Boxing
- Muhammed Ali, heavyweight champion and boxing legend (Born in Louisville, Kentucky, later moved to Berrien Springs)
- Chris Byrd, is a retired and former professional boxer. He is the former WBO and IBF heavyweight champion. His nickname is "Rapid Fire". (born in Flint)
- Tracy Byrd, female boxer (born in Flint)
- Andre Dirrell Super Middleweight boxer (born in Flint)
- Anthony Dirrell Super Middleweight boxer (born in Flint)
- Eddie Futch, boxing trainer of nine world champion boxers (born in Hillsboro, Mississippi; raised in Detroit)
- Thomas Hearns (aka "The Hit Man" and Motor City Cobra), Welterweight champion (born in Memphis, Tennessee; moved to Detroit)
- Jackie Kallen, boxing's first female manager (born in Detroit)
- Stanley Ketchel (Stanilas Kiecal, aka "The Michigan Assassin"), Middleweight champion (born in Grand Rapids)
- George "Kid" Lavigne, World Lightweight champion of the 1890s (born in Bay City)
- Joe Louis, World Heavyweight champion boxer, considered the best boxer of all-time. (born in LaFayette, Alabama; moved to Detroit)
- Tommy Prendergast, Lightweight Champion 1904 (born in East Saginaw)
- Sugar Ray Robinson, first boxer to win a divisional world championship five times (born in Ailey, Georgia; raised in Detroit)
- Tarick Salmaci, Middleweight boxer (born in Dearborn)
- Emanuel Steward, boxing trainer (born in West Virginia; raised in Detroit)
- Pinklon Thomas, Heavyweight boxing champion (born in Pontiac)
- Ad Wolgast (aka, "The Michigan Wildcat"), early 20th century lightweight boxing champion (born in Cadillac)
- Floyd "Pretty Boy" Mayweather born in Grand Rapids
- Bronco McKart Light Middleweight champion (born in Monroe)
Read more about this topic: List Of Michigan Sports Figures
Famous quotes containing the word boxing:
“... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing—for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it’s impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)