So without further adieu, here's what the folks at Ring Magazine came up with in we've included some modern day honorable mentions of our own at the very end of this article.

Joe Louis 2. Sam Langford 3. Jimmy Wilde 4. Archie Moore 5. Sandy Saddler 6. Stanley Ketchell 7. Jack Dempsey 8. Bob Fitzsimmons 9. George Foreman Earnie Shavers Sugar Ray Robinson Ruben Olivares Wilfredo Gomez Rocky Marciano Sonny Liston Mike Tyson Bob Foster Thomas Hearns Khaosai Galaxy Alexis Arguello Carlos Zarate Max Baer Pascual Perez Miguel Canto Manuel Ortiz Charley Burley Carmen Basilio Michael Spinks Joe Frazier Khaosai Galaxy Roy Jones Jr.

Tiger Flowers Panama Al Brown Kid Chocolate Joe Brown Tommy Loughran Bernard Hopkins Jake LaMotta Lennox Lewis Wilfredo Gomez Bob Foster Jose Napoles Billy Conn Jimmy McLarnin Pancho Villa Carlos Ortiz Bob Montgomery Freddie Miller Benny Lynch Harry Jeffra.

Joey Archibald. Chalky Wright. Willie Pep. Sandy Saddler. Hogan Bassey def. Cherif Hamia. Davey Moore. Sugar Ramos.

Vicente Saldivar. Johnny Famechon def. Alexis Argüello def. Rigoberto Riasco. Danny Lopez def. Eusebio Pedroza awarded title by The Ring.

Barry McGuigan. Steve Cruz. Antonio Esparragoza. Marco Antonio Barrera def. Miguel Angel Garcia def. Orlando Salido. Nestor Jimenez. Paulie Ayala def.

Bones Adams. Nonito Donaire def. Toshiaki Nishioka. Guillermo Rigondeaux. Al Brown def. Vidal Gregorio. Baltasar Sangchili. Tony Marino.

Sixto Escobar. Lou Salica def. Tommy Forte. Manuel Ortiz. Harold Dade. Vic Toweel. Jimmy Carruthers. Robert Cohen def. Chamrern Songkitrat.

Mario D'Agata. Alphonse Halimi. Piero Rollo. Fighting Harada. Lionel Rose. Chucho Castillo. Rafael Herrera.

Enrique Pinder. Romeo Anaya. Arnold Taylor. Hong Soo-hwan. Alfonso Zamora. Jeff Chandler. Richie Sandoval. Gaby Canizales.

Shinsuke Yamanaka def. Anselmo Moreno. Luis Nery Tested positive for the banned substance Zilpaterol. Shinsuke Yamanaka Reinstated as champion.

Naoya Inoue. Srisaket Sor Rungvisai def. Juan Francisco Estrada. Pancho Villa. Fidel LaBarba def. Elky Clark. Benny Lynch Defeated Small Montana.

Peter Kane Defeated Jackie Jurich. Jackie Paterson. Rinty Monaghan. Terry Allen def. Honore Pratesi. Dado Marino. Yoshio Shirai. Under the new policy, The Ring title can be awarded when the No.

In addition, there are now six ways for a fighter to lose his title: lose a fight in his championship weight class; move to another weight class; not schedule a fight in any weight class for 18 months; not schedule a fight in his championship weight class for 18 months, even if fighting at another weight class; not scheduling a fight with a top five contender in any weight class for two years; or retiring.

Many media outlets and members are extremely critical of the new championship policy and state that if this new policy is followed The Ring title will lose the credibility it once held.

The purchase of The Ring magazine by Golden Boy Promotions in , the dismissal of editor-in-chief Nigel Collins and several editorial staff in and a series of questionable ratings decisions by the new editors [13] [14] prompted many members of The Ring Ratings Advisory Panel to resign.

In , unscrupulous managing editor of The Ring , Johnny Ort, fabricated records of selected boxers, to elevate them, thereby securing them lucrative fights on the American ABC television network, as part of the United States Championship Tournament, [17] orchestrated by promoter Don King [18] to capitalize on the patriotism surrounding the United States Bicentennial and the American amateur success at the Summer Olympic Games.

King's idea was to defeat the non-American boxers who held the vast majority of world titles below the heavyweight division. Keeping in line with the patriotic theme of the promotion, King held shows at "patriotic" locales—such as the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland , as well as on an aircraft carrier stationed off Pensacola, Florida.

Despite the above, the Ring Record Book contained the fictitious additions to the records of the boxers in question and were never taken out of their records of the boxers.

Those dubious bouts would continue to appear in subsequent Ring Record Book editions. Farley Jr. This was used to smear Farley Jr. Farley Award", after Farley Sr.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Boxing magazine. Main article: List of The Ring world champions. Goldman January Columbia Journalism Review.

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