List of IBO world champions
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The following is a List of IBO world champions, a table showing the world champions certificated by the International Boxing Organization
International Boxing Organization
The International Boxing Organization is a for-profit organization that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards world and subordinate championships.- Origins :...

 (IBO).

r – Champion relinquished title.

s – Champion stripped of title.

Strawweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   Noel Tuñacao 2003-03-08 — 2003-12-16r 0
2   Nkosinathi Joyi
Nkosinathi Joyi
Nkosinathi Joyi , is a South African professional boxer with a southpaw stance who goes by the nickname of "Mabere"...

2006-11-04 — June 2009s 3
3   Gideon Buthelezi
Gideon Buthelezi
Gideon Buthelezi is a South African light flyweight boxer. His stance is southpaw. Training under Elias Tshabalala's guidance, he was crowned the International Boxing Organization strawweight champion in June 2010...

2010-06-19 — 2011-01-27r 0
4   Hekkie Budler 2011-09-24 — present 0

Junior flyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   José Sanjuanelo 1998-11-07 — 2000-08-26 0
2   José García Bernal 2000-08-26 — 2002-04-17 1
3   Monelisi Mhikiza Myekeni 2002-04-17 — 2004s 1
4   Hekkie Budler 2010-02-27 — 2011-01-27 1
5   Gideon Buthelezi
Gideon Buthelezi
Gideon Buthelezi is a South African light flyweight boxer. His stance is southpaw. Training under Elias Tshabalala's guidance, he was crowned the International Boxing Organization strawweight champion in June 2010...

2011-01-27 — 2011-09-24s 0

Flyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   Scotty Olson 1994-12-09 — 1998r 5
2   Zolile Mbityi 1999-10-22 — 2000-09-30 1
3     Damaen Kelly
Damaen Kelly
Damaen Kelly is a former professional boxer from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who represented the Republic of Ireland at international level. Kelly fought his final professional fights in the Bantamweight division but was more noted for boxing in the Flyweight division...

2000-09-30 — 2001-11-21s 1
4   Masibulele Makepula
Masibulele Makepula
Masibulele Makepula is a professional boxer.- Amateur Achievements :*Gold Medalist at the 1995 African Championships in Harare as a Light Flyweight....

2002-01-26 — 2002-09-14 0
5   Mzukisi Sikali
Mzukisi Sikali
Mzukisi Sikali, , was a South African boxer who served as a world champion in three different weight categories: junior flyweight, flyweight, and super flyweight.-Murder:...

2002-09-14 — 2005-03-27 2
6   Vic Darchinyan
Vic Darchinyan
Vakhtang "Vic" Darchinyan is an Armenian professional boxer discovered by HyeFighters. He is a three-division world champion, having won eight titles in three different weight classes. He is a former IBF Flyweight World Champion and a former Undisputed WBA, WBC & IBF Super Flyweight World...

2005-03-27 — 2007-07-07 5
7   Nonito Donaire
Nonito Donaire
Nonito Donaire, Jr. is a Filipino-American professional boxer, who is widely known as "The Filipino Flash." He is a three-division world champion, having won five titles across three different boxing weight classes. He is a known switch-hitter with the ability to fight either southpaw or orthodox...

2007-07-07 — 2009r 3
8   César Seda 2009-09-18 — 2010s 0

Super flyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   Ángel Almena 1995-07-29 — 1995r 0
2   Ilido Julio 1998-09-19 — 1999-01-08 0
3   Edison Torres
Edison Torres
Edison Torres is a footballer currently playing for Peñarol of the Primera División in Uruguay.-Teams: Racing Club 2001-2004 Guaraní 2004-2005 Universal 2006 Tacuarembó 2007 Deportivo Pereira 2008 Atenas de San Carlos 2009-2010 Montevideo Wanderers 2010 Peñarol 2011-present-External links:*...

1999-01-08 — 1999-04-03 0
4   Mauricio Pastrana
Mauricio Pastrana (boxer)
Mauricio Antonio Pastrana Tapi, more commonly known as Mauricio Pastrana, is a Colombian professional boxer who fights in the super bantamweight division.-Professional career:...

1999-04-03 — 1999r 0
5   Lunga Ntontela 2002-12-13 — 2003r 0
6     Jason Booth
Jason Booth
Jason Booth is a British professional boxer who has competed in the flyweight, super flyweight, bantamweight and super bantamweight divisions. He is the current holder of the British and Commonwealth super bantamweight championships...

2003-09-20 — 2004-12-17 1
7     Damaen Kelly
Damaen Kelly
Damaen Kelly is a former professional boxer from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who represented the Republic of Ireland at international level. Kelly fought his final professional fights in the Bantamweight division but was more noted for boxing in the Flyweight division...

2004-12-17 — 2005r 0
8   Mbwana Matumla 2006-11-04 — 2007r 0
9   Vic Darchinyan
Vic Darchinyan
Vakhtang "Vic" Darchinyan is an Armenian professional boxer discovered by HyeFighters. He is a three-division world champion, having won eight titles in three different weight classes. He is a former IBF Flyweight World Champion and a former Undisputed WBA, WBC & IBF Super Flyweight World...

