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Larry Holmes 1983-12-11 Las Vegas, NV, USA Michael Spinks 1985-09-21 Las Vegas, NV, USA Tony Tucker 1987-05-30 Las Vegas, NV, USA Mike Tyson 1987-08-01 Las Vegas, NV, USA Buster Douglas 1990-02-11 Tōkyō, JPN Evander Holyfield 1990-10-25 Las Vegas, NV, USA Riddick Bowe 1992-11-13 Las Vegas, NV, USA Evander Holyfield [2] 1993-11-06 Las Vegas, NV, USA Michael Moorer 1994-04-22 Las Vegas, NV, USA George Foreman 1994-11-05 Las Vegas, NV, USA Francois Botha 1995-12-09 Stuttgart, GER Michael Moorer [2] 1996-06-22 Dortmund, GER Evander Holyfield [3] 1997-11-08 Las Vegas, NV, USA
Lennox Lewis 1999-11-13 Las Vegas, NV, USA
Hasim Rahman 2001-04-22 Brakpan, RSA
Lennox Lewis [2] 2001-11-17 Las Vegas, NV, USA
Chris Byrd 2002-12-14 Atlantic City, NJ, USA Wladimir Klitschko 2006-04-22 Mannheim, GER Tyson Fury 2015-11-28 Düsseldorf, NW, GER Charles Martin 2016-01-16 Brooklyn, NY, USA Anthony Joshua 2016-04-09 London, ENG, GBR
Andy Ruiz Jr.
2019-06-01
New York, NY, USA
Anthony Joshua [2]
2019-12-07
Diriyah, KSA
Oleksandr Usyk
2021-09-25
London, ENG, GBR
Daniel Dubois
2024-06-26
