The 11 Greatest Light Heavyweight Boxers of All Time

The 175-pound division has produced hall of famers and long-reigning champions, and the order is hard to settle between eras.

1. 1
   Roy Jones Jr.

   Pensacola champion who won light heavyweight titles in the 1990s and later won a heavyweight title.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Antonio Tarver

   Florida southpaw who beat Roy Jones Jr. in 2004.
   839pts
3. 3
   Mike McCallum

   Jamaican boxer who won the WBC light heavyweight title in 1994.
   732pts
4. 4
   Canelo Álvarez

   Mexican star who won the WBO light heavyweight title with an 11th-round knockout of Sergey Kovalev in 2019.
   599pts
5. 5
   Michael Spinks

   Light heavyweight champion who became the first to win the heavyweight title by beating Larry Holmes.
   599pts
6. 6
   Archie Moore

   Light heavyweight champion who held the title for nearly a decade and scored 131 knockouts in his career.
   0pts
7. 7
   Bernard Hopkins

   Philadelphia boxer who won light heavyweight titles in his late 40s.
   0pts
8. 8
   Dariusz Michalczewski

   Polish champion who held the WBO light heavyweight title for nine years.
   0pts
9. 9
   Sergey Kovalev

   Russian puncher who held light heavyweight titles in the 2010s and lost to Canelo Álvarez in 2019.
   0pts
10. 10
    Ezzard Charles

    Cincinnati boxer and rival of Archie Moore who later won the heavyweight title.
    0pts
11. 11
    Tommy Loughran

    Philadelphia boxer who held the light heavyweight title in the late 1920s.
    0pts

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