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Strawweight

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Andrew Bunda October 18, 1987 – November 13, 1988 2
2 Andrew Bunda November 13, 1988 – November 12, 1989 2
3 Alision Wilton John November 12, 1989 – February 7, 1990 3
4 Hideyuki Ohashi
Hideyuki Ohashi
Hideyuki Ohashi is a former professional boxer and two-time minimumweight world champion.- Professional career :...

February 7, 1990 – December 25, 1990 1
5 Ricardo Lopez October 25, 1990 – September, 1999– 21
6 Wandee Singwancha September, 1999 – February 11, 2000 1
7 José Antonio Aguirre
José Antonio Aguirre (boxer)
José Antonio Aguirre is a Mexican professional boxer in the strawweight division. He is the former WBC Strawweight champion.-WBC Strawweight Championship:...

February 11, 2000 – January 10, 2004 7
8 Eagle Den Junlaphan January 10, 2004 – December 18, 2004 1
9 Isaac Bustos
Isaac Bustos
Isaac Bustos was a Mexican boxer in the Minimumweight division. He is a former NABF and the WBC Minimumweight Champion.-WBC Minimumweight Championship:...

December 18, 2004 – April 4, 2005 0
11 Eagle Den Junlaphan (2) August 6, 2005 – November 29, 2007 4
12 Oleydong Sithsamerchai
Oleydong Sithsamerchai
Oleydong "The Deadly Candy" Sithsamerchai is a professional boxer from Thailand. He fights in the strawweight division and is the former WBC Strawweight World champion...

November 29, 2007 – February 11, 2011 5
13 Kazuto Ioka
Kazuto Ioka
Kazuto Ioka  is a strawweight boxer from Japan and the current world champion of WBC at Strawweight. He was born in Osaka Prefecture, grew up in Sakai city, and currently lives in Osaka.-Debut:...

February 11, 2011 – Present 0

Light flyweight
Light flyweight
- Professional boxing :The weight limit at light flyweight in professional boxing is 108 pounds . When New York legalized boxing in 1920, the law stipulated a "junior flyweight" class, with a weight limit of 99 pounds. When the National Boxing Association was formed in 1921, it also recognized this...

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Franco Udella
Franco Udella
Franco Udella is an Italian former world boxing champion.- Olympic games results :1968 *Lost to Alberto Morales 0-51972 *1st round bye...

April 4, 1975 – August, 1975– 0
2 Luis Estaba
Luis Estaba
Luis Alberto Estaba is a former boxer from Venezuela, who was born in Macuro, South American point of entry for Cristopher Columbus. He was nicknamed Lumumba, because of his resemblance to Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba....

September 13, 1975 – February 19, 1978 11
3 Freddy Castillo
Freddy Castillo
Freddy Castillo is a Mexican former world boxing champion.- Pro career :Known as "Chato Loco", Castillo turned pro in 1971 and won the WBC light flyweight title with a TKO win over Luis Estaba in 1978. He lost the belt in his first defense later that year to Netrnoi Sor Vorasingh by split decision...

February 19, 1978 – May 6, 1978 0
4 Netrnoi Sor Vorasingh
Netrnoi Sor Vorasingh
Netrnoi Sor Vorasingh was a Thai world boxing champion. His realname was Net Ladnork.Sor Vorasingh turned pro in 1975 at the age of fifteen, and in 1977 won the WBC light flyweight title with a decision win over Luis Estaba. On September 30, 1978, Sung-Jun Kim of Korea knocked out Sor Vorasingh in...

May 6, 1978 – September 30, 1978 1
5 Sung-Jun Kim September 30, 1978 – January 3, 1980 3
6 Shigeo Nakajima
Shigeo Nakajima
is a retired Japanese boxer who is a former WBC junior flyweight champion. He is an alumnus of the Komazawa University.Nakajima began boxing at Yonekura Boxing Gym at the age of a high school student...

January 3, 1980 – March 24, 1980 0
7 Hilario Zapata
Hilario Zapata
Hilario Zapata is a former boxer who was a two time world Jr. Flyweight champion and a one time world flyweight champion. Zapata is a Panamanian....

March 24, 1980 – February 6, 1982 8
8 Amado Ursua
Amado Ursua
Amado Ursua was a Mexican boxer in the Light Flyweight division. He is a former Mexican National Light Flyweight and the WBC Light Flyweight Champion.-Professional career:...

February 6, 1982 – April 13, 1982 0
9 Tadashi Tomori
Tadashi Tomori
is a retired Japanese boxer who is a former WBC junior flyweight champion.Tomori won the Japan's inter-high school championship in the 45 kg class in 1977, and compiled an amateur record of 16–4 before turning professional. Hitoshi Misako who is the president of Misako Boxing Gym in Tokyo went to...

April 13, 1982 – July 20, 1982 0
10 Hilario Zapata (2) July 20, 1982 – March 26, 1983 2
11 Jung-Koo Chang March 26, 1983–1988– 15
12 German Torres
Germán Torres
Germán Torres is a former Mexican world boxing champion. His nickname was Ozeki.- Pro career :Torres turned pro in 1975 at the age of fifteen, and won the vacant WBC light flyweight title in his fifth attempt at attempting to win that title, with a decision win over Soon-Jung Kang in 1988...

December 11, 1988 – March 19, 1989 0
13 Yul-Woo Lee March 19, 1989 – June 25, 1989 0
14 Humberto González
Humberto Gonzalez
Humberto González is a Mexican former world boxing champion. Nicknamed Chiquita, he earned many admirers during his professional boxing career...

June 25, 1989 – December 19, 1990 5
15 Rolando Pascua December 19, 1990 – March 25, 1991 0
16 Melchor Cob Castro
Melchor Cob Castro
Melchor Cob Castro a professional boxer in the light flyweight division.- Pro career :...

March 25, 1991 – June 3, 1991 0
17 Humberto González (2) June 3, 1991 – March 13, 1993 4
18 Michael Carbajal March 13, 1993 – February 19, 1994 2
19 Humberto González (3) February 19, 1994 – July 15, 1995 3
20 Saman Sorjaturong
Saman Sorjaturong
Saman Sorjaturong was a Thai former world boxing champion.Sorjaturong turned pro in 1989 and won the WBC and IBF junior flyweight title during his career. He defeated reigning champion Humberto González in a thrilling fight that was named Ring Magazine fight of the year in 1995 to win the IBF and...

July 15, 1995 – October 17, 1999 10
21 Yo-Sam Choi
Yo-Sam Choi
Yo-Sam Choi was a Korean world boxing champion. He was born in Jeongeup, Jeollabukdo, South Korea.- Pro career :Choi turned pro in 1993 and won the WBC light flyweight title in 1999 with a decision win over Saman Sorjaturong. He successfully defended the title three times before losing it to...

October 17, 1999 – July 6, 2002 3
22 Jorge Armando Arce
Jorge Arce
Jorge Armando Arce Armenta is a Mexican professional boxer. Arce is the former WBO World Light Flyweight, WBC World Light Flyweight, Interim WBC World Flyweight, Interim WBA World Super Flyweight, WBO World Super Flyweight, WBO World Super Bantamweight, and is the current WBO World Bantamweight...

July 6, 2002 – December 18, 2004– 7
23 Eric Ortiz
Eric Ortiz
Eric Ortiz Aparicio is a professional boxer. He competes in the light flyweight division.-Pro career:...

March 11, 2005 – September 10, 2005 0
24 Brian Viloria
Brian Viloria
Brian Viloria is a Filipino-American professional boxer He is the reigning WBO Flyweight champion. He also won the WBC Light Flyweight and IBF Junior Flyweight titles...

September 10, 2005 – August 10, 2006 1
25 Omar Nino Romero
Omar Niño Romero
Omar Niño Romero is a Mexican professional boxer in the Light Flyweight division. He was the WBC Light Flyweight Champion.-Professional career:...

August 10, 2006 – February 2, 2007– 1
26 Edgar Sosa April 14, 2007 – November 21, 2009 10
27 Rodel Mayol
Rodel Mayol
Rodel Bryan Generalao Mayol , more commonly known as just Rodel Mayol, is a Filipino professional boxer and the former WBC Light Flyweight World Champion.-Early life:...

November 21, 2009 – June 19, 2010 1
28 Omar Nino Romero (2) June 19, 2010–November 6, 2010 0
29 Gilberto Keb November 6, 2010–Present 1

Flyweight
Flyweight
Flyweight is a class in boxing which includes fighters weighing less than 112 lb but above 108 lb .-Professional boxing:...

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Hiroyuki Ebihara
Hiroyuki Ebihara
Hiroyuki Ebihara was a Japanese world-champion flyweight boxer from Fussa, Tokyo. His record includes 62 wins , 5 losses, and 1 draw. He was the first world flyweight champion certified by the World Boxing Council, and he was also certified by the World Boxing Association and The Ring...

September 18, 1963 – January 23, 1964 0
2 Pone Kingpetch
Pone Kingpetch
Pone Kingpetch , a.k.a. Mana Seedokbuab was a professional Thai boxer and three time world flyweight champion. He became Thailand's first world boxing champion on April 16, 1960 when he defeated Pascual Pérez of Argentina at Lumphini Boxing Stadium in Bangkok for the world flyweight championship...

January 23, 1964 – April 23, 1965 3
3 Salvatore Burruni
Salvatore Burruni
Salvatore Burruni , was an Italian flyweight and bantamweight boxer who fought between 1957 to 1969. Burruni was born in Alghero , and fought mostly in Europe.-Amateur career:...

April 23, 1965 – June 14, 1966 1
4 Walter McGowan
Walter McGowan
Walter McGowan, MBE , is a retired Scottish boxer. He is renowned for having been WBC world flyweight champion.He was the son of Thomas McGowan, who had boxed under the name of 'Joe Gans'....

June 14, 1966 – December 30, 1966 0
5 Chartchai Chionoi
Chartchai Chionoi
Chartchai Chionoi a.k.a. Chartchai Laemfapha is a former professional Thai boxer and WBC World champion in Flyweight division....

December 30, 1966 – February 23, 1969 4
6 Efren Torres
Efren Torres
Efren Torres was a Mexican boxer, who was world champion in the Flyweight division.Torres was born in Guadalajara.-Pro career:...

February 23, 1969 – March 20, 1970 0
7 Chartchai Chionoi (2) March 20, 1970 – December 7, 1970 0
8 Erbito Salavarria
Erbito Salavarria
Erbito Salavarria is a retired professional boxer from the Philippines. He's also a former WBA and WBC flyweight champion.- Biography :Salavarria made his professional debut in 1963. He captured the WBC flyweight title with a TKO win over Chartchai Chionoi in 1970...

December 7, 1970 - December 29, 1971– 2
9 Betulio González
Betulio González
Betulio Segundo González is a former boxer from Venezuela, who is considered a national hero in Venezuela. He is considered by many to be Venezuela's greatest world champion in boxing history...

June 3, 1972 – September 29, 1972 0
10 Venice Borkhorsor September 29, 1972 - 1973– 1
11 Betulio González (2) August 4, 1973 – October 1, 1974 2
12 Shoji Oguma
Shoji Oguma
Shoji Oguma was a Japanese southpaw boxer at Flyweight.- Professional career :Oguma turned pro in 1970 and in 1974 won the WBC Flyweight Title by winning a split decision over Betulio González. He lost the title three months later in his first defense against Miguel Canto...

October 1, 1974 – January 8, 1975 0
13 Miguel Canto
Miguel Canto
Miguel Angel Canto Solis is a former world boxing champion from Mexico.- Boxing Life :Contrary to many Mexican boxers, Canto was not a "slam-bang" type of boxer...

January 8, 1975 – March 18, 1979 14
14 Chan Hee Park
Chan Hee Park
Chan-Hee Park is a former South Korean boxer, who was WBC world champion in the Flyweight division.-Amateur career:Park competed at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games as a Light Flyweight for South Korea...

March 18, 1979 – May 18, 1980 5
15 Shoji Oguma (2) May 18, 1980 – May 12, 1981 3
16 Antonio Avelar
Antonio Avelar
Jose Antonio Rodríguez Avelar was a Mexican boxer in the Flyweight division. He is a former NABF and the WBC Flyweight Champion.-Professional career:...

May 12, 1981 – March 20, 1982 1
17 Prudencio Cardona
Prudencio Cardona
Prudencio Cardona is a former boxer who was world flyweight champion. He represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.-Professional boxing career:...

March 20, 1982 – July 24, 1982 0
18 Freddy Castillo
Freddy Castillo
Freddy Castillo is a Mexican former world boxing champion.- Pro career :Known as "Chato Loco", Castillo turned pro in 1971 and won the WBC light flyweight title with a TKO win over Luis Estaba in 1978. He lost the belt in his first defense later that year to Netrnoi Sor Vorasingh by split decision...

July 24, 1982 – November 6, 1982 0
19 Eleoncio Mercedes
Eleoncio Mercedes
Eleoncio Mercedes was a Dominican boxer, who was world champion in the Flyweight division.-Amateur career:As an amateur he competed for his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada...

November 6, 1982 – March 15, 1983 0
20 Charlie Magri
Charlie Magri
Charlie Magri is a former English flyweight boxer. He is from a Maltese family that settled in Stepney, London where he grew up...

March 15, 1983 – September 27, 1983 0
21 Frank Cedeno
Frank Cedeno
Frank Cedeno is a Filipino-English former boxer. Cedeno held the WBC Flyweight title from 27 September 1983 to 18 January 1984. In a September 1983 World Boxing Council title fight, Cedeno knocked out Charlie Magri in the sixth round to claim the Flyweight title.-External links:*...

September 27, 1983 – January 18, 1984 0
22 Koji Kobayashi
Kōji Kobayashi (boxer)
is a retired Japanese boxer who is a former WBC flyweight champion. As of August, 2011, he is Japan's latest world champion who was certified by The Ring.Kobayashi was poor at sports in his childhood. He was a slow runner, and lacked in arm strength...

