List of European Boxing Union bantamweight champions

European Boxing Union

The European Boxing Union is an organization that oversees competition in that sport over the continent of Europe.-History:The EBU started life as the International Boxing Union in Paris in 1910...

(EBU) is an organisation in the sport of boxing

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. The boxers that have won the EBU title in the bantamweight

Bantamweight

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division are listed below.

List of champions

List of EBU bantamweight champions.
Name	Date of title victory	Successful defences	Nationality
Joe Bowker	7 March 1910	0	British
Digger Stanley Digger Stanley George ‘Digger’ Stanley was an English boxer who was British and European bantamweight boxing champion.-Early life:...	17 October 1910	1	British
Charles Ledoux Charles Ledoux Charles Ledoux was a French bantamweight boxer.-External links:* at BoxRec-References:...	23 June 1912	3	French
Tommy Harrison	24 October 1921	0	British
Charles Ledoux Charles Ledoux Charles Ledoux was a French bantamweight boxer.-External links:* at BoxRec-References:...	24 April 1922	4	French
Bugler Harry Lake	30 July 1923	0	British
Johnny Brown	26 November 1923	1	British
Henri Scillie	11 May 1925	3	Belgian
Domenico Bernasconi Domenico Bernasconi Domenico Bernasconi was an Italian boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.He was born in Carate Lario....	10 March 1929	1	Italian
Carlos Flix	26 September 1929	1	Spanish
Lucien Popescu	19 September 1931	0	Romanian
Domenico Bernasconi Domenico Bernasconi Domenico Bernasconi was an Italian boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.He was born in Carate Lario....	19 March 1932	0	Italian
Nicolas Petit-Biquet	7 December 1932	6	Belgian
Maurice Dubois Maurice DuBois Maurice DuBois is an American television journalist.-Early life and education:He was born on Long Island, New York, the son of immigrants to the U.S...	11 May 1935	1	Swiss
Joseph Decico	19 February 1936	1	French
Aurel Toma	26 July 1936	0	Romanian
Nicolas Petit-Biquet	3 February 1937	0	Belgian
Aurel Toma	4 June 1938	0	Romanian
Ernst Weiss	11 August 1939	0	Austrian
Gino Cattaneo	25 November 1939	1	Italian
Gino Bondavalli	27 September 1941	1	Italian
Jackie Paterson Jackie Paterson Jackie Paterson was a Scottish boxer who was world flyweight boxing champion. He was also British champion at flyweight and bantamweight.-Early life:...	19 March 1946	1	British
Theo Medina	30 October 1946	0	French
Peter Kane Peter Kane Peter Kane was one of England's greatest flyweight boxers and a world champion in the 1930s. Kane was born in Heywood, Lancashire, on February 28, 1918, but grew up in the town of Golborne, Lancashire, after his family moved there before his first birthday.-Boxing style:He was a two-fisted...	19 September 1947	1	British
Guido Ferracin	20 February 1948	1	Italian
Luis Perez Romero	10 August 1949	3	Spanish
Peter Keenan	5 September 1951	0	British
Jean Sneyers	21 May 1952	0	Belgian
Peter Keenan	17 June 1953	0	British
John Kelly	3 October 1953	0	British
Robert Cohen Robert Cohen (boxer) Robert Cohen was a French boxer. Cohen was world bantamweight champion from 1954 to 1956.-Boxing career:...	27 February 1954	0	French
Mario D'Agata Mario D'Agata Mario D'Agata was a former boxer who holds the distinction of being the first, and so far only, world boxing champion to be deaf. On April 4, 2009, D'Agata died at the age of 83....	29 October 1955	1	Italian
Piero Rollo	12 October 1958	2	Italian
Freddie Gilroy Freddie Gilroy Frederick Gilroy, more commonly known as Freddie Gilroy, is a former boxer. Gilroy won a bronze medal for Ireland at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne at bantamweight.- Olympic results :...	3 November 1959	1	British
Jean Pierre Cossemyns	27 May 1961	1	Belgian
Piero Rollo	13 April 1962	0	Italian
Alphonse Halimi Alphonse Halimi Alphonse Halimi was a French boxer. He was nicknamed "la Petite Terreur."Time wrote of him: "Alphonse went to work with a street fighter's will. A grown-up guttersnipe from the back alleys of Algeria...	26 June 1962	0	French
Piero Rollo	28 October 1962	0	Italian
Mimoun Ben Ali	19 July 1963	0	Spanish
Risto Luukkonen	9 December 1963	1	Finnish
Mimoun Ben Ali	4 February 1965	0	Spanish
Tommaso Galli	19 August 1965	2	Italian
Mimoun Ben Ali	17 June 1966	2	Spanish
Salvatore Burruni Salvatore Burruni Salvatore Burruni , was an Italian flyweight and bantamweight boxer who fought between 1957 to 1969. Burruni was born in Alghero , and fought mostly in Europe.-Amateur career:...	10 January 1968	2	Italian
