List of NABF champions

The following is a list of NABF champions, showing every champion certificated by the North American Boxing Federation (NABF), in operation since 1969.

• ^r – Champion relinquished title.
• ^s – Champion stripped of title.

Heavyweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Leotis Martin	December 6, 1969 – February 2, 1979r	0
2	Muhammad Ali	December 7, 1970 – February 1971r	0
3	George Foreman	May 10, 1971 – July 20, 1971 1971r	0
4	Muhammad Ali (2)	July 26, 1971 – March 31, 1973	5
5	Ken Norton	March 31, 1973 – September 10, 1973	0
6	Muhammad Ali (3)	September 10, 1973 – October 30, 1974r	1
7	Ken Norton (2)	March 24, 1975 – January 20, 1976r	0
8	George Foreman (2)	January 24, 1976 – March 17, 1977r	1
9	Leroy Jones	August 19, 1978 – October 20, 1979r	0
10	Michael Dokes	January 30, 1982 – December 10, 1982r	1
11	Tim Witherspoon	September 23, 1983 – March 9, 1984r	0
12	James Broad	August 23, 1984 – April 29, 1985	0
13	Tim Witherspoon (2)	April 29, 1985 – January 17, 1986r	1
14	Larry Alexander	April 10, 1987 – November 25, 1987	0
15	Orlin Norris	November 25, 1987 – February 17, 1990	5
16	Bert Cooper	February 17, 1990 – August 5, 1990	0
17	Ray Mercer	August 5, 1990 – January 11, 1991r	0
18	Orlin Norris (2)	April 30, 1991 – June 3, 1991	0
19	Tony Tucker	June 3, 1991 – December 1, 1992r	1
20	Alex García	December 8, 1992 – March 1, 1994	4
21	Joe Hipp	March 2, 1994 – March 9, 1995s	1
22	Alexander Zolkin	August 25, 1995 – May 1, 1996s	2
23	Tony Tucker (2)	June 29, 1996 – December 1996s	0
24	John Ruiz	January 14, 1997 – January 15, 1999r	3
25	Michael Grant	January 30, 1999 – April 29, 2000r	1
26	Clifford Etienne	September 9, 2000 – March 6, 2001s	0
27	Obed Sullivan	May 20, 2001 – September 2, 2001	0
28	Fres Oquendo	September 2, 2001 – April 13, 2002	0
29	David Tua	April 13, 2002 – March 29, 2003s<\sup>	0
30	Joe Mesi	June 24, 2003 – September 19, 2003	0
31	Eliecer Castillo	September 19, 2003 – April 17, 2004	1
Castillo won the interim title on June 6, 2003, and was later promoted to full champion after Mesi failed to defend the title
32	DaVarryl Williamson	April 17, 2004 – October 2, 2004s	0
33	Samuel Peter	December 4, 2004 – September 24, 2005	1
34	Wladimir Klitschko	September 24, 2005 – April 22, 2006r	0
35	Samuel Peter (2)	April 28, 2006 – September 2007r	2
36	Hasim Rahman	September 2007 – June 2008r	1
37	Travis Walker	June 2008 – November 29, 2008	0
38	Chris Arreola	November 29, 2008 – August 2009r	1
39	Johnathon Banks	March 20, 2010 – May 2012r	3
40	Tony Grano	June 23, 2012 – April 27, 2013	0
41	Éric Molina	April 27, 2013 – October 2013	0
42	Andy Ruiz Jr.	November 24, 2013 – November 2016r	5
43	Óscar Rivas	September 28, 2017 – June 2019r	3
44	Arslanbek Makhmudov	September 28, 2019 – present	1

Cruiserweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Marvin Camel	June 6, 1979 – March 31, 1980r	0
2	S. T. Gordon	August 6, 1980 – June 27, 1982r	1
3	Leon Spinks	October 31, 1982 – March 6, 1983r	0
4	Anthony Davis	May 16, 1984 – June 19, 1985	0
5	Bash Ali	June 19, 1985 – April 22, 1986	0
6	Henry Tillman	April 22, 1986 – June 15, 1986	0
7	Bert Cooper	June 15, 1986 – February 15, 1989	5
8	Nate Miller	February 15, 1989 – December 17, 1990	3
9	James Warring	December 17, 1990 – August 7, 1991r	0
10	Orlin Norris	August 17, 1991 – November 6, 1993r	3
11	Thomas Hearns	January 29, 1994 – February 20, 1994r	1
12	Adolpho Washington	February 24, 1994 – July 14, 1994r	0
13	James Heath	January 27, 1995 – June 17, 1995r	0
14	Brian LaSpada	June 17, 1995 – May 5, 1997	2
15	Dale Brown	May 5, 1997– February 12, 2000	4
16	Wayne Braithwaite	February 12, 2000 – January 5, 2001r	0
17	O'Neil Bell	January 18, 2001 – June 2, 2004r	5
18	Dale Brown (2)	June 8, 2004– February 4, 2005r	0
19	Ali Supreme	March 10, 2005 – June 16, 2005	0
20	Arthur Williams	June 16, 2005 – October 27, 2005	0
21	Felix Cora Jr.	October 27, 2005 – May 18, 2006	1
22	Vadim Tokarev	May 18, 2006 – April 1, 2007r	1
23	Matt Godfrey	2007-04-06 – August 2009	3
24	Jason Robinson	April 17, 2010 – August 2010r	0
25	Lateef Kayode	October 15, 2010 – August 2011	2
26	Garrett Wilson	April 14, 2012 – January 2013	0
27	Denton Daley	March 4, 2013 – May 2013	0
28	Thabiso Mchunu	January 24, 2014 – April 2015	1
29	Andrew Tabiti	May 13, 2016 – May 2018	2

