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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 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,[6] and additional weight classes.[6] 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, Erik Morales, and Israel Vázquez.

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.)

[edit] Current champions

[edit] Heavyweight (200+ lb, 90.7+ kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Russia Nikolay Valuev
50-1-0-1 (34 KO)
August 30, 2008		 Flag of Ukraine Vitali Klitschko
37-2 (36 KO)
October 11, 2008		 Flag of Ukraine Wladimir Klitschko[nb 1]
53-3 (47 KO)
April 22, 2006		 Flag of Ukraine Wladimir Klitschko[nb 2]
53-3 (47 KO)
February 23, 2008		 Flag of Ukraine Wladimir Klitschko
53-3 (47 KO)
June 20, 2009
Flag of Uzbekistan Ruslan Chagaev[nb 3]
25-1-1 (17 KO)
June 17, 2008

[edit] Cruiserweight (200 lb, 90.7 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Panama Guillermo Jones
36-3-2 (28 KO)
September 27, 2008		 Flag of Italy Giacobbe Fragomeni
26-1-1 (10 KO)
October 24, 2008		 Flag of Poland Tomasz Adamek
37-1 (25 KO)
December 11, 2008		 Flag of Argentina Victor Emilio Ramírez
15-1-0-1 (12 KO)
January 21, 2009		 Flag of Poland Tomasz Adamek
37-1 (25 KO)
December 11, 2008
Flag of the United Kingdom Ola Afolabi[nb 4]
14-1-3 (6 KO)
March 14, 2009

[edit] Light heavyweight (175 lb, 79.4 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Spain Gabriel Campillo
18-2-0-1 (6 KO)
June 20, 2009		 Flag of Canada Jean Pascal
23-1 (15 KO)
June 19, 2009		 vacant Flag of Hungary Zsolt Erdei
30-0 (17 KO)
January 17, 2004		 vacant

[edit] Super middleweight (168 lb, 76.2 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Denmark Mikkel Kessler
41-1 (31 KO)
June 21, 2008		 Flag of the United Kingdom Carl Froch
25-0 (20 KO)
December 6, 2008		 Flag of Romania Lucian Bute
24-0 (19 KO)
October 19, 2007		 Flag of Hungary Károly Balzsay
21-0 (15 KO)
January 10, 2009		 vacant

[edit] Middleweight (160 lb, 72.6 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Germany Felix Sturm
32-2-1 (14 KO)
April 28, 2007		 Flag of the United States Kelly Pavlik[nb 1]
35-1 (31 KO)
September 29, 2007		 Flag of Germany Arthur Abraham
30-0 (24 KO)
December 10, 2005		 Flag of the United States Kelly Pavlik[nb 2]
35-1 (31 KO)
September 29, 2007		 Flag of the United States Kelly Pavlik
35-1 (31 KO)
September 29, 2007

[edit] Super welterweight (154 lb, 69.9 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Puerto Rico Daniel Santos
32-3-1-1 (23 KO)
July 11, 2008		 Flag of Argentina Sergio Gabriel Martínez
44-1-2 (24 KO)
May 21, 2009		 Flag of the United States Cory Spinks
37-5 (11 KO)
April 24, 2009		 Flag of Ukraine Sergiy Dzinziruk
36-0 (22 KO)
December 3, 2005		 vacant
Flag of the United States Paul Williams[nb 4]
37-1 (27 KO)
November 29, 2008

[edit] Welterweight (147 lb, 66.7 kg)

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

[edit] Super lightweight (140 lb, 63.5 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Ukraine Andriy Kotelnik
31-2-1 (13 KO)
March 22, 2008		 vacant Flag of Colombia Juan Urango
21-2-1 (16 KO)
January 30, 2009		 Flag of the United States Timothy Bradley
24-0 (11 KO)
April 4, 2009		 Flag of the Philippines Manny Pacquiao
49-3-2 (37 KO)
May 2, 2009
Flag of Argentina Marcos René Maidana[nb 4]
26-1 (25 KO)
June 27, 2009		 Flag of the United States Lamont Peterson[nb 4]
27-0 (13 KO)
April 25, 2009

