Dwight Muhammad Qawi

What grips me about Dwight Muhammad Qawi is the sheer audacity of the man. At just 165 cm he was tiny for the divisions he ruled, yet he became a two-weight world champion across light heavyweight and cruiserweight. To me that is the purest kind of greatness: physical disadvantage answered with relentless pressure and will. He fought from 1978 to 1998, two full decades on his own terms, and his 2004 Hall of Fame induction was a formality. He passed in 2025, but I will always picture him as the small giant who refused to be told he was too short to win.

Name (English)

Dwight Muhammad Qawi

Name (Japanese)

ドワイト・ブラックストン

Reading

どわいと・ぶらっくすとん

Born

January 5, 1953 (age 73)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Snake

Origin

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Height

165 cm

Occupation

boxer

Awards & achievements

• 2004 International Boxing Hall of Fame
• WBC World Light Heavyweight Champion
• WBA World Cruiserweight Champion
• The Ring World Light Heavyweight Champion

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%20Muhammad%20Qawi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A0%E3%83%8F%E3%83%9E%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1268500

Tags

• Maryland
• boxer

Last updated

2026-06-21

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