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Gene Tunney
Gene Tunney (James Joseph Tunney, 1897-1978), American heavyweight boxing champion 1926-1928, "The Fighting Marine," who beat Jack Dempsey twice, including the 1927 Long Count Fight, and retired 65-1-1.
Gennady Golovkin (Геннадий Геннадьевич Головкин)
Gennady Golovkin (Геннадий Геннадьевич Головкин), "GGG", Kazakhstani middleweight boxer born 1982 in Karaganda; 2004 Olympic silver, 2003 world amateur champion, pro record 42-2-1 with 37 KOs, 20 straight title defenses, Canelo trilogy, Hall of Fame 2026, World Boxing president.
Gennady Shatkov
Gennady Shatkov (Геннадий Иванович Шатков), Soviet boxer, 1956 Olympic middleweight champion from Melbourne, twice European and three-time Soviet champion, later a legal scholar; lost to Cassius Clay at Rome 1960.
George Chuvalo
George Chuvalo (1937-2026), Canadian heavyweight boxing champion, five-time national titleholder, fought Muhammad Ali twice and Joe Frazier and George Foreman, never knocked down in 93-97 pro fights.
George Dixon
George Dixon, called Little Chocolate (1870–1908), was a Canadian boxer from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the first Black world boxing champion, winning the 1890 bantamweight title and three featherweight reigns; distinct from the 1924 Olympic rugby gold medalist and the Negro leagues catcher of the same name.
George Finnegan
George V. Finnegan (1881-1913), American boxer of the Olympic Club of San Francisco, won 1904 St. Louis Olympic flyweight gold over Miles Burke and bantamweight silver behind Oliver Kirk on 22 September 1904.
George Foreman
George Foreman (1949–2025), American heavyweight boxing champion and entrepreneur. Olympic gold 1968; beat Frazier 1973; lost to Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle 1974; oldest heavyweight champion at 45 in 1994; George Foreman Grill pitchman.
George Groves (boxer)
George Groves is a retired English super-middleweight boxer from London who won the WBA world title in 2017 and is known for his two fights with Carl Froch.
George Hunter
George Hunter (1927–2004), South African light-heavyweight boxer, won gold at the 1948 London Olympics by beating Don Scott and took the Val Barker Trophy; later a professional and steel company owner.
George Kambosos Jr (Γιώργος Καμπόσος)
George Kambosos Jr (Γιώργος Καμπόσος), 'Ferocious', Greek-Australian boxer born 1993 in Sydney; unified lightweight champion by upsetting Teófimo López in 2021, lost to Haney twice in 2022, later fought at 140 lbs, stopped by Hitchins in 2025.
George Liddard
George Liddard (born 2002), Billericay middleweight boxer, unbeaten at 15-0 (9 KOs); holds British, Commonwealth, and European middleweight titles; Matchroom fighter trained by Tony Sims.
Georgi Kostadinov
Georgi Kostadinov (Георги Костадинов) names two Bulgarian athletes: the boxer born 1950 in Burgas, first Bulgarian Olympic boxing champion (flyweight gold, Munich 1972), and the footballer born 1990 in Tsarevo, a Bulgaria midfielder and Levski Sofia sporting director.
Gerald Dreyer
Gerald Dreyer (1929–1985), South African boxer, 1948 London Olympic lightweight gold medalist who beat Jos Vissers in the final; later British Empire welterweight champion, retired 1955.
Gerald McClellan
Gerald McClellan, "The G-Man", American middleweight world champion (WBO 1991, WBC 1993), 31-3 with 20 first-round KOs, permanently blinded and disabled by brain injury in his 1995 loss to Nigel Benn.
Gerald Washington (boxer)
Gerald "El Gallo Negro" Washington, American heavyweight boxer born 1982 in San Jose; Navy veteran and USC football player who turned pro at 30, went 18-0-1, and lost a 2017 WBC title fight to Deontay Wilder by fifth-round TKO.
