Boxing
- Tommy Burns (1881–1955), World Heavyweight boxing Champion
- George Chuvalo
- Yvon Durelle
- Willie DeWitt
- Arturo Gatti, former WBC world Super Lightweight champion.
- Otis Grant, Current WBC Super Middleweight international champion.
- Sam Langford
- Mark Leduc
- Lennox Lewis, grew up in Canada, and competed for Canada in the Olympics in 1988, winning a gold medal.
- Eric Lucas, Former WBC world champion (1999–2001) Supermiddleweight.
- Steve Molitor, Current IBF Super Bantamweight champion, he has a record of 25–0 (10)
- Jean Pascal, Current IBO, WBC, Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight Champion of the World.
- Shane Sutcliffe, former Canadian Heavyweight champion, defeated former world champion "Neon" Leon Spinks by 8 round decision in 1994.
- Trevor Berbick, Former WBC Heavyweight champion
- Donovan Ruddock
- Kirk Johnson
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Famous quotes containing the word boxing:
“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing—for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it’s impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)