List of European Boxing Union featherweight champions

European Boxing Union

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(EBU) is an organisation in the sport of boxing

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. The boxers that have won the EBU title in the featherweight

Featherweight

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division are listed below.

List of champions

List of EBU featherweight champions.
Name	Date of title victory	Successful defences	Nationality
Joey Smith	1 April 1911	0	British
Jean Poesy	23 June 1911	0	French
Jim Driscoll Jim Driscoll James "Jim" Driscoll commonly known as Peerless Jim was a Welsh boxer who learned his trade in the boxing ring and used it to fight his way out of poverty....	3 June 1912	1	British
Ted "Kid" Lewis	6 October 1913	1	British
Louis de Ponthieu	24 December 1919	0	French
Arthur Wyns	31 May 1920	2	Belgian
Billy Matthews	12 June 1922	0	British
Eugène Criqui Eugène Criqui Eugène Criqui was a French boxer who held the world featherweight title in 1923.Criqui was born in the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris. He was a professional pipe-fitter before he turned professional in 1910. He won the French flyweight title in 1912. His boxing career was interrupted when he...	7 July 1922	3	French
Edouard Mascart	20 December 1923	0	French
Charles Ledoux Charles Ledoux Charles Ledoux was a French bantamweight boxer.-External links:* at BoxRec-References:...	19 February 1924	0	French
Henri Hebrans	8 May 1924	0	Belgian
Edouard Mascart	17 November 1924	0	French
Henri Hebrans	17 December 1924	0	Belgian
Antonio Ruiz	30 October 1925	1	Spanish
Luigi Quadrini	7 January 1928	1	Italian
Knud Larsen	11 January 1929	1	Danish
Jose Girones	1 December 1929	7	Spanish
Maurice Holtzer	26 March 1935	4	French
Phil Dolhem	6 September 1938	1	Belgian
Lucien Popescu	3 June 1939	0	Romanian
Ernst Weiss	30 May 1941	0	Austrian
Gino Bondavalli	2 July 1941	2	Italian
Ermano Bonetti	11 November 1945	0	Italian
Al Phillips	27 May 1947	0	British
Ronnie Clayton Ronnie Clayton (boxer) Ronnie Clayton was a British boxer, born in Blackpool, Lancashire whose career highlight was winning the European Featherweight championship in 1947.- Boxing career :Clayton was one of three brothers all who were boxers...	11 September 1947	0	British
Ray Famechon	22 March 1948	6	French
Jean Sneyers	17 October 1953	1	Belgian
Ray Famechon	20 September 1954	2	French
Fred Galiana	3 November 1955	1	Spanish
Cherif Hamia	21 January 1957	0	French
Sergio Caprari Sergio Caprari Sergio Caprari is a former Italian boxer who won the silver medal in the featherweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.- Olympic results :*1st round bye...	18 August 1958	0	Italian
Gracieux Lamperti	15 August 1959	3	French
Alberto Serti	19 August 1962	0	Italian
Howard Winstone Howard Winstone Howard Winstone, MBE was a Welsh world champion boxer, born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. As an amateur, Winstone won the Amateur Boxing Association bantamweight title in 1958, and a Commonwealth Games Gold Medal at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff-Boxing style:In his early...	9 July 1963	7	British
José Legrá José Legrá Jose Legrá is a former professional boxer in the Featherweight division.Legrá is a former two time WBC World Featherweight Champion.-Professional career:...	22 December 1967	0	Cuban
Manuel Calvo	17 December 1968	0	Spanish
Tommaso Galli	20 August 1969	1	Italian
José Legrá José Legrá Jose Legrá is a former professional boxer in the Featherweight division.Legrá is a former two time WBC World Featherweight Champion.-Professional career:...	26 June 1970	5	Cuban
Jose Antonio Jiminez	12 May 1973	2	Spanish
Elio Cotena	12 February 1975	4	Italian
Pedro Nino Jimenez	3 December 1976	1	Spanish
Manuel Masso	16 September 1977	0	Spanish
Roberto Castanon	16 December 1977	11	Spanish
Salvatore Melluzzo	22 July 1981	1	Italian
Pat Cowdell	30 March 1982	1	British
Loris Stecca Loris Stecca Loris Stecca Loris Stecca Loris Stecca (born March 30, 1960 is an Italian former world champion boxer. His brother Maurizio is also a former boxer and held the WBO world Featherweight title shortly during the late 1990s.-Professional career:...	7 April 1983	1	Italian
