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Buddy Baer

Buddy Baer (Jacob Henry Baer, 1915-1986), American heavyweight boxer, younger brother of champion Max Baer; knocked Joe Louis through the ropes in 1941, lost twice to Louis, then became a film and TV actor.

Busenaz Surmeneli

Busenaz Sürmeneli (born 1998, Bursa) is a Turkish amateur boxer, Tokyo 2020 Olympic welterweight champion and Türkiye's first Olympic boxing gold medalist, also a three-time world champion (2019, 2022, 2025).

Buster Douglas

Buster Douglas (James Douglas), American heavyweight boxer from Columbus, Ohio; on February 11, 1990, as a 42-1 underdog, he knocked out undefeated champion Mike Tyson in 10 rounds at the Tokyo Dome, the biggest upset in boxing history.

Caleb Plant

Caleb "Sweethands" Plant (born 1992, Nashville) is an American super middleweight boxer, IBF champion 2019-2021, who lost the first undisputed 168-pound title fight to Canelo Alvarez in 2021; record 23-3, 14 KOs.

Callum Smith

Callum John Smith, "Mundo" (born 1990, Liverpool), English boxer, 6'3" with 78" reach; 2018 World Boxing Super Series winner and WBA super middleweight champion, lost to Canelo and Beterbiev, now WBO interim light heavyweight champion facing Dmitry Bivol.

Callum Walsh

Callum Walsh, "King" (born 2001, Cork, Ireland), is an undefeated Irish southpaw professional boxer (17-0, 11 KOs) trained by Freddie Roach, promoted under Dana White's Zuffa Boxing, a former WBC Continental Americas super welterweight titleholder now at middleweight.

Canelo Álvarez

Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez, Mexican professional boxer from Guadalajara, four-division world champion and two-time undisputed super middleweight champion, record 63-3-2 (39 KOs), losses to Mayweather, Bivol, and Crawford.

Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin

Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin: boxing trilogy in Las Vegas, 2017–2022; split draw, then majority decision for Álvarez, then unanimous decision, 36 total rounds.

Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin II

Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin II, the 2018 Las Vegas rematch (GGG, Canelo vs GGG 2): Álvarez won a disputed majority decision for Golovkin's WBC and WBA middleweight titles, despite most media cards favoring Golovkin.

Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford

Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford: super-middleweight title fight, September 13, 2025, Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas. Crawford won a unanimous decision (116-112, 115-113, 115-113) to become undisputed champion; no rematch followed.

Carl Frampton

Carl Frampton, "The Jackal", born 1987 in Belfast, is a retired Northern Irish boxer, two-weight world champion (IBF/WBA super bantamweight, WBA featherweight), Ring Magazine 2016 Fighter of the Year, retired 28-3.

Carl Froch

Carl Froch, 'The Cobra' (born 1977, Nottingham), English super middleweight boxer; WBC, WBA, and IBF world champion, 33-2 (24 KOs), Super Six finalist, beat Groves before 80,000 at Wembley, IBHOF class of 2023.

Carl Thompson (boxer)

Carl "The Cat" Thompson (Adrian Carl Thompson), British cruiserweight boxer, 34-6 (25 KOs), 1988-2005; WBO champion 1997-99, IBO champion 2001 and 2004; beat Chris Eubank twice and stopped unbeaten David Haye in 2004.

Carlo Orlandi

Carlo Orlandi (El Negher), deaf Italian boxer born 23 April 1910, won lightweight gold at Amsterdam 1928, then took Italian and European lightweight titles as a professional.

Carlos Monzón

Carlos Monzón (Carlos Roque Monzón), Argentine boxer nicknamed Escopeta, world middleweight champion 1970-1977 with 14 title defenses, record 87-3-9, 59 KOs, later convicted of killing his wife and died in a 1995 car crash.

Carlos Takam

Carlos Takam (Armand Carlos Takam, born 1980, Douala, Cameroon) is a Franco-Cameroonian former professional heavyweight boxer, 2004 Olympian, pro 2005–2023, record 40-8-1, who fought Joshua, Parker, and Chisora.

Carmelo Robledo

Carmelo Ambrosio Robledo, Argentine amateur boxer, featherweight gold medalist at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics after placing =5 as a bantamweight at Amsterdam 1928; birth date disputed (1912 vs 1907), died 9 November 1961.

Carmen Barth

Carmen Barth, full name Carmine R. Barth, was an American middleweight boxer from Cleveland, Ohio, who won the gold medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Cecilia Brækhus

Cecilia Brækhus, "The First Lady," Norwegian boxer born 1981 in Cartagena, Colombia; first female four-belt undisputed welterweight champion (2014), 25 title defenses, ended Norway's 33-year boxing ban, retired 2025 as two-weight world champion.

Chad Dawson

Chad Dawson, nicknamed "Bad Chad", is an American professional boxer from New Haven, Connecticut, who held WBC and IBF world light heavyweight titles and beat Bernard Hopkins in 2012.

Chang Yuan

Chang Yuan (常园), born 1997 in Shijiazhuang, is a Chinese boxer, 2014 Youth Olympic flyweight champion and 2024 Paris Olympic women's 54 kg gold medalist, China's first female Olympic boxing champion.

Charles Martin (boxer)

Charles Martin, born Charles Lee Martin in 1986, is an American heavyweight boxer nicknamed "Prince" who held the IBF heavyweight title from January to April 2016.

Charles Mayer

Charles Mayer (1882–1972), American amateur boxer born in Molsheim, Alsace; won 1904 Olympic middleweight gold and heavyweight silver at St. Louis, plus the 1905 AAU middleweight title.

Chase DeMoor

Chase DeMoor (born 1996, Eatonville, Washington) is an American Misfits Boxing Heavyweight Champion and reality TV star from Too Hot to Handle; a former football lineman who beat Andrew Tate by majority decision in Dubai, December 2025.

Choi Chol Su

Choi Chol Su (최철수), born 1969, is a North Korean flyweight boxer who won gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, beating Raúl González 12-2, and later boxed professionally in Japan and China.

Chris Algieri

Chris Algieri (born 1984), also called The Fighting Collegian, is an American former boxer and kickboxer from Huntington, New York; WBO junior welterweight champion 2014 who upset Ruslan Provodnikov, lost to Pacquiao, Khan, and Spence, and is now a certified nutritionist and boxing analyst.

Chris Arreola

Chris "The Nightmare" Arreola (Cristobal Arreola, born 1981), American heavyweight boxer, 38-7-1 (33 KOs), three-time WBC title challenger losing to Klitschko, Stiverne, and Wilder.

Chris Avila

Chris Avila (born 1993, Stockton, California) is an American MMA fighter and crossover boxer, a Cesar Gracie teammate of Nate Diaz; UFC and Bellator veteran (8-10 MMA) who beat Jeremy Stephens, Anthony Pettis, and Doctor Mike in professional boxing (6-2).

Chris Byrd

Chris Byrd (Rapid Fire), born 1970 in Flint, Michigan, is a retired American southpaw boxer, 1992 Olympic middleweight silver medalist, and two-time world heavyweight champion, holding the WBO (2000) and IBF (2002-2006) titles.

Chris Eubank

Chris Eubank (Christopher Livingstone Eubanks), English boxer, WBO middleweight champion 1990 and WBO super middleweight champion 1991-1995; famed for eccentric persona and Nigel Benn rivalry; father of Chris Eubank Jr.