List of European Boxing Union light heavyweight champions

European Boxing Union

The European Boxing Union is an organization that oversees competition in that sport over the continent of Europe.-History:The EBU started life as the International Boxing Union in Paris in 1910...

(EBU) is an organisation in the sport of boxing

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. The boxers that have won the EBU title in the light heavyweight

Light heavyweight

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division are listed below.

List of champions

List of EBU light heavyweight champions.
Name	Date of title victory	Successful defences	Nationality
Georges Carpentier Georges Carpentier Georges Carpentier was a French boxer. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908-26. Nicknamed the "Orchid Man", he stood and his fighting weight ranged from...	12 February 1913	0	French
Battling Siki Battling Siki Battling Siki , aka Louis Mbarick Fall, was a French light heavyweight boxer born in Senegal who fought from 1912–1925, and briefly reigned as the lineal light heavyweight champion after knocking out Georges Carpentier...	24 September 1922	0	Senegalese
Raymond Bonnel	1 December 1923	0	French
Louis Clement	27 March 1924	1	Swiss
Herman van 't Hof	5 January 1926	0	Dutch
Fernand Delarge Fernand Delarge Fernand Delarge was a Belgian boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.He was born in Liège....	25 July 1926	2	Belgian
Max Schmeling Max Schmeling Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in the late 1930s transcended boxing, and became worldwide social events because of their national associations...	19 June 1927	2	German
Michele Bonaglia	10 February 1929	2	Italian
Ernst Pistulla Ernst Pistulla Ernst Pistulla was a German boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. Pistulla was the Amateur German lightheavyweight champion in 1928...	18 March 1931	1	German
Adolf Heuser	25 June 1932	0	German
John Andersson	1 April 1933	1	Swedish
Martinez de Alfara	7 February 1934	0	Spanish
Marcel Thil Marcel Thil -Career:Born in Saint-Dizier, Haute-Marne in the Champagne-Ardenne Region of France, Thil started boxing at a very young age and turned professional at the age of sixteen...	26 March 1934	3	French
Merlo Preciso	9 August 1935	0	Italian
Heinz Lazek Heinz Lazek Heinz Lazek was an Austrian professional boxer. He fought 64 times between 1932 and 1950; winning 48 , losing 8 and drawing 8...	17 September 1935	2	Austrian
Gustave Roth	1 September 1936	5	Belgian
Adolf Heuser	25 March 1938	2	German
Luigi Musina Luigi Musina Luigi Musina was an Italian boxer.He won twice the gold medal in the 1937 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Milan and the 1939 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Dublin, winning twice his final fights against Franciszek Szymura. Musina played in several duals: ITA vs. HUN , Europe vs...	5 April 1942	0	Italian
Freddie Mills Freddie Mills Freddie Mills, was an English boxer, who was the world light heavyweight boxing champion from 1948 to 1950. He was born in Poole, England.- Early life :...	8 September 1947	1	British
Bruce Woodcock Bruce Woodcock (boxer) Bruce Woodcock was an English boxer. He was the British and Empire heavyweight champion 1945-1950, and European heavyweight champion 1946-1949. He had a large fanbase, and his participation in a competition often resulted in sellout crowds...	2 June 1949	0	British
Albert Yvel	9 July 1950	1	French
Don Cockell Don Cockell Donald John Cockell was an English boxer. He fought for most of his career as a light-heavyweight and became the British and European champion at that weight. Later in his career he moved up to heavyweight and held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles...	27 March 1951	1	British
Conny Rux	26 July 1952	0	German
Jacques Hairabedian	12 July 1953	0	French
Gerhard Hecht Gerhard Hecht Gerhard Hecht was a boxer. Hecht fought for the middleweight championship against Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951. The fight ended when Robinson hit Hecht in the kidney, and Hecht could not continue. The fight was originally ruled a disqualification victory for Hecht but later changed to a...	9 April 1954	1	German
Willi Hoepner	11 March 1955	0	German
Gerhard Hecht Gerhard Hecht Gerhard Hecht was a boxer. Hecht fought for the middleweight championship against Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951. The fight ended when Robinson hit Hecht in the kidney, and Hecht could not continue. The fight was originally ruled a disqualification victory for Hecht but later changed to a...	12 July 1955	1	German
Artemio Calzavara	12 July 1957	0	Italian
Willi Hoepner	30 June 1958	0	German
Erich Schoppner	12 December 1958	4	German
Giulio Rinaldi	28 September 1962	1	Italian
Gustav Scholz	4 April 1964	0	German
Giulio Rinaldi	8 July 1965	0	Italian
