Jesús Carlos Zárate Serna is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1970 to 1988, and held the WBC bantamweight title from 1976 to 1979.
Nigel Gregory Benn is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1987 to 1996. He held world championships in two weight classes, including the WBO middleweight title in 1990 and the WBC super-middleweight title from 1992 to 1996. At the regional level, he held the Commonwealth middleweight title from 1988 to 1989. He scored notable wins over Champions Doug DeWitt, Iran Barkley, Thulani Malinga, Mauro Galvano and Gerald McClellan.
Jorge Armando Arce Armenta, best known as Jorge Arce, is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2014. He is a multiple-time world champion, and the second boxer from Mexico to win world titles in four weight divisions. In a storied career, Arce held the WBO light flyweight title from 1998 to 1999; the WBC and lineal light flyweight titles from 2002 to 2004; the WBO super flyweight title in 2010; the WBO junior featherweight title in 2011; and the WBO bantamweight title from 2011 to 2012. Additionally he held the WBC interim flyweight title from 2005 to 2006, the WBA interim super flyweight title from 2008 to 2009, and challenged once for the WBC featherweight title in his final fight in 2014.
Luis Ramón "Yori Boy" Campas Medina is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1987 to 2019. He held the IBF light middleweight title from 1997 to 1998.
Light middleweight, also known as junior middleweight or super welterweight, is a weight class in boxing but also may include other combat sports.
Jhonny González Vera is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a two-time former world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBO bantamweight title from 2005 to 2007, and the WBC featherweight title twice between 2011 and 2015. Additionally, he held the IBO featherweight title from 2010 to 2011.
Gianfranco Rosi retired Italian boxer who was a two-time world champion in the light-middleweight division.
Duane Thomas, was an American professional boxer in the super welterweight division. He was born in Detroit, Michigan.
Sergey Shtikhlits, best known as Robert Stieglitz, is a German former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2017. He held the WBO super-middleweight title twice between 2009 and 2014, and the European light-heavyweight title from 2016 to 2017.
Noé González Alcoba is an Uruguayan boxer and a former world title challenger.
Mger Mkrtchyan is an Armenian former professional boxer. He held the EBU Super Middleweight and the WBO Asia Pacific super middleweight titles. He contended for the 2004 WBO World Super middleweight title but lost to Joe Calzaghe in a 7th-round technical knockout.
Tony Harrison is an American professional boxer. He held the WBC light middleweight title from 2018 to 2019 and challenged once for the IBF light middleweight title in 2017. As of May 2022, Harrison is ranked as the world's fifth best active light middleweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and sixth by The Ring.
Carlos Adames is a Dominican professional boxer. He has held the World Boxing Council (WBC) middleweight title since May 2024. He previously challenged for the World Boxing Organization (WBO) interim light middleweight title in 2019.
Jaime Aarón Munguía Escobedo is a Mexican professional boxer. He held the WBO junior middleweight title from 2018 to 2019.
Anthony Perez was an American boxing referee and judge of Puerto Rican descent. During his career, he refereed many major boxing fights and participated in a number of boxing related documentaries.
Joey Olivo is an American former professional boxer of Mexican descent who competed from 1976 to 1989. He held the WBA world light flyweight title in 1985 and challenged for the WBC world light flyweight title in 1981. At regional level he held the WBC-NABF light flyweight title in 1983; the IBF-USBA flyweight title in 1984; and the WBC-NABF flyweight title in 1988.
Angelo Miguel Leo is an American professional boxer. He is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the IBF featherweight title since August 2024, and the WBO junior featherweight title from 2020 to 2021.
Junto Nakatani is a Japanese professional boxer. He has held world championships in three weight classes, including the World Boxing Organization (WBO) flyweight title from 2020 to 2022, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior-bantamweight title in 2023, and the World Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight title since February 2024.
The history of the sport of boxing in Puerto Rico is a varied and extensive one. Boxing is a major sport in the Caribbean country, and the sport has produced many champions for the island, both in the amateur and professional ranks, and among men and women fighters.
