World's First Thing
Friday, Aug 14, 2020, 4:31 pm
#10 First Boxing Champion
The first heavyweight boxing champion, who followed the Queensbury Rules, was Jim Corbett who beat John Sullivan in 1892 at a club in New Orleans. There were other boxing champions before it, but they were unlicensed and also tended to be bare-knuckle fights, so they are largely forgotten about when it comes to the historical record.
