Anthony Joshua is a British professional boxer who’s still in his early boxing career, but already manages to put his name on the list of the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world. He has a very spectacular record of 18 wins with no defeats. What makes it more amazing is that all of Anthony Joshua’s victories are all in the way of knockout. It’s so hard to believe, but it’s a fact that was already written on many boxing books and magazines.

1. His full name is Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua and he is also famous by his nickname “AJ”.
2. He was born on October 15, 1989 (age 27) in Watford, Hertfordshire, England
3. Anthony Joshua is currently fighting under the heavyweight division.
4. He is 6 ft 6 in tall and has a reach of 208 cm.
5. Joshua is British but he was born to a Nigerian-born parents.
6. He has a tattoo on his right upper arm of Africa and Nigeria outlined.
7. Before Anthony Joshua decided to do boxing, he worked on a construction site by being a bricklayer.
8. Joshua played football and track before doing boxing.
9. He started his amateur boxing career in 2007 at the age of 18 because he was encouraged by his cousin Ben Illyemi.
10. Joshua’s career was almost stopped when he was arrested for possession of cannabis but only sentenced to a 12-month community order.
11. He won an Olympic Gold medal at the London Olympics in 2012 representing Great Britain.
12. Joshua was awarded a Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s New Year’s Honors in 2013 for his services to boxing.
13. He once beat Mo Farah in a 100m sprint on a TV show Superstars with a time of 11.53 seconds.
14. Joshua said that his favorite album is 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
15. He won all of his professional fights via knockouts and never experience defeat.
16. Joshua claims that in order for him to develop his tactical side of boxing, he plays chess and reads.
17. The longest fights he ever had was with Dillian Whyte in 2015 and Dominic Breazeale in 2016. It all ended on the 7th round via TKO.
18. Many of Joshua’s fights ended on just the 2nd.
19. Anthony Joshua currently holds the IBF heavyweight title. He previously held the British, Commonwealth, and WBC International heavyweight titles.
20. He is ranked as the world’s 5th best heavyweight boxer by The Ring magazine in June 2016.

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Golovkin is a very popular and talented boxer so it’s just right if we know him better by listing some interesting facts about him.

1. His full name is Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin.
2. Although he is a Kazakhstani national, Golovkin is actually a half Korean. He was born to a Russian father and a Korean mother.
3. His last 21 opponents are defeated via knockout. So, basically Golovkin is now on a 21 fight KO streak.
4. Golovkin has never been knocked down or stopped even once on his amateur and professional career.
5. He can speak four different languages: Kazakh, Russian, German and English.
6. His two elder brothers were both killed while serving in the Russian army when he was still a kid.
7. Golovkin has the highest knockout ratio in the history of boxing at 90.9%. This record can be supported by his 33 knockouts out of his 36 wins and never been defeated.
8. He was based in Stuttgart, Germany before he decided to move to the USA in 2014 so that he can do his full training there.
9. He was the Ring Magazine’s fighter of the year in 2013.
10. Golovkin has a twin brother Max, an amateur boxer that is now helping him on his trainings.
11. He is now training in a gym in Big Bear, California with Abel Sanchez, his coach since 2012.
12. Golovkin is a very strong boxer but he once lost to a fighter who never turned pro. It was in the Athens Olympics in 2004 when the Russian middleweight Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov outscored him in a match but this boxer never turned pro unlike Golovkin.
13. He was only 10 years old when he started his amateur boxing career.
14. Because of his strong punches, he now struggles to find sparring partners the same as his size.
15. He is now fighting under the K2 promotions.

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Below are some of the important facts about Roman Gonzalez:

