World Boxing News presents the longest heavyweight masters in history since the creation of the division.
In 1885, the Glamor weight class enjoyed the first linear owner of heavyweight, John L. Sullivan. The first boxing superstar has been in this position for seven years.
Over 140 years later, only four boxers exceeded this feat.
WBN mentions them all below in the top ten.
10. Deontay Wilder [5 years, 1 month and 5 days]
Wilder took the WBC heavyweight championship from January 2015 to February 2020. The “Bronze Bomad” created ten successful defense during his reign, until he fell into Tyson Fury at MGM Grand Garden Arena a few days before the closure of the world.
9. Vitali Klitschko [5 years, 2 months and 4 days]
During the second spell, Klilitschko as a champion Ukrainian made the most impression. After retiring in 2004, after winning the heavyweight title, WBC from Corries Sanders, Klitschko returned to regain green and gold in 2008 against Samuel Piotr.
Together with his brother Wladimir, the brothers kept the castle division until Vitali left after defeating Mahmoud Charra in 2012.
Elder Sibling Kliczko lost only twice in a unique career 47.
8. James J. Jeffries [5 years, 11 months and 4 days]
“Massive Jeff or Jim” or “The Great White Hope”, as he was known, Jeffries won the linear crown in 1899 against Bob Fitzsimmons. Within almost six years, at the top of sport, he made an amazing 22 defense, registering the fastest knockout in history in the fight for championship in weighty weight.
In 45 or 55 seconds he defeated Jacek Finnegan massively, depending on the report from 1900. Jeffries’s reign ended only when he retired in 1904 at the unbeaten 18-0-2.
Jeffries came out of his pension six years later to challenge Jacek Johnson, but he was defeated in the fifteen of the 45 -planned round. It was his only loss.
7. Muhammad Ali [5 years, 11 months and 9 days]
By beating Jeffries for a few days, Ali does not need to introduce and he would prevail much longer if he did not fall into Joe Frazier. The fight of the century stopped the extraordinary first era of Ali as a world ruler after he “shook the world” against Sonna Liston in 1964.
6. Jack Johnson [6 years, 3 months and 10 days]
Jack Johnson is one of the most memorable linear heavyweight champions as the first of African Origin. The boxer from Galveston in Texas maintained a segregated crown from 1903, until he finally fought for a full title in 1908.
Johnson beat Tommy Burns on points and did six defense to lose to Jess Willard in 1915.
5. John Sullivan [7 years and 9 days]
Sullivan spent the first three years of his reign as a boxing master Barenuckle boxing not recognized because of his reluctance to face black fighters. Ultimately, Sullivan recognized the linear championship in 1885 and held him until 1892, when losing to James J. Corbett in Nowy Orleans.
His victory over Dominick McCaffrey was intended as the beginning of the race, which covered only three defense in seven years. Before Sullivan faced Corbett, he was out of the ring for five years.
Sullivan kept his pedigree as a man to defeat because he was undefeated in 37 matches before the Corbetta fight.
4. Jack Dempsey [7 years, 2 months, and 19 days]
Dempsey was a weighty champion in 1916, after which he moved to heavyweight and won the belt in 1919. “Manassa Mauler” did five defense before she lost to Gene Tunney in 1926.
3. Larry Holmes [7 years, 3 months, and 12 days]
Holmes won the WBC Crown from Ken Norton in 1978 and chased the aging Muhammad Ali for a linear title. Finally he met “The Greatest” in 1980 and beat him to the pulp in ten rounds. He performed several defense of the WBC belt until he resigned in 1983.
Even over Holmes directed Greg Page led to IBF, which agrees to convey his world heavyweight title to Holmes. Holmes defended him twice until he lost to Michael Spinks in 1985. Five months later he lost the rematch.
In general, Holmes created 18 title defense of WBC and IBF strips.
2. Wladimir Klitschko [9 years, 7 months, and 6 days]
The younger Klitschko, Wladimir, has a record of the longest control in boxing in weighty weight containing physical belts. By rolling the crown of IBF from Chris Byrd in 2006, Klitschko seemed impossible to beat until Tyson Fury appeared in 2015.
In the ponderous age of the division, Klitschko continued to rule the iron fist, defeating Aleksandra Povetkin, Kubrat Pulev and David Haye.
1. Joe Louis [11 years, 8 months, and 8 days]
Louis was recognized as a linear heavyweight champion in 1937 by Recent York State Athletic Commission, and a year later around the world. He made 25 more defense, including ten wins over world champions for almost a dozen or so years.
In recent counting of Worldboxingnews.com, Louis was named the second best boxer behind the great sugar Ray Robinson in the history of this sport.
Special references go to Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis, the prevailing master Oleksandr Usyk, George Foreman, Mike Tyson, Max Schmeling, Evander Holyfield, Floyd Patterson, Jersey Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, Leon Spinks and Riddick Bowe, everyone who contributed to weighty boxing during weighty boxing during weighty boxing during your Eras class.
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