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Roger Michelot
Roger Michelot (Roger André Michelot, 1912-1993), French boxer, 1932 Olympic middleweight fourth place, light-heavyweight gold medalist at Berlin 1936, beating Germany's Richard Vogt; later a 14-bout professional in Paris.
Rolando Romero
Rolando "Rolly" Romero (Rolando Florencio Romero Moreno), American boxer born 1995 in Las Vegas; two-division WBA champion (super lightweight 2023, welterweight 2025 after beating Ryan Garcia); record 17-3, 13 KOs; lost title to Teofimo Lopez in 2026.
Román González (boxer)
Román "Chocolatito" González (born 1987, Managua) is a Nicaraguan boxer, four-division world champion (105–115 lbs), 53-4 with 74% KOs, and pound-for-pound No. 1 in the mid-2010s.
Ron Lyle
Ron Lyle (1941-2011), American heavyweight boxer from Denver, ex-convict turned contender; fought Ali for the title in 1975, knocked down Foreman twice in their 1976 Fight of the Year, beat Shavers.
Ron Rawson
Ron Rawson (Ronald Rawson, 1892-1952), British amateur heavyweight boxer, 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold medalist, ABA champion 1920 and 1921, career record 28-0 with 27 knockouts, Royal Engineers captain with Military Cross and two bars.
Roniel Iglesias
Roniel Iglesias Sotolongo (Pirolo), Cuban boxer born 1988 in Pinar del Río; two-time Olympic champion (London 2012 light-welterweight, Tokyo 2020 welterweight), Beijing 2008 bronze, 2009 world champion, later professional.
Ronnie Harris
Ronnie Harris refers to two unrelated US Olympic lightweight boxers: Ronald Allen Harris (1947–1980), 1964 Tokyo bronze medalist from Detroit, and Ronald Woodson Harris (born 1948), 1968 Mexico City gold medalist from Canton, Ohio.
Rope-a-dope
Rope-a-dope is a boxing tactic where a fighter shields himself against the ropes, letting the opponent tire before countering, coined by Muhammad Ali for his 1974 win over George Foreman.
Roy Jones Jr.
Roy Jones Jr. is an American former boxer from Pensacola, Florida, a 1988 Olympic silver medalist who won world titles from middleweight to heavyweight, beat John Ruiz in 2003, and entered the boxing Hall of Fame in 2022.
Rubin Carter
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1937-2014), American middleweight boxer (27-12-1, 19 KOs) wrongly convicted twice of the 1966 Paterson Lafayette Bar triple murder, imprisoned nearly 20 years, freed in 1985, later an AIDWYC wrongful-conviction advocate. Not the Carter family singers, President Jimmy Carter, or the Rubin Observatory.
Rudi Fink
Rudi Fink is a retired East German amateur boxer, born 1958 in Cottbus, who won the 1980 Olympic featherweight gold medal in Moscow and later worked as a boxing coach.
Rufət Huseynov
Rufət Huseynov (Rufət İlham oğlu Hüseynov), Azerbaijani light-flyweight boxer born 1997 in Ganja; won gold at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympics, European bronze 2015, and competed at Rio 2016.
Ruslan Chagaev (Руслан Шамилевич Чагаев)
Ruslan Chagaev (Руслан Шамилович Чагаев), "White Tyson", Uzbek heavyweight boxer born 1978 in Andijon; two-time WBA heavyweight champion (2007-09, 2014-16), who beat Nikolay Valuev and lost to Wladimir Klitschko in 2009.
Ruslan Provodnikov (Руслан Михайлович Проводников)
Ruslan Provodnikov (Руслан Михайлович Проводников), "The Russian Rocky", Russian boxer born 1984 in Beryozovo, Siberia; WBO light welterweight champion 2013-2014, 2013 Fight of the Year vs Timothy Bradley, record 25-5 (18 KOs), retired 2016.
