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  • 1. 
    Who among these professional American boxers was the first to win the world heavyweight championship three times?

  • Larry Holmes
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Sonny Liston
  • Floyd Patterson

  • 2. 
    Who was the first light heavyweight champion to defeat a heavyweight champion?

  • Floyd Patterson
  • Mickey Walker
  • Archie Moore
  • Michael Spinks

  • 3. 
    Who was known as “the Brown Bomber”?

  • Jersey Joe Walcott
  • Larry Holmes
  • Joe Louis
  • Ezzard Charles

  • 4. 
    Who claimed to “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”?

  • George Foreman
  • Evander Holyfield
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Larry Holmes

  • 5. 
    Who is considered the first heavyweight boxing champion?

  • Jack Dempsey
  • Daniel Mendoza
  • Jack Broughton
  • James Figg

  • 6. 
    Who is recognized as the “Father of Boxing,” because he invented precursors to modern boxing gloves and developed the first set of modern boxing rules?

  • Jack Broughton
  • James Jeffries
  • Bill Gretting
  • James Figg

  • 7. 
    Who led the movement that came to be called “scientific boxing”?

  • Bill Science
  • James Corbett
  • Jack Dempsey
  • Rocky Marciano

  • 8. 
    Who was the first African American to hold the world heavyweight boxing championship?

  • Muhammad Ali
  • Jack Johnson
  • George Foreman
  • Joe Louis

  • 9. 
    Who became, in 1986, the youngest person ever to win the heavyweight boxing championship?

  • Muhammad Ali
  • Mike Tyson
  • Joe Frazier
  • Evander Holyfield

  • 10. 
    What popular bare-knuckle fighter was known as “the Boston Strong Boy”?

  • Joe Louis
  • John L. Sullivan
  • Floyd Patterson
  • James J. Corbett

  • 11. 
    Who became, in 1994, the oldest man to win the world heavyweight boxing championship?

  • Muhammad Ali
  • Joe Frazier
  • George Foreman
  • Sonny Liston

  • 12. 
    Who was world heavyweight champion from 1952 to 1956, when he retired undefeated in 49 fights?

  • Barney Ross
  • Jersey Joe Walcott
  • Rocky Marciano
  • Joe Louis

  • 13. 
    Which Academy Award-winning film documents the “Rumble in the Jungle,” in which Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire?

  • When We Were Kings
  • Creed II
  • Rocky
  • Million Dollar Baby

  • 14. 
    What boxing punch consists of an upward blow delivered from the direction of the toes?

  • jab
  • hook
  • cross
  • uppercut

  • 15. 
    Who was the first European to win the world heavyweight boxing title?

  • Lennox Lewis
  • Laszlo Papp
  • Ingemar Johansson
  • Max Schmeling
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