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Sonny Liston
1963-07-22
Winchester, NV, USA
Cassius Clay / Muhammad Ali
1964-02-25
Miami Beach, FL, USA
Joe Frazier
1970-02-16
New York, NY, USA
George Foreman
1973-01-22
Kingston, JAM
Muhammad Ali [2]
1974-10-30
Kinshasa, ZAI
Leon Spinks
1978-02-15
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Ken Norton
1978-03-20
Larry Holmes
1978-06-09
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Tim Witherspoon
1984-03-09
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Pinklon Thomas
1984-08-31
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Trevor Berbick
1986-03-22
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Mike Tyson
1986-11-22
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
Lennox Lewis
1992-12-14
Oliver McCall
1994-09-24
London, ENG, GBR
Frank Bruno
1995-09-02
London, ENG, GBR
Mike Tyson [2]
1996-03-16
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Lennox Lewis [2]
1997-02-07
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Hasim Rahman
2001-04-22
Brakpan, RSA
Lennox Lewis [3]
2001-11-17
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Vitali Klitschko
2004-04-24
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hasim Rahman [2]
2005-11-09
Oleg Maskaev
2006-08-12
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Samuel Peter
2008-03-08
Cancun, QI, MEX
Vitali Klitschko [2]
2008-10-11
Berlin, GER
Bermane Stiverne
2014-05-10
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Deontay Wilder
2015-01-17
Paradise, NV, USA
Tyson Fury
2020-02-22
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Oleksandr Usyk
2024-05-18
Riyadh, KSA