Piero Del Papa	11 March 1966	4	Italian
Lothar Stengel	2 December 1967	0	German
Tom Bogs Tom Bogs Tom Bogs is a retired Danish middleweight boxer.Bogs competed for Denmark at the 1964 Summer Olympics in the light-middleweight division and reached the quarter-finals, where he lost to Nojim Maiyegun of Nigeria. Bogs turned professional shortly after the games and was active during the 1960s and...	12 September 1968	1	Danish
Ivan Prebeg	28 June 1969	0	Croatian
Piero Del Papa	6 February 1970	2	Italian
Conny Velensek	22 January 1971	1	German
Chris Finnegan Chris Finnegan Chris Finnegan MBE was an English professional boxer.-Early life:Finnegan was one of eight siblings born into an Anglo-Irish family; his father was from Liverpool and his mother from Newry, Northern Ireland. Finnegan always wore a Union Flag and a Shamrock on his boxing trunks to signify his joint...	1 February 1972	1	British
Rudiger Schmidtke	14 November 1972	0	German
John Conteh John Conteh John Conteh is a British former boxer who was world light-heavyweight boxing champion.Conteh is one of Britain's most successful boxing champions. At his peak in the mid to late 1970s he was considered good enough that he was touted as a possible opponent of Muhammad Ali...	13 March 1973	3	British
Domenico Adinolfi	4 December 1974	3	Italian
Mate Parlov Mate Parlov Mate Parlov was a Croatian boxer, and an Olympic gold medalist for former Yugoslavia. As a professional, he won the European light heavyweight title in 1976 and WBC light heavyweight world title in 1978....	10 July 1976	3	Croatian
Aldo Traversaro	26 November 1977	3	Italian
Rudi Koopmans	7 March 1979	10	Dutch
Richard Caramanolis	2 February 1984	0	French
Alex Blanchard	29 May 1984	5	Dutch
Tom Collins	11 November 1987	1	British
Pedro van Raamsdonk Pedro van Raamsdonk Pedro Johannes van Raamsdonk is a retired boxer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California...	7 September 1988	0	Dutch
Jan Lefeber	7 November 1988	1	Dutch
Eric Nicoletta	13 October 1989	2	French
Tom Collins	11 August 1990	1	British
Graciano Rocchigiani Graciano Rocchigiani Graciano "Rocky" Rocchigiani , is a former German professional boxer who held world titles in the super middleweight and light heavyweight divisions.-Professional career:...	28 February 1991	1	German
Eddy Smulders	12 May 1993	1	Dutch
Fabrice Tiozzo Fabrice Tiozzo Fabrice Tiozzo is a retired professional boxer in the light heavyweight division. His record is 48-2 .Tiozzo was a two time light heavyweight champion as well as a one time cruiserweight champion....	5 March 1994	2	French
Eddy Smulders	6 May 1995	3	Dutch
Crawford Ashley	1 March 1997	1	British
Ole Klemetsen Ole Klemetsen Ole "Lukkøye" Klemetsen is a retired Norwegian boxer in the Light Heavyweight division. He was nicknamed "Mister Sandman" and the "Golden Viking".-Amateur:...	4 October 1997	0	Norwegian
Crawford Ashley	26 September 1998	0	British
Clinton Woods Clinton Woods Clinton Woods , is a retired professional boxer from Sheffield, England. He is the former IBF, European, British, & Commonwealth light heavyweight champion....	13 March 1999	0	British
Mohamed Siluvangi	19 June 1999	0	Congolese
Clinton Woods Clinton Woods Clinton Woods , is a retired professional boxer from Sheffield, England. He is the former IBF, European, British, & Commonwealth light heavyweight champion....	12 February 2000	1	British
Yawe Davis	6 April 2001	1	Italian
Thomas Ulrich Thomas Ulrich Thomas Ulrich is a German boxer.- Amateur career :Ulrich was the German Light Heavyweight Champion 1994...	12 October 2002	0	German
Stipe Drews	8 February 2003	3	Croatian
Thomas Ulrich Thomas Ulrich Thomas Ulrich is a German boxer.- Amateur career :Ulrich was the German Light Heavyweight Champion 1994...	17 July 2004	1	German
Stipe Drews	7 January 2006	1	Croatian
Thomas Ulrich Thomas Ulrich Thomas Ulrich is a German boxer.- Amateur career :Ulrich was the German Light Heavyweight Champion 1994...	13 January 2007	1	German
Yuri Barashian Yuri Barashian Yuri Barashian is a light heavyweight Ukrainian boxer and a former world title challenger and European champion. He dethroned light heavyweight champion of Europe Thomas Ulrich...	23 February 2008	0	Ukrainian
Jürgen Brähmer	7 March 2009	1	German
Nathan Cleverly Nathan Cleverly Nathan Cleverly is a British professional boxer from Wales and current WBO light heavyweight world champion. He is also the former European, British and Commonwealth light heavyweight champion...	13 February 2010	0	British
Danny McIntosh Danny McIntosh Danny McIntosh is a British light heavyweight boxer based in Norfolk. He is a former holder of both the English and European light heavyweight titles and a former challenger for the British and Commonwealth titles.-Professional Career:...	22 January 2011	0	British

List of champions

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