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Chris Eubank Jr
Chris Eubank Jr (Christopher Livingstone Eubank Jr), British middleweight boxer, son of Chris Eubank Sr; IBO and WBA interim titleholder, beat Conor Benn in April 2025, lost the November 2025 rematch.
Chris Finnegan
Chris Finnegan (1944-2009), British southpaw boxer, won 1968 Olympic middleweight gold in Mexico City, Britain's first boxing gold since 1924, then British, Commonwealth, and European light-heavyweight titles.
Chris van Heerden
Chris van Heerden, "The Heat" (born 1987, Johannesburg), South African southpaw welterweight, 28-3-1 (12 KOs), IBO world welterweight champion 2011-13; lost to Spence, Ennis no-contest, Benn KO.
Chuck Adkins
Chuck Adkins, or Charles "Chuck" Adkins, was an American boxer who won the 1952 Helsinki Olympics by defeating Soviet boxer Viktor Mednov in the final match.
Chuck Wepner
Chuck Wepner, the Bayonne Bleeder, American heavyweight boxer born 1939; knocked Muhammad Ali down in their 1975 title fight and inspired Rocky; record about 35-14-2, 17 KOs.
Claressa Shields
Claressa Shields (born 1995, Flint, Michigan), nicknamed GWOAT, is an American boxer and PFL mixed martial artist; first female Olympic boxing champion (London 2012), back-to-back Olympic gold medalist, five-weight world champion, and subject of the film The Fire Inside.
Conor Benn
Conor Benn, 'The Destroyer', British welterweight boxer, son of Nigel Benn; 25-2-0 (14 KOs) after a second-round KO loss to Ryan Garcia in the September 2026 WBC title fight; 2022 clomifene case dismissed in 2024.
Constantin Ursu
Constantin Ursu, Moldovan welterweight boxer based in Plymouth, England, born 2000 in Chisinau. Undefeated 16-0 (7 KOs); holds Commonwealth, WBO European, and British titles; trained by Marlee Dann; signed to Queensberry Promotions.
Corrie Sanders
Corrie Sanders (Cornelius Johannes Sanders, "The Sniper", 1966–2012), South African southpaw heavyweight boxer; WBO heavyweight champion after a 2003 second-round KO of Wladimir Klitschko, later stopped by Vitali Klitschko for the vacant WBC title; 42-4, 31 KOs; shot dead in an armed robbery near Pretoria.
Cosimo Pinto
Cosimo Pinto, born in Novara, Italy in 1943, is a former Italian amateur boxer who won light-heavyweight gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, following Cassius Clay as champion.
Crab Defense (boxing style)
Crab Defense, also called the Philly Shell or shoulder roll, is a boxing guard with the lead hand low, lead shoulder raised, and rear hand at the cheek, used by Mayweather Jr. (50-0) and James Toney.
Cruiserweight (boxing)
Cruiserweight (junior heavyweight) is boxing's 175–200 lb division between light heavyweight and heavyweight, created 1979 (Camel–Parlov first title), limit raised to 200 lbs in 2003; Holyfield, Bell, and Usyk were undisputed champions.
Curmel Moton
Curmel Moton (Curmel Tramayne Moton) is an American professional boxer promoted by Mayweather Promotions who turned professional in 2023 at 17 with more than 130 amateur wins.
Cus D'Amato
Cus D'Amato (Constantine D'Amato, 1908–1985), American boxing trainer and manager of the Gramercy and Catskill gyms; creator of the peek-a-boo style; trained Floyd Patterson, José Torres, and Mike Tyson.
Dambe boxing
Dambe, Hausa traditional boxing from northern Nigeria, Niger, and Chad: one cloth-wrapped "spear" fist, open "shield" hand, kicks allowed, no weight classes, win by knockdown; butchers' guild origins, now a growing online sport.
Damian Knyba
Damian Knyba, "Polish Hussar", is a Polish heavyweight boxer (born 1996, Bydgoszcz), 6'7" with an 86-inch reach, 18-1 with 11 KOs, signed to Top Rank, who stopped journeyman opposition, lost to Agit Kabayel for the WBC interim title, and beat Andy Ruiz Jr by decision in 2026.
Damien Hooper
Damien Hooper (Super Hooper), Australian Indigenous light heavyweight boxer born 1992 in Toowoomba; 2010 Youth Olympic 75kg gold medalist, 2012 London Olympian, later professional with IBF, WBO, WBC Youth Silver titles.
Danas Pozniakas
Danas Pozniakas (Dan Ivanovich Poznyak, 1939–2005), Polish-born Lithuanian boxer for the USSR; 1968 Olympic light-heavyweight gold, first Lithuanian Olympic champion, three-time European champion, 203 wins in 217 bouts.
Daniel Dubois (boxer)
Daniel Dubois, nicknamed Dynamite, is a British heavyweight boxer from Greenwich, London, 22-2 with 21 KOs, a two-time world champion holding IBF (2024-25) and WBO (2026) titles, known for knocking out Anthony Joshua and losing twice to Oleksandr Usyk.
Daniel Jacobs (boxer)
Daniel Jacobs, born 1987, is an American boxer from Brooklyn who won the WBA middleweight title in 2014 and returned from spinal bone cancer as the Miracle Man.
Daniyar Yeleusinov
Daniyar Yeleusinov (Данияр Маратович Елеусинов), "Kazakh Thunder", Kazakh southpaw welterweight boxer born 1991; 2016 Olympic gold medalist, 2013 world amateur champion, IBO welterweight titlist, unbeaten 13-0 pro.
Danny Garcia (boxer)
Danny "Swift" Garcia (Danny Óscar García, born 1988), Philadelphia boxer, two-division world champion at super lightweight and welterweight, beat Morales, Khan, Matthysse; retired 2025 at 38-4, 22 KOs.
Danny Green (boxer)
Danny Green (Daniel Thomas Green, 'Green Machine'), Australian boxer from Perth, 2000 Olympian, WBA light heavyweight and IBO cruiserweight champion, KO'd Roy Jones Jr in 2009, split two fights with Anthony Mundine, retired 2017.
Danny Williams (boxer)
Danny Williams (b. 13 July 1973, Brixton), the 'Brixton Bomber', British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion best known for knocking out Mike Tyson in four rounds in 2004; record 55-33 with 42 KOs over 1995-2023.
Dave Carstens
Dave Carstens (David Krynauw Enslin Carstens), South African boxer, 1932 Los Angeles Olympics light-heavyweight gold medalist; professional 1932-39 with 11 wins, 12 losses, 2 draws; died 1955.
David Benavidez
David Benavidez, "El Bandera Roja" or "The Mexican Monster", is an undefeated American boxer (32-0, 26 KOs) from Phoenix and a three-weight world champion: WBC super middleweight, WBC light heavyweight, and WBA/WBO cruiserweight titles.
David Haye
David Haye, "The Hayemaker" (born 1980, Bermondsey, London), British two-weight world champion boxer who unified the cruiserweight titles in 2008 and won the WBA heavyweight title from Nikolai Valuev in 2009; retired 2018, record 28-4 with 26 KOs.
David Lemieux (boxer)
David Lemieux is a Canadian former professional boxer from Montreal who competed from 2007 to 2022, won the IBF middleweight title in 2015, and was known for a high knockout rate.
David Picasso
David Picasso, born Alan David Picasso Romero, is a Mexican boxer from Naucalpan who challenged Naoya Inoue for the undisputed super bantamweight title in 2025.
David Price (boxer)
David Price (born 1983, Liverpool) is a retired British heavyweight, 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medalist and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, former British and Commonwealth champion, 25-7 (20 KOs) as a professional.