Hong Soo-hwan

South Korean boxer

洪秀煥 · 홍수환

Born

26 May 1950, Seoul

Citizenship

South Korea

Sport

boxing

Discipline

super bantamweight, bantamweight

Occupation

boxer, film actor

Hong Soo-hwan (Korean: 홍수환, born May 26, 1950) is a South Korean former professional boxer who competed between 1969 and 1980. He is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the World Boxing Association (WBA) and Ring magazine bantamweight titles from 1974 to 1975, and the WBA super-bantamweight title from 1977 to 1978.

Awards and honours

• The Ring magazine Progress of the Year 1974
• The Ring World Bantamweight Champion
• WBA World Bantamweight Champion
• WBA World Super Bantamweight Champion

External links

• Wikipedia
• BoxRec
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q626145 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.