January 18, 1984 – April 9, 1984 0
23 Gabriel Bernal
Gabriel Bernal
Gabriel Bernal was a retired WBC Flyweight Champion. He held the title for 6 months in 1984.-Pro career:...

April 9, 1984 – October 8, 1984 1
24 Sot Chitalada
Sot Chitalada
Sot Chitalada in Chonburi, Thailand, was formerly twice WBC Flyweight Champion.Chitalada built a reputation as a Muay Thai in name Chaovalit Sithphrabrahma champion in Thailand before making the transition to professional boxing...

October 8, 1984 – July 24, 1988 6
25 Yong Kang Kim July 24, 1988 – June 3, 1989 2
26 Sot Chitalada (2) June 3, 1989 – February 15, 1991 4
27 Muangchai Kittikasem
Muangchai Kittikasem
Muangchai Kittikasem is a former boxer from Thailand. He was world champion in two weightclasses.He claims to have fought fought around forty to fifty Muay Thai in fights in ring name Jingjok Uvichaiyont but never won any championships...

February 15, 1991 – June 23, 1993 3
28 Yuri Arbachakov
Yuri Arbachakov
Yuri Arbachakov was a boxing champion in the flyweight division. He was the first Russian professional boxing champion.-Amateur career:Arbachakov was an amateur boxing star in the Soviet Union...

June 23, 1993–1997 9
29 Chatchai Sasakul
Chatchai Sasakul
Chatchai Sasakul is a former boxing champion in the flyweight division. Aside of being a professional boxer, Sasakul is also a practitioner in snooker.- Amateur career :Sasakul was an amateur boxing star in Thailand...

May 9, 1997 – December 4, 1998 2
30 Manny Pacquiao
Manny Pacquiao
Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...

December 4, 1998 – September 17, 1999– 1
31 Medgoen Singsurat September 17, 1999 – May 19, 2000 1
32 Malcolm Tunacao
Malcolm Tuñacao
Malcolm Alindajao Tuñacao is a professional southpaw boxer in the flyweight division.- Fight career :...

May 19, 2000 – March 2, 2001 1
33 Pongsaklek Wonjongkam
Pongsaklek Wonjongkam
Pongsaklek Wonjongkam is a professional southpaw boxer in the flyweight division. His record is 83-3-1 . He is the WBC Flyweight Champion, as well as The Ring World Flyweight Champion...

March 2, 2001 – July 18, 2007 17
34 Daisuke Naito
Daisuke Naito
is a professional boxer from Japan. He is the former WBC flyweight champion, and former Japanese and OPBF flyweight champion.- Professional career :Naito made his professional debut in October, 1996...

July 18, 2007 – November 29, 2009 5
35 Koki Kameda
Koki Kameda
is a Japanese professional boxer in the Flyweight division and the current WBA Bantamweight Regular Champion. He is the oldest of the three Kameda brothers. His younger brother, Daiki Kameda, is a professional boxer in the super flyweight division, and the youngest brother Tomoki, is the WBC Youth...

November 29, 2009 – March 27, 2010 0
36 Pongsaklek Wonjongkam (2) March 27, 2010 – Now 0

Super flyweight
Super flyweight
Super flyweight is a weight division in professional boxing. It is alternatively referred to as junior bantamweight and light bantamweight...

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Rafael Orono
Rafael Orono
Jesus Rafael Orono is a former super flyweight boxing champion from Venezuela.-Amateur career:Born in Patono, Sucre, Orono began as an amateur and compiled a record of 49 wins and 8 losses.-Amateur highlights:...

February 2, 1980 – January 24, 1981 3
2 Chul Ho Kim January 24, 1981 – November 28, 1982 5
3 Rafael Orono (2) November 28, 1982 – November 27, 1983 3
4 Payao Poontarat
Payao Poontarat
Payao Poontarat was a Thai boxer who, at the age of 18, won the bronze medal in the men's Light flyweight category at the 1976 Summer Olympics...

November 27, 1983 - July 5, 1984 1
5 Jiro Watanabe
Jiro Watanabe
is a Japanese former boxerWatanabe, who fought only in Japan and South Korea, was one of the first World Super flyweight champions, as the division was relatively new when he was crowned.-Biography:...

July 5, 1984 - March 30, 1986 4
6 Gilberto Roman
Gilberto Roman
Gilberto Román was a Mexican boxer in the Super Flyweight division and a member of the 1980 Mexican Olympic team. Román was a two-time WBC Super Flyweight Champion and is considered by many fans to be one of the great champions in this division...

March 30, 1986 - May 16, 1987 6
7 Santos Benigno Laciar May 16, 1987 - August 8, 1987 0
8 Sugar Baby Rojas August 8, 1987 - April 8, 1988 1
9 Gilberto Roman (2) April 8, 1988 - November 7, 1989 5
10 Nana Kanadou November 7, 1989 - January 20, 1990 0
11 Sung-Kil Moon
Sung-Kil Moon
Moon Sung-Kil is a former two-division world champion boxer from South Korea. His name is also rendered Sung Kil Moon.- Amateur career :...

January 20, 1990 - November 13, 1993 9
12 Jose Luis Bueno
Jose Luis Bueno
José Luis Bueno , is a retired Mexican professional boxer and former WBC Super Flyweight Champion. Bueno is also the trainer of current WBC Light Flyweight Champion, Adrián Hernández....

November 13, 1993 - May 4, 1994 0
13 Hiroshi Kawashima
Hiroshi Kawashima
Hiroshi Kawashima is a former professional boxer. He defended the WBC super flyweight title six times.- Childhood and Early Career :Kawashima began boxing from an early age under the guidance of his father...

May 4, 1994 - February 20, 1997 6
14 Gerry Penalosa
Gerry Peñalosa
Geronimo Peñalosa , more commonly known as Gerry Peñalosa, is a retired Filipino professional boxer....

February 20, 1997 - August 29, 1998 3
15 In-Joo Cho
In-Joo Cho
In-Joo Cho is a former boxer from South Korea.-Amateur career:In 1987, Oh won the gold medal in flyweight at the World Junior Amateur Boxing Championships held in....

August 29, 1998 - August 27, 2000 5
16 Masamori Tokuyama
Masamori Tokuyama
is a retired professional boxer in the super flyweight division. His professional record was 32-3-1 . He is a former WBC world super flyweight champion....

August 27, 2000 - June 28, 2004 8
17 Katsushige Kawashima
Katsushige Kawashima
is a retired professional boxer who fought in the super flyweight division. He is a former WBC super flyweight champion.- Biography :Kawashima joined the boxing gym of former WBC and WBA minimumweight champion Hideyuki Ohashi in 1995, and made his professional debut on February 20, 1997, with a 2nd...

June 28, 2004 - July 18, 2005 2
18 Masamori Tokuyama (2) July 18, 2005 - December 6, 2006– 1
19 Cristian Mijares
Cristian Mijares
Cristian Ricardo Lucio Mijares is a Mexican professional boxer. Mijares is the former WBC, WBA and current IBF Super Flyweight Champion. Cristian is the older brother of undefeated prospect Ricardo Mijares and the nephew of world title contender Vicente Mijares.-Early life:Cristian comes from a...

December 6, 2006 - November 1, 2008 7
20 Vic Darchinyan
Vic Darchinyan
Vakhtang "Vic" Darchinyan is an Armenian professional boxer discovered by HyeFighters. He is a three-division world champion, having won eight titles in three different weight classes. He is a former IBF Flyweight World Champion and a former Undisputed WBA, WBC & IBF Super Flyweight World...

November 1, 2008–Present 3

Bantamweight
Bantamweight
Bantamweight is usually a class in boxing for boxers who weigh above 115 pounds and up to 118 pounds . However, in Mixed Martial Arts it is 134-136 pounds . Wrestling also has similar weight classes including bantamweight...

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Eder Jofre
Eder Jofre
Éder Jofre is a retired Brazilian boxer and former bantamweight and featherweight champion .-Amateur career:Jofre represented his native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.-Olympic Results:*1st round bye...

April 4, 1963 – May 18, 1965 2
2 Fighting Harada
Fighting Harada
Masahiko Harada , better known as Fighting Harada, is a former world boxing champion. He is currently the president of the Japanese boxing commission....

May 18, 1965 – February 27, 1968 4
3 Lionel Rose
Lionel Rose
Lionel Edmund Rose MBE was an Australian bantamweight boxer, the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title.-Early life:...

February 27, 1968 – August 22, 1969 3
4 Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares is a former Mexican boxer and current member of the Boxing Hall of Fame. A native of Mexico City, Olivares was a world champion multiple times, and considered by many as the greatest bantamweight champion of all time. He was very popular among Mexicans, many of whom considered him...

August 22, 1969 – October 16, 1970 2
5 Chucho Castillo
Chucho Castillo
Jesus Castillo Aguillera is a former Mexican boxer. Better known as Chucho Castillo, he was WBA and WBC Bantamweight champion in 1970....

 
October 16, 1970 – April 2, 1971 0
6 Rubén Olivares (2) April 2, 1971 – March 19, 1972 2
7 Rafael Herrera
Rafael Herrera
Rafael Herrera is a former boxer from Mexico. He has won world titles in the Bantamweight division.- Professional career :...

March 19, 1972 – July 29, 1972 0
8 Enrique Pinder July 29, 1972 - 1973– 0
9 Rafael Herrera (2) April 14, 1973 – December 7, 1974 2
10 Rodolfo Martínez
Rodolfo Martínez
Rodolfo Martínez was a Mexican boxer in the Super Featherweight division. He is a former NABF Super Bantamweight, Bantamweight and the WBC Bantamweight Champion.-Early life:...

December 7, 1974 – May 8, 1976 3
11 Carlos Zarate May 8, 1976 – June 3, 1979 9
12 Lupe Pintor
Lupe Pintor
Jose Guadalupe Pintor Guzman , better known as Lupe Pintor, is a former world boxing champion from Cuajimalpa, Mexico. Nicknamed El Indio De Cuajimalpa or The Indian From Cuajimalpa, he started boxing professionally in 1974...

June 3, 1979–1982– 8
13 Alberto Davila
Alberto Davila
Albert "Alberto" Dávila is a Mexican-American boxer who boxed during the 1970s and 1980s in the bantamweight division. During parts of 1983 and 1984, he held the World Boxing Council championship. Dávila lost world bantamweight championships matches three times, and temporarily left the sport...

September 1, 1983–1984– 1
14 Daniel Zaragoza
Daniel Zaragoza
Daniel Zaragoza was a Mexican professional boxer. Known as "The Mouse," Zaragoza a popular champion in the Super Bantamweight division throughout the 1980s and 1990s.-Amateur career:...

May 4, 1985 - August 9, 1985 0
15 Miguel Lora August 9, 1985 – October 29, 1988 7
16 Raúl Pérez
Raúl Pérez
Raúl Pérez is a former boxer from Mexico. He has won world titles in two weight divisions.- Professional career :...

October 29, 1988 – February 25, 1991 7
17 Greg Richardson
Greg Richardson
- Amateur career :Richardson had an outstanding amateur career, and was the 1974 National AAU and National Golden Gloves flyweight champion.- Pro career :...

February 25, 1991 – September 19, 1991 1
18 Joichiro Tatsuyoshi
Joichiro Tatsuyoshi
is a former World Boxing Council world bantamweight champion from Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan. His record is 19–6–1 .He is popular for his fight style and unique personality, and has appeared in several television variety shows....

September 19, 1991 – September 17, 1992 0
19 Victor Rabanales
Victor Rabanales
Victor Manuel Rabanales was a Mexican boxer in the Featherweight division. He is a former WBC FECARBOX and the WBC Bantamweight Champion...

September 17, 1992 – March 28, 1993 1
20 Jung Il Byun
Jung Il Byun
- Amateur career :Byun is perhaps best known for protesting against a decision at the 1988 Seoul Olympics by refusing to leave the ring after losing a controversial 4-1 decision in the bantamweight competition. He was penalized for head-butting his competitor, Aleksandar Hristov of Bulgaria. He sat...

March 28, 1993 – December 23, 1993 1
21 Yasuei Yakushiji
Yasuei Yakushiji
is a former professional boxer who fought in the bantamweight division. He successfully defended the WBC bantamweight title four times during his career.- Biography :Yakushiji began boxing under influence of his father, who was an amateur boxer...

December 23, 1993 – July 30, 1995 4
22 Wayne McCullough
Wayne McCullough
Wayne William McCullough is a professional boxer. During his professional career, which spans back to 1993, he held the WBC title in the Bantamweight category...

July 30, 1995 – January, 1997– 2
23 Sirimongkol Singwangcha
Sirimongkol Singwangcha
Sirimongkol Singwangcha is a professional light welterweight Thai boxer and kickboxer fighting out of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. He has won world titles in two weight divisions. His career record is 54-2 .-Biography and career:...

January, 1997 – November 22, 1997 3
24 Joichiro Tatsuyoshi (2) November 22, 1997 – December 29, 1998 2
25 Veeraphol Sahaprom
Veeraphol Sahaprom
Veerapol Sahaprom is a former WBC and WBA Bantamweight Champion. He is from the Nakhon Ratchasima Province in Thailand...

December 29, 1998 – April 16, 2005 14
26 Hozumi Hasegawa
Hozumi Hasegawa
is a professional boxer and a former WBC world bantamweight champion and former WBC world Featherweight champion. He received consecutive MVP awards from the Japanese Boxing Commission in 2005 and 2006 for his title defenses, and is the only Japanese boxer to have defended a world bantamweight...

April 16, 2005 – April 30, 2010 10
27 Fernando Montiel
Fernando Montiel
Fernando Montiel Martínez is a Mexican professional boxer in the Bantamweight division. Fernando is a former WBO Flyweight, WBO Super Flyweight and WBO and WBC Bantamweight champion.-Early life:...