Light heavyweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Jimmy Dupree	July 3, 1971 – October 29, 1971	1
2	Mike Quarry	October 29, 1971 – 1972	0
3	Richie Kates	May 29, 1974 – 1975	0
4	Lonnie Bennett	May 8, 1976 – November 1976	0
5	Matthew Saad Muhammad	July 26, 1977 – March 1979r	3
6	Jerry Martin	August 7, 1979 – January 1980	1
7	Willie Edwards	August 14, 1982 – December 3, 1982	0
8	Pete McIntyre	December 3, 1982 – June 23, 1983	1
9	Willie Edwards (2)	June 23, 1983 – June 26, 1987	5
10	Tony Willis	June 26, 1987 – January 1989r	3
11	Andrew Maynard	April 1, 1990 – January 10, 1992	4
12	Frank Tate	January 10, 1992 – February 1992r	0
13	Egerton Marcus	December 1, 1992 – June 1994r	3
14	Merqui Sosa	June 30, 1995 – October 1995	0
15	Montell Griffin	July 11, 1996 – November 1996	0
16	Michael Nunn	January 17, 1997 – April 1997r	0
17	Merqui Sosa (2)	May 10, 1997 – March 3, 1998	0
18	Kenny Bowman	March 3, 1998 – June 19, 1998	0
19	Derrick Harmon	June 19, 1998 – October 1998	0
20	Eric Harding	November 13, 1998 – April 1999	0
21	Greg Wright	May 23, 1999 – July 14, 2000	2
22	Reggie Johnson	July 14, 2000 – January 25, 2002	1
23	Antonio Tarver	January 25, 2002 – June 2002	0
24	Montell Griffin (2)	November 3, 2002 – March 2003r	0
25	Donnell Wiggins	October 11, 2003 – November 2003r	0
26	Lucian Bute	February 19, 2005 – March 2005r	0
27	Eric Harding (2)	October 21, 2005 – June 2, 2006	0
28	Chad Dawson	June 2, 2006 – January 2007r	0
29	Chris Henry	May 3, 2007 – February 6, 2009	2
30	Yusaf Mack	February 6, 2009 – April 2009r	0
31	Ismail Sillakh	April 3, 2010 – April 27, 2012	1
32	Denis Grachev	April 27, 2012 – November 3, 2012	0
33	Lucian Bute (2)	April 27, 2012 – January 18, 2014	0
34	Jean Pascal	January 18, 2014 – February 2015r	0
35	Isaac Chilemba	March 14, 2015 – October 2015r	0
36	Oleksandr Gvozdyk	April 9, 2016 – February 2018r	4
37	Alfonso López III	November 16, 2019 – present	0

Super middleweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	James Kinchen	October 13, 1988 – November 4, 1988	0
2	Thomas Hearns	November 4, 1988 – March 1989r	0
3	Don Lee	April 14, 1989 – June 19, 1989	0
4	Paul Whittaker	June 19, 1989 – November 13, 1990	1
5	Randall Yonker	November 13, 1990 – November 29, 1991	2
6	Michael Nunn	November 29, 1991 – September 1992r	0
7	Frankie Liles	October 21, 1992 – 1993	0
8	Warren Williams	November 10, 1993 – May 28, 1994	1
9	Cecil McKenzie	May 28, 1994 – March 1995	1
10	Bryant Brannon	April 4, 1995 – September 1996r	2
11	Joseph Kiwanuka	November 8, 1996 – October 28, 1997	2
12	Thomas Tate	October 28, 1997 – April 1999r	3
13	Randie Carver	May 23, 1999 – September 12, 1999	0
14	Kabary Salem	September 12, 1999 – April 2000	0
15	Scott Pemberton	September 22, 2000 – September 2001	0
16	Charles Brewer	October 5, 2001 – March 2002r	0
17	Antwun Echols	April 9, 2002 – June 2003r	2
18	Scott Pemberton (2)	July 25, 2003 – August 2005	2
19	Lucian Bute	September 16, 2005 – May 2007	1
20	Jean Pascal	June 8, 2007 – November 2008r	2
21	Andre Ward	February 6, 2009 – September 2009	1
22	Sébastien Demers	November 7, 2009 – March 2010	0
23	Farah Ennis	November 19, 2010 – March 2011	0
24	Jesús González	July 8, 2011 – December 2011r	0
25	Dyah Davis	January 6, 2012 – June 2, 2012	0
26	Sakio Bika	June 2, 2012 – February 2013	0
27	Marco Antonio Peribán	March 16, 2013 – March 2014r	1
28	Gilberto Ramírez	April 11, 2014 – March 2016r	4
29	Ronald Gavril	October 8, 2016 – October 2017r	0
30	Jesse Hart	April 28, 2018 – November 2018r	1
31	Shakeel Phinn	June 8, 2019 – November 2019	0

External links

• Official website for the NABF