2007-10-20 — 2008r 0
10   Zolile Mbityi 2008-05-31 — 2009r 0

Bantamweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   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...

1996-02-16 — 1998-06-05r 7
2     Noel Wilders 2000-03-20 — 2001r 1
3   José Sanjuanelo 2001-07-14 — 2002-03-02 1
4   Silence Mabuza
Silence Mabuza
Silence Mabuza is a professional boxer in the bantamweight division, and as of Jan. 6, 2008, is a former two time holder of the International Boxing Organization's world Bantamweight title....

2002-03-02 — 2005-11-05 6
5   Rafael Márquez
Rafael Márquez (boxer)
Rafael Márquez Méndez is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a former world champion at the IBF / IBO Bantamweight and WBC Super Bantamweight divisions....

2005-11-05 — 2006r 1
6   Silence Mabuza (2) 2007-05-12 — 2009r 2
7   Simpiwe Vetyeka 2009-07-11 — 2010r 0
8   Vic Darchinyan
Vic Darchinyan
Vakhtang "Vic" Darchinyan is an Armenian professional boxer discovered by HyeFighters. He is a three-division world champion, having won eight titles in three different weight classes. He is a former IBF Flyweight World Champion and a former Undisputed WBA, WBC & IBF Super Flyweight World...

2010-05-20 — 2010-12-11 0
9   Vic Darchinyan (2) 2011-04-23 — present 1

Super bantamweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1     John Lowey
John Lowey
John Lowey is a former professional boxer. Lowey fought at super bantamweight and won the IBO world title in 1995.-External links:...

1995-04-20 — 1995r 0
2   Serhiy Devakov 1996-05-21 — 1997r 0
3     Patrick Mullings 1998-03-28 — 1998-08-08 0
4   Simon Ramoni 1998-08-08 — 2001r 3
5   Paulie Ayala
Paulie Ayala
Paul Anthony Ayala is a Mexican-American former boxer and two time world champion. Ayala is a born-again Christian, and he professed so by thanking God for his success after virtually every fight...

2001-08-04 — 2002r 1
6   Zolani Marali
Zolani Marali
Zolani Marali is a South African lightweight boxer . He was born in Eastern Cape, South Africa. In April 2009, he won the International Boxing Organization superfeatherweight boxing title after defeating Gamaliel Diaz...

2003-07-11 — 2004-05-22 0
7   Thomas Mashaba
Thomas Mashaba
Thomas Mashaba is a professional boxer in the featherweight division holding the lightly regarded IBO title....

2004-05-22 — 2005r 0
8   Takalani Ndlovu
Takalani Ndlovu
Takalani Ndlovu , is a South African professional boxer with orthodox stance who goes by the nickname of "Panther". His professional record includes 38 fights: 32 wins , and 6 losses...

2005-11-04 — 2007-07-14s 3
9   Mike Oliver 2007-11-08 — 2008r 0
10   Tshifhiwa Munyai
Tshifhiwa Munyai
Tshifhiwa Munyai is a professional boxer from South Africa who has competed in the bantamweight and featherweight divisions. He is the current holder of the WBA inter-continental bantamweight title and is a former holder of the Commonwealth bantamweight title....

2011-03-26 — present 0

Featherweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   Derrick Gainer
Derrick Gainer
Derrick "Smoke" Gainer is a US born boxer who started out in the featherweight division and now fights in the lightweight division. In 2000, he defeated Freddie Norwood to win the World Boxing Association featherweight title and after four defenses lost to Juan Manuel Márquez, who became super...

1993-11-30 — 1994r 0
2   Radford Beasley 1997-09-26 — 1998r 0
3   Junior Jones
Junior Jones
Junior Jones is an American former professional boxer. Known by his nickname of "Poison", he won world championships at bantamweight and super bantamweight, and is best remembered for his two victories over then-undefeated Mexican legend Marco Antonio Barrera.-Amateur career:Jones won two New York...

1999-04-10 — 1999r 0
4   Marco Antonio Barrera
Marco Antonio Barrera
Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia is a Mexicanprofessional boxer. He has won numerous world titles in three different weight classes; he is a former two-time WBO super bantamweight , WBC, Lineal, & The Ring featherweight , and WBC & IBF super featherweight champion...

2001-04-07 — 2002r 0
5     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....

2002-05-18 — 2002r 0
6     Michael Brodie
Michael Brodie
Michael Brodie is a former professional boxer who fought in the Super Bantamweight and Featherweight divisions.-Boxing career:...

2003-06-21 — 2003r 0
7   Vuyani Bungu
Vuyani Bungu
Vuyani Bungu was a professional boxer. Known as "Carousel Kid" or "The Beast", Bungu was a force in the super bantamweight division throughout the 1990s.-Professional career:...

2004-02-07 — 2005-06-25 0
8   Thomas Mashaba
Thomas Mashaba
Thomas Mashaba is a professional boxer in the featherweight division holding the lightly regarded IBO title....