Ryan Garcia
Ryan Garcia, nicknamed "King Ry", is an American professional boxer from Victorville, California who won WBC interim lightweight gold in 2021 and became WBC welterweight champion in 2026.
Ryan Garcia vs. Rolando Romero
Ryan Garcia vs. Rolando Romero, May 2, 2025, Times Square: underdog Romero (Rolly) upset Garcia by unanimous decision (115-112x2, 118-109) with a second-round knockdown to win the vacant WBA welterweight title on Ring Magazine's first Times Square card.
Ryōta Murata
Ryōta Murata (村田諒太, born 1986, Nara) is a retired Japanese middleweight boxer, 2012 London Olympic gold medalist and two-time WBA middleweight world champion, the first Japanese champion at both Olympic and professional level.
Sadam Ali
Sadam Ali, "World Kid" (born 1988), Brooklyn-born American boxer of Yemeni descent; 2008 US Olympic lightweight and WBO junior middleweight champion who beat Miguel Cotto in Cotto's 2017 farewell fight.
Sakshi Chaudhary (साक्षी चौधरी) (boxer)
Sakshi Chaudhary (साक्षी चौधरी), Indian Army boxer from Bhiwani, Haryana; 51kg flyweight. Won gold at 2026 Commonwealth Games beating Ruby White 5-0; former world junior and two-time world youth champion.
Sal Walker
Sal Walker (Clarence Leonard Walker, 1898-1957) was a South African boxer who won bantamweight gold at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, then fought professionally 1922-1928, holding South African featherweight and bantamweight titles.
Salvador Sánchez
Salvador Sánchez (Salvador Sánchez Narváez), Mexican boxer, WBC featherweight champion 1980-1982, 44-1-1 with 32 KOs, nine title defenses, beat Wilfredo Gómez and Azumah Nelson, died in a car accident at 23.
Sam Langford
Sam Langford (Samuel Edgar Langford, 1886-1956), the Boston Tar Baby, Black Canadian boxer, 1902-1926, lightweight to heavyweight, never fought for a world title, Ring Hall of Fame 1955.
Sam Noakes
Sam Noakes is an English professional boxer from Maidstone, Kent, competing at lightweight and holding British, Commonwealth, and European titles, with a 19-1 record as of 2026.
Sammy Mosberg
Sammy Mosberg (Samuel Albert Mosberg, 1896-1967), American lightweight boxer, 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold medalist; scored a 15-second knockout of Dick Beland, one of the fastest KOs in Olympic boxing history; later a real estate broker and 1953 Maccabiah Games coach.
Samuel Peter
Samuel Peter (born Samuel Okon Peter, 1980), known as "The Nigerian Nightmare", is a Nigerian former heavyweight boxer who held the WBC heavyweight championship in 2008.
Savannah Marshall
Savannah Marshall is a British professional boxer and mixed martial artist from Hartlepool, England, a 2012 world amateur champion who later won the undisputed super middleweight title.
Scott Quigg
Scott Quigg, born 1988 in Bury, England, is a retired British boxer, WBA super-bantamweight champion with eight defences, who lost a 2016 unification fight to Carl Frampton and retired in 2020.
Sebastian Fundora
Sebastian Fundora, nicknamed "The Towering Inferno", is an American boxer who won the WBC super welterweight title in 2024 by beating Tim Tszyu on split decision.
Seiya Tsutsumi (堤聖也)
Seiya Tsutsumi (堤聖也, born 1995) is a Japanese professional boxer who won the WBA bantamweight title in October 2024, upsetting defending champion Takuma Inoue while remaining undefeated.
Sena Irie
Sena Irie (入江聖奈, born 2000, Yonago, Tottori) is a retired Japanese amateur boxer, first Japanese woman to win Olympic boxing gold, taking the Tokyo 2020 featherweight (54-57kg) title by beating Nesthy Petecio 5-0; later a graduate researcher on urban toads.