List of current world boxing champions

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This is a list of current boxing world champions who are certified by the four major boxing sanctioning bodies[1] and The Ring magazine. Each champion's professional boxing record is shown in the following format: wins-losses-draws-no contests (knockout wins).

The World Boxing Association (WBA) was founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA)—a national regulating body of the United States. On August 23, 1962, the NBA became the WBA—a Venezuelan-based worldwide regulating body.[2] According to WBA championship rules, when a boxer holds both a WBA world title and a world title from at least one of the other three major sanctioning bodies, the boxer is granted special recognition: unified champion (if he holds two titles), undisputed champion (three titles), or super champion (all four titles). The "regular" WBA world title is then vacated.[3]

The World Boxing Council (WBC) was founded in Mexico City, Mexico on February 14, 1963 in order to establish an international regulating body.[4] The WBC established many of today's safety measures in boxing, such as standing eight-counts,[5] a limit of 12 rounds instead of 15,[6] and additional weight classes.[6]

The International Boxing Federation (IBF) originated in September 1976 as the United States Boxing Association (USBA) when American members of the WBA withdrew in order to legitimize boxing in the United States with "unbiased" ratings.[7] In April 1983, The organization established an international division that was known as the United States Boxing Association-International (USBA-I).[7] In May 1984, the New Jersey-based USBA-I was renamed and became the IBF.[7]

The World Boxing Organization (WBO) was founded in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1988. Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States of America. Its motto is "dignity, democracy, honesty."[8] Some media sites do not include the WBO in their list of champions,[9][10] whereas others do.[11][12]

The Ring is not a sanctioning body but is a boxing magazine that was founded in 1922. In 2002, The Ring created a championship system that is "intended to reward fighters who, by satisfying rigid criteria, can justify a claim as the true and only world champion in a given weight class."[13] There are currently only two ways that a boxer can win The Ring's title: defeat the reigning champion; or winning a box-off between The Ring's number-one and number-two rated contenders (or, sometimes, number-one and number-three rated). The Ring had a long-standing policy of awarding their championship to a boxer who had unified the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, but rescinded this policy in September 2007.[14] There are also only three ways that a boxer can lose The Ring's title: lose a championship fight, move to a different weight class, or retire.[14] (The Ring does not strip its champions' titles like the sanctioning bodies do.)

Current champions

Heavyweight (200+ lbs, 90.7+ kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Uzbekistan Ruslan Chagaev
23-0-1 (17 KO)
April 14, 2007 		Russia Oleg Maskaev
34-5 (26 KO)
August 12, 2006 		Ukraine Wladimir Klitschko
49-3 (44 KO)
April 22, 2006 		Russia Sultan Ibragimov
21-0-1 (17 KO)
June 2, 2007 		vacant
Nigeria Samuel Peter[15]
29-1 (22 KO)
September 24, 2007

Cruiserweight (200 lb, 90.7 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
France Jean-Marc Mormeck[16]
33-3 (22 KO)
March 17, 2007 		France Jean-Marc Mormeck
33-3 (22 KO)
March 17, 2007 		United States Steve Cunningham
20-1 (10 KO)
May 26, 2007 		United Kingdom Enzo Maccarinelli
27-1 (20 KO)
July 8, 2006 		France Jean-Marc Mormeck
33-3 (22 KO)
March 17, 2007
United States Virgil Hill
50-6 (23 KO)
January 27, 2006
Germany Firat Arslan[15]
27-3-1 (18 KO)
June 16, 2007

Light heavyweight (175 lb, 79.4 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Croatia Stipe Drviš
32-1 (13 KO)
April 28, 2007 		United States Chad Dawson
25-0-0-1 (17 KO)
February 3, 2007 		United Kingdom Clinton Woods
41-3-1 (24 KO)
March 4, 2005 		Hungary Zsolt Erdei
27-0 (17 KO)
January 17, 2004 		United States Bernard Hopkins
48-4-1-1 (32 KO)
June 10, 2006

