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Light and Heavyweight
* Archie Moore, the Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, former enrollee
Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida also has a sumo background but his main style is Shotokan Karate.
* 1991 competed as a Light Heavyweight at the World Championships in Sydney, Australia.
: Light Heavyweight: 176
: Light Heavyweight: 75 – 81 kg / 166 – 178 lbs
* Duane Gill (" Gillberg "), professional wrestler and a former WWF Light Heavyweight Champion
He is the only wrestler in history to have held the TNA X Division Championship, the WCW Cruiserweight Championship, and the WWE Light Heavyweight Championship.
After being trained by former professional wrestler Boris Malenko and his son Joe Malenko, Waltman began his career as The Lightning Kid, working his way through various independent organizations such as Pro Wrestling America ( PWA ) and the Global Wrestling Federation ( GWF ), winning the PWA Light Heavyweight title, the PWA Iron Horse TV Title and the GWF Light Heavyweight Championship.
During this time, he won the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship and the WCW Cruiserweight Championship, held by Billy Kidman, and became the first and only person to hold both belts simultaneously.
The WWF Light Heavyweight Championship was abandoned upon his return to WWF television, although he defended the belt on several house shows just before his return to television.
On September 21, 1985, Holmes lost the IBF title by a close fifteen-round unanimous decision to Michael Spinks, who became the first reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion to win the World Heavyweight Championship.
Other notable world title fights included the 6 knockdowns of three-time world champion Dennis Andries to win the WBC Light Heavyweight title in March 1987, his four-round destruction of the feared Juan Roldán ( 63-2 ) later that year to claim the WBC Middleweight title, his TKO " Ring Magazine 1988 upset of the year " loss to Iran Barkley in his first defense of that same title, and his win against James " the Heat " Kinchen ( 44-3 ) for the newly created WBO Super Middleweight title.
1991 would see one last great performance by the aging Hitman as he challenged the undefeated WBA Light Heavyweight Champion Virgil Hill.
* WBC Light Heavyweight Champion ( 175 lbs )
* WBA Light Heavyweight Champion ( 175 lbs )
On September 24, 2004, she added the IWBF Light Heavyweight title to her resume by beating O ' Neil ( whom she had canceled a fight against ) by a knockout in three rounds, at Atlanta, Georgia.
Among others he beat were Light Heavyweight Champion Battling Levinsky ( who had never been knocked out before Dempsey did so ), Bill Brennan, Fred Fulton, Carl E. Morris, Billy Miske (" newspaper decision "), heavyweight Lefty Jim McGettigan and Homer Smith.
Frazier-Lyde continued her career, and on December 14, 2001, she won the WIBA Light Heavyweight Title by 4th round TKO over Suzette Taylor in Philadelphia, PA. She added the WIBF title one year later.
In his bout with Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, for example, he missed almost two-thirds of the fifty odd punches he tossed when he had Archie against the ropes, a perfect target for the kill.
" After winning the bronze medal in the Light Heavyweight division at the 1984 Summer Olympics, he debuted as a professional at the age of 21.
Canzoneri, Barney Ross and Henry Armstrong were the only boxing champions in history to be allowed to hold two or more world titles simultaneously ( Sugar Ray Leonard became both the vacant World Super Middleweight and the World Light Heavyweight Champion in one night in 1988, but he had to choose only one to keep and he chose to keep the Super Middleweight title ).

