As of May 2017, Anthony Joshua is ranked as the world's best heavyweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and BoxRec, the second British boxer, after which British professional boxer, to win both a gold medal at the Olympics and a world title by a major professional sanctioning body, as well as being the first British heavyweight to do so?
James DeGale James Frederick DeGale, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 3 February 1986) is a British professional boxer. He has held the IBF super-middleweight title since 2015, having previously held the British super-middleweight title from 2010 to 2011, and the European super-middleweight title from 2011 to 2012. As of May 2017, he is ranked as the world's best super-middleweight by "The Ring" magazine and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and third by BoxRec. As an amateur, DeGale represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics, winning a gold medal in the middleweight division. By later becoming IBF champion, he became the first British boxer ever to have won both an Olympic gold medal and a professional world title.
Samuel Peter Samuel Okon Peter (born September 6, 1980) is a Nigerian-American professional boxer who held the WBC heavyweight title in 2008. He rose to prominence in his early career following a string of knockout wins, at a time when the titles of the heavyweight division were largely fragmented. In March 2008, Peter won a portion of the world heavyweight championship by knocking out Oleg Maskaev to win the WBC title. In October, in what would be his only defense of the title, Peter lost to a returning Vitali Klitschko, who stopped him in eight rounds. Peter is known for his rivalry with the Klitschko brothers, having faced Wladimir twice (in 2005 and 2010) and Vitali once.