The Most Famous

BOXERS from Australia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Australian Boxers. The pantheon dataset contains 496 Boxers, 2 of which were born in Australia. This makes Australia the birth place of the 44th most number of Boxers behind Belarus, and Nigeria.

Top 6

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australian Boxers of all time. This list of famous Australian Boxers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Jeff Horn (b. 1988)

With an HPI of 25.46, Jeff Horn is the most famous Australian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Jeffrey Christopher Horn Jr. (born 4 February 1988) is an Australian former professional boxer who competed from 2013 to 2020. He held the WBO welterweight title from 2017 to 2018. As an amateur, he represented Australia at the 2012 Olympics, reaching the quarterfinals of the light-welterweight bracket.

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2. Daniel Geale (b. 1981)

With an HPI of 23.85, Daniel Geale is the 2nd most famous Australian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Daniel Geale (born 26 February 1981) is an Australian former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2016. He held the unified WBA (Super) and IBF middleweight titles between 2011 and 2013, and the IBO middleweight title from 2007 to 2009. As an amateur boxer, Geale won a welterweight gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

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3. Harry Garside (b. 1997)

With an HPI of 0.00, Harry Garside is the 3rd most famous Australian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Harrison Garside (born 22 July 1997) is an Australian boxer and plumber. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics where he won the bronze medal. This marked the first time in more than three decades that an Australian medaled in boxing at the Olympics.

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4. Justis Huni (b. 1999)

With an HPI of 0.00, Justis Huni is the 4th most famous Australian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into different languages.

Justis Huni (born 4 April 1999) is an Australian professional boxer. He has held the Australian heavyweight title since 2020. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships.

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5. Caitlin Parker (b. 1996)

With an HPI of 0.00, Caitlin Parker is the 5th most famous Australian Boxer.  Her biography has been translated into different languages.

Caitlin Parker (born 17 April 1996) is an Australian amateur boxer, who became the first female boxer from Australia to win an Olympic medal when she took bronze at the 2024 Paris Games. Parker has also won silver and bronze medals at two Commonwealth Games and bronze at the 2014 Youth Olympics.

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6. Skye Nicolson (b. 1995)

With an HPI of 0.00, Skye Nicolson is the 6th most famous Australian Boxer.  Her biography has been translated into different languages.

Skye Brittany Nicolson (born 27 August 1995) is an Australian professional boxer. She is the reigning WBC featherweight world champion. As an amateur, she competed in the featherweight event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the gold medal. Nicolson competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In her first bout in the women's Feather (54–57 kg) preliminaries she beat Im Ae-ji from Republic of Korea on points. She was beaten in the quarterfinals by Kariss Artingstall from Great Britain.

People

Pantheon has 6 people classified as Australian boxers born between 1981 and 1999. Of these 6, 6 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Australian boxers include Jeff Horn, Daniel Geale, and Harry Garside. As of April 2024, 4 new Australian boxers have been added to Pantheon including Harry Garside, Justis Huni, and Caitlin Parker.

Living Australian Boxers

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Newly Added Australian Boxers (2024)

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