* Heavyweight ( up to 245 lb )

* Heavyweight ( up to 250 lb )

During the mid-1930s and throughout the years leading up to the 1940s Joe Louis was an enormously popular Heavyweight boxer.

Accordingly, amateur tournaments are divided into weight classes ( men: Lightweight up to, Middleweight up to, Heavyweight 253 + lb kg and Open Weight entry ), and include competitions for female wrestlers ( Lightweight up to, Middleweight up to, Heavyweight 176 + lb kg and Open Weight ).

Played by real-life boxer Antonio Tarver, Dixon is the current World Heavyweight Champion who is ridiculed for having never gone up against a real contender, and who thus agrees to an exhibition fight against the near 60 year old Rocky Balboa.

In the summer of 2002, David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar teamed up in the Song For Song, the Heavyweight Champs of Rock and Roll tour ( also known as the ' Sans-Halen ' or ' Sam & Dave ' Tour ).

Holmes's victory over Shavers set up a title shot between Holmes and WBC Heavyweight Champion Ken Norton in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 9, 1978.

On September 21, 1955, Moore went up in weight to face future Hall of Famer Rocky Marciano for Marciano's Heavyweight Championship.

However, the momentum gradually began to pick up in the first quarter of 2010 after victories from defending champions Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva, as well as Lyoto Machida's first career defeat to " Shogun " Rua for the UFC Light Heavyweight title.

Lewis tried, in 1939, to become the first Light Heavyweight champion in boxing history to go up in weight and conquer the world's Heavyweight championship.

Leonard had his attorney, Mike Trainer, pursue a third fight, but Hearns said that he could no longer make the weight and was moving up to Light Heavyweight.

In May 1941, Conn gave up his Light Heavyweight title to challenge World Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis.

Conn attempted to become the first World Light Heavyweight Champion in boxing history to win the World Heavyweight Championship when he and Louis met on June 18 of that year, and incredibly, to do so without going up in weight.

* Heavyweight ( 183 lb to 285 lb )

There are currently 10 main weight classes currently open to college-level competition, ranging from 125 lb to the Heavyweight division that ranges from 198 lb to 285 lb.

* Heavyweight – 220 pounds ( 100 kilograms )

:* Heavyweight: 71 to 100 pounds

With a weight of 240 pounds ( 109 kg ) for that fight, Salazar became the WIBF world Heavyweight champion, by knocking London out in nine rounds.

Though he stood only 5 ' 7 " and weighed only 160 pounds, Mendoza was England ’ s sixteenth Heavyweight Champion from 1792 to 1795, and is the only middleweight to ever win the Heavyweight Championship of the World.

Rader was the Midwestern Heavyweight Champion for seven years, with official lifts of 220 pounds in the one-hand clean and jerk, 280 pounds in the two-hand clean and jerk, and a squat of 450 pounds ( without support gear ).

A few states briefly recognized a " Junior Light Heavyweight " division at 167 pounds and the fringe World Athletic Association ( WAA ) later inaugurated a " Super Middleweight " division at 168.

The original sanctioning body of professional boxing, the World Boxing Association can be traced back to the original National Boxing Association, organized in 1921 ; the first bout recognized by the organization being the Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier Heavyweight Championship bout in New Jersey, USA.

* Jack Brisco, professional wrestler ; former National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Champion

Louis ' championship reign lasted 140 consecutive months, during which he participated in 27 championship fights, 26 championship fights during his reign ; the 27th, against Ezzard Charles, was a challenge to Charles ' Heavyweight title and so is not included in Louis ' reign.

Jacqueline " Jacqui " Frazier-Lyde ( born Jacqueline Frazier ; December 2, 1962 ) is an American lawyer and former professional boxer, who is the daughter of former world Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier.

Rocky Marciano ( born Rocco Francis Marchegiano ; September 1, 1923 – August 31, 1969 ) was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956.

Archie Moore ( born Archibald Lee Wright ; December 13, 1916 – December 9, 1998 ), was an American professional boxer and the Light Heavyweight World Champion ( 1952 – 1959 and 1961 ), who had one of the longest professional careers in the history of the sport.

He defeated the Alabama Kid twice ; by knockout in four and by knockout in three, Bob Satterfield by a knockout in three, Bivins by a knockout in eight, future World Light Heavyweight Champion and IBHOF inductee Harold Johnson by a decision, Bob Sikes by a knockout in three and Phil Muscato by a decision.

