Below is a list of National Golden Gloves Heavyweight Champions along with the state or region which they represented. The Golden Gloves is one of the two premier amateur boxing tournaments, the other being the United States National Boxing Championships, which is an annual national amateur boxing tournament organized by USA Boxing, the national governing body for Olympic boxing and is the United States' member organization of the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA).
- 1928 – Walter Radka – Chicago
- 1929 – George Meyer – Chicago
- 1930 – Grant Fortney – Chicago
- 1931 – John Long – Gary
- 1932 – Adam Smith – Rockford
- 1933 – John Pecek – Chicago
- 1934 – Otis Thomas – Chicago
- 1935 – Lorenzo Peck – Detroit
- 1936 – Paul Hartnek – Omaha
- 1937 – Paul Hartnek – Omaha
- 1938 – Dan Meritt – Cleveland
- 1939 – Tony Novak – Kansas City
- 1940 – Cornelius Young – Chicago
- 1941 – Allen Aubrey – Cleveland
- 1942 – Hubert Hood – Chicago
- 1943 – Walter Moore – Chicago
- 1944 – Orland Ott – Fort Worth
- 1945 – Luke Baylark – Chicago
- 1946 – Joe Frucci – Gary
- 1947 – Richard Hagan – Chicago
- 1948 – Clarence Henry – Los Angeles
- 1949 – Don Pereko – Denver
- 1950 – Earl Sudduth – Rockford
- 1951 – Ernest Fann – Cleveland
- 1952 – Ed Sanders – Los Angeles
- 1953 – Charles Liston – St. Louis
- 1954 – Garvin Sawyer – Cincinnati
- 1955 – Eddie Catoe – Kansas City
- 1956 – Solomon McTier – Montgomery
- 1957 – Joe Hemphel – Rockford
- 1958 – Dan Hodge – Wichita
- 1959 – Jimmy Jones – Chicago
- 1960 – Cassius Clay – Louisville
- 1961 – Al Jenkins – Green Bay
- 1962 – Bennie Black – Chicago
- 1963 – Harley Cooper – Omaha
- 1964 – Wyce Westbrook – Cincinnati
- 1965 – Jerry Quarry – Los Angeles
- 1966 – Clay Hodges – Los Angeles
- 1967 – Clay Hodges – Los Angeles
- 1968 – Albert Wilson – Charlotte
- 1969 – Walter Moore – Los Angeles
- 1970 – William Thompson – Chicago
- 1971 – Ronald Draper – Kansas City
- 1972 – Duane Bobick – Minneapolis
- 1973 – Johnny Hudson (boxer) – Detroit
- 1974 – Emory Chapman – Las Vegas
- 1975 – Emory Chapman – Las Vegas
- 1976 – Michael Dokes – Cleveland
- 1977 – James Clark – Pennsylvania
- 1978 – Greg Page – Louisville
- 1979 – Marvis Frazier – Pennsylvania
- 1980 – Michael Arms – Milwaukee
- 1981 – Joe Thomas – Pennsylvania
- 1982 – Earl Lewis (boxer) – Cleveland
- 1983 – Olian Alexander – Kansas
- 1984 – Michael Tyson – New York
- 1985 – Jerry Goff – Jackson
- 1986 – Orlin Norris – Fort Worth
- 1987 – Nathaniel Fitch – Knoxville
- 1988 – Derek Isaman – Huntington
- 1989 – Boris Powell – St. Louis
- 1990 – Gregory Suttington – Kansas City
- 1991 – Melvin Foster – Washington, DC
- 1992 – Bobby Harris – Syracuse
- 1993 – Fres Oquendo – Chicago
- 1994 – Nate Jones – Chicago
- 1995 – Nate Jones – Illinois
- 1996 – DaVarryl Williamson – Milwaukee
- 1997 – Jeremiah Muhammad – Mid-South
- 1998 – Calvin Brock – Knoxville
- 1999 – DaVarryl Williamson – Colorado
- 2000 – Devin Vargas – Toledo
- 2001 – Devin Vargas – Toledo
- 2002 – Matthew Godfrey – New England
- 2003 – Charles Ellis – Kansas City
- 2004 – Chazz Witherspoon – Pennsylvania
- 2005 – Eric Fields – Mid-South
- 2006 – Eric Fields – Oklahoma
- 2007 – Deontay Wilder – Knoxville
- 2008 – Craig Lewis (boxer) – Detroit, MI
- 2009 – Jordan Shimmell – Hudsonville, MI
- 2010 - Steve Geffrard - Florida
- 2011 - Michael Hunter - Colo-N Mexico
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