The Mohawks were a British funk group, and "The Champ" (1968) was their biggest record — a hard-driving instrumental built on a relentless drum groove and an insistently funky bass line. The track's title and energy evoke a boxing match: it punches forward with a determination and aggression that make it one of the hardest-hitting breaks of the late 1960s.

"The Champ" was one of the earliest breaks to be used in hip-hop, and its aggressive energy made it a natural fit for the b-boy battle culture that defined the genre's early years. The break has been used extensively in both hip-hop and electronic music, and it remains a testament to the fact that great funk was being made on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 1960s.