April 30, 2010–February 19,2011 0
28 Nonito Donaire
Nonito Donaire
Nonito Donaire, Jr. is a Filipino-American professional boxer, who is widely known as "The Filipino Flash." He is a three-division world champion, having won five titles across three different boxing weight classes. He is a known switch-hitter with the ability to fight either southpaw or orthodox...

February 19, 2011-present 0

Super bantamweight
Super Bantamweight
Super bantamweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 122 pounds, or roughly 55.34 kilograms....

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Rigoberto Riasco April 3, 1976 – October 9, 1976 2
2 Royal Kobayashi
Royal Kobayashi
, better known as Royal Kobayashi, is a retired Japanese boxer who competed at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games in the featherweight division, and won the WBC junior featherweight title in 1976...

October 9, 1976 – November 24, 1976 0
3 Dong-Kyun Yum
Dong-Kyun Yum
Dong-Kyun Yum is a former boxer from South Korea.-External links:...

November 24, 1976 – May 21, 1977 1
4 Wilfredo Gómez
Wilfredo Gómez
Wilfredo Gómez , sometimes referred to as Bazooka Gómez, is a former boxer and three time world champion.-Biography:...

May 21, 1977 - 1983– 17
5 Jaime Garza
Jaime Garza
Jaime Garza was a Mexican American boxer in the Featherweight division. He's the former WBC Super Bantamweight Champion.-Professional career:...

June 15, 1983 – November 3, 1984 1
6 Juan Meza
Juan Meza
Juan Meza , also known for his nickname Kid Meza, is a former boxer who was world Super Bantamweight champion. Meza was born in Mexicali, Mexico.-Short biography:Mesa was born Jesus Fernández...

November 3, 1984 – August 18, 1985 1
7 Lupe Pintor
Lupe Pintor
Jose Guadalupe Pintor Guzman , better known as Lupe Pintor, is a former world boxing champion from Cuajimalpa, Mexico. Nicknamed El Indio De Cuajimalpa or The Indian From Cuajimalpa, he started boxing professionally in 1974...

August 18, 1985 – January 18, 1986 0
8 Samart Payakaroon
Samart Payakaroon
Samart Payakaroon, real name Samart Tiptarmai is a Muaythai boxer.-Thai Boxing career:Samart has an older brother, Kongtoranee Payakaroon, who induced Samart to start training in Muay Thai.Samart started Muaythai training when he was 11...

January 18, 1986 – May 8, 1987 1
9 Jeff Fenech
Jeff Fenech
Jeff Fenech is a retired Australian boxer and a three-time world champion who is now a boxing trainer.-Boxing career:...

May 8, 1987–1988– 2
10 Daniel Zaragoza
Daniel Zaragoza
Daniel Zaragoza was a Mexican professional boxer. Known as "The Mouse," Zaragoza a popular champion in the Super Bantamweight division throughout the 1980s and 1990s.-Amateur career:...

February 29, 1988 – April 23, 1990 5
11 Paul Banke
Paul Banke
Paul Andre Banke, , is a former a WBC Super Bantamweight Title Professional boxer.-Professional career:Banke turned pro in 1985 and captured the WBC Super Bantamweight Title in 1990 with an upset TKO over Daniel Zaragoza...

April 23, 1990 – November 5, 1990 1
12 Pedro Ruben Decima
Pedro Ruben Decima
Pedro Ruben Decima is a former professional boxer from Argentina.-Amateur career:As an amateur Decima represented Argentina as a bantamweight at the 1984 Olympic Games...

November 5, 1990 – February 23, 1991 0
13 Kiyoshi Hatanaka
Kiyoshi Hatanaka
is a retired Japanese boxer who is a former WBC super bantamweight champion.Hatanaka began karate at the first grade of elementary school, and won the Japanese championship in the juvenile division at its sixth grade and the first grade of junior high school. In addition, he began football at the...

February 23, 1991 – June 24, 1991 0
14 Daniel Zaragoza (2) June 24, 1991 – March 20, 1992 2
15 Thierry Jacob March 20, 1992 – June 23, 1992 0
16 Tracy Harris Patterson
Tracy Harris Patterson
Tracy Harris Patterson, , is a former boxer who became a two weight world champion. Born Tracy Harris, he is the adopted son of former Golden Gloves and World Champion Floyd Patterson, turned Golden Gloves success into a solid pro career...

June 23, 1992 – August 26, 1994 4
17 Hector Acero Sanchez August 26, 1994 – November 6, 1995 2
18 Daniel Zaragoza (3) November 6, 1995 – September 6, 1997 2
19 Erik Morales
Erik Morales
Érik Isaac Morales Elvira is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the first Mexican born boxer in history to win a world title in four weight classes and is the current WBC Light Welterweight Champion...

September 6, 1997 - 2000– 9
20 Garbriel Solis September 9, 2000 - November 1, 2002 ?
21 Óscar Larios
Oscar Larios
Óscar Larios is a professional boxer from Mexico and former WBC Super Bantamweight and Featherweight champion. He is trained by Jose "Chepo" Reynoso.-Boxing career:...

November 1, 2002 – December 12, 2005 7
22 Israel Vázquez
Israel Vázquez
Israel Vázquez Castañeda is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a former Super Bantamweight world champion, having held titles at this weight from 2004 to 2008...

December 12, 2005 – March 3, 2007 2
23 Rafael Márquez
Rafael Márquez (boxer)
Rafael Márquez Méndez is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a former world champion at the IBF / IBO Bantamweight and WBC Super Bantamweight divisions....

March 3, 2007 – August 4, 2007 0
24 Israel Vázquez (2) August 4, 2007 – December, 2008– 1
25 Toshiaki Nishioka
Toshiaki Nishioka
is a Japanese professional boxer who is the current WBC super bantamweight champion. Nishioka is currently ranked as the #1 super bantamweight in the world by The Ring and ESPN. Unlike most other Japan's world champions, Nishioka has been willing to fight outside of his own country.- 1976 to 1990s...

December, 2008 – Present 4

Featherweight
Featherweight
Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. There are similarly named divisions under several Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Professional boxing:...

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Sugar Ramos
Sugar Ramos
Ultiminio Ramos is a Cuban-Mexican boxer who is better known as Sugar Ramos. Ramos fought out of Mexico where he was adopted as a national hero...

March 21, 1963 – September 26, 1964 3
2 Vicente Saldivar
Vicente Saldivar
Vicente Samuel Saldivar García was a Mexican boxer in the Featherweight division and was a part of the 1960 Mexican Olympic team. He was a former WBC and a two-time WBA Featherweight Champion...

September 26, 1964 - October, 1967– 7
3 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...

January 23, 1968 – July 24, 1968 0
4 Jose Legra
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:...

July 24, 1968 – January 21, 1969 0
5 Johnny Famechon
Johnny Famechon
Johnny Famechon, born 28 March 1945, is a former Australian featherweight boxer, who was born as Jean-Pierre Famechon in Paris, France.He moved to Australia in 1950 at the age of five. Over his twenty-year career he developed a reputation for being a skilled boxer whose strength was his defence...

January 21, 1969 – May 9, 1970 2
6 Vicente Saldivar (2) May 9, 1970 – December 11, 1970 0
7 Kuniaki Shibata
Kuniaki Shibata
Kuniaki Shibata is a former Japanese professional boxer. He is a former WBC and WBA super featherweight champion.- Biography :...

December 11, 1970 – May 19, 1972 2
8 Clemente Sánchez
Clemente Sánchez
Clemente "Xicoténcatl" Sánchez was a Mexican boxer.- Pro career :Sánchez turned pro in 1963 and captured the WBC featherweight title with a 3rd round KO over Kuniaki Shibata in 1972...

May 19, 1972 – December 16, 1972– 0
9 José Legra (2) December 16, 1972 – May 5, 1973 0
10 Eder Jofre
Eder Jofre
Éder Jofre is a retired Brazilian boxer and former bantamweight and featherweight champion .-Amateur career:Jofre represented his native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.-Olympic Results:*1st round bye...

May 5, 1973 - June 17, 1974– 1
11 Bobby Chacon
Bobby Chacon
Bobby Chacon is an American former, two-time, world boxing champion.-Career:Chacon turned professional in 1972 and won his first 19 fights, including a win against former champion Jesus Castillo...

September 7, 1974 – June 20, 1975 1
12 Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares
Rubén Olivares is a former Mexican boxer and current member of the Boxing Hall of Fame. A native of Mexico City, Olivares was a world champion multiple times, and considered by many as the greatest bantamweight champion of all time. He was very popular among Mexicans, many of whom considered him...

June 20, 1975 – September 20, 1975 0
13 David Kotei
David Kotei
David Kotei born on December 7, 1950 in Accra, Ghana, was a world featherweight boxing champion between 1975 and 1976 and was also the first Ghanaian professional boxer to win a world title. He was popularly called "D.K. Poison"....

September 20, 1975 – November 13, 1976 2
14 Danny López
Danny Lopez
Danny Lopez is a former American boxer from Fort Duchesne, Utah. He was world Featherweight champion, and a very popular fighter both in television and Southern California, during the 1970s. His nickname is Little Red.-Background:...

November 13, 1976 – February 2, 1980 8
15 Salvador Sánchez
Salvador Sánchez
Salvador Sánchez Narváez was a Mexican boxer born in the town of Santiago Tianguistenco, Estado de México. Many of his contemporaries as well as boxing writers believe that, had it not been for his premature death, Sanchez could have gone on to become the greatest Featherweight boxer of all time...

February 2, 1980 - August 12, 1982– 9
16 Juan LaPorte
Juan Laporte
Juan Laporte is a former boxer who was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico.-Amateur career:Juan Laporte won the 1976 112 lb New York Golden Gloves Sub-Novice Championship. He defeated Long Island's Ricky Brown in the finals. Laporte was defeated by Joseph Nieto of the Police Athletic Leagues Lynch...

September 15, 1982 – March 31, 1984 2
17 Wilfredo Gómez
Wilfredo Gómez
Wilfredo Gómez , sometimes referred to as Bazooka Gómez, is a former boxer and three time world champion.-Biography:...

March 31, 1984 – December 8, 1984 0
18 Azumah Nelson
Azumah Nelson
Azumah Nelson , a native of Ghana, is a former professional boxer. He is a three-time world champion in two weight classes.Nelson is the former Lineal and two-time WBC Super Featherweight Champion...

December 8, 1984 - 1988– 6
19 Jeff Fenech
Jeff Fenech
Jeff Fenech is a retired Australian boxer and a three-time world champion who is now a boxing trainer.-Boxing career:...

March 7, 1988 - 1989– 3
20 Marcos Villasana
Marcos Villasana
Marcos Villasana is a retired Mexican boxer and former WBC featherweight champion.Villasana first challenged Azumah Nelson for the WBC featherweight title, losing a narrow split decision on February 25, 1986...

June 2, 1990 – November 14, 1991 3
21 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....

November 14, 1991 – April 28, 1993 3
22 Gregorio Vargas
Gregorio Vargas
Gregorio "Goyo" Vargas is a retired Mexican boxer.-Career:On April 28, 1993, Vargas won the WBC featherweight title from Paul Hodkinson by TKO in round 7. On July 11, 1998, he defeated Tracy Harris Patterson for the IBA super featherweight title by TKO in round 6...

April 28, 1993 – December 4, 1993 0
23 Kevin Kelley December 4, 1993 – January 7, 1995 2
24 Alejandro Martín González
Alejandro Martín González
Alejandro Martín González was a Mexican boxer in the Lightweight division. González is a former WBC Featherweight and IBA Lightweight Champion...

January 7, 1995 – September 23, 1995 2
25 Manuel Medina
Manuel Medina (boxer)
Juan Manuel Rubio Medina is a boxer, who is better known as Manuel Medina. He is a five-time world featherweight champion...

September 23, 1995 – December 11, 1995 0
26 Luisito Espinosa
Luisito Espinosa
Luisito Pio Espinosa is a retired boxer from the Philippines who won World titles in two different weight divisions....

December 11, 1995 – May 15, 1999 7
27 Cesar Soto
Cesar Soto (boxer)
César Soto Esquivel is a retired Mexican professional boxer and is the former WBC Featherweight Champion.-Professional career:...

May 15, 1999 – October 22, 1999 0
28 Naseem Hamed
Naseem Hamed
Naseem Hamed is an English former professional boxer.He is the former WBO, WBC, IBF, & Lineal featherweight champion, and European bantamweight champion....

October 22, 1999 - 2000– 0
29 Guty Espadas Jr. April 14, 2000 – February 17, 2001 1
30 Érik Morales
Erik Morales
Érik Isaac Morales Elvira is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the first Mexican born boxer in history to win a world title in four weight classes and is the current WBC Light Welterweight Champion...

February 17, 2001 – June 22, 2002 1
31 Marco Antonio Barrera
Marco Antonio Barrera
Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia is a Mexicanprofessional boxer. He has won numerous world titles in three different weight classes; he is a former two-time WBO super bantamweight , WBC, Lineal, & The Ring featherweight , and WBC & IBF super featherweight champion...

June 22, 2002 – June, 2002– 0
32 Érik Morales (2) November 16, 2002 - 2003– 2
33 In-Jin Chi April 10, 2004 – January 29, 2006 2
34 Takashi Koshimoto
Takashi Koshimoto
Takashi Koshimoto is a former Japanese professional boxer in the featherweight division. He is a former WBC world featherweight champion.- Childhood and Early Career :...

January 29, 2006 – July 30, 2006 0
35 Rodolfo López
Rodolfo López
Rodolfo López is a professional boxer. He competes in the featherweight division. His record is 25–5–1 , and he is the current WBC world featherweight champion....

July 30, 2006 – December 17, 2006 0
36 In-Jin Chi (2) December 17, 2006 – July, 2007– 0
37 Jorge Linares
Jorge Linares
Jorge Linares is a professional boxer from Venezuela. He is a former WBC featherweight champion and former WBA super featherweight champion. Linares is currently living in Tokyo, Japan. Jorge's older brother is boxer Nelson Linares.- Amateur career :Linares compiled an Amateur record of 89-5...