Light and Champion
* Charles Murray ( boxer ) ( born 1968 ), American boxer, former Light Welterweight Champion
On March 17, 1990, he faced Meldrick Taylor, the undefeated IBF Light Welterweight Champion, in a title unification fight.
On September 12, 1992, Chávez faced WBO Light Welterweight Champion Hector " Macho " Camacho ( 41-1-0, 18 KOs ) in a highly anticipated bout.
Chavez continued defending his Light Welterweight title and on December 18, 1993, he defeated British Commonwealth Light Welterweight Champion Andy Holligan ( 21-0-0 ) by fifth round TKO.
In 1995, he defeated former and future Light Welterweight Champion Giovanni Parisi.
In 2000, at the age of 38, Chávez challenged Light Welterweight Champion Kostya Tszyu.
Commercial messages were regarded as intrusive, so these shows usually displayed the sponsor's name in the title, as evidenced by such programs as The A & P Gypsies, Acousticon Hour, Champion Spark Plug Hour, The Clicquot Club Eskimos, The Flit Soldiers, The Fox Fur Trappers, The Goodrich Zippers, The Ingram Shavers, The Ipana Troubadors, The Planters Pickers, The Silvertown Cord Orchestra ( featuring the Silver Masked Tenor ), The Sylvania Foresters, The Yeast Foamers, King Biscuit Time ( with Sonny Boy Williamson ), The Health and Happiness Radio Show ( with Hank Williams ) and the Light Crust Doughboys ( with Bob Wills and Milton Brown ).
Durán was the WBA Light Middleweight Champion and went up in weight to challenge for Hagler's middleweight crown.
He then moved up to light middleweight, challenging the Spanish WBC Light Middleweight Champion Javier Castillejo.
De La Hoya did not fight for the 15 months and in this time the rivalry between him and WBA and IBA Light Middleweight Champion " Ferocious " Fernando Vargas ( 22 – 1 ) grew.
De La Hoya took a layoff of 20 months before signing to fight WBC Light Middleweight Champion Ricardo Mayorga ( 27 – 5 – 1 ).
* WBC Light Welterweight Champion ( 140 lbs )
* WBC Light Middleweight Champion ( 154 lbs )
* WBA ( Super ) Light Middleweight Champion ( 154 lbs )
*( 2 ) WBC Light Middleweight Champion ( 154 lbs )
* IBA Light Middleweight Champion ( 154 lbs )
* Lineal Light Welterweight Champion ( 140 lbs )
* The Ring Light Middleweight Champion ( 154 lbs )
González decorated amateur career includes wins over 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist and current WBA World Super Middleweight Champion Andre Ward ( 24-0, 13KO ); WBO Light Middleweight Champion Alfredo Angulo ( 19-1, 16KO ); IBA Intercontinental Light Middleweight champion Sechew Powell ( 26-2, 15KO ); and an astonishing four wins over former WBC Welterweight Champion Andre Berto ( 27-1, 21KO ).

Light and Jose
World champions whom Chávez defeated include Jose Luis Ramírez, Rafael Limón, Rocky Lockridge, Meldrick Taylor, Roger Mayweather, Lonnie Smith, Sammy Fuentes, Héctor " Macho " Camacho, Juan Laporte, Edwin Rosario, Greg Haugen, Tony López, Giovanni Parisi, Joey Gamache and Frankie Randall, who had taken the WBC Light Welterweight belt from Chávez just four months earlier.
* Unassigned: 2d Light ( Col. Jose Maria Carrasco?
** Jose Feliciano for " Light My Fire "
He lost to future champion Omar Romero and drew with Gabriel Munoz in back-to-back fights in the summer of 1996, but then won 10 straight bouts and a pair of regional belts before losing on points to veteran ( and future IBF Light Flyweight Champion ) Jose Victor Burgos on December 12, 1997.
PCJPB extended the CalTrain service from San Jose to Gilroy, connecting to VTA Light Rail at Tamien Station in San Jose.
* 1st Brigade-Gen. Jose Garcia-Conde ( 2d Light, San Luis Potosí & Morelia Bns )
Former world champions Jimmy Ellis and Floyd Patterson as well as George Foreman, Oscar Bonavena, Jerry Quarry, Earnie Shavers, Leon Spinks, Ken Norton, as well as Larry Holmes, Ron Stander, Chuck Wepner, Jose King Roman, Light Heavyweight champ Foster, John Tate, Jimmy Young, Ron Lyle, Joe Bugner, Scott LeDoux and many others added intrigue to the division.
On December 15, 2001 he defeated Shonie Carter by unanimous decision in San Jose, California to win the IKF International Kickboxing Federation Pro Light Heavyweight Sanda World Title.
* Santa Clara ( VTA ), VTA Light Rail Station in San Jose, California
San Jose Light Tower half-height replica.
* A 115-foot scale replica of the San Jose Electric Light Tower that used to tower 237 feet over downtown San Jose
After being influenced by Jose Feliciano's version of The Doors ' " Light My Fire ", and Jimi Hendrix, Isley trained himself to be a guitarist at 16.
These included a ten round win over perennial contender Jose Urtain on October 8, a win over Leroy Caldwell by a fourth round knockout on February 2, 1972, and a ten round decision loss to Bob Foster world Light Heavyweight title challenger Ray Anderson on June 9 of that same year.
* San Jose International Airport via a shuttle bus from the Santa Clara Caltrain station or VTA's Metro / Airport Light Rail Station.

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