Jewish Boxing Champions
Dmitry Salita Barney Aaron (Young), English-born US lightweight, Hall of Fame[38]
Abe Attell ("The Little Hebrew"), US, world champion featherweight, Hall of Fame[5]
Monte Attell ("The Knob Hill Terror"), US, bantamweight[39]
Max Baer ("Madcap Maxie"), US, world champion heavyweight, ¼ Jewish, wore a Star of David on his trunks, Hall of Fame[40]
Benny Bass ("Little Fish"), US, world champion featherweight & world champion junior lightweight, Hall of Fame[5]
Fabrice Benichou, France, world champion super bantamweight[24]
Jack Kid Berg (Judah Bergman), England, world champion junior welterweight, wore a Star of David on his trunks, Hall of Fame[5]
Maxie Berger, Canada, wore a Star of David on his trunks[41]
Samuel Berger, US, Olympic champion heavyweight[5]
Jack Bernstein (also "John Dodick", "Kid Murphy", and "Young Murphy"), US, world champion junior lightweight[5]
Mushy Callahan (Vincente Sheer), US, world champion light welterweight[39]
Joe Choynski ("Chrysanthemum Joe"), US, heavyweight, Hall of Fame[5][42]
Robert Cohen, French & Algerian, world champion bantamweight[5]
Al "Bummy" Davis (Abraham Davidoff), US, welterweight & lightweight, wore a Star of David on his trunks[39]
John "Jackie" Fields (Jacob Finkelstein), US, world champion welterweight & Olympic champion featherweight, Hall of Fame[5]
Hagar Finer, Israel, WIBF champion bantamweight[43]
Yuri Foreman, Belarusian-born Israeli US middleweight and World Boxing Association champion super welterweight[44]
György Gedó, Hungary, Olympic champion light flyweight[31]
Abe Goldstein, US, world champion bantamweight[45]
Ruby Goldstein ("Ruby the Jewel of the Ghetto"), US, welterweight, wore a Star of David on his trunks[5]
Roman Greenberg ("The Lion from Zion"), Israel, International Boxing Organization's Intercontinental champion heavyweight [44]
Stéphane Haccoun, France, featherweight, super featherweight, and junior lightweight[46][47]
Alphonse Halimi ("La Petite Terreur"), France, world champion bantamweight[5]
Harry Harris ("The Human Hairpin"), US, world champion bantamweight[5]
Gary Jacobs, Scottish, British, Commonwealth, and European (EBU) champion welterweight[48]
Ben Jeby (Morris Jebaltowsky), US, world champion middleweight[39]
Yoel Judah, US, 3x world champion kickboxer and boxer & trainer[49]
Zab Judah ("Super"), US, world champion junior welterweight & world champion welterweight[50][49][51]
Louis Kaplan ("Kid Kaplan"), Russian-born US, world champion featherweight, Hall of Fame[5][42]
Solly Krieger ("Danny Auerbach"), US, world champion middleweight[5]
Benny Leonard (Benjamin Leiner; "The Ghetto Wizard"), US, world champion lightweight, Hall of Fame[5]
Battling Levinsky (Barney Lebrowitz), US, world champion light heavyweight, Hall of Fame[5]
King Levinsky (Harry Krakow), US, heavweight, also known as Kingfish Levinsky [5]
Harry Lewis (Harry Besterman), US, world champion welterweight[39]
Ted "Kid" Lewis (Gershon Mendeloff), England, world champion welterweight, Hall of Fame[5]
Sammy Luftspring, Canada, Canadian champion welterweight, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame[39]
Saoul Mamby, US, world champion junior welterweight[39]
Al McCoy (Alexander Rudolph), US, world champion middleweight[5]
Daniel Mendoza, England, world champion heavyweight, Hall of Fame[5]
Samuel Mosberg, US, Olympic champion lightweight[5]
Bob Olin, US, world champion light heavyweight[52]
Victor Perez ("Young"), Tunisian, world champion flyweight[5]
Charlie Phil Rosenberg ("Charles Green"), US, world champion bantamweight[5]
Dana Rosenblatt ("Dangerous"), US, world champion middleweight[53]
Maxie Rosenbloom ("Slapsie"), US, world champion light heavyweight, wore a Star of David on his trunks, Hall of Fame[5]
Barney Ross (Dov-Ber Rasofsky), US, world champion lightweight & junior welterweight, Hall of Fame[5]
Mike Rossman (Michael Albert DiPiano; "The Jewish Bomber"), US, world champion light heavyweight, wore Star of David on trunks[53]
Shamil Sabirov, Russia, Olympic champion light flyweight[54]
Dmitry Salita ("Star of David"), US, North American Boxing Association champion light welterweightt[55]
Isadore "Corporal Izzy" Schwartz ("The Ghetto Midget"), US, world champion flyweight[5]
Al Singer ("The Bronx Beauty"), US, world champion lightweight[39]
"Lefty" Lew Tendler, US, bantamweight, lightweight, and welterweight, wore a Star of David on his trunks, Hall of Fame[5]
Sid Terris ("Ghost of the Ghetto"), US, lightweight, wore a Star of David on his trunks[56]
James Toney, US, world Middleweight, Super-Middleweight, Cruiserweight Champion, wears a star of David on his trunks
We had to let someone else win sometime.