May 2008 – August, 2008– 1
38 Óscar Larios
Oscar Larios
Óscar Larios is a professional boxer from Mexico and former WBC Super Bantamweight and Featherweight champion. He is trained by Jose "Chepo" Reynoso.-Boxing career:...

August, 2008 – March 12, 2009 1
39 Takahiro Aoh
Takahiro Aoh
is a Japanese professional boxer who fights at featherweight and is the current Japanese featherweight champion. He is the current WBC Super Featherweight Champion.-Professional career:Aoh turned professional in September 2003 at the Korakuen Hall, Tokyo...

March 12, 2009 – July 14, 2009 0
40 Elio Rojas
Elio Rojas
Elio Rojas Elio Rojas Elio Rojas (born September 25, 1983, in Villa Rivas, Duarte, Dominican Republic is a Dominican Republican professional boxer.-Amateur Highlights:1999- Gold Medal in the Battle of Carabobo and Cheo Aponte Tournament....

July 14, 2009–Present 1

Super featherweight
Super Featherweight
Super featherweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 130 pounds or 59 kilograms....

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Gabriel Elorde
Gabriel Elorde
Gabriel "Flash" Elorde was a Filipino professional boxer. He was born and raised in the town of Bogo, Cebu....

February 16, 1963 – June 15, 1967 5
2 Yoshiaki Numata
Yoshiaki Numata
Yoshiaki Numata is a former world Junior Lightweight boxing champion.Numata turned professional in 1962 and won the WBC and WBA super featherweight world titles by defeating Flash Elorde by decision in 1967, although Numata was knocked down in the 3rd round. He lost the title in his first...

June 15, 1967 – December 14, 1967 0
3 Hiroshi Kobayashi
Hiroshi Kobayashi
Hiroshi Kobayashi, , is a former professional boxer.Kobayashi turned pro in 1962 and won the WBC and WBA Super Featherweight Title in 1967 by defeating Yoshiaki Numata by 12th round KO, in a bout where Numata was down once in the 6th and three times in the 12th roundand so becoming the undisputed...

December 14, 1967–January 18, 1969– 2
4 Rene Barrientos
René Barrientos
René Barrientos Ortuño was a Bolivian politician who served as his country's Vice President in 1964 and as its President from 1964 to 1969....

February 15, 1969 – April 5, 1970 0
5 Yoshiaki Numata (2) April 5, 1970 – October 10, 1971 3
6 Ricardo Arredondo
Ricardo Arredondo
Ricardo Arredondo was a Mexican professional boxer. A former WBC Super Featherweight champion, he was the brother of two-time World Light Welterweight champion, Rene Arredondo.-Pro career:...

October 10, 1971 – February 28, 1974 5
7 Kuniaki Shibata
Kuniaki Shibata
Kuniaki Shibata is a former Japanese professional boxer. He is a former WBC and WBA super featherweight champion.- Biography :...

February 28, 1974 – July 5, 1975 3
8 Alfredo Escalera
Alfredo Escalera
Alfredo Escalera is a Puerto Rican who was a world champion boxer. A native of Carolina, his nickname was "Salsero" because he was a fan of Salsa music.-Early boxing career:...

July 5, 1975 – January 28, 1978 10
9 Alexis Argüello
Alexis Argüello
Alexis Argüello , also known by the stage name El Flaco Explosivo , was a Nicaraguan professional boxer and politician...

January 28, 1978–1980– 8
10 Rafael Limón
Rafael Limon
Rafael Limón is a Mexican former boxer who was a world champion in the Super Featherweight /Jr. Lightweight division twice.He is better known as Bazooka Limón. Limón shares his nickname, Bazooka, with at least two other known world boxing champions: Puerto Rico's Wilfredo "Bazooka" Gómez and...

December 11, 1980 – March 8, 1981 0
11 Cornelius Boza Edwards
Cornelius Boza Edwards
Cornelius Boza Edwards was a Ugandan boxer in the Light Welterweight division and the former WBC Super Featherweight Champion. Edwards emigrated from Uganda to England, where he lived for a long period of time...

March 8, 1981 – August 29, 1981 1
12 Rolando Navarette August 29, 1981 – May 29, 1982 1
13 Rafael Limón (2) May 29, 1982 – December 11, 1982 1
14 Bobby Chacon
Bobby Chacon
Bobby Chacon is an American former, two-time, world boxing champion.-Career:Chacon turned professional in 1972 and won his first 19 fights, including a win against former champion Jesus Castillo...

December 11, 1982 – June 1983– 1
15 Héctor Camacho
Héctor Camacho
Héctor Camacho , nicknamed "Macho Camacho", is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. His son, Héctor Camacho Jr., is also a boxer.- Early life and amateur career :...

August 7, 1983–1984– 1
16 Julio César Chávez
Julio César Chávez
Julio César Chávez is a retired Mexican professional boxer.He is a six-time world champion in three weight divisions, and for several years he was considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world...

September 13, 1984–1987– 9
17 Azumah Nelson
Azumah Nelson
Azumah Nelson , a native of Ghana, is a former professional boxer. He is a three-time world champion in two weight classes.Nelson is the former Lineal and two-time WBC Super Featherweight Champion...

February 29, 1988 – May 7, 1994 10
18 Jesse James Leija
Jesse James Leija
James Leija , is a retired professional boxer from Texas.-Amateur career:Leija had an amateur career that spanned three years, going 23-5 during this time. He won the San Antonio Golden Gloves in 1988...

May 7, 1994 – September 17, 1994 0
19 Gabriel Ruelas
Gabriel Ruelas
Gabriel Ruelas, , was a professional boxer.Career=Ruelas turned pro in 1988 and in 1993 challenged WBC Super Featherweight Title holder Azumah Nelson, losing a close majority decision. In 1994 he was able to capture the title by outpointing Jesse James Leija...

September 17, 1994 – December 1, 1995 2
20 Azumah Nelson
Azumah Nelson
Azumah Nelson , a native of Ghana, is a former professional boxer. He is a three-time world champion in two weight classes.Nelson is the former Lineal and two-time WBC Super Featherweight Champion...

December 1, 1995 – March 22, 1997 1
21 Genaro Hernandez
Genaro Hernandez
Genaro Hernández was a Mexican-American boxer from South Central Los Angeles. Hernández was the former WBC, WBA, & Lineal super featherweight champion.-Pro career:...

March 22, 1997 – October 3, 1998 3
22 Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Floyd Joy Mayweather, Jr. is an American professional boxer. He is a five-division world champion, where he has won seven world titles, as well as the lineal championship in three different weight classes...

October 3, 1998 - April 20, 2002– 8
23 Sirimongkol Singwancha August 24, 2002 – August 15, 2003 1
24 Jesús Chávez
Jesús Chávez
Jesús Auerelio Chávez is a Mexican professional boxer in the Lightweight division. He is the former NABF, WBC Super Featherweight and IBF Lightweight Champion.-Personal life:...

August 15, 2003 – February 28, 2004 0
25 Erik Morales
Erik Morales
Érik Isaac Morales Elvira is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the first Mexican born boxer in history to win a world title in four weight classes and is the current WBC Light Welterweight Champion...

February 28, 2004 – November 27, 2004 1
26 Marco Antonio Barrera
Marco Antonio Barrera
Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia is a Mexicanprofessional boxer. He has won numerous world titles in three different weight classes; he is a former two-time WBO super bantamweight , WBC, Lineal, & The Ring featherweight , and WBC & IBF super featherweight champion...

November 27, 2004 – March 17, 2007 4
27 Juan Manuel Márquez
Juan Manuel Márquez
Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez , is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the fourth Mexican-born boxer to become a three-division world champion, where he won eight world titles in three different boxing weight classes.Currently, Marquez is the WBA Super, WBO and The Ring lightweight champion...

March 17, 2007 – March 15, 2008 1
28 Manny Pacquiao
Manny Pacquiao
Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...

March 15, 2008 – July, 2008– 0
29 Humberto Soto
Humberto Soto
Armando Humberto Soto Ochoa is a Mexican professional boxer in the Lightweight division. He is a former WBC Interim Featherweight, WBC Super Featherweight, and WBC Lightweight champion.-Pro career:...

December 20, 2008 - March 17, 2010– 3
30 Vitali Tajbert
Vitali Tajbert
Vitali Tajbert is a German boxer, who won a Featherweight Bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.His family migrated from Kazakhstan as ethnic Germans to Stuttgart in 1992.-Amateur results:...

March 17, 2010 – November 26, 2010 1
31 Takahiro Ao November 26, 2010 – Present 0

Lightweight
Lightweight
Light-weight is a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight.-Professional boxing:The lightweight division is over 130 pounds and up to 135 pounds weight class in the sport of boxing....

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Carlos Ortiz
Carlos Ortiz
For the Cuban wrestler with the same name see Carlos Julian OrtízCarlos Ortiz is a Puerto Rican who was a three time world boxing champion, twice in the lightweight division and once in the Jr. Welterweights....

February 14, 1963 – April 10, 1965 3
2 Ismael Laguna
Ismael Laguna
Ismael Laguna Meneses was a professional boxer. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2001.Known as "El Tigre Colonense", Laguna was the Panamanian Featherweight Champion from 1962-63...

April 10, 1965 – November 13, 1965 0
3 Carlos Ortiz (2) November 13, 1965 – June 29, 1968 5
4 Carlos Teo Cruz June 29, 1968 – February 18, 1969 1
5 Mando Ramos
Mando Ramos
Armando Ramos was a Mexican-American professional boxer and the former two-time WBC and WBA Lightweight Champion. He was born in Long Beach, California. Armando "Mando" Ramos was one of the most popular and exciting fighters in Southern California during the 1960s. Ramos was an outstanding amateur...

February 18, 1969 – March 3, 1970 1
6 Ismael Laguna (2) March 3, 1970 – September 15, 1970– 1
7 Ken Buchanan
Ken Buchanan
Ken Buchanan is a former boxing undisputed world lightweight champion. Many consider Buchanan to be the best boxer ever to come out of Scotland.- Early career :...

February 12, 1971 – June 25, 1971– 0
8 Pedro Carrasco
Pedro Carrasco
Pedro Carrasco was a Spanish boxer whose fame transcended the boxing ring. During the 1970s, he was a media darling in Spain.Carrasco was crowned European Lightweight champion in 1967...

November 5, 1971 – February 18, 1972 0
9 Mando Ramos (2) February 18, 1972 – September 15, 1972 1
10 Chango Carmona
Chango Carmona
Chango Carmona was a Mexican boxer who won the WBC lightweight title in 1972.Carmona is believed to be the boxer who began the tradition of having a big fight on the Mexico Independence Day holiday weekend when he stopped Mando Ramos in the eighth round to win the lightweight title in Los Angeles...

September 15, 1972 – November 10, 1972 0
11 Rodolfo González
Rodolfo González
Rodolfo González is a Venezuelan racing driver.- Formula Renault :After previously competing in karting, González raced in the 2003 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter Series, before racing in the main series in 2004 and 2005 while attending City College Norwich.- Formula Three :He won the British F3...

November 10, 1972 – April 11, 1974 2
12 Guts Ishimatsu
Guts Ishimatsu
is a former boxing world champion from Kanumashi, Japan. After retiring from boxing, he has gained popularity as an actor and comedian.As a boxer, he was known for his unpredictable style, sometimes marking completely unpredicted victories, and often losing in extravagant fashion as well...

April 11, 1974 – May 8, 1976 5
13 Esteban De Jesús
Esteban De Jesús
Esteban De Jesús was a Puerto Rican world lightweight champion boxer whose life was full of controversy, problems and scandals. De Jesus, a native of the town of Carolina, Puerto Rico, was a gymmate of Wilfred Benítez and an acquaintance of Benitez's mother, Clara Benítez. He was trained by...

May 8, 1976 – January 21, 1978 3
14 Roberto Durán
Roberto Durán
Roberto Durán Samaniego is a retired professional boxer from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. A versatile brawler in the ring, he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra" during his career....

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January 21, 1978 – January, 1979– 0
15 Jim Watt April 17, 1979 – June 20, 1981 4
16 Alexis Argüello
Alexis Argüello
Alexis Argüello , also known by the stage name El Flaco Explosivo , was a Nicaraguan professional boxer and politician...

June 20, 1981–1983– 4
17 Edwin Rosario
Edwin Rosario
Edwin "El Chapo" Rosario was a Puerto Rican boxer. He was the WBC world lightweight champion from 1983–84 and the WBA world champion in 1986–87 and again in 1989–90...

May 1, 1983 – November 3, 1984 2
18 José Luis Ramírez
José Luis Ramírez
José Luis Ramírez is a retired Mexican boxer. He was a two-time World Lightweight Champion.-Career:A native of Huatabampo, Sonora and a resident of Culiacán, Ramírez made his professional debut on March 25, 1973 at the age of 15. He climbed slowly but steadily on boxing's rankings...

November 3, 1984 – August 10, 1985 0
19 Héctor Camacho
Héctor Camacho
Héctor Camacho , nicknamed "Macho Camacho", is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. His son, Héctor Camacho Jr., is also a boxer.- Early life and amateur career :...

August 10, 1985–1987– 2
20 José Luis Ramírez (2) July 19, 1987 – October 29, 1988 2
21 Julio César Chávez
Julio César Chávez
Julio César Chávez is a retired Mexican professional boxer.He is a six-time world champion in three weight divisions, and for several years he was considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world...

October 29, 1988–1989– 0
22 Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker , nicknamed "Sweet Pea", is a professional boxing trainer and retired American professional boxer...

