Labels:text | screenshot | font | menu | black and white | document OCR: 1882-92 John L. Sullivan 1892-97 James J. Corbett 1897-99 Bob Fitzsimmons 1899-1905 James J. Jeffries 1905-06 Marvin Hart 1906-08 Tommy Bums 1908-15 Jack Johnson 1915-19 Jess Williard 1919-26 Jack Dempsey 1926-28 Gene Turney 1928-30 None 1930-32 Max Schmeling 1932-33 Jack Sharkey 1933-34 Primo Camera 1934-35 Max Baer 1935-37 James J. Braddock 1937-49 Joe Louis 1949-51 Ezzard Charles 1951-52 Joe Walcott 1952-56 Rocky Marciano 1956-59 Floyd Patterson 1959-60 Ingemar Johansson 1960-62 Floyd Patterson 1962-64 Sonny Liston 1964-67 Muhammad Ali 1965-67 Emie Terrell* 1968-70 Jimmy Ellis* 1968-73 Joe Frazier 1973-74 George Foreman 1974-78 Muhammad Ali 1978 Leon Spinks* 1978 Ken Norton+ 1978-79 Muhammad Ali* 1978-85 Larry Holmes 1985-86 Michael Spinks 1986-90 Mike Tyson 1990 Buster Douglas 1990-92 Evander Holyfield 1992-93 Riddick Bowe 1993-94 Evander Holyfield 1994- Michael Moorer *NOTE : Champions not universally recognized are designated * (World Boxing Association title) or+ (World Boxing Council title). First, Holmes was WBC champion, then (1983) International Boxing Federation champion. From 1979 to the mid-1980s, there were various titleholders, but Holmes, Spinks, and Tyson were considered by most experts to have the most legitimate claims to the championship .
