Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring.
Michael Bentt is a British-born American film and television actor, and retired professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 1994. Of Jamaican heritage, he was born in East Dulwich, London, but raised in the Cambria Heights section of Queens in New York City. Bentt won the WBO heavyweight title from Tommy Morrison in 1993, losing the title in his first defense in 1994 to Herbie Hide. As an amateur he won bronze medals at the 1986 World Championships and 1987 Pan American Games.
Mark Anthony Breland is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1984 to 1997. He held the WBA welterweight title twice, having held it in 1987 and between 1989 and 1990. He later became an actor with a wide range of movie and television credits, having made his debut in The Lords of Discipline, and also appeared in the music video for The Pointer Sisters' 1985 hit single, "Dare Me."
Mitch Green is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1980 to 2005. He is best known for having gone the distance with Mike Tyson, who was undefeated at the time, and had won 20 matches in a row, 19 of them by knockout. Several years later, in 1988, Green ended up fighting Tyson again in a notorious street brawl. A toothpick dangling between his lips became his trademark at any public appearance.
Jeremy Williams is an American former professional boxer and mixed martial artist. He challenged once for the WBO heavyweight title in 1996.
Joseph Elsby Martin Sr., was an American boxing coach who trained two world heavyweight champions, Muhammad Ali and Jimmy Ellis, as well as several national Golden Gloves champions.
Melissa Hernández Pacheco is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. She held the WBC female featherweight title from 2012 to 2013 and challenged once for the WBC female lightweight title in 2011.
Gleason's is a boxing gym located on the Brooklyn waterfront. The gym was founded by Peter Gagliardi, a former bantamweight, who changed his name to Bobby Gleason. It moved to Manhattan and then to Brooklyn. Gleason's is now owned by Bruce Silverglade.
Sechew Powell is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2002 to 2014 and challenged for the IBF junior middleweight title in 2011.
Errol Christie was an English professional boxer and boxing trainer. He was the captain of the English amateur boxing team from 1980 to 1983 and European amateur champion in 1983. After turning professional he was a regular fixture on ITV Fight Night in the 1980s. After retiring from boxing he became a trainer in white-collar boxing.
White-collar boxing is a form of boxing in which people in white-collar professions train to fight at special events. Most have had no prior boxing experience.
Curt McCune is an American former amateur boxer, who was four-time State of Alabama amateur boxing champion, and the 1994 International Law Enforcement Games Boxing Champion at 193 lbs. McCune is now a private coach and trainer for amateur and professional boxers.
Joe Gallagher is a former amateur boxer. He became an amateur boxing coach in 1993 before joining the professional ranks as a trainer in 2001.
Robert Edward Shannon is an American former professional boxer.
Jonathan Hamm is a former standout amateur boxer, actor, football player, and current mixed martial artist. Hamm was the #1 Super-Heavyweight Amateur boxer in the United States in 2011 after winning the 2011 U.S. Nationals. Hamm was an alternate in the super-heavyweight division of the 2012 London Olympic Games for the U.S. Hamm earned Black College All-American, 1st Team All Conference, 1st Team All-Region, and The Marion E. Jackson Defensive Player of the Year in 2006. Hamm is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, and trained out of Jackson's Submissions Fighting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His manager was Malki Kawa, founder of First Round Management out of Miami, Florida, who houses UFC stars Jon Jones, Benson Henderson, Carlos Condit, Miesha Tate, and Frank Mir.
Shemuel Pagan is an American professional boxer in the lightweight division. He is trained by his father, Robert Pagan. He is currently training at Sadam Ali's gym in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Shemuel Pagan is a Puerto Rican American of strict Jewish faith.
Michael Kozlowski is a Russian-American boxing manager and trainer of Russian, Israeli, Panamanian, Chilean, and US champions, who handled the careers of Yuri Foreman, Jill Emery, Luke Campbell, Egor Plevako, Roman Greenberg. First trainer who brought Russian - Olympic boxing style to America.
Giulio Gallucci (1924–2006), also known as Johnny Duke, was an American, Hartford, Connecticut-born boxer and coach. Duke fought professionally from 1942 to 1946, and was inducted into the Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame's inaugural class. He also is a member of the National Golden Gloves Hall of Fame. His is beloved and remembered for his work with inner city youth.
Shane Benis is an entrepreneur in Shanghai, China. He is the founder/CEO of China Sports Promotions and producer of White Collar Boxing International, a leading event management company promoting white-collar boxing in the Asian Pacific. While born in London, Shane spent most of his childhood in Kampala, Uganda which is where his father originates from.
Eric Lamar Kelly is a former four-time national boxing champion, former member of the U.S. National Olympic team, a viral video star, celebrity trainer, sports correspondent, and brand ambassador.