August 20, 1989–1992– 6
23 Miguel Ángel González August 24, 1992 – August 19, 1995– 10
24 Jean-Baptiste Mendy
Jean Baptiste Mendy
Jean-Baptiste Mendy is a French former professional boxer of African origin. He's also a former WBC and WBA lightweight champion.- Professional career :...

April 20, 1996 – March 1, 1997 0
25 Stevie Johnston
Stevie Johnston
Steven Earl Johnston is an American boxer in the lightweight division. Johnston is a two-time former WBC Lightweight Champion.- Amateur career :...

March 1, 1997 – June 13, 1998 3
26 Cesar Bazan
Cesar Bazan
César Bazán Pérez is a former professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division and is the former WBC Lightweight Champion.-Professional career:...

June 13, 1998 – February 27, 1999 2
27 Stevie Johnston (2) February 27, 1999 – June 17, 2000 4
28 José Luis Castillo
José Luis Castillo
José Luis Castillo is a Mexican boxer. Nicknamed El Temible, Castillo is considered one the best lightweights of his era. He is the former The Ring and two-time WBC Lightweight champion....

June 17, 2000 – April 20, 2002 3
29 Floyd Mayweather, Jr. April 20, 2002–2004– 3
30 José Luis Castillo (2) June 5, 2004 – May 7, 2005 2
31 Diego Corrales
Diego Corrales
Diego "Chico" Corrales was an American boxer.He was the WBC, WBO, & The Ring lightweight champion, and the WBO & IBF super featherweight champion....

May 7, 2005 – October 7, 2006– 0
32 Joel Casamayor
Joel Casamayor
Joel "El Cepillo" Casamayor Johnson is a Cuban boxer, who turned pro after defecting to the United States on the eve of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The nickname "El Cepillo", literally translated to "the brush", comes from his uppercut, which rakes his opponents across the face...

October 7, 2006 – February 1, 2007– 0
33 David Díaz February 1, 2007 – June 28, 2008 1
34 Manny Pacquiao
Manny Pacquiao
Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...

June 28, 2008 – February 24, 2009– 0
35 Edwin Valero
Edwin Valero
Edwin Valero was a Venezuelan professional boxer. He was born in Bolero Alto, and raised in El Vigía ....

April 4, 2009 – February 9, 2010– 2
36 Humberto Soto
Humberto Soto
Armando Humberto Soto Ochoa is a Mexican professional boxer in the Lightweight division. He is a former WBC Interim Featherweight, WBC Super Featherweight, and WBC Lightweight champion.-Pro career:...

March 13, 2010 – Present 2

Super lightweight

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Eddie Perkins
Eddie Perkins
Eddie Perkins was an American light welterweight boxer.-Professional career:Perkins turned professional in 1956 and captured the World Boxing Association light welterweight title with a decision win over Duilio Loi in 1962, but lost the belt in a rematch later that year...

June 15, 1963 – January 18, 1965 2
2 Carlos Morocho Hernández
Carlos Morocho Hernandez
Carlos Enrique Hernández Ramos was a world champion professional boxer. Known professionally as Carlos Morocho, he ended his career following a KO by Scottish boxer Ken Buchanan.-History:...

January 18, 1965 – April 29, 1966 2
3 Sandro Lopopolo
Sandro Lopopolo
Sandro Lopopolo was an Italian light welterweight boxer, who won the silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, and fought as a professional from 1961 to 1973. Lopopolo held the Italian, European and World light welterweight titles during his career...

April 29, 1966 – April 30, 1967 1
4 Takeshi Fuji
Takeshi Fuji
Takeshi Fuji is a former professional boxer from Hawaii. He is a former world super lightweight champion.- Biography :...

April 30, 1967–1968– 1
5 Pedro Adigue, Jr. December 14, 1968 – January 31, 1970 0
6 Bruno Arcari January 31, 1970 – February, 1974– 9
7 Perico Fernandez
Perico Fernandez
Perico Fernandez is a retired professional boxer from Zaragoza, Spain. He is a former WBC light welterweight champion.-Pro career:...

September 21, 1974 – July 15, 1975 1
8 Saensak Muangsurin
Saensak Muangsurin
Saensak Muangsurin was a retired professional boxer from Phetchabun, Thailand. He was a former WBC light welterweight champion, who set a world record by winning the world title in only his 3rd professional fight.- Biography :...

July 15, 1975 – June 30, 1976 1
9 Miguel Velasquez
Miguel Velasquez
Miguel Velasquez Torres, , is a former Spanish boxer at Light Welterweight.- Olympic games results :1964 *Lost to Hoji Yonekura 2-3- Professional career :...

June 30, 1976 – October 29, 1976 0
10 Saensak Muangsurin (2) October 29, 1976 – December 30, 1978 7
11 Sang Hyun Kim December 30, 1978 – February 23, 1980 2
12 Saoul Mamby
Saoul Mamby
Saoul Paul Mamby was a professional boxer between 1969 and 2008.- Personal :Mamby, the child of a mother of Spanish descent and father from Jamaica, converted to Judaism at age 4.Mamby is also a Vietnam veteran....

February 23, 1980 – June 26, 1982 5
13 Leroy Haley
Leroy Haley
Leroy Haley , is a former American boxer at Light Welterweight.- Professional career :Known as "Irish", Haley turned pro in 1973 and captured the WBC light welterweight title with a split decision win over Saoul Mamby in 1982. He defended the belt twice before losing it to Bruce Curry by decision...

June 26, 1982 – May 18, 1983 2
14 Bruce Curry
Bruce Curry
Bruce Curry , is a former professional boxer. He was the WBC Super Lightweight Champion from 1983 to 1984.-Amateur career:...

May 18, 1983 – January 29, 1984 2
15 Billy Costello
Billy Costello
Billy Costello was a professional boxer in the United States.-Early Life:...

January 29, 1984 – August 21, 1985 3
16 Lonnie Smith
Lonnie Smith (boxer)
Harlan Alonso Smith, known as Lonnie Smith , is an American boxer at Welterweight.- Professional career :...

August 21, 1985 – May 5, 1986 0
17 Rene Arredondo
Rene Arredondo
Rene Arredondo was a Mexican professional boxer. He competed in the welterweight division.-Personal life:...

May 5, 1986 – July 24, 1986 0
18 Tsuyoshi Hamada
Tsuyoshi Hamada
is a retired Japanese professional boxer who is a former WBC world junior welterweight champion.Hamada was born in Nakagusuku, Okinawa, and began boxing at the age of fifteen. He won the Japan's inter-high school championship in the featherweight division in 1978. He had an amateur record of 37–6...

July 24, 1986 – July 22, 1987 1
19 Rene Arredondo (2) July 22, 1987 – November 12, 1987 0
20 Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather is a retired professional boxer. He won two major world titles in two different weight classes. Throughout his career, Mayweather fought against many other boxing champions of the 1980s and 1990s. He is a part of the Mayweather boxing family; his brothers are former welterweight...

November 12, 1987 – May 13, 1989 4
21 Julio César Chávez
Julio César Chávez
Julio César Chávez is a retired Mexican professional boxer.He is a six-time world champion in three weight divisions, and for several years he was considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world...

May 13, 1989 – January 29, 1994 12
22 Frankie Randall
Frankie Randall
-External links:...

January 29, 1994 – May 7, 1994 0
23 Julio César Chávez (2) May 7, 1994 – June 7, 1996 4
24 Oscar De La Hoya
Oscar de la Hoya
Oscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...

June 7, 1996 – April 12, 1997– 1
25 Kostya Tszyu August 21, 1999 – January, 2004– 7
26 Arturo Gatti
Arturo Gatti
Arturo "Thunder" Gatti was a Canadian professional boxer. Born in Cassino, Italy, and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Gatti relocated to Jersey City, United States as a teenager...

January 24, 2004 – June 25, 2005 2
27 Floyd Mayweather, Jr. June 25, 2005 - 2005– 0
28 Junior Witter
Junior Witter
Junior Witter is a professional boxer from Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. He is the former WBC, European, British, and Commonwealth light welterweight champion.-Early professional career:...

September 15, 2006 - May 10, 2008 2
29 Timothy Bradley
Timothy Bradley
Timothy Ray Bradley Jr. is an American boxer, fighting out of Palm Springs, California. He is the current WBO World Light Welterweight Champion. He is rated #2 in the Light Welterweight division behind Amir Khan.-Light Welterweight:...

May 10, 2008 - August 28, 2009– 2
30 Devon Alexander
Devon Alexander
Devon Alexander is a professional American boxer. Nicknamed "Alexander the Great," he is the former WBC and IBF Light Welterweight champion.-Biography:...

August 1, 2009–Present 2
31 Erik Morales
Erik Morales
Érik Isaac Morales Elvira is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the first Mexican born boxer in history to win a world title in four weight classes and is the current WBC Light Welterweight Champion...

September 17, 2011–Present 0

Welterweight
Welterweight
Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system...

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Emile Griffith
Emile Griffith
Emile Alphonse Griffith is a former boxer who was the first fighter from the U.S. Virgin Islands ever to become a world champion. He is perhaps best known for his controversial third fight with Benny Paret in 1962 for the welterweight world championship...

 United States Virgin Islands United States Virgin Islands
United States Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands of the United States are a group of islands in the Caribbean that are an insular area of the United States. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles.The U.S...

December 8, 1962– March 21, 1963 0
2 Luis Manuel Rodríguez
Luis Manuel Rodriguez
Luis Manuel Rodríguez was a professional boxing champion. Known as "El Feo", Rodriguez began his career in pre-Castro Havana. In Cuba, Rodriguez twice defeated the ill-fated future welterweight champion Benny Kid Paret.After the Cuban Revolution, Rodríguez campaigned in the United States...

  Cuban
Cubans
Cubans or Cuban people are the inhabitants or citizens of Cuba. Cuba is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds...

March 21, 1963 – June 8, 1963 0
3 Emile Griffith (2)  United States Virgin Islands United States Virgin Islands
United States Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands of the United States are a group of islands in the Caribbean that are an insular area of the United States. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles.The U.S...

June 8, 1963 – Apr 25,1966 V 4
4 Curtis Cokes
Curtis Cokes
Curtis Cokes is a former boxer from Dallas, Texas, United States. Cokes was world welterweight champion, and he was famous for his training regimen, which he also imposed on other boxers training with him.-Pre-championship career:...

  American August 24, 1966 – April 18, 1969 4
5 José Nápoles
José Napoles
José Ángel Nápoles, nicknamed Mantequilla , is a Cuban-Mexican boxer and former world welterweight champion, who is frequently ranked as one of the greatest fighters of all time in that division...

  Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

April 18, 1969 – December 3, 1970 3
6 Billy Backus
Billy Backus
Billy Backus, born March 5, 1943 in Canastota, New York, is a former world boxing champion. In the summer of 2006 Backus retired from his correctional facility job and moved to South Carolina.- Early boxing career :...

  American December 3, 1970 – June 4, 1971 0
7 José Nápoles (2)   Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

June 4, 1971 – December 6, 1975 10
8 John H. Stracey
John H. Stracey
John H. Stracey is a former professional boxer who was world Welterweight champion. He also had, at one point, a boxing school in London....

British
British people
The British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants...

December 6, 1975 – June 22, 1976 1
9 Carlos Palomino
Carlos Palomino
Carlos Palomino a retired Mexican professional boxer. Palomino is a former WBC Welterweight Champion and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Palomino is also an actor who has been featured in several television shows and films...

  Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

June 22, 1976 – January 14, 1979 7
10 Wilfred Benítez
Wilfred Benitez
Wilfred Benítez , is a Puerto Rican boxer. He is remembered best as a skilled and aggressive fighter with exceptional defensive abilities who won world championships in three separate weight divisions, and was the youngest world champion in boxing history at the age of 17...

  Puerto Rican
Puerto Rican people
A Puerto Rican is a person who was born in Puerto Rico.Puerto Ricans born and raised in the continental United States are also sometimes referred to as Puerto Ricans, although they were not born in Puerto Rico...

November 30, 1979 – January 14, 1979 1
11 Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard is an American retired professional boxer and occasional actor. He was named Ray Charles Leonard, after his mother's favorite singer, Ray Charles...

  American November 30, 1979 – June 20, 1980 1
12 Roberto Durán
Roberto Durán
Roberto Durán Samaniego is a retired professional boxer from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. A versatile brawler in the ring, he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra" during his career....

  Panamanian June 20, 1980 – November 25, 1980 0
13 Sugar Ray Leonard (2)   American November 25, 1980 – November 9, 1982 R 3
14 Milton McCrory
Milton McCrory
Milton McCrory was a professional boxer in the welterweight division.- Amateur :Milton had a reported amateur record of 105-15.He lost in the 1979 National AAU finals to Lemuel Steeples and in the Olympic Trials to Johnny Bumphus.- Pro career :Known as "Ice Man", McCrory turned pro in 1980 an won...

  American August 13, 1983 – December 6, 1985 4
15 Donald Curry
Donald Curry
Donald Curry is a retired boxer from Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Nicknamed the "Lone Star Cobra," Curry was the Undisputed World Welterweight Champion and the WBC Super Welterweight Champion.-Amateur career:...

  American December 6, 1985 – September 27, 1986 0
16 Lloyd Honeyghan
Lloyd Honeyghan
Lloyd Honeyghan is a retired British boxer. Born in Jamaica, he was WBC/WBA & IBF welterweight champion from 1986 to 1987. and WBC welterweight champion from 1988 to 1989....

British
British people
The British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants...

September 27, 1986 – October 28, 1987 3
17 Jorge Vaca
Jorge Vaca
Jorge Vaca Jorge Vaca Jorge Vaca (born December 14, 1959 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, was a professional boxer in the welterweight (147lb) division.Vaca turned pro in 1978 and captured the WBC Welterweight Title by beating Lloyd Honeyghan via 8th round technical decision in 1987, but lost the...

  Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

October 28, 1987 – March 29, 1988 0
18 Lloyd Honeyghan (2) British
British people
The British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants...