[edit] Lightweight (135 lb, 61.2 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Mexico Juan Manuel Márquez[nb 1]
50-4-1 (37 KO)
February 28, 2009		 Flag of Venezuela Edwin Valero
25-0 (25 KO)
April 4, 2009		 vacant Flag of Mexico Juan Manuel Márquez[nb 2]
50-4-1 (37 KO)
February 28, 2009		 Flag of Mexico Juan Manuel Márquez
50-4-1 (37 KO)
September 13, 2008
Flag of Namibia Paulus Moses
24-0 (17 KO)
January 3, 2009

[edit] Super featherweight (130 lb, 59 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Venezuela Jorge Linares
27-0 (18 KO)
November 28, 2008		 Flag of Mexico Humberto Soto
48-7-2-1 (31 KO)
December 20, 2008		 Flag of South Africa Malcolm Klassen
24-4-2 (15 KO)
April 18, 2009		 Flag of Puerto Rico Román Martínez
22-0-1 (13 KO)
March 14, 2009		 vacant

[edit] Featherweight (126 lb, 57.2 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Indonesia Chris John
42-0-2 (22 KO)
November 1, 2003		 Flag of Japan Takahiro Aoh
17-1-1 (8 KO)
March 12, 2009		 Flag of Mexico Cristóbal Cruz
38-11-1-1 (23 KO)
October 23, 2008		 Flag of the United States Steven Luevano
36-1-1 (15 KO)
July 14, 2007		 vacant
Flag of Cuba Yuriorkis Gamboa[nb 4]
15-0 (13 KO)
April 17, 2009

[edit] Super bantamweight (122 lb, 55.3 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Panama Celestino Caballero[nb 1]
32-2 (22 KO)
November 21, 2008		 Flag of Japan Toshiaki Nishioka
34-4-3 (21 KO)
December 18, 2008		 Flag of Panama Celestino Caballero
32-2 (22 KO)
November 21, 2008		 Flag of Puerto Rico Juan Manuel López
26-0 (24 KO)
June 7, 2008		 vacant
Flag of Ireland Bernard Dunne
28-1 (15 KO)
March 21, 2009
Flag of Thailand Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym[nb 4]
38-1 (27 KO)
April 30, 2009

[edit] Bantamweight (118 lb, 53.5 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Panama Anselmo Moreno
26-1-1 (8 KO)
May 31, 2008		 Flag of Japan Hozumi Hasegawa
26-2 (10 KO)
April 16, 2005		 Flag of Ghana Joseph Agbeko
26-1 (22 KO)
September 29, 2007		 Flag of Mexico Fernando Montiel
39-2-1 (29 KO)
April 25, 2009		 vacant
Flag of Venezuela Nehomar Cermeño[nb 4]
17-0 (10 KO)
March 14, 2009

[edit] Super flyweight (115 lb, 52.2 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Armenia Vic Darchinyan[nb 1]
32-1-1 (26 KO)
November 1, 2008		 Flag of Armenia Vic Darchinyan
32-1-1 (26 KO)
November 1, 2008		 Flag of Armenia Vic Darchinyan
32-1-1 (26 KO)
August 2, 2008		 Flag of Puerto Rico José López
39-7-2 (32 KO)
March 28, 2009		 vacant
Flag of Japan Nobuo Nashiro
13-1 (8 KO)
September 15, 2008

[edit] Flyweight (112 lb, 50.8 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Thailand Denkaosan Kaovichit
47-1-1 (20 KO)
December 31, 2008		 Flag of Japan Daisuke Naito
35-2-3 (22 KO)
July 18, 2007		 vacant Flag of Argentina Omar Andrés Narváez
30-0-2 (19 KO)
July 13, 2002		 vacant
Flag of Thailand Pongsaklek Wonjongkam[nb 4]
72-3-1 (38 KO)
April 24, 2009

