The Most Famous
BOXERS from Jamaica
This page contains a list of the greatest Jamaican Boxers. The pantheon dataset contains 326 Boxers, 1 of which were born in Jamaica. This makes Jamaica the birth place of the 48th most number of Boxers behind Kyrgyzstan and Panama.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Jamaican Boxers of all time. This list of famous Jamaican Boxers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Trevor Berbick (1954 - 2006)
With an HPI of 55.60, Trevor Berbick is the most famous Jamaican Boxer. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Trevor Berbick (1 August 1954 – 28 October 2006) was a Jamaican professional boxer who competed from 1976 to 2000. He won the WBC heavyweight title in 1986 by defeating Pinklon Thomas, then lost it in his first defense in the same year to Mike Tyson. Berbick was the last boxer to fight Muhammad Ali, defeating him in 1981 by unanimous decision. As an amateur, Berbick won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 1975 Pan American Games. In both his early and late professional career he held the Canadian heavyweight title twice, from 1979 to 1986 and 1999 to 2001. Berbick is the only boxer to have fought Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, and Mike Tyson.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as boxers born between 1954 and 1954. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased boxers include Trevor Berbick.