Barry McGuigan Barry McGuigan Finbarr Patrick McGuigan MBE , known as Barry McGuigan and nicknamed The Clones Cyclone, is a former Irish and British professional boxer who became a world featherweight champion.-Background:...	16 November 1983	3	Irish
Jim McDonnell	5 November 1985	1	British
Valerio Nati	13 March 1987	1	Italian
Jean-Marc Renard	26 June 1988	1	Belgian
Paul Hodkinson Paul Hodkinson Paul Hodkinson aka Hoko is former professional boxer. Hodkinson fought at Featherweight and is the former British, European and World Featherweight Title holder....	12 April 1989	3	British
Fabrice Benichou Fabrice Benichou -Amateur career:In 1984 Benichou made it to the finals for the French National Bantamweight championship, but lost.-Pro Boxing career:Benichou won the IBF World Super Bantamweight championship in 1989. He lost it the following year to Welcome Ncita....	25 May 1991	3	French
Maurizio Stecca Maurizio Stecca Maurizio Stecca is an Italian former boxer, who won the Bantamweight Gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics.His brother Loris Stecca was also a professional boxer.-Professional career:...	18 December 1992	0	Italian
Herve Jacob	27 March 1993	0	French
Maurizio Stecca Maurizio Stecca Maurizio Stecca is an Italian former boxer, who won the Bantamweight Gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics.His brother Loris Stecca was also a professional boxer.-Professional career:...	28 May 1993	0	Italian
Stéphane Haccoun Stéphane Haccoun Stéphane Haccoun was a southpaw French boxer.He fought as a featherweight, a super featherweight, and a junior lightweight.He compiled a record of 35 wins , 4 losses, and 1 draw.-Link:...	24 September 1993	0	French
Stefano Zoff Stefano Zoff Stefano Zoff is an Italian lightweight boxer from Monfalcone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.-External links:...	22 March 1994	0	Italian
Mehdi Labdouni	9 September 1994	1	Algerian
Billy Hardy Billy Hardy Billy Hardy is a former bantamweight and featherweight boxer champion. He held the British championship at bantamweight and featherweight, as well as the European and Commonwealth featherweight titles....	28 October 1995	3	British
Paul Ingle Paul Ingle Paul Andrew Ingle is a retired featherweight boxer. As an amateur he competed for Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. As a professional he won the IBF, European, British, & Commonwealth featherweight titles.-Amateur career:As an amateur, Ingle was a member of the 1992...	26 September 1998	0	British
Steve Robinson	30 April 1999	2	British
István Kovács István Kovács István Kovács , nicknamed Ko-Ko or sometimes The Cobra is a retired Hungarian boxer. As an amateur he won the bantamweight gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and was a world champion at the 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships in flyweight and at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships...	23 June 2000	0	Hungarian
Manuel Calvo Jr.	25 May 2001	0	Spanish
Cyril Thomas Cyril Thomas Cyril Thomas is a professional boxer from France. He was born on October 30, 1976, in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France, where he also lives. The orthodox stance featherweight fighter has a professional record of 44 fights: 36 wins , 4 losses and 4 draws. He is a former France and European...	21 December 2002	2	French
Nicky Cook Nicky Cook Nicky Cook is an English professional boxer who fights at featherweight he is the former British, Commonwealth, European featherweight and WBO super featherweight champion.-Early professional career:...	20 March 2004	3	British
Cyril Thomas Cyril Thomas Cyril Thomas is a professional boxer from France. He was born on October 30, 1976, in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France, where he also lives. The orthodox stance featherweight fighter has a professional record of 44 fights: 36 wins , 4 losses and 4 draws. He is a former France and European...	20 May 2006	1	French
Alberto Servidei	25 May 2007	1	Italian
Oleh Yefimovych	8 July 2008	4	Ukrainian
Sofiane Takoucht	30 August 2010	0	French

List of champions

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