Bob Foster (boxer) Bob Foster (boxer) Robert Lloyd "Bob" Foster (December 15, 1938 – November 21, 2015) was an American professional boxer who fought as a light heavyweight and heavyweight. Known as "The Deputy Sheriff", Foster was one of the greatest light heavyweight champions in boxing history. He won the world light heavyweight title from Dick Tiger in 1968 via fourth-round knockout, and went on to defend his crown fourteen times in total from 1968 to 1974. Foster challenged heavyweight kings Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali during his career, but was knocked out by both fighters (the fight with Ali was not for
NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title (Iowa Version) NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title (Iowa Version) The NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (Iowa Version) was a professional wrestling championship that was recognized in the Iowa-based National Wrestling Alliance Promotion between 1945 and 1948. Both the title and the promotion predates the National Wrestling Alliance that was created in 1948 as an actual alliance between wrestling promoters around the midwest which included the founder Paul "Pinkie" George's Iowa NWA Promotion. At the annual meeting, Billy Goelz, the reigning NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion in Iowa, was recognized by the new NWA as a sanctioned World Heavyweight Champion alongside Orville Brown