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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, which today has its head office in Panama.[2] According to WBA championship rules, when a boxer holds at least two titles of the four major sanctioning bodies, the boxer is granted special recognition: he is called the undisputed or super world champion and is given more time between mandatory title defences. The "regular" WBA world title is vacated if it is one of the titles the respective boxer holds. When a boxer defends his WBA title for the tenth consecutive time, he is normally granted the "WBA Super Belt".[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 the standing eight-count,[5] a limit of 12 rounds instead of 15, and additional weight classes. In its discretion, the WBC may designate and recognize, upon a two-thirds majority vote of their Board of Governors, one or more emeritus world champions in each weight class. Such a recognition is for life and is only bestowed upon present or past WBC world champions. The following boxers have earned the emeritus championship appellation throughout their careers: Lennox Lewis, Vitali Klitschko, Bernard Hopkins, Floyd Mayweather Jr, Kostya Tszyu, Manny Pacquiao, Érik Morales, and Israel Vázquez. In September 2009, the WBC inaugurated its new "Diamond Championship". This belt[6] is thought to award the winner of a fight between two high-profile boxers who have a fight at catchweight.

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 (which is a self-governing commonwealth of the United States) in 1988. Its motto is "dignity, democracy, honesty."[8] Besides the beltholders that are called "Super Champion" by the WBO, there are some more fighters that have been named "WBO Super Champion" in the past, for example Bernard Hopkins, Óscar De La Hoya, Juan Díaz, Marco Antonio Barrera, Joe Calzaghe... 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 win a box-off between The Ring's number-one and number-two rated contenders (or, sometimes, number-one and number-three rated).[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+ lb, 90.7+ kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Russia Nikolay Valuev
50-1-0-1 (34 KO)
August 30, 2008 		Ukraine Vitali Klitschko
38-2 (37 KO)
October 11, 2008 		Ukraine Wladimir Klitschko[nb 1]
53-3 (47 KO)
April 22, 2006 		Ukraine Wladimir Klitschko[nb 2]
53-3 (47 KO)
February 23, 2008 		Ukraine Wladimir Klitschko
53-3 (47 KO)
June 20, 2009

Cruiserweight, Junior heavyweight (200 lb, 90.7 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Panama Guillermo Jones
36-3-2 (28 KO)
September 27, 2008 		Italy Giacobbe Fragomeni
26-1-1 (10 KO)
October 24, 2008 		Poland Tomasz Adamek
38-1 (26 KO)
December 11, 2008 		Germany Marco Huck
26-1 (20 KO)
August 29, 2009 		Poland Tomasz Adamek
38-1 (26 KO)
December 11, 2008
United Kingdom Ola Afolabi[nb 3]
14-1-3 (6 KO)
March 14, 2009

Light heavyweight (175 lb, 79.4 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Spain Gabriel Campillo
19-2-0-1 (6 KO)
June 20, 2009 		Canada Jean Pascal
24-1 (16 KO)
June 19, 2009 		United States Tavoris Cloud
20-0 (18 KO)
August 28, 2009 		Hungary Zsolt Erdei
30-0 (17 KO)
January 17, 2004 		vacant
Germany Juergen Braehmer[nb 3]
34-2 (28 KO)
August 22, 2009

Super middleweight (168 lb, 76.2 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Denmark Mikkel Kessler
42-1 (32 KO)
June 21, 2008 		United Kingdom Carl Froch
25-0 (20 KO)
December 6, 2008 		Romania Lucian Bute
24-0 (19 KO)
October 19, 2007 		Germany Robert Stieglitz
36-2 (22 KO)
August 22, 2009 		vacant

Middleweight (160 lb, 72.6 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Germany Felix Sturm
33-2-1 (14 KO)
April 28, 2007 		United States Kelly Pavlik[nb 1]
35-1 (31 KO)
September 29, 2007 		Germany Sebastian Sylvester
32-3 (15 KO)
September 19, 2009 		United States Kelly Pavlik[nb 2]
35-1 (31 KO)
September 29, 2007 		United States Kelly Pavlik
35-1 (31 KO)
September 29, 2007
Germany Sebastian Zbik[nb 3]
27-0 (10 KO)
July 11, 2009