Super middleweight (168 lb, 76.2 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Denmark Mikkel Kessler[16]
39-0 (29 KO)
November 12, 2004 		Denmark Mikkel Kessler
39-0 (29 KO)
October 14, 2006 		Colombia Alejandro Berrio
26-5 (25 KO)
March 3, 2007 		United Kingdom Joe Calzaghe[17]
43-0 (32 KO)
October 11, 1997 		United Kingdom Joe Calzaghe
43-0 (32 KO)
March 4, 2006
Australia Anthony Mundine
29-3 (22 KO)
March 7, 2007

Middleweight (160 lb, 72.6 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Germany Felix Sturm
28-2 (12 KO)
April 28, 2007 		United States Kelly Pavlik
32-0 (29 KO)
September 29, 2007 		Germany Arthur Abraham
24-0 (19 KO)
December 10, 2005 		United States Kelly Pavlik
32-0 (29 KO)
September 29, 2007 		United States Kelly Pavlik
32-0 (29 KO)
September 29, 2007

Super welterweight (154 lb, 69.9 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Haiti Joachim Alcine
29-0 (18 KO)
July 7, 2007 		United States Vernon Forrest
39-2-0-1 (28 KO)
July 28, 2007 		United States Cory Spinks
36-4 (11 KO)
July 8, 2006 		Ukraine Sergiy Dzinziruk
34-0 (22 KO)
December 3, 2005 		vacant
United States Floyd Mayweather Jr.[18]
38-0 (24 KO)
May 5, 2007

Welterweight (147 lb, 66.7 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Puerto Rico Miguel Angel Cotto
30-0 (25 KO)
December 2, 2006 		United States Floyd Mayweather Jr.
38-0 (24 KO)
November 4, 2006 		Puerto Rico Kermit Cintron
28-1 (26 KO)
October 28, 2006 		United States Paul Williams
33-0 (24 KO)
July 14, 2007 		United States Floyd Mayweather Jr.
38-0 (24 KO)
August 10, 2006

Super lightweight (140 lb, 63.5 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
United Kingdom Gavin Rees
27-0 (13 KO)
July 21, 2007 		United Kingdom Junior Witter
36-1-2 (21 KO)
September 15, 2006 		United States Paul Malignaggi
23-1 (5 KO)
June 16, 2007 		Colombia Ricardo Torres
32-1 (28 KO)
November 18, 2006 		United Kingdom Ricky Hatton
43-0 (31 KO)
June 4, 2005

Lightweight (135 lb, 61.2 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
United States Juan Díaz[16]
32-0 (16 KO)
July 17, 2004 		United States David Díaz
33-1-1 (17 KO)
August 12, 2006 		United States Julio César Díaz
34-3 (25 KO)
February 3, 2007 		United States Juan Díaz
32-0 (16 KO)
April 28, 2007 		Cuba Joel Casamayor
34-3-1 (21 KO)
October 7, 2006
vacant Cuba Joel Casamayor[15]
34-3-1 (21 KO)
October 7, 2006 		Australia Michael Katsidis[15]
23-0 (20 KO)
February 17, 2007

Super featherweight (130 lb, 59 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Venezuela Edwin Valero
22-0 (22 KO)
August 5, 2006 		Mexico Juan Manuel Márquez
47-3-1 (35 KO)
March 17, 2007 		South Africa Mzonke Fana
27-3 (10 KO)
April 20, 2007 		Dominican Republic Joan Guzman
27-0 (17 KO)
September 16, 2006 		vacant
United Kingdom Alex Arthur[15]
25-1 (19 KO)
July 21, 2007

Featherweight (126 lb, 57.2 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Indonesia Chris John
40-0-1 (21 KO)
September 26, 2003 		Venezuela Jorge Linares
24-0 (15 KO)
July 21, 2007 		United States Robert Guerrero
20-1-1-1 (13 KO)
February 23, 2007 		United States Steven Luevano
34-1 (15 KO)
July 14, 2007 		vacant

Super bantamweight (122 lb, 55.3 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Panama Celestino Caballero
27-2 (18 KO)
October 4, 2006 		Mexico Israel Vazquez
42-4 (31 KO)
August 4, 2007 		Canada Steve Molitor
24-0 (10 KO)
November 10, 2006 		Mexico Daniel Ponce de León
33-1 (30 KO)
October 29, 2005 		Mexico Israel Vazquez
42-4 (31 KO)
August 4, 2007