[edit] Junior flyweight (108 lb, 49 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Mexico Giovanni Segura
20-1-1 (16 KO)
June 5, 2009		 Flag of Mexico Édgar Sosa
36-5 (20 KO)
April 14, 2007		 Flag of the United States Brian Viloria
25-2-0-2 (15 KO)
April 19, 2009		 Flag of Puerto Rico Iván Calderón[nb 2]
32-0-1 (6 KO)
August 25, 2007		 Flag of Puerto Rico Iván Calderón
32-0-1 (6 KO)
August 25, 2007
Flag of France Brahim Asloum[nb 3]
24-2 (10 KO)
June 3, 2008

[edit] Strawweight (105 lb, 47.6 kg)

WBA WBC IBF WBO The Ring
Flag of Nicaragua Román González
23-0 (20 KO)
September 15, 2008		 Flag of Thailand Oleydong Sithsamerchai
31-0 (12 KO)
November 29, 2007		 Flag of Mexico Raúl García
26-0-1 (16 KO)
June 14, 2008		 Flag of the Philippines Donnie Nietes
24-1-3 (14 KO)
September 30, 2007		 vacant
Flag of Nicaragua Juan Palacios[nb 4]
26-2-0-1 (21 KO)
August 2, 2008		 Flag of Mexico Manuel Vargas[nb 4]
26-3-1 (11 KO)
December 6, 2008

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f Undisputed world champion.
  2. ^ a b c d WBO super champion.
  3. ^ a b Champion in recess.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Interim world champion.

[edit] See also

[edit] 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. http://wbanews.com/artman/publish/wbahistory/index.shtml. Retrieved on 2009-03-02. 
  3. ^ "World Boxing Association Super Belt winners". World Boxing Association. http://wbanews.com/artman/publish/campionshipSuperBeltWinners/index.shtml. Retrieved on 2009-03-02. 
  4. ^ "World Boxing Council: History & Founding Fathers". World Boxing Council. http://www.wbcboxing.com/WBCboxing/Portal/cfpages/contentmgr.cfm?docId=22&docTipo=1. Retrieved on 2006-06-06. 
  5. ^ "Rules that have changed the History of Boxing". World Boxing Council. http://www.wbcboxing.com/WBCboxing/Portal/cfpages/contentmgr.cfm?docId=125&docTipo=4. Retrieved on 2006-06-06. 
  6. ^ a b "Permanent Medical Research Program". World Boxing Council. http://www.wbcboxing.com/WBCboxing/Portal/cfpages/contentmgr.cfm?docId=125&docTipo=4. Retrieved on 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. http://web.archive.org/web/20001204194900/http://ibf-usba-boxing.com/history.html. Retrieved on 2006-06-06. 
  8. ^ "WBO logo". World Boxing Organization. http://www.wbo-int.com/images/logo.jpg. Retrieved on 2006-06-06. 
  9. ^ "Current Boxing Champions.". Yahoo!. May 7, 2007. http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news?slug=champs&prov=st&type=lgns. Retrieved on 2007-05-07. 
  10. ^ "Current Boxing Champions". Sports Illustrated. April 5, 2007. http://sports.si.cnn.com/default.asp?c=cnnsi&page=boxing/stat/champions.htm. Retrieved on 2007-05-07. 
  11. ^ Eisele, Andrew (May 6, 2007). "Boxing Champions". About.com. http://boxing.about.com/cs/rankingschampions/a/champs.htm. Retrieved on 2007-05-07. 
  12. ^ "List of Champions". BBC Sport. May 5, 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/champions_list/default.stm. Retrieved on 2007-05-07. 
  13. ^ "About The Ring". The Ring. February 14, 2009. http://www.ringtv.com/. Retrieved on 2009-02-08. 
  14. ^ a b Kellerman, Max (January 22, 2004). "Gatti vs. the unknown". ESPN. http://static.espn.go.com/boxing/columns/kellerman_max/1715320.html. Retrieved on 2009-03-03. 
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