1959, his last full year as uncontested champion, was another rare low-profile year ; in his two fights, he beat Sterling Davis by a knockout in three, and then Durelle again, also by a knockout in three, to once again retain his World Light Heavyweight title.

UFC 100 was a massive success garnering 1. 7 million buys under the drawing power of former NCAA wrestling champion and current WWE superstar Brock Lesnar and his rematch with former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir, Canadian superstar Georges St-Pierre going head-to-head with Brazilian knockout artist Thiago Alves, and Pride legend Dan Henderson opposing British middleweight Michael Bisping ; rival coaches on The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom.

Mysterio then began a feud with The Great Khali, which would lead to a match at Unforgiven where he would face Khali for the World Heavyweight Championship ; the match was eventually made a Triple Threat match also involving Batista, but was unsuccessful in recapturing the title.

The Tunneys had seven children ; one son was killed in a homicide around 1920, another was a NYPD Detective from 1924 to 1951, dying in 1971, while Gene would become famous as a World Heavyweight Boxing Champion.

* Vince Russo, former booker for WCW and WWF ; current booker for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ; briefly held WCW's World Heavyweight Championship.

Since March of 1988, as commentator he has called some of boxing's most famous moments, such as Thunder Meets Lightning, when Julio César Chávez saved himself from a decision defeat by knocking out Meldrick Taylor ( who was leading the fight on two of the three official scorecards ) with only two seconds to go in the last round ; James " Buster " Douglas's upset of Mike Tyson for the World Heavyweight championship.

Among other accolades in professional wrestling, Luger is a three-time world champion, having held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice and the WWA World Heavyweight Championship once ; a record-tying five-time NWA / WCW United States Heavyweight Champion who owns the records for consecutive days and total days as champion ; and the 1994 WWF Royal Rumble winner ( with Bret Hart ).

Raven and Dreamer had a multi-year ongoing feud with a great deal of matches ; Dreamer got over as an underdog face showing resilience and tenacity in the spite of Raven coming out victorious every single time and also, he defeated Tommy Dreamer to retain the ECW World Heavyweight Championship in Tokyo Japan on August 13th 1996 while he was the world champion.

He is also a former UFC Heavyweight Champion and former # 1 ranked mixed martial arts ( MMA ) Heavyweight by Sherdog ; he was ranked # 5 before he announced his retirement at the end of 2011.

During World War II in the United States Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis and numerous stars and performers from American baseball and other sports served in the armed forces until the end of the war.

* October 30 – The Rumble in the Jungle takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire, where Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in 8 rounds to regain the Heavyweight title, which had been stripped from him 7 years earlier.

* When Leon Spinks won the WBA and WBC Heavyweight championships from Muhammad Ali in 1978, the WBC stripped Leon Spinks of his title.

Serling then wrote Requiem for a Heavyweight for the Playhouse 90 TV series in 1956, again gaining praise from critics.

Former CWF World Heavyweight Champion Blackjack Conacher hailed from Ransomville.

Holmes, whose left jab is considered one of the greatest weapons in the history of sports, was the WBC Heavyweight Champion from 1978 to 1983, The Ring Heavyweight Champion from 1980 to 1985, and the IBF Heavyweight Champion from 1983 to 1985.

Joseph Louis Barrow ( May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981 ), better known as Joe Louis, was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from 1937 to 1949.

In all, Louis made 25 defenses of his Heavyweight title from 1937 to 1948, and was a world champion for 11 years and 10 months.

He held the World Heavyweight Championship from 1919 to 1926.

He wrestled on the West Coast during the 1960s, taking on regional stars of the day such as Fred Blassie and The Destroyer, the latter from whom he took the World Wrestling Association's World Heavyweight Championship on March 12, 1965.

Marciano considered a comeback in 1959 when Ingemar Johansson won the Heavyweight Championship from Floyd Patterson on June 26, 1959.

Norton started boxing when he was in the United States Marine Corps from 1963 – 1967, compiling a 24-2 record en route to three All-Marine Heavyweight titles.

The documentary told the story of Iowa's arguably best shot at a World Heavyweight Boxing Title and chronicled Stander's journey from virtual unknown to boxing's largest stage.

* 22 January – George Foreman beats Joe Frazier by a knockout in two rounds to lift the world's Heavyweight championship from Frazier.