Flashcards: World featherweight boxing champions

Chi In-jin (Korean: 지인진, Hanja: 池仁珍, born July 18, 1973, in Seoul) is a South Korean former boxer in the featherweight division.

(This name uses Philippine naming customs. The matronymic is Dapidran and the family name is Pacquiao.) Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH (/ˈpæki.aʊ/ PAK-ee-ow; Tagalog: [pɐkˈjaʊ]; born December 17, 1978) is a Filipino professional boxer and politician, currently serving as Senator of the Philippines.

(This name uses Philippine naming customs. The matronymic is Gonzales and the family name is Donaire.) Nonito Gonzales Donaire Jr.

Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia (born January 17, 1974) is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2011.

Jesús Marcelo Andrés Cuellar (born December 28, 1986) is an Argentine professional boxer who has held the WBA (Regular) featherweight title since 2015.

Tony Canzoneri (November 6, 1908 – December 9, 1959) was an American professional boxer.

Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez (born August 23, 1973) is a Mexican professional boxer.

(This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Morales and the second or maternal family name is Elvira.) Érik Isaac Morales Elvira (born September 1, 1976), best known as Érik Morales, is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2012.

George Dixon (July 29, 1870 – January 6, 1908) was a Black Canadian professional boxer.

Vasyl Anatoliyovich Lomachenko (Ukrainian: Василь Анатолійович Ломаченко; born 17 February 1988) is a Ukrainian professional boxer.

Javier Fortuna (born July 7, 1990 in La Romana, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican professional boxer in the Super Featherweight division and a one-time WBA (Regular) Super Featherweight Champion.

Steven "Steve" Luevano (born March 3, 1981) is a Mexican American former professional boxer who held the WBO featherweight title.

Léodegario "Léo" Santa Cruz (born August 10, 1988) is a Mexican professional boxer.

Henry Jackson Jr.

Victor "Young" Perez (October 18, 1911 – January 22, 1945) was a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932.

Yohannes Christian "Chris" John (born September 14, 1979) is an Indonesian former professional boxer.

Terrible Terry McGovern (March 9, 1880 – February 22, 1918) was an American professional boxer who held the World Bantamweight and Featherweight Championships.

Ultiminio Ramos (born December 2, 1941, in Matanzas, Cuba) is a Cuban-Mexican boxer who is better known as Sugar Ramos.

Louis Kaplan (born October 15, 1901 in Kiev, Ukraine – 1970), better known as Kid Kaplan, was a professional boxer in the Featherweight division.

Wilfredo Vázquez Olivera (born August 2, 1960) is a former Puerto Rican professional boxer.

Ike Weir (February 5, 1867 – September 12, 1908) was an Irish born American boxer, credited with being the first man to take the Featherweight Championship of the World in a match against Frank Murphy on March 31, 1889 in Kouts, Indiana.

César Soto Esquivel (born September 17, 1971) is a retired Mexican professional boxer and is a former WBC featherweight champion.

Abraham Washington "Abe" Attell (February 22, 1883 – February 7, 1970), often referred to by newspapers as "The Little Hebrew", was a boxer who became known for his record-setting, six year consecutive reign as World Featherweight Champion from 1906-1912, and his nearly consecutive ten-year reign starting in 1902.

Joey Archibald (February 20, 1914 – February 3, 1998) was a world boxing featherweight champion.

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Héctor Lizárraga (born September 1, 1966 in Mexico) was a Mexican boxer in the Featherweight division.

Bonnie Canino (born 11 January 1962) is a former women's boxing world featherweight champion for two different associations.

Emiko Raika (来家 恵美子, born January 24, 1975 in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese female professional boxer and mixed martial artist.

Scott Harrison (born 19 August 1977) is a former world boxing featherweight champion and the first Scottish boxer to regain the World Boxing Organisation championship.

Dave Sullivan (May 10, 1877 – 1929) was an Irish-American boxer who took the World Featherweight Title on September 26, 1898 in a controversial bout against Solly Smith, in Brooklyn, New York on a fifth round technical knockout, three rounds after Smith had broken his arm.

