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∙ 2010-10-12 21:07:19Michael Spinks in 1985 when he beat Larry Holmes.
Bob Fitzsimmons won the heavyweight title first, then the light heavyweight championship.
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∙ 2010-10-12 21:07:19He never held the Light Heavyweight Title. He was a 3 time Heavyweight champion. He won his first title against Sonny Liston.
Michael spinks was the first reigning light heavyweight champion to move up and claim the world heavyweight title. bob fitzsimmons won the heavyweight title before winning the lt heavy crown.
The first brit to win a world title @ heavyweight was Bob Fitzsimmons.
Lyoto Machida is the light heavyweight champion with a ko victory over rashad evans to win it and a title defense over maricio shogun rua
The current WBA Light Heavyweight Champion is Beibut Shumenov. He won the title from Gabriel Campillo on January 29,2010 with a highly controversial split decision victory.
The first ever UFC Light heavyweight champ was Frank Shamrock. He was crowned the champion at the "UFC Japan" Event held on 21 Dec, 1997. He was the light heavyweight champion for a total of 703 days. He retired as the champion on November 24, 1999 from the UFC citing lack of competition as the reason. Tito Ortiz was the second champion and Jon Jones is the current champion. Including Jones, a total of 12 people have held this prestigious title.
He has being WBC Heavyweight Champion. I don't know if that is the british heavyweight title.
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World Heavyweight Champion
Brock Lesnar won the heavyweight title match at the UFC 116 event. Shane Carwin was the interim heavyweight champion and Lesnar was the reigning heavyweight champion. So, this bout was the title unification fight. Lesnar defeated Carwin to become the undisputed champion.
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Mike Tyson was 20 when he beat Trevor Berbick for the WBC title in November 1986. The previous youngest was Floyd Patterson who was 21 when he won the vacant title from Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, after Rocky Marciano retired.