Super welterweight, Junior middleweight (154 lb, 69.9 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Puerto Rico Daniel Santos
32-3-1-1 (23 KO)
July 11, 2008 		Argentina Sergio Gabriel Martínez
44-1-2 (24 KO)
May 21, 2009 		United States Cory Spinks
37-5 (11 KO)
April 24, 2009 		Ukraine Sergiy Dzinziruk
36-0 (22 KO)
December 3, 2005 		vacant
Japan Nobuhiro Ishida[nb 3]
21-5-2 (7 KO)
August 30, 2009 		United States Paul Williams[nb 3]
37-1 (27 KO)
November 29, 2008

Welterweight (147 lb, 66.7 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
United States Shane Mosley[nb 1]
46-5-0-1 (39 KO)
January 24, 2009 		United States Andre Berto
25-0 (19 KO)
June 21, 2008 		South Africa Isaac Hlatshwayo
29-1-1-1 (10 KO)
August 1, 2009 		Puerto Rico Miguel Ángel Cotto
34-1 (27 KO)
February 21, 2009 		vacant
Ukraine Vyacheslav Senchenko
30-0 (20 KO)
April 10, 2009

Super lightweight, Junior welterweight (140 lb, 63.5 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
United Kingdom Amir Khan
21-1 (15 KO)
July 18, 2009 		United States Devon Alexander
19-0 (12 KO)
August 1, 2009 		Colombia Juan Urango
22-2-1 (17 KO)
January 30, 2009 		United States Timothy Bradley
24-0-0-1 (11 KO)
April 4, 2009 		Philippines Manny Pacquiao
49-3-2 (37 KO)
May 2, 2009
Argentina Marcos René Maidana[nb 3]
26-1 (25 KO)
June 27, 2009 		United States Lamont Peterson[nb 3]
27-0 (13 KO)
April 25, 2009

Lightweight (135 lb, 61.2 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Mexico Juan Manuel Márquez[nb 1]
50-5-1 (37 KO)
February 28, 2009 		Venezuela Edwin Valero
25-0 (25 KO)
April 4, 2009 		vacant Mexico Juan Manuel Márquez[nb 2]
50-5-1 (37 KO)
February 28, 2009 		Mexico Juan Manuel Márquez
50-5-1 (37 KO)
September 13, 2008
Namibia Paulus Moses
25-0 (17 KO)
January 3, 2009 		Australia Michael Katsidis[nb 3]
26-2 (21 KO)
September 19, 2009
Venezuela Miguel Acosta[nb 3]
26-3-2 (20 KO)
July 25, 2009

Super featherweight, Junior lightweight (130 lb, 59 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Venezuela Jorge Linares
27-0 (18 KO)
November 28, 2008 		Mexico Humberto Soto
49-7-2-1 (32 KO)
December 20, 2008 		United States Robert Guerrero
25-1-1-2 (17 KO)
August 22, 2009 		Puerto Rico Román Martínez
23-0-1 (14 KO)
March 14, 2009 		vacant
Mexico Humberto Mauro Gutiérrez[nb 3]
26-1-1 (19 KO)
August 22, 2009

Featherweight (126 lb, 57.2 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Indonesia Chris John[nb 1]
43-0-2 (22 KO)
July 23, 2009 		Dominican Republic Elio Rojas
21-1 (13 KO)
July 14, 2009 		Mexico Cristóbal Cruz
39-11-1-1 (23 KO)
October 23, 2008 		United States Steven Luevano
37-1-1 (15 KO)
July 14, 2007 		vacant
Cuba Yuriorkis Gamboa
15-0 (13 KO)
July 23, 2009

Super bantamweight, Junior featherweight (122 lb, 55.3 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Panama Celestino Caballero[nb 1]
33-2 (23 KO)
November 21, 2008 		Japan Toshiaki Nishioka
34-4-3 (21 KO)
December 18, 2008 		Panama Celestino Caballero
33-2 (23 KO)
November 21, 2008 		Puerto Rico Juan Manuel López
26-0 (24 KO)
June 7, 2008 		vacant
Thailand Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym
39-1 (28 KO)
September 26, 2009

