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Bob Fitzsimmons

1863 - 1917

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Robert James Fitzsimmons (26 May 1862 – 22 October 1917) was a British professional boxer who was the sport's first three-division world champion. He also achieved fame for beating Gentleman Jim Corbett (the man who beat John L. Sullivan), and he is in The Guinness Book of World Records as the lightest heavyweight champion, weighing just 167 pounds when he won the title. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bob Fitzsimmons has received more than 617,205 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Bob Fitzsimmons is the 60th most popular boxer (down from 54th in 2019), the 3,034th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,653rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Boxer.

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  • 19

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  • 3.07

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  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Bob Fitzsimmons ranks 60 out of 326Before him are Rafael Iglesias, Buster Douglas, Piero Toscani, Ernie Terrell, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, and Gene Tunney. After him are Henry Cooper, Julio César Chávez, George Chuvalo, Issake Dabore, Herbert Runge, and Marijan Beneš.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Bob Fitzsimmons ranks 118Before him are Alfred Perot, Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Georg Marco, Alexander Serafimovich, and Ioannis Frangoudis. After him are Ljubomir Davidović, Anthony Hope, Enrique Fernández Arbós, Axel Thue, Gottlieb von Jagow, and W. W. Jacobs. Among people deceased in 1917, Bob Fitzsimmons ranks 80Before him are Frank Muller, Friedrich Robert Helmert, William Knox D'Arcy, Aurel Popovici, José Enrique Rodó, and Gaston Alibert. After him are Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, Oswaldo Cruz, Eduardo Pondal, Teoberto Maler, Yevgeni Bauer, and Sergei Zubatov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bob Fitzsimmons ranks 3,034 out of 7,765Before him are Tim Pigott-Smith (1946), Robert Kerr (1882), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), Hayley Atwell (1982), Billy Bremner (1942), and Donald Adamson (1939). After him are Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), William Lawes (1602), John Moore (1761), Michael Oakeshott (1901), Christopher Eccleston (1964), and Herbert Lawford (1851).

Among BOXERS In United Kingdom

Among boxers born in United Kingdom, Bob Fitzsimmons ranks 2Before him are Lennox Lewis (1965). After him are Henry Cooper (1934), Anthony Joshua (1989), Tyson Fury (1988), Frank Bruno (1961), Ronald Rawson (1892), Harry Mallin (1892), Naseem Hamed (1974), Frederick Grace (1884), Ted Morgan (1906), and David Haye (1980).