With 17 weight classes in boxing and four major sanctioning bodies ... Oleksandr Usyk*** *Joseph Parker is the WBO heavyweight interim champion **Kubrat Pulev is the WBA "regular" heavyweight ...

But boxing does have another color barrier ... especially those from the U.S., are the minority. Nineteen champions are black, with 15 hailing from the U.S. Ten are Hispanic, with two from ...

Some people did not believe that African Americans had what it took to become heavyweight champions in the "manly art" of boxing. Fear of Black Superiority Whether due to his enormous talent in ...

Boxing was his job ... In August 1888, Peter “Black Prince” Jackson — a wildly talented champion from Australia on tour in America — took up the challenge.

And last year, at age 27, she became Ghana's first female world boxing champion and the first woman ... she said at the Jamestown neighborhood's Black Panthers Gym where Quartey has been training ...