Franco Zurlo	17 December 1969	3	Italian
Alan Rudkin Alan Rudkin Alan Rudkin MBE was a British, Commonwealth, and European bantamweight boxing champion . He was born in St Asaph As his pregnant mother was evacuated from Liverpool during the second world war...	16 February 1971	0	British
Agustin Senin	10 August 1971	2	Spanish
Johnny Clark	17 April 1973	1	British
Bob Allotey	4 October 1974	0	Ghanaian
Daniel Trioulaire	9 February 1975	3	French
Salvatore Fabrizio	14 August 1976	0	Italian
Franco Zurlo	23 February 1977	5	Italian
Juan Francisco Rodríguez Juan Francisco Rodríguez Juan Francisco Rodríguez Márquez is a retired boxer from Spain, who twice represented his native country during the 1970s at the Summer Olympics. He reached the quarterfinals in 1972...	16 September 1978	2	Spanish
Johnny Owen Johnny Owen Johnny Owen was a professional boxer from Wales. His fragile appearance earned him many epithets, including ‘the Bionic Bantam’ and ‘the Merthyr Matchstick’. During his brief career, he held the Bantamweight Championships of Great Britain and Europe and became the first ever Welsh holder of the...	28 February 1980	0	British
Valerio Nati	3 December 1980	5	Italian
Giuseppe Fossati	28 April 1982	3	Italian
Walter Giorgetti	9 June 1983	3	Italian
Ciro De Leva	14 November 1984	7	Italian
Antoine Montero	27 October 1986	0	French
Louis Gomis Louis Gomis (boxer) Louis Gomis is a French boxer who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games...	22 May 1987	2	French
Fabrice Benichou Fabrice Benichou -Amateur career:In 1984 Benichou made it to the finals for the French National Bantamweight championship, but lost.-Pro Boxing career:Benichou won the IBF World Super Bantamweight championship in 1989. He lost it the following year to Welcome Ncita....	30 January 1988	0	French
Vincenzo Belcastro	13 April 1988	5	Italian
Thierry Jacob	30 September 1990	2	French
Johnny Bredahl Johnny Bredahl Johnny Bredahl , aka Johny Wahid Johansen, is a retired professional boxer in the bantamweight division. Bredahl is the former WBA world bantamweight champion...	14 March 1992	0	Danish
Vincenzo Belcastro	27 January 1993	3	Italian
Naseem Hamed Naseem Hamed Naseem Hamed is an English former professional boxer.He is the former WBO, WBC, IBF, & Lineal featherweight champion, and European bantamweight champion....	11 May 1994	1	British
Johnny Armour	19 April 1995	1	British
Johnny Bredahl Johnny Bredahl Johnny Bredahl , aka Johny Wahid Johansen, is a retired professional boxer in the bantamweight division. Bredahl is the former WBA world bantamweight champion...	31 May 1996	4	Danish
Paul Lloyd	12 December 1998	0	British
Johnny Bredahl Johnny Bredahl Johnny Bredahl , aka Johny Wahid Johansen, is a retired professional boxer in the bantamweight division. Bredahl is the former WBA world bantamweight champion...	4 May 1999	1	Danish
Luigi Castiglione Luigi Castiglione Luigi "Gino" Castiglioni is a former professional boxer from Italy, who won the silver medal at the 1991 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. In the final of the light flyweight he was defeated by Bulgaria's Ivailo Marinov. He turned professional in 1993, and retired in...	6 October 2000	0	Italian
Fabien Guillerme	12 March 2001	0	French
Alexander Yagupov	12 June 2001	0	Russian
Spend Abazi	21 September 2001	2	Danish
Noel Wilders	28 January 2003	1	British
David Guerault	10 June 2003	0	French
Frederic Patrac	11 June 2004	0	French
Simone Maludrottu Simone Maludrottu Simone Maludrottu is a professional boxer from Olbia, Sardinia, Italy. Maludrottu fights in the Bantamweight division and in the current European title holder.-Debut:...	18 September 2004	8	Italian
Carmelo Ballone	21 December 2007	1	Belgian
Ian Napa Ian Napa Ian Napa is a British boxer originally from Zimbabwe but now living in London. He is the former European bantamweight champion and is a former two time holder of the British bantamweight title.-Early professional career:...	17 October 2008	0	British
Malik Bouziane Malik Bouziane -Career:Bouziane participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. There, he was stopped in the second round of the bantamweight division by Russia's Gennady Kovalev....	20 March 2009	2	French
Jamie McDonnell Jamie McDonnell Jamie McDonnell is an English boxer who currently fights in the Bantamweight division. He is the current holder of the Commonwealth, European, and British bantamweight titles.-Professional Career:...	20 March 2010	2	British

List of champions

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