Bantamweight (118 lb, 53.5 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Panama Anselmo Moreno
26-1-1 (8 KO)
May 31, 2008 		Japan Hozumi Hasegawa
27-2 (11 KO)
April 16, 2005 		Ghana Joseph Agbeko
27-1 (22 KO)
September 29, 2007 		Mexico Fernando Montiel
39-2-2 (29 KO)
April 25, 2009 		vacant
Venezuela Nehomar Cermeño[nb 3]
18-0 (10 KO)
March 14, 2009

Super flyweight, Junior bantamweight (115 lb, 52.2 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Armenia Vic Darchinyan[nb 1]
32-2-1 (26 KO)
November 1, 2008 		Armenia Vic Darchinyan
32-2-1 (26 KO)
November 1, 2008 		South Africa Simphiwe Nongqayi
16-0 (6 KO)
September 15, 2009 		Philippines Marvin Sonsona
14-0 (12 KO)
September 4, 2009 		vacant
Japan Nobuo Nashiro
13-1-1 (8 KO)
September 15, 2008 		Mexico Tomás Rojas[nb 3]
31-11-1 (22 KO)
July 18, 2009
Philippines Nonito Donaire[nb 3]
22-1 (14 KO)
August 15, 2009

Flyweight (112 lb, 50.8 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Thailand Denkaosan Kaovichit
48-1-1 (20 KO)
December 31, 2008 		Japan Daisuke Naito
35-2-3 (22 KO)
July 18, 2007 		vacant Argentina Omar Andrés Narváez
30-0-2 (19 KO)
July 13, 2002 		vacant
Panama Luis Concepción[nb 3]
18-1 (13 KO)
September 5, 2009 		Thailand Pongsaklek Wonjongkam[nb 3]
73-3-1 (39 KO)
April 24, 2009

Light flyweight, Junior flyweight (108 lb, 49 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Mexico Giovanni Segura
21-1-1 (17 KO)
June 5, 2009 		Mexico Édgar Sosa
37-5 (21 KO)
April 14, 2007 		United States Brian Viloria
26-2-0-2 (15 KO)
April 19, 2009 		Puerto Rico Iván Calderón[nb 2]
33-0-1 (6 KO)
August 25, 2007 		Puerto Rico Iván Calderón
33-0-1 (6 KO)
August 25, 2007
France Brahim Asloum[nb 4]
24-2 (10 KO)
June 3, 2008
Argentina Juan Carlos Reveco[nb 3]
21-1 (11 KO)
August 15, 2009

Minimumweight, Strawweight, Mini flyweight (105 lb, 47.6 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Nicaragua Román González
24-0 (20 KO)
September 15, 2008 		Thailand Oleydong Sithsamerchai
32-0 (12 KO)
November 29, 2007 		Mexico Raúl García
27-0-1 (16 KO)
June 14, 2008 		Philippines Donnie Nietes
25-1-3 (14 KO)
September 30, 2007 		vacant
Nicaragua Juan Palacios[nb 3]
26-2-0-1 (21 KO)
August 2, 2008

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Undisputed world champion.
  2. ^ a b c d WBO super champion.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Interim world champion.
  4. ^ Champion in recess.

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 website. [1].
  2. ^ "World Boxing Association History". World Boxing Association. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  3. ^ "World Boxing Association Super Belt winners". World Boxing Association. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  4. ^ "World Boxing Council". World Boxing Council. Retrieved 2009-09-05.
  5. ^ "Rules that have changed the History of Boxing". World Boxing Council. Retrieved 2009-09-05.
  6. ^ "WBC Diamond Belt Presentation". Fightnews. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
  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.
  8. ^ "WBO logo". World Boxing Organization. Retrieved 2006-06-06.
  9. ^ "Current Boxing Champions". Yahoo!. May 7, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-07.
  10. ^ "Current Boxing Champions". Sports Illustrated. April 5, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-07.
  11. ^ Eisele, Andrew (May 6, 2007). "Boxing Champions". About.com. Retrieved 2007-05-07.
  12. ^ "List of Champions". BBC Sport. May 5, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-07.
  13. ^ "About The Ring". The Ring. February 14, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-08. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  14. ^ a b Kellerman, Max (January 22, 2004). "Gatti vs. the unknown". ESPN. Retrieved 2009-03-03.

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