Ali
1965 - 67	Ernie Terrell *
1968 - 70	Jimmy Ellis *
1968 - 73	Joe Frazier
1973 - 74	George Foreman
1974 - 78	Muhammad Ali
1978	Leon Spinks *
1978	Ken Norton
1978 - 79	Muhammad Ali *
1978 - 85	Larry Holmes
1985 - 86	Michael Spinks
1986 - 90	Mike Tyson
1990	Buster Douglas
1990 - 92	Evander Holyfield
1992 - 93	Riddick Bowe
1993 - 94	Evander Holyfield
1994	Michael Moorer
1994 - 95	George Foreman
1996	Mike Tyson *
1996 - 99	Evander Holyfield *
1999 - 2001	Lennox Lewis
2001	Hasim Rahman
2002	Lennox Lewis
2003 - 05	Chris Byrd

NOTE: Champions not universally recognized are designated * (World Boxing Association title) or (World Boxing Council - WBC - title). First, Holmes was WBC champion, then (1983) International Boxing Federation champion. From 1979 to the mid-1980s there were various titleholders, but Holmes, Spinks, and Tyson were considered by most experts to have the most legitimate claims to the championship.

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