List of WBA female world champions

The following is a list of female world champions in the World Boxing Association. Stand: November 30, 2019.

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

During the 2009 WBA convention in Colombia, Susi Kentikian was named the first ever WBA female Super Champion. It was announced that this belt would be called "Susi Kentikian belt" for all other future Super Champions.

Light minimumweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Mari Ando	Sep 22, 2011 — Sep 16, 2012	1
2	Ayaka Miyao	Sep 16, 2012 — Oct 22, 2015	5
3	Momo Koseki	Oct 22, 2015 — 2016r	0
4	Yunoka Furukawa	Aug 13, 2016 — 2017s	1
5	Maria Milano – Interim champion since Dec 10, 2016, elevated to full champion. Put into recess on Apr 30, 2018	Mar 9, 2018 — 2018s	0
6	Monserrat Alarcón	Aug 31, 2018 — present	2
7	Ayaka Miyao (2) – Interim	Nov 20, 2018 — Sep 12, 2019	0

Minimumweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Vaia Zaganas	Apr 8, 2004 — 2005r	0
2	ChoRong Son	Dec 9, 2006 — Apr 11, 2009	2
3	Etsuko Tada	Apr 11, 2009 — Jul 23, 2013	9
4	Ria Ramnarine – Interim	Aug 20, 2009 — Aug 10, 2010s	0
5	Ibeth Zamora Silva – Interim	Sep 5, 2009 — Apr 17, 2011	2
6	Anabel Ortiz	Jul 23, 2013 — present	12

Light flyweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Ju Hee Kim	Aug 24, 2007 — 2009s	0
2	Yésica Yolanda Bopp – Won interim title, elevated to full champion. Been in recess due to pregnancy from 2014-2016. Super champion from 2018-04-Apr 30, 2018 - Sep 30, 2018	Dec 5, 2008 — present	22
3	Joselyn Arroyo Ruiz – Interim	Mar 21, 2015 — 2016s	0
4	Silvia Torres – Interim	Dec 16, 2017 — Apr 14, 2018	0
5	Jessica Nery Plata – Interim	Apr 14, 2018 — present	1

Flyweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Susi Kentikian (Super Champion from Nov 18, 2009 - May 16, 2012)	Feb 16, 2007 — Dec 1, 2012	14
2	Arely Muciño – Interim	Feb 25, 2012 — 2013s	1
3	Carina Moreno	Dec 1, 2012 — Jul 6, 2013	0
4	Susi Kentikian (2) – Interim champion since Feb 1, 2013, beat Moreno for regular title	Jul 6, 2013 — 2016s	4
5	Naoko Fujioka	Mar 13, 2017 — present	2
6	Irma Sánchez – Interim	Oct 14, 2017 — Sep 14, 2018	0
7	Seniesa Estrada – Interim	Nov 2, 2019 — present	0

Super flyweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Yazmín Rivas	Feb 28, 2005 — 2006r	0
2	Ha-Na Kim	Oct 7, 2006 — Oct 9, 2007	2
3	Xiyan Zhang	Oct 9, 2007 — Feb 26, 2009	0
4	Carolina Marcela Gutiérrez – Interim, in recess since May 2012	Oct 27, 2008 — Aug 30, 2012	3
5	Tenkai Tsunami	Feb 26, 2009 — Jul 9, 2012	4
6	Daniela Romina Bermúdez – Interim	May 12, 2012 — 2014s	4
7	Naoko Yamaguchi	Jul 9, 2012 — Nov 13, 2013	2
8	Naoko Fujioka	Nov 13, 2013 — 2015r	2
9	Linda Laura Lecca – Interim Won interim title on May 31, 2014, defended 3 times, elevated to regular champion	Apr 15, 2016 — May 19, 2018	2
10	Maribel Ramírez	May 19, 2018 — present	1

Bantamweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Jackie Nava	Feb 28, 2005 — 2005r	0
2	Anita Christensen	Oct 14, 2006 — Jun 21, 2008	1
3	Galina Koleva Ivanova	Jun 21, 2008 — 2008s	0
4	Emanuela Pantani	Dec 19, 2008 — 2010s	0
5	Janeth Pérez	Jul 16, 2011 — Jan 5, 2013	3
6	Sabrina Maribel Pérez – Interim, in recess for a few months during Bermúdez' interim reign	Aug 12, 2011 — 2014s	2
7	Daniela Romina Bermúdez – Interim	Mar 31, 2012 — 2012r	0
8	Irma García – In recess since March 8, 2015.	Jan 5, 2013 — 2015s	2
9	Mayerlin Rivas – Interim champion, defended once before being elevated to full champion	Mar 8, 2015 — present	3
10	Galina Koleva Ivanova (2)	May 9, 2015 — Oct 10, 2015	0
11	Dayana Cordero – Interim (in recess since Dec 31, 2018)	Jan 15, 2016 — May 31, 2019s	2
12	Jackie Nava (2) – Interim	Nov 10, 2018 — present	0

