The Most Famous
BOXERS from U.S. Virgin Islands
This page contains a list of the greatest Boxers. The pantheon dataset contains 326 Boxers, 1 of which were born in U.S. Virgin Islands. This makes U.S. Virgin Islands the birth place of the 50th most number of Boxers behind Jamaica and Slovenia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Boxers of all time. This list of famous Boxers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Emile Griffith (1938 - 2013)
With an HPI of 50.91, Emile Griffith is the most famous Boxer. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Emile Alphonse Griffith (February 3, 1938 – July 23, 2013) was a professional boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands who won world titles in three weight divisions. He held the world light middleweight, undisputed welterweight, and middleweight titles. His best-known contest was a 1962 title match with Benny Paret. Griffith won the bout by knockout; Paret never recovered consciousness and died in the hospital 10 days later.In 1963 and 1964, Griffith was voted Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine and the Boxing Writers Association of America. In 2002, he was listed #33 on Ring Magazine's list of 80 greatest fighters of the past 80 years. Griffith currently ranks #127 in BoxRec's ranking of the greatest pound for pound boxers of all time. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of 1990.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as boxers born between 1938 and 1938. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased boxers include Emile Griffith.
