John Mugabi is a Ugandan former professional boxer who competed from 1980 to 1991, and 1996 to 1999. He held the WBC super-welterweight title from 1989 to 1990, and challenged twice for world titles at middleweight, including the undisputed championship.
Malcolm Robert Michael is a Papua New Guinean-born former Australian rules footballer. He is notable for his successful professional career in the Australian Football League. In a career spanning 238 games and three clubs in two Australian states he is best known as a triple premiership full-back with the Brisbane Lions. Michael is recognised as being one of the best Queensland produced Australian rules footballers of all time, being named on the AFL Queensland Team of the 20th Century.
Jerry Jerome was born at Jimbour Homestead, near Dalby.
Reginald Leslie "Snowy" Baker was an Australian athlete, sports promoter, and actor. Born in Surry Hills, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Baker excelled at a number of sports, winning New South Wales swimming and boxing championships while still a teenager. Playing rugby union for Eastern Suburbs, he played several games for New South Wales against Queensland, and in 1904 represented Australia in two Test matches against Great Britain. At the 1908 London Olympics, Baker represented Australasia in swimming and diving, as well as taking part in the middleweight boxing event, in which he won a silver medal. He also excelled in horsemanship, water polo, running, rowing and cricket. However, "His stature as an athlete depends largely upon the enormous range rather than the outstanding excellence of his activities; it was as an entrepreneur-showman, publicist and businessman that he seems in retrospect to have been most important."
Jarrod Stephen Mullen is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. He last played for the Sunshine Coast Falcons in the Queensland Cup. A New South Wales State of Origin representative, he played at five-eighth and halfback. He previously played for Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League (NRL).
Chris Pyatt is a former world middleweight champion boxer from Leicester, England.
Jarrod Harbrow is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
The main sports played in Samoa are rugby union and rugby league. Other popular sports are netball and soccer. Samoans in American Samoa are more likely to follow or play American sports such as American football, basketball, and baseball. Sports such as mixed martial arts, boxing, professional wrestling, and volleyball are popular among most ethnic Samoans regardless of location.
Matvey Georgiyevich Korobov is a Russian professional boxer. He challenged once for the WBO middleweight title in 2014, as well as the WBC interim middleweight title in 2018 and the WBA interim middleweight title in 2019. As an amateur he won consecutive gold medals at the 2005 and 2007 World Championships, and gold at the 2005 Boxing World Cup; all in the middleweight division.
Emilio Correa Bayeux Júnior is a Cuban amateur boxer best known for winning the middleweight Gold medal at the 2007 Pan American Games. He is the son of Olympic champion Emilio Correa Sr.
John Wayne "The Gunslinger" Parr, also known as JWP, is a retired Australian Muay Thai fighter, kickboxer and boxer, fighting out of Boonchu Gym in Gold Coast, Queensland. He is a former 10-time World Champion and was the runner up on The Contender Asia.
Doug Gailey is a New Zealand former rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand in the 1970 and 1972 World Cups.
Jeff "Flash" Malcolm, is an Australian professional boxer who fought from 1971 until 2002. He won the Australian light welterweight title, New South Wales (Australia) State lightweight title, Australasian light welterweight title, South Pacific light welterweight title, Queensland (Australia) State welterweight title, International Boxing Council (IBC) welterweight title, South Pacific welterweight title, World Boxing Federation (WBF) Intercontinental welterweight title, WBF welterweight title, Pan Asian Boxing Association (PABA) welterweight title, World Boxing Association (WBA) Fedelatin welterweight title, PABA light middleweight title, and Commonwealth light welterweight title. He was also a challenger for the South Seas light welterweight title against Pat Leglise, Australian welterweight title against Wilf Gentzen, and World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title against Manning Galloway. His professional fighting weight varied from 135 lb, i.e. lightweight to 165+1⁄4 lb, i.e. super middleweight. He was inducted into the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame in 2007.
Jamie Michael Pittman is a professional Australian indigenous boxer in the middleweight division. He represented his nation Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics finishing his amateur career with an incredible record of 187 fights 150 wins 37 losses, before turning himself into pro by the following year. From then on, Pittman held a record of twenty-five bouts throughout his professional career.
Maksym Bursak is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He held the European middleweight title in 2013, and has challenged once for the WBO super-middleweight title in 2017.
Doug Sam is a retired Australian professional boxer. He lives in Townsville, Australia.
Bodo Andreass is a German boxing coach who has coached German, Nigerian, South African and Australian national boxing teams.
Timofei Konstantinovich Tszyu is an Australian professional boxer who held the Australian light-middleweight title in 2019 and is currently ranked No.1 Australia light-middleweight by BoxRec. He is the son of former world champion boxer Kostya Tszyu and older brother of Nikita Tszyu. A portrait of Tszyu by Ksenija Hrnjak was a finalist for the 2022 Archibald Prize.
Jacob Ng is an Australian professional boxer who has held the WBO Oriental and IBF International lightweight titles since 2019.