March 29, 1988 – February 4, 1989 1
19 Marlon Starling
Marlon Starling
Marlon "Magic Man" Starling was a two-time US world champion boxer.Starling was born in Hartford, CT in 1959. He turned professional in 1979. After 25 straight wins, he lost his first fight. He lost a 12 round decision to Donald Curry in 1982. Starling had a rematch with Curry in 1984, challenging...

  American February 4, 1989– August 19, 1990 1
20 Maurice Blocker
Maurice Blocker
Maurice Blocker was a professional boxer in the welterweight division.Blocker turned pro in 1982 and lost his first title shot in 1987 to Lloyd Honeyghan. In 1990 he captured the Lineal and WBC Welterweight Titles from Marlon Starling, but lost them in his next fight to Simon Brown...

  American August 19, 1990 – March 18, 1991 0
21 Simon Brown
Simon Brown (boxer)
Simon Brown is a former professional boxer. Known as "Mantequilla", a name given to him by his famous trainer Jose 'Pepe' Correa, Brown was an welterweight fighter who held titles at multiple weight classes and at one point was considered one of the best pound for pound fighters in boxing.Brown...

  Jamaican March 18, 1991 – November 29, 1991 0
22 James McGirt   American November 29, 1991 – March 6, 1993 2
23 Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker , nicknamed "Sweet Pea", is a professional boxing trainer and retired American professional boxer...

  American March 6, 1993 – April 12, 1997 8
24 Oscar De La Hoya
Oscar de la Hoya
Oscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...

  American April 12, 1997 – September 18, 1999 7
25 Félix Trinidad
Félix Trinidad
Félix 'Tito' Trinidad, Jr. is a Puerto Rican professional boxer, considered one of the best in Puerto Rico's history. After winning five National Amateur Championships in Puerto Rico, he debuted as a professional when he was 17. He won his first world championship when he defeated Maurice Blocker...

  Puerto Rican September 18, 1999 – March 3, 2000V 0
26 Oscar De La Hoya (2)   American March 4, 2000 – June 17, 2000 0
27 Shane Mosley
Shane Mosley
“Sugar” Shane Mosley is an American professional boxer from Pomona, California who has held world titles in three weight divisions.-Amateur career:Mosley was an amateur standout, capturing various amateur titles, including:...

  American March 4, 2000 – January 26, 2002 3
28 Vernon Forrest
Vernon Forrest
Vernon Forrest, nicknamed "The Viper", was an American professional boxer who became a world champion in the welterweight and light middleweight divisions and noted for his two victories over Shane Mosley and upset losses to Ricardo Mayorga.- Early years and amateur career :Forrest began boxing at...

  American January 26, 2002 – January 25, 2003 1
29 Ricardo Mayorga
Ricardo Mayorga
Ricardo Mayorga , is a Nicaraguan professional boxer. He is the former WBA/WBC Welterweight champion and the former WBC light middleweight champion. He holds a record of 29-8 with 23 knockouts and 1 draw 1 no contest. He was featured for the first time on the cover of Ring Magazine on the December...

  Nicaraguan
Nicaraguan
Nicaraguans are people inhabiting in, originating or having significant heritage from Nicaragua. Most Nicaraguans live in Nicaragua, although there is also a significant Nicaraguan diaspora, particularly in Costa Rica and the United States with smaller communities in other countries around the world...

January 25, 2003 – December 13, 2003 1
30 Cory Spinks
Cory Spinks
Corey Spinks is a professional boxer. He is a former IBF Light middleweight champion, and a former Undisputed Welterweight Champion....

  American December 13, 2003 – February 5, 2005 2
31 Zab Judah
Zab Judah
Zabdiel Judah is an American professional boxer. Judah has won five world titles between the junior welterweight and welterweight divisions, and is a former undisputed welterweight champion....

  American February 5, 2005 – January 7, 2006 1
32 Carlos Manuel Baldomir
Carlos Manuel Baldomir
Carlos Manuel Baldomir is an Argentine boxer and the former WBC & The Ring welterweight champion.- Boxing Style :...

  Argentine
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

January 7, 2006 – November 4, 2006 1
33 Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Floyd Joy Mayweather, Jr. is an American professional boxer. He is a five-division world champion, where he has won seven world titles, as well as the lineal championship in three different weight classes...

  American November 4, 2006 – June 6, 2008R 1
34 Andre Berto
Andre Berto
Andre Michael Berto is a Haitian-American professional boxer. On June 21, 2008, Berto became the WBC welterweight champion by defeating Miguel Rodriguez by seventh round technical knockout. He lost his WBC welterweight title on April 16, 2011 to Victor Ortiz via unanimous decision...

  American June 21, 2008 - April 16, 2011 5
35 Victor Ortiz
Victor Ortíz
Victor Ortiz is an American professional boxer of Mexican descent and the former WBC welterweight champion.He was previously in the light welterweight division, where he held the USBA & NABO title....

  American April 16, 2011- September 17, 2011 0
36 Floyd Mayweather Jr. (2)   American September 17, 2011 – present. -

Super welterweight

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Denny Moyer
Denny Moyer
Denny Moyer was an American boxer who held the world light middleweight title between 1962 and 1963. He finished his career with a 97–38–4 record.-Early life:...

February 19, 1963 – April 29, 1963 0
2 Ralph Dupas
Ralph Dupas
Ralph Dupas was a boxer from New Orleans who won the world light middleweight championship.-Early boxing career:...

April 29, 1963 – September 7, 1963 1
3 Sandro Mazzinghi September 7, 1963 – June 18, 1965 3
4 Nino Benvenuti June 18, 1965 – June 25, 1966 1
5 Ki Soo Kim
Ki Soo Kim
Ki-Soo Kim was a South Korean southpaw boxer at middleweight. He is a South Korea's first world boxing champion....

June 25, 1966 – May 26, 1968 2
6 Sandro Mazzinghi (2) May 26, 1968 – November, 1968– 1
7 Freddie Little
Freddie Little
Freddie Little Freddie Little Freddie Little (born 1936-04-25 in Picayune, MS, is a former American boxer at light middleweight.- Professional career :Little turned pro in 1957 and challenged for the World, WBC, and WBA light middleweight title against Ki-Soo Kim, but lost by split decision in...

March 17, 1969 - July 9, 1970 2
8 Carmelo Bossi
Carmelo Bossi
Carmelo Bossi was an Italian boxer who held the European welterweight and world junior middleweight titles. Bossi boxed from 1961 to 1971 and his final overall record was 40 wins , 8 defeats and 3 draws.- Amateur career :...

July 9, 1970 - October 31, 1971 1
9 Koichi Wajima
Koichi Wajima
Koichi Wajima was a professional boxer in the super welterweight division. He is a former WBC and WBA champion.- Childhood and Early Career :...

October 31, 1971 - June 4, 1974 6
10 Oscar Albarado
Oscar Albarado
Oscar Albarado was an American boxer. He competed in the light middleweight division.- Professional career :...

June 4, 1974 - January 21, 1975 1
11 Koichi Wajima (2) January 21, 1975 - April, 1975– 0
12 Miguel De Oliveira
Miguel de Oliveira
Miguel de Oliveira is a former Brazilian boxer at middleweight. He was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil.- Professional career :...

May 7, 1975 - November 13, 1975 0
13 Elisha Obed
Elisha Obed
Elisha Obed was a Bahamian boxer at middleweight and is considered to be one of the greatest fighters to ever to come out of the Bahamas.- Amateur career :...

November 13, 1975 - June 18, 1976 2
14 Eckhard Dagge
Eckhard Dagge
Eckhard Dagge , was a professional boxer in the super welterweight division....

June 18, 1976 - August 6, 1977 2
15 Rocky Mattioli
Rocky Mattioli
Rocky Mattioli an Italian-Australian former boxer at junior middleweight, and former world champion.- Career :...

August 6, 1977 - March 4, 1979 2
16 Maurice Hope
Maurice Hope
Maurice Hope is a former boxer from England, who was world Jr. Middleweight champion. Hope lived in Hackney most of his life, but now lives in his place of birth, Antigua. He represented Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.- Biography :Maurice Hope moved at a very...

March 4, 1979 - May 23, 1981 3
17 Wilfred Benítez
Wilfred Benitez
Wilfred Benítez , is a Puerto Rican boxer. He is remembered best as a skilled and aggressive fighter with exceptional defensive abilities who won world championships in three separate weight divisions, and was the youngest world champion in boxing history at the age of 17...

May 23, 1981 - December 3, 1982 2
18 Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns
Thomas "Hitman" Hearns is a retired American boxer. Nicknamed the "Motor City Cobra" and more famously "The Hitman", Hearns became the first boxer in history to win world titles in four divisions. He would also become the first fighter in history to win five world titles in five different divisions...

December 3, 1982 - 1986– 4
19 Duane Thomas
Duane Thomas
Duane Julius Thomas is a former American football running back in the National Football League who played four seasons for the Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers and Washington Redskins from 1970 to 1974....

December 5, 1986 - July 12, 1987 0
20 Lupe Aquino
Lupe Aquino
Isaias Guadalupe Aquino , was a professional boxer in the super welterweight division....

July 12, 1987 - October 2, 1987 0
21 Gianfranco Rosi
Gianfranco Rosi
Gianfranco Rosi was an Italian boxer at middleweight.- Professional career :Rosi turned pro in 1979 and won the WBC Light Middleweight Title in 1987 by decisioning Lupe Aquino. He lost the belt in 1988 when he was dominated by Donald Curry...

October 2, 1987 - July 8, 1988 1
22 Donald Curry
Donald Curry
Donald Curry is a retired boxer from Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Nicknamed the "Lone Star Cobra," Curry was the Undisputed World Welterweight Champion and the WBC Super Welterweight Champion.-Amateur career:...

July 8, 1988 - February 11, 1989 0
23 Rene Jacquot
Rene Jacquot
Rene Jacquot is a former professional boxer and world title holder.-Professional career:Jacquot turned professional in 1983 and captured the WBC Light Middleweight Title in 1989 with an upset win over Donald Curry. He lost the belt in his first defence to John Mugabi, via TKO in the first round...

February 11, 1989 - July 8, 1989 0
24 John Mugabi
John Mugabi
John "The Beast" Mugabi is a former boxer and world Jr. Middleweight champion. A world traveller, Mugabi was a part of an early 1980s Jr...

July 8, 1989 - March 31, 1990 0
25 Terry Norris
Terry Norris
Terry Wayne Norris is a retired American boxer and a three-time world champion in the light middleweight division. Originally from Lubbock, Texas, he fought out of San Diego.-Early boxing career:...

March 31, 1990 - December 18, 1993 10
26 Simon Brown
Simon Brown (boxer)
Simon Brown is a former professional boxer. Known as "Mantequilla", a name given to him by his famous trainer Jose 'Pepe' Correa, Brown was an welterweight fighter who held titles at multiple weight classes and at one point was considered one of the best pound for pound fighters in boxing.Brown...

December 18, 1993 - May 7, 1994 1
27 Terry Norris (2) May 7, 1994 - November 12, 1994 0
28 Luis Santana
Luis Santana
Luis Santana , was a professional boxer in the super welterweight division.Santana turned pro in 1981 and challenged Simon Brown for the IBF Welterweight Titlein 1989, but lost a unanimous decision....

November 12, 1994 - August 19, 1995 1
29 Terry Norris (3) August 19, 1995 - December 6, 1997 6
30 Keith Mullings
Keith Mullings
Keith Mullings , was a professional boxer in the super welterweight division.Mullings turned pro in 1993 and challenged Raúl Márquez for the IBF Light Middleweight Title in 1997, but lost a split decision. Later that year, Mullings shocked the world with a 9th round TKO over WBC Light Middleweight...

December 6, 1997 - January 29, 1999 1
31 Javier Castillejo
Javier Castillejo
Francisco Javier Castillejo is a professional boxer from Spain. He is the former WBC light middleweight champion and former WBA middleweight champion. He has fought against stars Oscar De La Hoya, Felix Sturm, Fernando Vargas, Julio Cesar Vasquez, Michael Rask, and Mariano Natalio Carrera...

January 29, 1999 - June 23, 2001 5
32 Oscar De La Hoya
Oscar de la Hoya
Oscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...

June 23, 2001 - September 13, 2003 2
33 Shane Mosley
Shane Mosley
“Sugar” Shane Mosley is an American professional boxer from Pomona, California who has held world titles in three weight divisions.-Amateur career:Mosley was an amateur standout, capturing various amateur titles, including:...

September 13, 2003 - March 13, 2004 0
34 Winky Wright
Winky Wright
Ronald Lamont "Winky" Wright is an American boxer, the former undisputed world light middleweight champion and a current middleweight contender....

March 13, 2004 - May, 2005– 1
35 Javier Castillejo (2) May, 2005 - June 1, 2005– 0
36 Ricardo Mayorga
Ricardo Mayorga
Ricardo Mayorga , is a Nicaraguan professional boxer. He is the former WBA/WBC Welterweight champion and the former WBC light middleweight champion. He holds a record of 29-8 with 23 knockouts and 1 draw 1 no contest. He was featured for the first time on the cover of Ring Magazine on the December...

August 13, 2005 - May 6, 2006 0
37 Oscar De La Hoya (2) May 6, 2006 - May 5, 2007 0
38 Floyd Mayweather, Jr. May 5, 2007 - July 4, 2007– 0
39 Vernon Forrest
Vernon Forrest
Vernon Forrest, nicknamed "The Viper", was an American professional boxer who became a world champion in the welterweight and light middleweight divisions and noted for his two victories over Shane Mosley and upset losses to Ricardo Mayorga.- Early years and amateur career :Forrest began boxing at...

July 28, 2007 - June 7, 2008 1
40 Sergio Mora
Sergio Mora
Sergio "The Latin Snake" Mora is a Mexican American professional boxer trained by Dean Campos. He is the former WBC Light Middleweight Champion and also the first champion of NBC's The Contender....