1. His complete name is Roman Alberto Gonzalez Luna. Born on June 17, 1987.
2. Gonzalez is the first boxer from Nicaragua to win 4 world titles in 4 weight classes. He first held the WBA minimum weight title from 2008 to 2010. Next was the WBA light flyweight title from 2011 to 2013. Then the lineal flyweight titles from 2014 to 2016. Now, he is currently holding the WBC super flyweight title since September 2016.
3. He has a very high knockout-to-win ratio of 83% that is why he is currently the top pound for pound boxer in the world by The Ring.
4. He started fighting as a professional boxer in 2005 and remains undefeated since then. Out of his 46 wins, 38 of those are by knockouts.
5. He loved to play soccer before he decided to do boxing.
6. Gonzalez’s family was so poor as he grew up that is why he was so different from the other kids on their area. Instead of playing with his friends, he had to sell pesticides together with his father.
7. He was married in 2009 to Raquel Doña but got divorced in 2011. They have 2 children that are living in Managua, Nicaragua.
8. He was hoping that his son would follow his footsteps and also become a boxer someday.
9. Gonzalez is publicly an open supporter of the FSLN political group in Nicaragua.
10. He is practicing Christianity and only fears God.
11. His favorite food is carne asada or grilled beef with plantain chips.
12. Gonzalez loves to collect Air Jordans and as a matter of fact, he currently owns 11 pairs of that type of sneakers.
13. Gonzalez would like to be a Christian pastor after he is through with boxing.
14. He loves to read anything about aliens during his free time.
15. Gonzalez also loves to ride roller coasters.

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To honor the greatness of Joe Frazier, we have prepared some interesting facts about him on and off the boxing ring.

1. Joe Frazier came from a poor family. His mother sometimes sold drinks to the people who will came to their house to watch boxing fights on TV.
2. His first punching bag is a bag filled with a lot of old clothing that he can found on their home.
3. Frazier’s nickname came from his coach who tells him to make his gloves smoke at the start of every fight.
4. He worked as a slaughter in Philadelphia before he became a boxer. That is the place where he sometimes practice boxing by punching the meats hanging in the refrigerated room.
5. Frazier love to eat seafood especially stewed crabs.
6. Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali may be rivals inside the boxing ring but certainly they don’t have any resentment with each other. In fact, Frazier was one of the petitioners when President Nixon banned Ali from boxing for three years.
7. He was the defender of his friends when being bullied during their childhood because of his strong built body.
8. Joe Frazier was really a great boxer but the world didn’t know much of his singing skills. He once sang with The Knockouts band and The Essential Band in different events.
9. Frazier won the gold medal in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. But only a few people did know that he was only a substitute at that time. The original competitor was Buster Mathis.
10. Like Mike Tyson, Frazier was also featured in The Simpsons twice, in 1992 and 2006.
11. Frazier owned a boxing gym in Philadelphia before he sold it when he was diagnosed with diabetes and high blood pressure in 2009.
12. It was only in September 2011 when he knew that he has a cancer but it is already in advanced stage at that time.

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We have listed below some more interesting facts about Mike Tyson that you probably didn’t even know.

1. Mike Tyson won his first 19 fights as a professional boxer via knockout and 12 of them are during the first round only.
2. Tyson may be fit and muscular during his boxing days but during one of his interviews, he talked about him being overweight when he was still a child.
3. He was always being bullied as a kid thus results to his criminal activities. In fact, when he was still 13 years old, he had been arrested many times already.
4. He did a lot of sacrifices to become a champion including his avoidance from sex for 5 years because he believed that doing it before a fight can make him weak.
5. Tyson received an honorary doctorate in 1989 that was given by the Central State University.
6. Though Tyson won his first 19 professional fights, he came from 2 amateur losses and he said that these fuel him to become a champion.
7. He has a parody character in Simpsons named Drederick Tatum. They have some similarities with this Simpsons’ character.
8. He was the highest paid athlete in 1990.
9. During his fight with Holyfield in 1997, he bit Holyfield’s ear maybe because of extreme anger and frustration that makes him lost the match. This incident leaves a big mark on his career.
10. Tyson love pigeons and animals. In fact, he has 3 Royal Bengal Tigers and hosted an Animal Planet show about birds.
11. He had his last fight in 2005 with the Heavyweight champion Kevin McBride that he lost by a technical knockout.
12. Tyson was included in the WWE Hall of Fame.
13. His Islam name is Malik Abdul Aziz when he converted to Islam.
14. With his 3 marriages, Tyson have 3 children all in all.
15. He is now a boxing promoter.

