The Most Famous

BOXERS from Australia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Australian Boxers. The pantheon dataset contains 496 Boxers, 6 of which were born in Australia. This makes Australia the birth place of the 29th most number of Boxers behind Japan, and India.

Top 6

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australian Boxers of all time. This list of famous Australian Boxers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Jeff Horn (b. 1988)

With an HPI of 35.39, Jeff Horn is the most famous Australian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Jeffrey Christopher Horn Jr. (born 4 February 1988) is an Australian former professional boxer who competed from 2013 to 2020. He held the WBO welterweight title from 2017 to 2018. As an amateur, he represented Australia at the 2012 Olympics, reaching the quarterfinals of the light-welterweight bracket.

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2. Daniel Geale (b. 1981)

With an HPI of 35.27, Daniel Geale is the 2nd most famous Australian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Daniel Geale (born 26 February 1981) is an Australian former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2016. He held the unified WBA (Super) and IBF middleweight titles between 2011 and 2013, and the IBO middleweight title from 2007 to 2009. As an amateur boxer, Geale won a welterweight gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

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3. Justis Huni (b. 1999)

With an HPI of 21.02, Justis Huni is the 3rd most famous Australian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 8 different languages.

Justis Huni (born 4 April 1999) is an Australian professional boxer. He has challenged once for the WBA interim heavyweight title in June 2025. At regional level, he has held multiple heavyweight championships, including the Australian title from 2020 to 2021. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships.

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4. Skye Nicolson (b. 1995)

With an HPI of 20.75, Skye Nicolson is the 4th most famous Australian Boxer.  Her biography has been translated into 5 different languages.

Skye Brittany Nicolson (born 27 August 1995) is an Australian professional boxer. She is a former WBC featherweight world champion. As an amateur, she competed in the featherweight event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the gold medal. Nicolson also represented Australia at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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5. Caitlin Parker (b. 1996)

With an HPI of 20.72, Caitlin Parker is the 5th most famous Australian Boxer.  Her biography has been translated into 9 different languages.

Caitlin Anne Parker (born 17 April 1996) is an Australian amateur boxer, who became the first female boxer from Australia to win an Olympic medal when she took bronze at the 2024 Paris Games. Parker has also won silver and bronze medals at two Commonwealth Games and bronze at the 2014 Youth Olympics.

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6. Harry Garside (b. 1997)

With an HPI of 18.44, Harry Garside is the 6th most famous Australian Boxer.  His biography has been translated into 12 different languages.

Harrison Garside (born 22 July 1997) is an Australian boxer. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics where he won the bronze medal. He also won the Gold Medal at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.This marked the first time in more than three decades that an Australian medaled in boxing at the Olympics.

People

Pantheon has 6 people classified as Australian boxers born between 1981 and 1999. Of these 6, 6 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Australian boxers include Jeff Horn, Daniel Geale, and Justis Huni.

Living Australian Boxers

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