List of European Boxing Union cruiserweight champions

European Boxing Union

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. The boxers that have won the EBU title in the cruiserweight division are listed below.

List of champions

List of EBU cruiserweight champions.
Name	Date of title victory	Successful defences	Nationality
Sammy Reeson	22 April 1987	1	British
Angelo Rottoli	26 May 1989	0	Italian
Anaclet Wamba Anaclet Wamba Anaclet Wamba , was a professional boxer in the Cruiserweight division.- Amateur career :Wamba had a notable amateur career. He represented Zaire in the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, as a Light Heavyweight...	11 November 1989	0	French
Johnny Nelson Johnny Nelson Ivanson Ranny "Johnny" Nelson is a former professional boxer from Sheffield, England. He was the WBO cruiserweight champion for over six years, having successfully defended the title 13 times. Nelson also held the European and British cruiserweight titles...	14 December 1990	1	British
Akim Tafer Akim Tafer Hakim Tafer is a French-Algerian boxer.-Career:The European Champion in the Cruiserweight division in 1992, 1993 and 1996, Tafer fought twice in for the WBC World Championship: on October 16, 1993 against Anaclet Wamba and on August 16, 1997 against Marcelo Fabian Dominguez .-External...	27 February 1992	3	French
Massimiliano Duran Massimiliano Duran Massimiliano Duran is a former Italian professional boxer who briefly held the Cruiser WBC title and the European championship.-Career:...	22 June 1993	0	Italian
Carl Thompson Carl Thompson (boxer) Carl Adrian Thompson is a retired British boxer and the former WBO, European, & British cruiserweight champion.- Professional boxing career :...	2 February 1994	1	British
Alexander Gurov Alexander Gurov (boxer) Alexander Gurov is a Ukrainian boxer and current WBO Asia-Pacific cruiserweight champion. He formerly held the EBU cruiserweight boxing title.Gurov was defeated in December 2005 by David Haye losing the EBU European title in just 45 seconds....	17 January 1995	0	Ukrainian
Patrice Aouissi	14 March 1995	1	French
Alexander Gurov Alexander Gurov (boxer) Alexander Gurov is a Ukrainian boxer and current WBO Asia-Pacific cruiserweight champion. He formerly held the EBU cruiserweight boxing title.Gurov was defeated in December 2005 by David Haye losing the EBU European title in just 45 seconds....	24 October 1995	0	Ukrainian
Akim Tafer Akim Tafer Hakim Tafer is a French-Algerian boxer.-Career:The European Champion in the Cruiserweight division in 1992, 1993 and 1996, Tafer fought twice in for the WBC World Championship: on October 16, 1993 against Anaclet Wamba and on August 16, 1997 against Marcelo Fabian Dominguez .-External...	25 May 1996	0	French
Johnny Nelson Johnny Nelson Ivanson Ranny "Johnny" Nelson is a former professional boxer from Sheffield, England. He was the WBO cruiserweight champion for over six years, having successfully defended the title 13 times. Nelson also held the European and British cruiserweight titles...	22 February 1997	1	British
Terry Dunstan	14 February 1998	0	British
Alexey Ilyin	27 February 1999	0	Russian
Torsten May Torsten May Torsten May was a German boxer, who won the Light Heavyweight Gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:*1991 German National Light Heavyweight champion...	27 November 1999	0	German
Carl Thompson Carl Thompson (boxer) Carl Adrian Thompson is a retired British boxer and the former WBO, European, & British cruiserweight champion.- Professional boxing career :...	13 May 2000	1	British
Alexander Gurov Alexander Gurov (boxer) Alexander Gurov is a Ukrainian boxer and current WBO Asia-Pacific cruiserweight champion. He formerly held the EBU cruiserweight boxing title.Gurov was defeated in December 2005 by David Haye losing the EBU European title in just 45 seconds....	21 April 2001	1	Ukrainian
Pietro Aurino Pietro Aurino Pietro Aurino is a retired male boxer from Italy. Nicknamed The Killer he represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was stopped in the second round of the men's light-heavyweight division by Kazakhstan's eventual gold medalist Vassili...	5 November 2002	2	Italian
Vincenzo Cantatore	27 March 2004	1	Italian
Alexander Gurov Alexander Gurov (boxer) Alexander Gurov is a Ukrainian boxer and current WBO Asia-Pacific cruiserweight champion. He formerly held the EBU cruiserweight boxing title.Gurov was defeated in December 2005 by David Haye losing the EBU European title in just 45 seconds....	27 November 2004	0	Ukrainian
David Haye David Haye David Deron Haye is a retired English professional boxer,Haye is the former WBA heavyweight champion. He is also the former unified world cruiserweight champion, holding the WBA, WBC, WBO, and The Ring cruiserweight titles, and also the former European cruiserweight champion.- Amateur :Haye...	16 December 2005	3	British
Vincenzo Cantatore	22 June 2007	0	Italian
Johny Jensen	14 December 2007	0	Danish
Jean Marc Monrose	3 May 2008	0	French
Marco Huck Marco Huck Marco Huck is a German professional boxer of Bosniak origin. He is the current WBO Cruiserweight Champion.Marco started Taekwando and kickboxing at the age of ten...	20 September 2008	3	German
Enzo Maccarinelli Enzo Maccarinelli Enzo Maccarinelli is a Welsh professional boxer who fights in the light heavyweight division. He is a former World Boxing Organization cruiserweight title holder and also held the European title at that weight limit...	27 April 2010	0	British
Alexander Frenkel Alexander Frenkel Alexander Frenkel is a German Cruiserweight boxer of Ukrainian origin ranked seventh in the world by Boxrec...	18 September 2010	0	German

List of champions

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