champgraph

The photographs

The photographs are chosen by hand, one division at a time. So far that is the heavyweights; the other 17 divisions will follow soon, and until then their champions are shown without one.

52 of the champions have a photograph on the chart. 50 are from Wikimedia Commons, where a file is there because it may be reused; chosen by hand from what Commons holds of each fighter. 2 are frames from video its makers published under a Creative Commons licence, which Commons has not got; the licence was read at the source and is recorded with the file. All are cut to one look — a square about the face, in a warm monochrome, the background let go soft — so a press photograph from the thirties and a phone photograph from last year sit together on one sheet. Every one is therefore modified: cropped, toned, and blurred outside the face. Each is credited below with its author, its licence and the file it was cut from; where the licence is share-alike, the plate cut from it is under that licence too (18 of them are).

  1. Muhammad Ali Photograph: John Rooney · Public domain · on Commons
  2. Max Baer Photograph: El Gráfico · Public domain · on Commons
  3. Michael Bentt Photograph: Rose Reynolds · Public domain · on Commons
  4. Riddick Bowe Photograph: SPC MICHAEL HALGREN · Public domain · on Commons
  5. James J. Braddock Photograph: Alan Fisher, World Telegram staff photographer · Public domain · on Commons
  6. Lamon Brewster Photograph: stoyan vassev · CC BY-SA 2.0, modified · on Commons
  7. Shannon Briggs Photograph: Mai B · CC BY 3.0, modified · on Commons
  8. Frank Bruno Photograph: James English · CC BY 3.0, modified · on Commons
  9. Primo Carnera Photographer unknown · Public domain · on Commons
  10. Ezzard Charles Photograph: Distributed by ACME Newspictures · Public domain · on Commons
  11. Jack Dempsey Photograph: Bain News Service, publisher · Public domain · on Commons
  12. Daniel Dubois Photograph: Editor083 · CC BY 4.0, modified · on Commons
  13. Jimmy Ellis Photographer unknown · Public domain · on Commons
  14. Tyson Fury Photograph: Mike DiDomizio · CC BY-SA 4.0, modified · on Commons
  15. David Haye Photograph: Brian Minkoff-London Pixels · CC BY-SA 3.0, modified · on Commons
  16. Evander Holyfield Photograph: Shelka04 at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0, modified · on Commons
  17. Filip Hrgović Photograph: Cristiana Giustino · CC BY-SA 4.0, modified · on Commons
  18. Sultan Ibragimov Video: SREDA (Среда) · CC BY 3.0, modified · frame from a video by SREDA, a Dagestani news outlet, of a masterclass at the Lider sports school in Kaspiysk
  19. Ingemar Johansson Photograph: Jowil · CC BY-SA 3.0, modified · on Commons
  20. Roy Jones Jr. Photograph: Fedyanin Nikita · CC BY-SA 3.0, modified · on Commons
  21. Anthony Joshua Photograph: JazzyJoeyD · CC BY-SA 4.0, modified · on Commons
  22. Agit Kabayel Photograph: Kortum-Gesellschaft Bochum · CC BY-SA 2.0, modified · on Commons
  23. Lennox Lewis Photograph: -nikkon- · CC BY-SA 2.0, modified · on Commons
  24. Sonny Liston Photograph: Stanley Weston · Public domain · on Commons
  25. Joe Louis Photograph: Associated Press · Public domain · on Commons
  26. Rocky Marciano Photograph: Stanley Weston · Public domain · on Commons
  27. Charles Martin Photograph: JazzyJoeyD · CC BY-SA 4.0, modified · on Commons
  28. Oleg Maskaev Photograph: New Zealand Government, Office of the Governor-General · CC BY 4.0, modified · on Commons
  29. Oliver McCall Photograph: Przemek Garczarczyk · CC BY 3.0, modified · on Commons
  30. Ray Mercer Photograph: Ken Hackman · Public domain · on Commons
  31. Michael Moorer Photograph: Pamela Ribon · CC BY 2.0, modified · on Commons
  32. Tommy Morrison Photograph: Chamber of Fear · CC BY-SA 2.0, modified · on Commons
  33. Joseph Parker Photograph: US Embassy Samoa · Public domain · on Commons
  34. Floyd Patterson Photograph: Stanley Weston or his photographers · Public domain · on Commons
  35. Samuel Peter Photograph: Charlie · CC BY-SA 2.0, modified · on Commons
  36. Hasim Rahman Photograph: Christian Sahm · CC BY 2.0, modified · on Commons
  37. John Ruiz Photograph: WHITE HOUSE PHOTO BY ERIC DRAPER · Public domain · on Commons
  38. Andy Ruiz Jr. Photograph: NotimexTV · CC BY 3.0, modified · on Commons
  39. Max Schmeling Photograph: Wm. C. Greene - New York World-Telegram and the Sun · Public domain · on Commons
  40. Bruce Seldon Photograph: Cocoruff (talk) Robert Brizel · Public domain · on Commons
  41. Jack Sharkey Photograph: Agence Rol. Agence photographique (commanditaire) · Public domain · on Commons
  42. Ernie Terrell Photograph: Associated Press · Public domain · on Commons
  43. Pinklon Thomas Photograph: Lance Rothwell · CC BY-SA 2.0, modified · on Commons
  44. Gene Tunney Photograph: Bain News Service, publisher · Public domain · on Commons
  45. Oleksandr Usyk Photograph: President Of Ukraine from Україна · CC0 · on Commons
  46. Vitali Klitschko Photograph: Sven Teschke · CC BY-SA 3.0 de, modified · on Commons
  47. Nikolai Valuev Photograph: duma.gov.ru · CC BY 4.0, modified · on Commons
  48. Wladimir Klitschko Photograph: Fuzheado · CC BY-SA 4.0, modified · on Commons
  49. Jersey Joe Walcott Photograph: Sport Photo The Ring 1937 · CC BY 3.0, modified · on Commons
  50. Fabio Wardley Video: NBTV (Norwich Boxing) · CC BY 3.0, modified · frame from a video by NBTV, the Norwich Boxing channel, of Wardley on the pads before his professional debut
  51. Mike Weaver Photograph: Wevr333 · CC BY-SA 4.0, modified · on Commons
  52. Deontay Wilder Photograph: Zach Catanzareti Photo · CC BY-SA 2.0, modified · on Commons

26 of the heavyweights have no photograph: no free photograph of them has been found, none that would do for a plate, or none that is free in Germany as well as in the United States — Henry Akinwande, Trevor Berbick, Chris Byrd, Ruslan Chagaev, Gerrie Coetzee, Francesco Damiani, Michael Dokes, Buster Douglas, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Murat Gassiev, Herbie Hide, Larry Holmes, Leon Spinks, Siarhei Liakhovich, Ken Norton, Greg Page, Corrie Sanders, James Smith, Michael Spinks, Bermane Stiverne, John Tate, Tony Tubbs, Tony Tucker, Mike Tyson, Tim Witherspoon.

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