Bantamweight (118 lb, 53.5 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Ukraine Wladimir Sidorenko
20-0-2 (7 KO)
February 26, 2005 		Japan Hozumi Hasegawa
22-2 (7 KO)
April 16, 2005 		Ghana Joseph Agbeko
25-1 (22 KO)
September 29, 2007 		Philippines Gerry Penalosa
52-6-2 (35 KO)
August 11, 2007 		vacant

Super flyweight (115 lb, 52.2 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Venezuela Alexander Muñoz
31-2 (27 KO)
May 3, 2007 		Mexico Cristian Mijares
32-3-2 (13 KO)
September 18, 2006 		vacant Mexico Fernando Montiel
35-2-1 (26 KO)
April 9, 2005 		vacant

Flyweight (112 lb, 50.8 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Japan Takefumi Sakata
31-4-1 (15 KO)
March 19, 2007 		Japan Daisuke Naito
31-2-2 (20 KO)
July 18, 2007 		Philippines Nonito Donaire
18-1 (11 KO)
July 7, 2007 		Argentina Omar Andrés Narváez
25-0-2 (16 KO)
July 13, 2002 		vacant

Light flyweight (108 lb, 49 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Argentina Juan Carlos Reveco
16-0 (7 KO)
June 22, 2007 		Mexico Edgar Sosa
29-5 (15 KO)
April 13, 2007 		Mexico Ulises Solís
25-1-2 (19 KO)
January 7, 2006 		Puerto Rico Iván Calderón[17]
29-0 (6 KO)
August 25, 2007 		Puerto Rico Iván Calderón
29-0 (6 KO)
August 25, 2007

Strawweight (105 lb, 47.6 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Japan Yutaka Niida
22-1-3 (8 KO)
July 3, 2004 		Thailand Eagle Den Janlaphan
18-1 (6 KO)
August 6, 2005 		Philippines Florante Condes
22-3-1 (20 KO)
July 7, 2007 		Philippines Donnie Nietes
22-1-3 (13 KO)
September 30, 2007 		vacant

See also

References

  1. ^ The official rules and regulations of the WBA, IBF, and WBO all mention by name the other three major sanctioning bodies in their title unification rules. The WBC does not mention by name any other sanctioning body in its rules, but it does list the other three major sanctioning bodies' champions on its ratings page. Thus, all four organizations consider only themselves and the other three organizations to be major sanctioning bodies. They do not consider organizations such as the IBO and IBA to be major sanctioning bodies.
  2. ^ Bastidas, Angel M. "World Boxing Association History". World Boxing Association. Retrieved 2006-06-06.
  3. ^ "World Boxing Association World Championships Regulations" (PDF). World Boxing Association. Retrieved 2006-06-06.
  4. ^ "World Boxing Council: History & Founding Fathers". World Boxing Council. Retrieved 2006-06-06.
  5. ^ "Rules that have changed the History of Boxing". World Boxing Council. Retrieved 2006-06-06.
  6. ^ a b "Permanent Medical Research Program". World Boxing Council. Retrieved 2006-06-06.
  7. ^ a b c "History of the IBF". International Boxing Federation. December 4, 2000. Archived from the original on 2000-12-04. Retrieved 2006-06-06. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ "WBO logo". World Boxing Organization. Retrieved 2006-06-06.
  9. ^ "Current Boxing Champions". Yahoo!. May 7, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ "Current Boxing Champions". Sports Illustrated. April 5, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ Eisele, Andrew (May 6, 2007). "Boxing Champions". About.com. Retrieved 2006-05-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ "List of Champions". BBC Sport. May 5, 2007. Retrieved 2006-05-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ "About The Ring". The Ring. June 26, 2006. Retrieved 2006-06-06. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  14. ^ a b Kellerman, Max (January 22, 2004). "Gatti vs. the unknown". ESPN. Retrieved 2006-06-06. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. ^ a b c d e Interim world champion.
  16. ^ a b c WBA unified champion.
  17. ^ a b WBO super champion.
  18. ^ WBC emeritus champion.

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