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Below are some interesting facts about Floyd Mayweather Jr. that you might didn’t even know:

1. Floyd Mayweather may be one of the richest athletes today but he grew up in a poor and problematic family because of the involvement of his parents on illegal drugs.
2. He has big bodyguards protecting him all the time that is known as “The Great Wall”.
3. Floyd was the highest paid athlete in two consecutive years (2014 & 2015) according to Forbes.
4. He once fought in WWE in 2008 having Big Show as his opponent.
5. He lives in Las Vegas so he decided to have all his fights there.
6. Floyd’s fight with De La Hoya in 2007 generates about $136 million revenue.
7. Though he has “Pretty Boy” nickname, that doesn’t mean that he is also a good boy. In fact, Floyd was charged with a lot of domestic violence charges.
8. Mayweather doesn’t idolized fellow great boxers and instead, he is a big fan of successful businessmen.
9. Yes, Mayweather never tasted defeat as professional boxer but he once lost when he was still an amateur boxer in the 1996 Olympic Semifinals to Bulgaria’s Serafim Todorov.
10. Justin Bieber is training boxing with Floyd.
11. Floyd collects a lot of expensive watches and even named them uniquely.
12. Because his big bodyguards are always with him anywhere he goes to, he needs to charter separate jet for them when they travel to keep the weight on his private jet.
13. He doesn’t wear the same underwear twice.
14. He reportedly spent $100,000 in a one strip club visit.
15. Mayweather was the National Golden Gloves champion for three years (1993, 1994, and 1996).
16. He has a habit of betting on a sporting event like in an NBA game.
17. Floyd is already very rich but his favorite food remains the same, fried hotdogs with barbecue sauce.
18. He has a lot of critics and haters but we cannot hide his generosity as he help families in Decatur District of Las Vegas build homes.

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Do you think that you already knew a lot about Manny? I bet that you still don’t know these facts about him that I will enumerate below.

1. Manny Pacquiao wanted to be a priest when he was still a child but didn’t pursue it because of poverty. Instead, he pursued boxing.
2. Young Manny used to imitate the moves of Bruce Lee after watching one of his movies. He did this by punching and kicking a banana tree near his house.
3. He used to sell various goods when he was 13 in the streets of General Santos City.
4. The first boxing match that Manny watched on TV was the Douglas VS Tyson fight in Tokyo in 1990 which Tyson lost.
5. The first boxing area for the young Manny Pac quiao is the Oval Plaza Park where he used to do sparring sessions with the other kids around and some of those are way much bigger than him.
6. Manny Pacquaio is penniless when he first went to Manila that he just hitch a ride in a small boat to go there.
7. He had a very tough life in Manila that if he had nothing to eat, he would wash restaurant dishes in exchange for foods.
8. His first boxing trainer is Ben Delgado, a gym owner in Sampaloc.
9. Manny’s mother Dionesia Pacquiao used to be “labandera” or a laundrywoman that is why Manny sometimes miss school just to help her with her work.
10. He is very notable in Philippines that he has its own postage stamp dedicated to him.
11. Manny had to cheat about his age and weight to qualify for the Blow by Blow because that tournament requires 100 pounds weight and an 18 year old age limit.
12. As of now, Manny is providing educational scholarships to 250 children through his charitable foundation.
13. Manny first met his wife Jinkee in a mall in General Santos City working as a beauty consultant for skin care products. His friend Reynaldo Jamora was the one who introduced him to her.
14. Pacquiao currently have 5 children.
15. He started his professional boxing career at the age of 17.
16. Manny’s first loss in his professional boxing career was in 1996 to a fighter named Rustico Torrecampo. Some said that this was because of his penalty to meet the weight requirement before the fight so the officials gave him heavier gloves than his opponent.
17. He also starred in several films in Philippines.
18. He was ranked as the No. 11 World’s Highest Paid Athletes by Forbes in 2014 with $41.8 million.
19. Pacquiao also plays professional basketball in Philippines.
20. He is always carrying a bible on his trainings.

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George Michael “Micky” Ward, Jr. is a 50 year old former American professional boxer from Lowell Massachusetts. He was portrayed by Mark Wahlberg in the 2010 movie “The Fighter”. The Fighter is a movie that was about his early career in boxing. Micky Ward is often known as “Irish” and widely known because of his three fights with Arturo Gatti, an exceptional Italian Canadian professional boxer.

Boxing Career

Micky Ward was a three-time New England Golden Gloves championship boxer before he became a pro in 1985. He won his first fourteen fights but sadly, he lost his next 4 consecutive fights in 1990-1991. At that point Micky took a timeout from boxing and used his time to undergo surgery on his right hand, which had become a problem in his previous fights.