June 7, 2008 - September 13, 2008 0
41 Vernon Forrest (2) September 13, 2008 - May 21, 2009– 0
42 Sergio Gabriel Martinez
Sergio Gabriel Martínez
Sergio Gabriel Martínez is an Argentine professional boxer and the current The Ring middleweight champion....

May 21, 2009 - June 17, 2010– 0
43 Manny Pacquiao
Manny Pacquiao
Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...

November 14, 2010 2010– 0
44 Saul Alvarez
Saul Alvarez
Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán is an undefeated Mexican boxer in the Light Middleweight division. He is the current WBC Light Middleweight champion...

March 5, 2011 – present 3
.

Middleweight

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Dick Tiger
Dick Tiger
Dick Tiger CBE was a boxer from Ubahu village, Amaigbo, Nigeria, who emigrated to Liverpool and later to the United States of America. Tiger was a member of the Igbo ethnic group...

August 10, 1963 – December 7, 1963 0
2 Joey Giardello
Joey Giardello
Carmine Orlando Tilelli was an American boxer who was the middleweight champion of the world from 1963 to 1965, and was better known by his professional pseudonym of Joey Giardello.-Early life:...

December 7, 1963 – October 21, 1965 1
3 Dick Tiger (2) October 21, 1965 – April 25, 1966 0
4 Emile Griffith
Emile Griffith
Emile Alphonse Griffith is a former boxer who was the first fighter from the U.S. Virgin Islands ever to become a world champion. He is perhaps best known for his controversial third fight with Benny Paret in 1962 for the welterweight world championship...

April 25, 1966 – April 17, 1967 2
5 Nino Benvenuti April 17, 1967 – September 29, 1967 0
6 Emile Griffith (2) September 29, 1967 – March 4, 1968 0
7 Nino Benvenuti (2) March 4, 1968 – November 7, 1970 4
8 Carlos Monzón
Carlos Monzón
Carlos Monzón was an Argentine professional boxer who held the undisputed world middleweight title for 7 years, during which he successfully defended the title 14 times....

November 7, 1970 – February 9, 1974– 9
9 Rodrigo Valdez
Rodrigo Valdez
Rodrigo Valdéz is a former boxer from Colombia who was a two-time world middleweight champion and former undisputed middleweight champion of the world whose rivalry with Carlos Monzón has long been considered among the most legendary boxing rivalries. Valdez was trained by International Boxing...

May 25, 1974 – June 26, 1976 4
10 Carlos Monzón (2) June 26, 1976 – November 5, 1977 1
11 Rodrigo Valdez (2) November 5, 1977 – April 22, 1978 0
12 Hugo Corro
Hugo Corro
Hugo Pastor Corro , better known plainly as Hugo Corro, was a former boxer from Argentina who was world Middleweight champion....

April 22, 1978 – June 30, 1979 2
13 Vito Antuofermo
Vito Antuofermo
Vito Antuofermo is an Italian-American actor who is also a former world Middleweight boxing champion.-Background:Antuofermo was born in Italy, in the town of Palo del Colle, which is located about 15 km inland from the city of Bari. but his family moved to the United States when he was 17...

June 30, 1979 – March 16, 1980 1
14 Alan Minter
Alan Minter
Alan Minter is a former middleweight world champion boxer.-Amateur career:Minter was the 1971 ABA Middleweight Champion. He won the bronze medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games...

March 16, 1980 – September 27, 1980 1
15 Marvin Hagler
Marvin Hagler
Marvelous Marvin Hagler , is a former professional boxer who was undisputed world middleweight champion between 1980 and 1987. Hagler holds the distinction of having the highest KO% of all middleweight champions at 78%...

September 27, 1980 – April 6, 1987 12
16 Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard is an American retired professional boxer and occasional actor. He was named Ray Charles Leonard, after his mother's favorite singer, Ray Charles...

April 6, 1987 – May 27, 1987– 0
17 Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns
Thomas "Hitman" Hearns is a retired American boxer. Nicknamed the "Motor City Cobra" and more famously "The Hitman", Hearns became the first boxer in history to win world titles in four divisions. He would also become the first fighter in history to win five world titles in five different divisions...

October 29, 1987 – June 6, 1988 0
18 Iran Barkley
Iran Barkley
Iran Barkley is a retired American professional boxer who held world titles at three different weights—middleweight , super middleweight and light heavyweight .- Professional career :...

June 6, 1988 – February 24, 1989 0
19 Roberto Durán
Roberto Durán
Roberto Durán Samaniego is a retired professional boxer from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. A versatile brawler in the ring, he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra" during his career....

February 24, 1989 - 1990– 0
20 Julian Jackson
Julian Jackson
Julian Jackson is a retired professional boxer and former three-time world champion in the light middleweight and middleweight divisions...

November 24, 1990 – May 8, 1993 4
21 Gerald McClellan
Gerald McClellan
Gerald McClellan is a former boxer from the United States of America, who was the WBO and WBC middleweight champion. McClellan's record as a professional boxer was 31 wins and 3 losses with 29 wins by knockout...

May 8, 1993 - 1994– 3
22 Julian Jackson (2) March 17, 1995 – August 19, 1995 0
23 Quincy Taylor
Quincy Taylor
Quincy Taylor , was a professional boxer in the Middleweight division.Taylor, a southpaw, turned pro in 1986. In 1987, he KO´d Sugar Ray Leonard in a sparring match and in 1994 landed a shot at WBC Middleweight Title holder Julian Jackson...

August 19, 1995 – March 16, 1996 0
24 Keith Holmes March 16, 1996 – May 2, 1998 2
25 Hassine Cherifi May 2, 1998 – April 24, 1999 0
26 Keith Holmes (2) April 24, 1999 – April 14, 2001 2
27 Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins Jr, known as The Executioner is an American boxer and the current Ring Magazine and WBC light heavyweight champion...

April 14, 2001 – July 16, 2005 7
28 Jermain Taylor
Jermain Taylor
Jermain Taylor is an American professional boxer and former undisputed middleweight champion. He made his professional boxing debut in 2001 and won his first 25 bouts, which included victories over former champions Raúl Márquez and William Joppy...

July 16, 2005 – September 29, 2007 4
29 Kelly Pavlik
Kelly Pavlik
Kelly Pavlik is an American professional boxer. He was The Ring, WBC, & WBO middleweight champion from when he beat Jermain Taylor on September 29, 2007 until he lost his titles to Sergio Martinez on April 17, 2010....

September 29, 2007 – April 17, 2010 3
30 Sergio Gabriel Martinez
Sergio Gabriel Martínez
Sergio Gabriel Martínez is an Argentine professional boxer and the current The Ring middleweight champion....

April 17, 2010–present 1
31 Sebastian Zbik
Sebastian Zbik
Sebastian Zbik , is a German professional boxer and the former WBC Middleweight Champion of the world. Sebastian resides in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.-Interim WBC Championship:...

April 17, 2010–present– 1
32 Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. June 4, 2011–present– 1

Super middleweight
Super middleweight
Super Middleweight is a boxing and Muay Thai weight division that has a weight limit of 168 pounds .- 1960s–1983 :There was interest in a division between Middleweight and Light Heavyweight in the late 1960s, the mid-1970s, and the early 1980s...

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard is an American retired professional boxer and occasional actor. He was named Ray Charles Leonard, after his mother's favorite singer, Ray Charles...

November 7, 1988 - December 15, 1990– 2
2 Mauro Galvano
Mauro Galvano
Mauro Galvano was a professional boxer and former WBC Super Middleweight Champion.-Amateur career:As an amateur, Galvano was the 1984 Italian Middleweight Champion and the 1985 Italian Light-Heavyweight Champion....

December 15, 1990 – October 3, 1992 2
3 Nigel Benn
Nigel Benn
Nigel Benn , known as "The Dark Destroyer", is a British former boxer who held world titles in the middleweight and super middleweight divisions....

October 3, 1992 – March 2, 1996 9
4 Thulani Malinga
Thulani Malinga
Thulani "Sugarboy" Malinga Thulani "Sugarboy" Malinga Thulani "Sugarboy" Malinga (born December 11, 1955 in Ladysmith, South Africa, was a professional boxer in the Super Middleweight (168lb) division, and was twice WBC super middleweight champion.- Professional career :...

March 2, 1996 – July 6, 1996 0
5 Vincenzo Nardiello
Vincenzo Nardiello
Vincenzo Nardiello is a retired world championship Italian boxer in the super middleweight division.- Amateur Achievements :*1984 Italian superlightweight champion*1985 Silver Trofeo Italy...

July 6, 1996 – October 12, 1996 0
6 Robin Reid October 12, 1996 – December 19, 1997 3
7 Thulani Malinga (2) December 19, 1997 – March 27, 1998 0
8 Richie Woodhall
Richie Woodhall
Richie Woodhall is a former English World Champion super-middleweight boxer. He lost his last fight to his friend Joe Calzaghe in 2000, and subsequently retired in 2002....

March 27, 1998 – October 23, 1999 2
9 Markus Beyer
Markus Beyer
Height 176 cmMarkus Beyer is a German boxer at super middleweight and the former WBC Champion, who resides in Lilienthal, Germany. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the light middleweight division...

October 23, 1999 – May 6, 2000 1
10 Glenn Catley
Glenn Catley
Glenn Catley is a professional boxer and former World Champion in the Super Middleweight division....

May 6, 2000 – September 1, 2000 0
11 Dingaan Thobela
Dingaan Thobela
Dingaan Bongane Thobela , is a professional boxer in the Super Middleweight division."Rose of Soweto" The Dingaan Thobela story , the intimate biography written by Internationally renowned Deon Potgieter is available for order through all leading on-line stores world wide e.g.; Amazon, Barnes &...

September 1, 2000 – December 15, 2000 0
12 Dave Hilton, Jr.
Dave Hilton, Jr.
Dave Hilton, Jr. is a former boxing world champion. He is a member of the Fighting Hilton Family and is the former brother-in-law of Arturo Gatti...

December 15, 2000 - May, 2001– 0
13 Eric Lucas
Eric Lucas
Éric Lucas is an active professional boxer of height 183 cm.Lucas turned pro in 1991 and came up short in his first two title shots, against WBC Light Heavyweight Title holder Fabrice Tiozzo in 1996 and IBF Super Middleweight Title holder Roy Jones Jr later that year...

June 10, 2001 – April 5, 2003 3
14 Markus Beyer (2) April 5, 2003 – June 5, 2004 2
15 Christian Sanavia June 5, 2004 - October 9, 2004 0
16 Markus Beyer (3) October 9, 2004 – October 14, 2006 3
17 Mikkel Kessler
Mikkel Kessler
Mikkel Kessler is a Danish professional boxer and former two time WBA & WBC Super Middleweight champion. In his professional career he has a record of 44–2 with 33 knockouts...

October 14, 2006 – November 3, 2007 1
18 Joe Calzaghe
Joe Calzaghe
Joseph William Calzaghe, CBE, MBE is a Welsh former professional boxer. He is the former WBO, WBA, WBC, IBF, The Ring & British super middleweight champion and The Ring light heavyweight champion....

November 3, 2007 – June 28, 2008– 0
19 Carl Froch
Carl Froch
Carl Froch is an English professional boxer and is a two-time and reigning WBC super middleweight champion. He previously held the British, Commonwealth, & English titles at super middleweight.-Amateur:...

December 6, 2008 – April 24, 2010 2
20 Mikkel Kessler (2) April 25, 2010 – November 2010– 0
21 Carl Froch (2) November 27, 2010 – Present 1

Light heavyweight
Light heavyweight
In boxing, the light heavyweight is a weight division above 168 pounds [12 Stone or 76.204 kilograms] and up to 175 pounds [12.5 stone or 79.38 kilograms]), falling between super middleweight and cruiserweight...

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Willie Pastrano
Willie Pastrano
Wilfred Raleigh Pastrano was a light heavyweight boxer who held the world crown from 1963 until 1965.-Early life:...

June 1, 1963 – March 30, 1965 2
2 José Torres
José Torres
José Torres , was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. As an amateur boxer, he won a silver medal in the junior middleweight at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. In 1965, he defeated Willie Pastrano to win the WBC and WBA light heavyweight championships...

March 30, 1965 – December 16, 1966 3
3 Dick Tiger
Dick Tiger
Dick Tiger CBE was a boxer from Ubahu village, Amaigbo, Nigeria, who emigrated to Liverpool and later to the United States of America. Tiger was a member of the Igbo ethnic group...

December 16, 1966 – May 24, 1968 2
4 Bob Foster May 24, 1968 – September 16, 1974– 14
5 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...

October 1, 1974 – May 21, 1977– 3
6 Miguel Angel Cuello
Miguel Angel Cuello
Miguel Angel Cuello was a professional boxer in the light heavyweight division.- Amateur career :...

May 21, 1977 – January 8, 1978 0
7 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....

January 8, 1978 – December 2, 1978 1
8 Marvin Johnson
Marvin Johnson
Marvin Johnson is a former boxer from the United States, who fought in the 1972 Olympics in Munich, winning a bronze medal, and made his way up the professional ranks in the light heavyweight division soon thereafter...

December 2, 1978 – August 18, 1979 0
9 Matthew Saad Muhammad
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Matthew Saad Muhammad is a former boxer who was the world's light heavyweight champion.Saad Muhammad's mother died when he was an infant, and he and his elder brother were sent to live with an aunt. When he was five, his aunt could not afford to look after both of them and she instructed Saad...

August 18, 1979 – December 19, 1981 8
10 Dwight Muhammad Qawi
Dwight Muhammad Qawi
Dwight Muhammad Qawi is a former world boxing champion in the light heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions...

December 19, 1981 – March 18, 1983 3
11 Michael Spinks
Michael Spinks
Michael Spinks is a retired American boxer who was a world champion in the light-heavyweight and heavyweight divisions...

