List of Australian heavyweight boxing champions

This list of Australian heavyweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the Australian professional heavyweight championship.

The title has been administered by the Australian National Boxing Federation (previously the Australian Boxing Federation) since 1965, and prior to that by Stadiums Limited.

[3] A champion will often voluntarily relinquish the title in order to fight for a higher-ranked championship, such as the world.

Where the date on which a champion relinquished the title is unclear, the date of his final defence is shown.

r – Champion relinquished title.

Bill Farnan was a foundry worker who fought Peter Jackson in the first Australian heavyweight contest using Marquis of Queensbury rules in Melbourne on 26 July 1884. [ 1 ] He hit Jackson hard "between wind and water" in the second round and continuing body hits drove Jackson down and out in the third round. [ 2 ]