Bob Fitzsimmons

Bob Fitzsimmons fascinates me because he basically broke the logic of weight classes. A Cornish-born fighter who ended up tied to New Zealand, he became the sport's first three-division world champion back in an era when that simply wasn't supposed to be possible. The detail I keep coming back to is the Guinness record: he won the heavyweight title weighing just 167 pounds, the lightest heavyweight champ ever, and he did it by beating Gentleman Jim Corbett. That's a small man toppling giants on punching power alone. His 1990 induction into the Hall of Fame feels overdue given how far ahead of his time he was.

Robert James Fitzsimmons (26 May 1863 – 22 October 1917) was a Cornish-New Zealand professional boxer who was the sport's first three-division world champion. He achieved fame for beating "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (the man who beat John L. Sullivan), and he is in The Guinness Book of World Records as the lightest heavyweight champion, weighing just 167 pounds when he won the title.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Name (English)

Bob Fitzsimmons

Name (Japanese)

ボブ・フィッシモンズ

Reading

ぼぶ・ふぃっしもんず

Born

May 26, 1863 – October 22, 1917

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Boar

Origin

Helston, United Kingdom

Blood type

Private

Height

182 cm

Agency

Private

Occupation

boxer / actor

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Private

University

Private

Awards & achievements

• 1990 International Boxing Hall of Fame

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA

Tags

• boxer
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.