Boxing is also uniquely global and uniquely fragmented. It crowns champions in seventeen weight divisions through four rival sanctioning bodies, so the map of greatness runs from Mexican body-punchers to Filipino southpaws, Ukrainian technicians, Cuban amateurs and British sellout arenas.
Professional bouts range from four to twelve rounds of three minutes each, separated by one-minute rests. World championship fights are twelve rounds. Non-title fights are shorter, typically four to ten rounds depending on the fighters' experience.
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Boxing is also uniquely global and uniquely fragmented. It crowns champions in seventeen weight divisions through four rival sanctioning bodies, so the map of greatness runs from Mexican body-punchers to Filipino southpaws, Ukrainian technicians, Cuban amateurs and British sellout arenas.
Professional bouts range from four to twelve rounds of three minutes each, separated by one-minute rests. World championship fights are twelve rounds. Non-title fights are shorter, typically four to ten rounds depending on the fighters' experience.
An undisputed champion holds all four major world titles in a division simultaneously: the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO belts. Because boxing is governed by these four rival sanctioning bodies rather than one league, each division can have four different 'world champions' at once, and unifying all of them is the sport's ultimate achievement.
The most common answer is Sugar Ray Robinson, whom The Ring magazine and most historians rank as the greatest pound-for-pound fighter ever. Across a 25-year career he went roughly 173-19-6 with 108 knockouts, held the welterweight title and won the middleweight crown five times, and was unbeaten for 91 consecutive fights between 1943 and 1951.
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