Then, his half brother Dicky Eklund convinced Ward to go back to boxing. And it was a good thing that he did! After a few years of rest, his return was a huge success.  His return was so successful that he won his first nine fights including his victory with Augustus which was voted as The Ring Magazine’s 2001 Fight of the Year.

Ward vs. Gatti

Then on May 18, 2002 Micky Ward went head to head with Arturo Gatti.. This was a very wild fight but Ward knockdown Gatti on the ninth round. That became the defining moment to the fight. This was what gave Ward the fight win via a unanimous decision from the judges. Ward and Gatti were then both taken to the trauma center to get their fight injuries taken care of. This fight also went down as a Fight of the Year in 2002 by Ring magazine.

Then in November of 2002 they went for an immediate rematch. This time, Gatti took home the crown. Although

Ward survived to finish the match, his knocked down in the third round cost him the fight.

After the 2^nd fight Ward and Gatti both had unfinished business. At that point they agreed to have a third match to settle it. Gatti had the momentum at the start of the fight but Ward fought back and knocked down Gatti on the sixth round. But Gatti still managed to get up before the referees finished the count and he won the fight via a unanimous decision after the bout. Again both were taken to the hospital after the bout because of injuries. That fight also was named as the 2003 Ring Magazine Fight of the Year, the third consecutive time for Micky Ward. Ward was the first boxer who achieved this since Marciano and Basilio in the 1950’s.

Final Word

Micky Ward was a great boxer earning approx. 3 Million dollars for the 3 fights with Arturo Gatti. He retired from boxing with a record of 38 wins, 28 via KOs, and 13 loses. He is still living in Lowell, MA. with his family managing a boxing gym he owns.

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10. Ezekiel “Kell” Brook

Kell is a 30 year old British professional boxer and he is the 10^th on the pound for pound ranking. He is currently the IBF welterweight Champion with a record of: 36 Wins, 25 KOs, and still undefeated on his professional boxing career. Aside from being a pound for pound boxer by the Ring, he is also ranked as the world’s best welterweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and 7^th best boxer by the BoxRec.

9. Naoya Inoue

Naoya Inoue is still 23 years old but he is already ranked as 9^th best pound for pound boxer by The Ring. Naoya is a Japanese boxer and he is currently the WBO Junior Bantamweight Champion and the former WBC Light flyweight Champion. He was dubbed as “The Monster” by his fans because of his devastating punching power and brutal body attacks to his opponents. His boxing record is 10 wins, 8 via KOs, and still undefeated.

8. Shinsuke Yamanaka

Shinsuke Yamanaka is a 33 year old Japanese professional boxer who is currently the WBC Bantamweight Champion of the world. He is also currently the 8^th pound for pound boxer by the Ring magazine and has a record of 25 wins, 17 KOs, 2 draws and still undefeated.

7. Santos Saul Alvarez Barragan (Saul Alvarez)

Santos Saul Alvarez Barragan or commonly known as Saul Alvarez and has a nickname of “Canelo” Alvarez in the boxing world is a Mexican professional boxer. On his 49 fights, 47 are wins and 33 of those wins are by KOs, plus 1 loss and 1 draw. Canelo is currently the lineal middleweight Champion and he is also the former WBC middleweight, light middleweight, WBA(Regular) and The Ring light middleweight Champion.

6. Terence Crawford

Terence Crawford is still 28 years old but he is already the 6^th in The Ring magazine’s pound for pound rank. Terence is currently the WBO junior welterweight Champion and a former WBO and The Ring magazine lightweight champion. He is ranked as the world’s seventh best fighter, pound for pound by the Ring magazine last October 2015. He is nicknamed “Bud” and is known for being fast, hard hitting, and highly technical fighter. One reason of him being famous is his unique ability of changing his stance from orthodox to southpaw.

5. Guillermo Rigondeaux

Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz is a 35 year old Cuban professional boxer that has a great winning record in professional boxing. He win all his 16 fights and 10 of it are via KOs. He is the current lineal super bantamweight champion and the former WBA (Super), WBO, and the Ring magazine super bantamweight Champion. Guillermo is also recognized as the world’s number one super bantamweight by Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB) and The Ring. The Ring also rank him as the 5^th pound for pound and BoxRec ranked him as the 10^th best boxer.