Gerry Cooney
Gerry Cooney, "Gentleman" Gerry Cooney, American heavyweight boxer from Huntington, New York; won first 25 pro fights, knocked out Norton in 54 seconds, lost a famous 1982 title fight to Larry Holmes, later lost to Spinks and Foreman.
Gervonta Davis
Gervonta "Tank" Davis, American southpaw boxer born 1994 in Baltimore; five-time, three-division world champion, 30-0-1 with 28 KOs, WBA lightweight titleholder since 2019, known for one-punch power and 2025-2026 legal troubles.
Gilberto Ramírez
Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramírez (Gilberto Ramírez Sánchez), Mexican southpaw boxer from Mazatlán; WBO super middleweight champion 2016-2019, WBA/WBO unified cruiserweight champion 2024-2026; record 48-2, 30 KOs; lost title by KO to David Benavidez.
Giovanni Parisi
Giovanni Parisi, "Flash" (1967-2009), Italian boxer; Seoul 1988 Olympic featherweight gold medalist and two-division WBO world champion (lightweight 1992-94, light welterweight 1996-98); died in a car crash near Voghera.
Golden Boy Promotions
Golden Boy Promotions is a Los Angeles-based boxing promoter founded in 2002 by Oscar De La Hoya, a 10-time world champion, and is a major force in American boxing.
Golden Gloves
Golden Gloves: annual US amateur boxing tournament series founded in Chicago in 1923 by Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward; now 31 franchises under Golden Gloves of America culminating in the National Tournament of Champions; alumni include Joe Louis, Ali, Leonard, Tyson.
Gu Yong Jo
Gu Yong Jo (Koo Yong-Jo), born 1955, North Korean boxer; won bantamweight gold at Montreal 1976, North Korea's first Olympic boxing gold, and competed in featherweight at Moscow 1980.
Guillermo Rigondeaux
Guillermo Rigondeaux (El Chacal), Cuban southpaw boxer born 1980 in Santiago de Cuba; double Olympic bantamweight champion (2000, 2004), two-time amateur world champion, and professional WBA/WBO super bantamweight and WBA bantamweight world titleholder.
Gyorgy Gedo
Gyorgy Gedo (Hungarian: Gedó György; born 1949) is a retired Hungarian amateur boxer who won the 1972 Munich Olympics light flyweight gold and boxed at four consecutive Olympics.
Gyula Torok
Gyula Torok (Török Gyula, nicknamed Béka, 1938-2014), Hungarian boxer, 1960 Rome Olympic flyweight gold medalist, beating Sergey Sivko 3-2; 1959 European silver; later coach and Kispest Granite Factory worker.
Hans Nielsen
Hans Nielsen most often denotes Hans Jakob Nielsen (1899–1967), Danish amateur boxer for AK Jyden who won lightweight gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics, Denmark's only Olympic boxing champion; namesakes include a speedway world champion.
Harry Greb
Harry Greb (Edward Henry Berg, 1894-1926), "The Pittsburgh Windmill," American boxer; world middleweight champion 1923-26, light heavyweight champion 1922-23, the only man to beat Gene Tunney, fought blind in one eye.
Harry Haft
Harry Haft (Hertzka Haft), Polish Jewish Auschwitz survivor forced to box fellow prisoners for SS officers, escaped, emigrated to the US in 1948, and lost to Rocky Marciano in 1949; subject of a 2006 book and the film The Survivor.
Harry Mallin
Harry Mallin (Henry William Mallin, 1892-1969), British middleweight amateur boxer and Metropolitan Police officer; Olympic middleweight gold at Antwerp 1920 and Paris 1924, first boxer to defend an Olympic title, five ABA titles, undefeated in over 300 bouts.
Harry Mitchell
Harry Mitchell (Harold James Mitchell, 1898-1983), British amateur light-heavyweight boxer of the Polytechnic BC; ABA champion 1922-25 and Olympic gold medalist at Paris 1924, beating Thyge Petersen in the final.