March 18, 1983 – September 21, 1985– 4
12 JB Williamson December 10, 1985 – April 30, 1986 0
13 Dennis Andries
Dennis Andries
Dennis Andries was a British professional boxer in the light heavyweight division.Andries turned pro in 1978 and won the WBC Light Heavyweight Title in 1986 in a decision over American JB Williamson. He defended the title once against fellow Briton Tony Sibson before losing the belt in 1987 to...

April 30, 1986 – March 7, 1987 1
14 Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns
Thomas "Hitman" Hearns is a retired American boxer. Nicknamed the "Motor City Cobra" and more famously "The Hitman", Hearns became the first boxer in history to win world titles in four divisions. He would also become the first fighter in history to win five world titles in five different divisions...

March 7, 1987 – November 21, 1987– 0
15 Donny Lalonde
Donny Lalonde
Donny Lalonde is a retired professionalboxer. His nickname is "Golden Boy," after the Golden Boy statue atop the Manitoba Legislative Building in his boxing home town of Winnipeg. Lalonde held the WBC Light Heavyweight Championship from 1987 to 1988.-Early life:Lalonde was one of four children...

November 27, 1987 – November 7, 1988 1
16 Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard is an American retired professional boxer and occasional actor. He was named Ray Charles Leonard, after his mother's favorite singer, Ray Charles...

November 7, 1988 – February 21, 1989– 0
17 Dennis Andries (2) February 21, 1989 – June 24, 1989 0
18 Jeff Harding
Jeff Harding
Jeff Harding is an American actor from New England most famed for his narration of popular books into audio format. Notably, he has read The Da Vinci Code, The Bourne Identity, Kane and Abel and Secrets Of The Code...

June 24, 1989 – July 28, 1990 2
19 Dennis Andries (3) July 28, 1990 – September 11, 1991 2
20 Jeff Harding (2) September 11, 1991 – July 23, 1994 2
21 Mike McCallum
Mike McCallum
Mike McCallum is a retired boxer. Nicknamed "The Body Snatcher" for his fierce body punching. McCallum won world titles in three weight classes.-Amateur career:Claimed an amateur record of 240-10...

July 23, 1994 – June 16, 1995 1
22 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....

June 16, 1995 - March, 1997– 1
23 Roy Jones, Jr. March, 1997 – March 21, 1997 0
24 Montell Griffin
Montell Griffin
Montell Julian Griffin is an American boxer. He is best known for his two bouts at Light Heavyweight with Roy Jones Jr.- Professional career :...

March 21, 1997 - August 7, 1997 0
25 Roy Jones, Jr. (2) August 7, 1997 - March 1, 2003– 11
26 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:...

March 21, 1998 – April 15, 2000– 0
27 Antonio Tarver
Antonio Tarver
Antonio Deon Tarver , nicknamed the "Magic Man", is a professional boxer from Orlando, Florida and the former WBC, WBA, IBF, & The Ring light heavyweight champion....

April 26, 2003 – November 8, 2003 0
28 Roy Jones, Jr. (3) November 8, 2003 – May 15, 2004 0
29 Antonio Tarver (2) May 25, 2004 - December, 2004– 0
30 Tomasz Adamek
Tomasz Adamek
Tomasz Adamek is a Polish professional heavyweight boxer. His record is 44-2 .He is the former WBC world light heavyweight champion and the former IBF, IBO and The Ring magazine cruiserweight champion. As of the end of 2009, Ring Magazine has ranked Adamek as the 30th best boxer in the world...

May 21, 2005 – February 3, 2007 2
31 Chad Dawson
Chad Dawson
"Bad" Chad Dawson is an American boxer from Hartsville, South Carolina, USA, and the former WBC & IBF light heavyweight champion. Dawson is rated by The Ring Magazine as the number four Light Heavyweight boxer in the world.-Early life:...

February 3, 2007 – July 11, 2008– 3
32 Adrian Diaconu
Adrian Diaconu
Adrian Diaconu is a Romanian professional boxer, living and fighting out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada...

July 11, 2008 – June 19, 2009 0
33 Jean Pascal
Jean Pascal
Jean-Thenistor Pascal is a Canadian professional boxer. He is the former WBC, IBO and Ring magazine light heavyweight champion of the world.-Early life:...

June 19, 2009 – May 21, 2011 3
34 Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins Jr, known as The Executioner is an American boxer and the current Ring Magazine and WBC light heavyweight champion...

May 21, 2011 – Current 0

Cruiserweight

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Marvin Camel
Marvin Camel
Marvin Camel is a boxer and member of the Salish Kootenai Nation of the Flathead Indian Reservation in Northwestern Montana. He was born in Ronan and fought out of Missoula...

March 31, 1980 – November 25, 1980 0
2 Carlos De León
Carlos De Leon
Carlos De León, also known as "Sugar" De Leon, is a Puerto Rican former boxer who made history by becoming the first Cruiserweight to win the world title twice.  Subsequently, he kept breaking his own record for the most times as Cruiserweight champion by regaining it twice more.- Career :De León,...

November 25, 1980 – June 27, 1982 1
3 S.T. Gordon June 27, 1982 – July 17, 1983 1
4 Carlos De León (2) July 17, 1983 – June 6, 1985 3
5 Alfonso Ratliff
Alfonso Ratliff
-Professional career:Ratliff turned professional in 1980 and won the WBC cruiserweight title with a decision win over Carlos De León in 1985. He lost the belt in his first defense to Bernard Benton via decision the same year. In September 1986, Ratliff was stopped in the second round by Mike...

June 6, 1985 – September 21, 1985 0
6 Bernard Benton
Bernard Benton
-Professional career:Known as "The Bull", Benton turned pro in 1981 and won the WBC cruiserweight title with a decision win over Alfonso Ratcliff in 1985. He lost the belt in his first defense to Carlos De León via decision the following year. He retired in 1995....

September 21, 1985 – March 22, 1986 0
7 Carlos De León (3) March 22, 1986 – April 9, 1988 3
8 Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield is a professional boxer from the United States. He is a former undisputed world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal"...

April 9, 1988 – April 9, 1989– 0
9 Carlos De León (4) May 17, 1989 – July 27, 1990 3
10 Massimiliano Duran
Massimiliano Duran
Massimiliano Duran is a former Italian professional boxer who briefly held the Cruiser WBC title and the European championship.-Career:...

July 27, 1990 – July 20, 1991 1
11 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...

July 20, 1991 – December 30, 1994– 7
12 Marcelo Dominguez
Marcelo Dominguez
Marcelo Fabián Domínguez is an Argentine professional boxer. Although he has fought for and held several major titles, he has the unique distinction of having never fought in the United States as a professional.Domínguez turned pro in 1991 and was able to land a title shot in only his sixteenth...

July 25, 1995 – February 21, 1998 5
13 Juan Carlos Gómez
Juan Carlos Gomez
Juan Carlos Gómez is a professional boxer. A former Cuban amateur star, he is also a former WBC Cruserweight Champion and a devout Muslim. He lives in and boxes out of Orlando, Florida, USA.-Early years and defection:...

February 21, 1998 – February 19, 2002– 10
14 Wayne Braithwaite
Wayne Braithwaite
Wayne Braithwaite is a professional boxer. Nicknamed "Big Truck", Braithwaite looked like an invincible force that would rebuild credibility in the cruiserweight ranks, but the invincibility was short lived....

October 11, 2002 – April 2, 2005 3
15 Jean-Marc Mormeck April 2, 2005 – January 7, 2006 0
16 O'Neil Bell
O'Neil Bell
O'Neil "Super Nova" Bell is a boxer who is a former undisputed cruiserweight champion, having held the WBA, WBC, IBF, and The Ring magazine cruiserweight titles.- Professional career :...

January 7, 2006 – March 17, 2007 0
17 Jean-Marc Mormeck (2) March 17, 2007 – November 10, 2007 0
18 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...

November 10, 2007 – May 12, 2008– 1
19 Giacobbe Fragomeni
Giacobbe Fragomeni
Giacobbe Fragomeni is a Cruiserweight boxer from Italy and former WBC champion of the world. As an amateur he won the 1998 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Minsk at heavyweight 201 lbs/91 kg limit....

October 24, 2008 – November 21, 2009 1
20 Zsolt Erdei
Zsolt Erdei
Zsolt Erdei is a Hungarian boxer in the light heavyweight division. He is the former undefeated Lineal & WBO light heavyweight champion, and WBC cruiserweight champion. Erdei is also the first Hungarian to win a world title in two weight divisions.Erdei boxed at the 2000 Summer Olympics...

November 21, 2009 – January 13, 2010– 0
21 Krzysztof Wlodarczyk
Krzysztof Wlodarczyk
Krzysztof "Diablo" Włodarczyk in Warsaw, Poland is a professional Polish boxer, the current WBC Cruiserweight World champion and the former IBF Cruiserweight World champion....

May 15, 2010 – Present 1

Heavyweight
Heavyweight
Heavyweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing...

Number Name Nationality Reign period Defense
1 Sonny Liston
Sonny Liston
Charles L. "Sonny" Liston was a professional boxer and ex-convict known for his toughness, punching power, and intimidating appearance who became world heavyweight champion in 1962 by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round...

July 22, 1963 – February 25, 1964 0
2 Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist...

February 25, 1964 – March 11, 1969– 9
3 Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier
Joseph William "Joe" Frazier , also known as Smokin' Joe, was an Olympic and Undisputed World Heavyweight boxing champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a one-fight comeback in 1981....

February 16, 1970 – January 22, 1973 4
4 George Foreman
George Foreman
George Edward Foreman is an American two-time former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic gold medalist, ordained Baptist minister, author and successful entrepreneur...

January 22, 1973 – October 30, 1974 2
5 Muhammad Ali (2) October 30, 1974 – February 15, 1978 10
6 Leon Spinks
Leon Spinks
Leon Spinks is a former American boxer. He had an overall record of 26 wins, 17 losses and 3 draws as a professional, with 14 knockout wins, and was the former World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association heavyweight champion of the world...

February 15, 1978 – March 18, 1978– 0
7 Ken Norton
Ken Norton
Kenneth Howard Norton Sr. is a former heavyweight boxer. He is best known for his 12-round victory over a peak Muhammad Ali where he famously broke Ali's jaw, on March 31, 1973, becoming only the second man to defeat Ali as a professional .He and Ali...

March 29, 1978 – June 9, 1978 0
8 Larry Holmes
Larry Holmes
Larry Holmes is a former professional boxer. He grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, which gave birth to his boxing nickname, The Easton Assassin....

June 9, 1978 – December 11, 1983– 16
9 Tim Witherspoon
Tim Witherspoon
"Terrible" Tim Witherspoon is an American boxer who was twice world heavyweight champion.-Early career:Witherspoon had eight and a half amateur bouts, losing one to Marvis Frazier on decision after getting knocked down....

March 9, 1984 – August 31, 1984 0
10 Pinklon Thomas
Pinklon Thomas
Pinklon Thomas is a retired heavyweight boxer and former WBC heavyweight champion whose trademark pink boxing trunks and a left jab were key distinguishing characteristics....

August 31, 1984 – March 22, 1986 1
11 Trevor Berbick
Trevor Berbick
Trevor Berbick was a Jamaican-Canadian heavyweight boxer who fought as a professional from 1976 until 2000. Berbick briefly held the WBC heavyweight championship in 1986 , before losing it to 20-year old Mike Tyson, via 2nd-round TKO...

March 22, 1986 – November 22, 1986 0
12 Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson
Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson is a retired American boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old...

November 22, 1986 – February 11, 1990 9
13 James Douglas February 11, 1990 – October 25, 1990 0
14 Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield is a professional boxer from the United States. He is a former undisputed world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal"...

October 25, 1990 – November 13, 1992 2
15 Riddick Bowe
Riddick Bowe
Riddick Lamont Bowe is a retired American boxer. He is a two-time heavyweight champion and a former undisputed heavyweight champion...

November 13, 1992 – December 14, 1992– 0
16 Lennox Lewis
Lennox Lewis
Lennox Claudius Lewis, CM, CBE is a retired boxer and the most recent British undisputed world heavyweight champion. He holds dual British and Canadian citizenship...

December 14, 1992 – September 24, 1994 3
18 Frank Bruno
Frank Bruno
Franklin Roy Bruno MBE is an English former boxer whose career highlight was winning the WBC Heavyweight championship in 1995. Altogether, he won 40 of his 45 contests...

September 2, 1995 – March 16, 1996 0
19 Mike Tyson (2) March 16, 1996 – September 24, 1996– 0
20 Lennox Lewis (2) February 7, 1997 – April 22, 2001 9
21 Hasim Rahman
Hasim Rahman
Hasim Sharif Rahman is an American professional boxer. Rahman is the former Lineal, WBC, IBO, & IBF heavyweight champion...

April 22, 2001 – November 17, 2001 0
22 Lennox Lewis (3) November 17, 2001 – February 6, 2004– 2
23 Vitali Klitschko
Vitali Klitschko
Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Klychko is a Ukrainian professional heavyweight boxer and the current WBC heavyweight champion. He is a leader of the political party Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Congress of the Council of Europe. He previously...

April 24, 2004 – November 9, 2005– 1
24 Hasim Rahman (2) November 9, 2005 – August 12, 2006 1
25 Oleg Maskaev
Oleg Maskaev
Oleg Alexandrovich Maskaev is a Russian professional boxer and a former WBC heavyweight champion. He is an ethnic Mordvin.-Boxing career:Maskaev, a former mine worker, began his career in the 1980s as an amateur boxer in the Soviet Union, where he held a victory over world champion Vitali...

August 12, 2006 – March 8, 2008 1
26 Samuel Peter
Samuel Peter
Samuel Okon Peter , nicknamed "The Nigerian Nightmare," is a professional heavyweight boxer and the former WBC heavyweight champion....

March 8, 2008 – October 11, 2008 0
27 Vitali Klitschko (2) October 11, 2008–present 7

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