Super bantamweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Marcela Eliana Acuña (Honorary Champion) Title was vacated by the WBA on Sep 30, 2009. Acuña appealed decision and was named "Champion in recess" on Jan 10, 2010, before WBA vacated her belt	Aug 12, 2006 — Jan 20, 2010s	5
2	Lisa Brown	Mar 27, 2010 — Apr 2, 2011	0
3	Yésica Patricia Marcos – Interim	Aug 10, 2010 — 2011r	2
4	Chanttall Martínez	Apr 2, 2011 — Jan 28, 2012	2
5	Yésica Patricia Marcos (2) – Interim champion from Oct 8, 2011, won vacant regular title	Oct 6, 2012 — 2016s	3
6	Jackie Nava (In recess since October 2012)	Jan 28, 2012 — May 24, 2014	2
7	Alys Sánchez – Interim	Dec 8, 2012 — May 24, 2014	0
8	Jackie Nava (2) – Interim, elevated to Super champion on October 15, 2014	May 24, 2014 — 2016s	3
9	Liliana Palmera – Interim champion since Oct 24, 2014, defended title three times then elevated to regular champion	Apr 15, 2016 — Aug 5, 2017	1
10	Alys Sánchez (2)	Aug 5, 2017 — Nov 18, 2017	0
11	Liliana Palmera (2)	Nov 18, 2017 — May 19, 2018	0
12	Yazmín Rivas	May 19, 2018 — (In recess since September 2, 2019)	1

Featherweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Gao Li Jun	Mar 25, 2006 — 2006r	0
2	Hwa-Won Lee	Apr 30, 2007 — 2008r	0
3	Hyun Mi Choi	Oct 11, 2008 — 2013r	7
4	Claudia Andrea López – Interim	Jun 6, 2009 — Apr 30, 2010	0
5	Ogleidis Suárez – Won interim title, defended twice then elevated to full champion	May 10, 2013 — Dec 13, 2013	1
6	Edith Soledad Matthysse	Dec 13, 2013 — Mar 11, 2016	1
7	Dahiana Santana – Interim	Jun 28, 2014 — Aug 14, 2015	0
8	Anahí Esther Sánchez – Interim	Aug 14, 2015 — 2016r	1
9	Jelena Mrdjenovich Super champion from Apr 30, 2018 - Sep 30, 2018	Mar 11, 2016 — present	4
10	Marcela Eliana Acuña – Interim	May 7, 2016 — 2017s	1

Super featherweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Kina Malpartida	Feb 21, 2009 — 2013s	6
2	Hyomin Kim – Interim	Jul 17, 2010 — 2012s	1
3	Hyun Mi Choi – Won interim title, elevated to full champion	Oct 30, 2013 — present	7
4	Ogleidis Suárez – Interim, in recess since October 2014	May 10, 2014 — 2016s	0

Lightweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Layla McCarter	Dec 2, 2006 — 2011s	2
2	Laura Tavecchio – Interim	Nov 21, 2008 — June 2009s	0
3	Alejandra Marina Oliveras	Aug 12, 2011 — 2012r	0
4	Cecilia Comunales	Mar 30, 2012 — 2015s	2
5	Cecilia Comunales (2)	Jun 4, 2016 — 2017s	0
6	Anahí Ester Sánchez	Sep 9, 2017 — Oct 27, 2017s	0
7	Katie Taylor – Super champion from Apr 30, 2018 - Sep 30, 2018	Oct 28, 2017 — present	7
8	Miriam Gutiérrez – Interim champion	Nov 29, 2019 — present	0

Super lightweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Myriam Lamare	Nov 8, 2004 — Dec 2, 2006	5
2	Anne Sophie Mathis	Dec 2, 2006 — 2010s	3
3	Mónica Silvina Acosta	Feb 18, 2011 — Jan 18, 2014	3
4	Svetlana Kulakova – Interim	Aug 24, 2013 — 2016s	1
5	Ana Laura Esteche	Jan 18, 2014 — 2018s	4
6	Anahí Ester Sánchez – Interim from Apr 20, 2018, elevated to full champion	Feb 28, 2019 — May 25, 2019	0
7	Jessica McCaskill	May 25, 2019 — present	1

Welterweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Holly Holm	Jun 10, 2006 — 2007r	1
2	Cecilia Brækhus – Super champion from Jul 10, 2014 to Jun 10, 2015, from Aug 29, 2015 to Feb 20, 2016 and again from Apr 30, 2018 to Sep 30, 2018	Mar 14, 2009 — present	24
3	Noni Tenge – Interim	Jun 7, 2014 — 2015s	0

Super welterweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Jisselle Salandy	Sep 15, 2006 — Jan 4, 2009 (died in a vehicular accident)	5
2	Karolina Lukasik – Interim	Sep 7, 2007 — Mar 29, 2008	1
3	Layla McCarter	Sep 30, 2012 — 2014s	0
4	Hanna Gabriels – Super champion from Apr 30, 2018 - Sep 30, 2018	Jun 18, 2016 — present	4
5	Raquel Miller – Interim	Nov 23, 2019 — present	0

Middleweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Teresa Perozzi (In recess since August 2013)	Dec 30, 2011 — 2014s	2
2	Claressa Shields	Jun 22, 2018 — present	3

Super middleweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Natalya Ragozina	Feb 17, 2007 — 2012s	6
2	Alicia Napoleon Espinosa	Mar 3, 2018 — present	2

Light heavyweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	vacant		0

See also

• List of current female world boxing champions
• List of WBC female world champions
• List of IBF female world champions
• List of WBO female world champions
• List of WIBO world champions