Benjamin "Benny" Baruch J.

Luisito Pio Espinosa (born June 26, 1967 in Manila) is a retired boxer from the Philippines who won World titles in two different weight divisions.

Freddie Miller was an American boxer from Cincinnati, Ohio.

Diana Prazak is a professional female boxer from Australia.

Albert Griffiths (1 January 1871 – 10 December 1927), better known as Young Griffo, was a World Featherweight boxing champion, and according to many sources, one of the first boxing world champions in any class.

Vicente Samuel Saldívar García (May 3, 1943 in Mexico City – July 18, 1985) was a Mexican boxer in the Featherweight division and was a part of the 1960 Mexican Olympic team.

Éder Jofre (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɛdeɾ ˈʒofɾi]; born March 26, 1936) is a retired Brazilian professional boxer and former Bantamweight and Featherweight champion.

Frank Erne (January 8, 1875 – September 17, 1954) was a Swiss born American boxer widely credited with taking the World Featherweight Championship on November 27, 1896 from George Dixon in New York City, as well as the World Lightweight Championship from George "Kid" Lavigne on July 3, 1899, in Buffalo, New York.

Hogan "Kid" Bassey MBE (3 June 1932 – 26 January 1998) was a Nigerian-British boxer, he was the first man of Nigerian descent to become a world boxing champion.

Solomon Garcia Smith (born March 6, 1871 in Los Angeles, California, deceased August 28, 1933) was a Mexican-American boxer in the featherweight division.

Marcela Eliana Acuña (born October 16, 1976 in Formosa) is an Argentine female boxer, and part-time politician who is nicknamed La Tigresa.

Ki-Young Chung (Hangul: 정기영; born November 23, 1959 in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea) is a former professional boxer.

Lindsay Garbatt (born September 25, 1982) is a Canadian female boxer and mixed martial artist.

Rubén Olivares (born January 14, 1947) is a former Mexican boxer and current member of the Boxing Hall of Fame.

Eddie Santry (December 11, 1876 – 18 January 1945), was an American featherweight boxer who took the World Featherweight Championship on October 10, 1899 against English Featherweight Champion Ben Jordan in a tenth round knockout at the Lenox Athletic Club in New York, New York.

Steve Robinson (born 13 December 1968 Cardiff) is a Welsh retired professional boxer.

Albert Morgan Pilkington, better known as "Tod Morgan," (December 25, 1902 – August 3, 1953), was an American boxer who took the World Jr.

Thomas William Murphy (3 November 1863 – 26 July 1939) was a boxer from New Zealand.

André Routis (July 16, 1900 – July 16, 1969) was a French professional boxer.

Phil Terranova (September 4, 1919 – March 16, 2000) was an American boxer who took the NBA World Featherweight Boxing Championship in 1943 in a bout against Jackie Callura.

Maureen Carranza Shea (born January 11, 1981) is an American female professional boxer of Irish and Mexican descent.

Richie Lemos (born Feb 7, 1920 in Los Angeles, California, deceased October 18, 2004) was a Mexican-American boxer in the Featherweight division.

Petey Sarron (November 21, 1906 in Birmingham, AL – July 3, 1994) was a member of the Olympic Team at flyweight in boxing for the United States during the 1924 Summer Olympics and became a National Boxing Association NBA Featherweight World Champion on May 11, 1936 defeating Freddie Miller at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.

Rodolfo López (born September 18, 1983 in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico) is a professional boxer.

Howard Winstone, MBE (15 April 1939 – 30 September 2000) was a Welsh world champion boxer, born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.

Colin McMillan (born 12 February 1966) is an English retired professional boxer.

Tommy Paul (4 April 1909 – 28 April 1991) was a world featherweight boxing champion from Buffalo, NY.

Alejandro Martín González, more known as Alejandro González, (born August 11, 1973 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico) was a Mexican boxer in the Lightweight division.

Deirdre Gogarty (born November 10, 1969) is a retired Irish female boxer and current coach of the Ragin' Cajun Boxing Club who hails from Drogheda, Ireland.