4. Andre Ward

Andre Ward or commonly known as S. O. G. (Son Of God) is a 32 year old American professional boxer. He is the former lineal, The Ring magazine, WBA (Super), and WBC super middleweight Champion. Andre is ranked also by the Ring Magazine, Yahoo Sports, Sports Illustrated and ESPN as 4^th pound for pound boxer in the world. He is considered today as the most complete boxer because of his speed, intelligence on the ring especially on controlling distance and pace. Ward is also a commentator and expert analyst on HBO since 2014. He has a record of 29 wins, 15 of which are KOs and still undefeated.

3. Gennady Golovkin

Gennady Golovkin is a Kazakhstani professional boxer with an age of 34 years old and currently holding the unified WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, and IBO middleweight titles. This June 2016, he is ranked as the world’s best middleweight boxer by The Ring magazine and number two by the BoxRec. Both of them also ranked Golovkin as the third pound for pound boxer in the world. He was named Fighter of the Year in 2013 by The Ring. Golovkin currently holds the highest knockout percentage in the middleweight championship history of 91.4%. He is also considered as one of the hardest chins in modern boxing because he was never been knocked out or knocked down in over 375 fights of him on professional and amateur. He has 35 wins, 32 via KOs with no defeat today.

2. Sergey Kovalev

Sergey Kovalev is a Russian professional boxer. He is currently the unified WBO, IBF, WBA (Super) and WBC Diamond light heavyweight champion. Kovalev is very famous because of his punching power. He was named as the Fighter of the Year in 2014 by the Ring magazine. Kovalev has a professional record of 29 wins, 26 KOs, 1 draw and still undefeated.

1. Roman Gonzalez

Roman Alberto Gonzales Luna or best known as Roman Gonzales is a Nicaraguan professional boxer. Gonzales is the current WBC, Lineal and The Ring magazine flyweight champion. He is also a former WBA light flyweight and the WBA minimumweight champion. He is a three-weight world champion and the best pound for pound boxer but he is still 28 years young. Gonzales has total fights of 45 and those are all wins with 38 via KOs. A really strong fellow right?

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1. His real name is Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
2. He has 3 nicknames: The Greatest, The Champ and The Louisville Lip
3. He started his boxing career because his bike was stolen. His bike was stolen in October 1954 and he reported it to the police officer Joe Martin that was on a boxing gym. Martin was also a trainer and decided to train Ali when he said that he will punish the one who stole his bike. Martin became the first boxing trainer of Ali.
4. His original name Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., like his father that was named from a 19^th century farmer and anti-slavery crusader.
5. He practiced his speed by just dodging the rocks that was thrown at him. The usual rock thrower was his younger brother Rudy that said he never hit Ali.
6. Muhammad Ali was married 4 times and he has 7 daughters and 2 sons.
7. Before he was named Muhammad Ali, he was named Cassius X first when he become a member of the Nation of Islam because of Malcolm X. He carried that name until March 6, 1964 when the Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad gave him a holy name, Muhammad Ali.
8. Muhammad Ali was an actor, singer and a poet too.
9. Ali was scared of flying but he fought this fear in order to join the 1960 Rome Olympics where he won Gold. The funny thing was that Ali was wearing a parachute during the flight which he bought from a local military surplus store.
10. Muhammad Ali threw the gold medal he won in the Rome Olympics into the Ohio River because a waitress refused to serve him at a “whites-only” restaurant. This incident indicated that racism was so cruel on that time.
11. Ali’s first boxing title fight was a great upset when he was just an underdog to the fight but he still managed to defeat Floyd Patterson. Patterson who was a former champion was knocked out in the first round of the contest. Ali was expected to lose that fight and his victory was a great upset to many boxing fans.
12. Muhammad Ali was banned from boxing for more than 3 years. The reason is that he refuses to serve the US Military during the Vietnam War because of religious reasons in 1967. After being banned, his comeback fight was dubbed as “The Fight Of The Century”. The ticket was very on demand that even Frank Sinatra could not get a ticket easily to get inside as a reporter of Life Magazine.
13. He developed Parkinson’s disease because of the injuries he suffers throughout his boxing career.
14. His boxing record was: 61 fights, 56 wins, 37 win by KO, 5 losses
15. Muhammad Ali once convinced Saddam Hossein to free 15 Americans that was being captivated. It was in 1990 that Hossein hostage 2,000 foreigners. Ali flew to Baghdad immediately and convinced Hossein to release these hostages. After 50 minutes if negotiation, 15 Americans was freed by Hossein because of Ali.

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