2005-06-25 — 2008-03-07 4
9   Cristóbal Cruz
Cristóbal Cruz
Cristóbal Cruz Rivera, also known as Lacandón is a Mexican professional boxer and former IBF Featherweight Champion.-Career:...

2008-03-07 — 2008r 0
10   Fernando Beltrán Jr
Fernando Beltrán Jr
Fernando Manuel Beltrán Machado is a Mexican boxer in the Lightweight division. He is also the former IBO Featherweight Champion and the son of boxing promoter Fernando Beltrán who is the president of Mexico's Zanfer Promotions, and was selected for the Latino Promoter of the Year by the WBO in...

2008-08-22 — 2009r 0
11   Jackson Asiku 2009-11-06 — 2010-09-15 0
12   Jhonny González
Jhonny González
Jhonny González is a Mexican professional boxer and is the current WBC featherweight champion...

2010-09-15 — 2011s 0

Super featherweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   John Roby 1993-04-03 — 1994-04-21 0
2   Jeff Mayweather
Jeff Mayweather
Jeff Mayweather was a boxer who fought in the 1990s.- Pro career :"Jazzy Jeff" had a career boxing record of 32-10-5...

1994-04-21 — 1995-08-25 2
3   Israel Cardona 1995-08-25 — 1995r 0
4   Jimmi Bredahl
Jimmi Bredahl
Jimmi Bredahl , aka Jimmy Bredahl, is a professional boxer in the super featherweight division...

1996-03-29 — 1996r 0
5   Israel Cardona (2) 1996-04-12 — 1996r 0
6   Troy Dorsey
Troy Dorsey
Troy Glenn Dorsey is a former professional boxer and martial arts fighter. He is the only man in history to hold world titles in both karate and boxing.-Martial arts career:...

1996-10-18 — 1997r 0
7     Charles Shepherd
Charles Shepherd (Boxer)
Charles "The Bull" Shepherd is the former British, Commonwealth and World Super Featherweight boxing champion....

1999-07-31 — 2000-02-26 0
8   Affif Djelti 2000-02-26 — 2002r 3
9   Cassius Baloyi
Cassius Baloyi
Cassius Baloyi, , is a professional boxer.-Professional career:Known as "Mr. Shy Guy", Baloyi turned pro in 1994 and captured the Vacant IBF Super Featherweight Title in 2005 with a TKO win over Manuel Medina...

2002-04-17 — 2006-07-29 5
10   Gairy St Clair 2006-07-29 — 2006-11-04s 0
11   Cassius Baloyi (2) 2007-02-03 — 2007r 0
12   Billy Dib
Billy Dib
Billy "The Kid" Dib is an Australian professional boxer. He is the current IBF Featherweight Champion. He is the former IBO super featherweight champion.-Early years:Bilal Dib was born on 17 August 1985 at Kogarah Hospital in Sydney, Australia...

2008-07-30 — 2008s 0
13   Zolani Marali
Zolani Marali
Zolani Marali is a South African lightweight boxer . He was born in Eastern Cape, South Africa. In April 2009, he won the International Boxing Organization superfeatherweight boxing title after defeating Gamaliel Diaz...

2009-04-02 — 2009-09-12 0
14   Ji Hoon Kim
Ji-Hoon Kim
Ji-Hoon Kim is a South Korean super featherweight/lightweight boxer.- Boxing career :Ji-Hoon "Volcano" Kim began his boxing career in October 2004 in South Korea, winning eight of his first 12 fights...

2009-09-12 — 2010r 0
15   Will Tomlinson
Will Tomlinson
Will Tomlinson is a undefeated Australian super featherweight boxer, based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.-Professional career:2008...

2011-11-30 — present 0

Lightweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   Anthony Boyle 1993-12-28 — 1994r 0
2   Amado Cabato 1994-12-11 — 1995-03-10 0
3   Lester Ellis
Lester Ellis
Lester Ellis is a boxer, who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He was world boxing champion in 1985 winning the IBF super lightweight world title and also won the WBF Welterweight division 1993, IBO Light Welterweight division in 1994, IBO Lightweight division in 1995.Ellis earned early success as...

1995-03-10 — 1995r 0
4   Billy Irwin 1995-06-08 — 1995r 0
5   Leavander Johnson
Leavander Johnson
Leavander Johnson was an American lightweight boxer from Atlantic City, New Jersey, who once held the International Boxing Federation version of the world title...

1995-07-29 — 1996r 0
6   Tony Pep
Tony Pep
Tony Pep is a boxer from New Westminster, British Columbia. He had a record of 42 wins , 10 losses, and 1 draw....

1996-03-07 — 1997r 1
7     Michael Ayers 1999-03-12 — 2001-12-26r 6
8     Jason Cook
Jason Cook (boxer)
Jason Cook is a professional boxer, who fights under the nickname "The Power". As an amateur, he won a silver medal for Wales at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. As a professional, he has fought as a lightweight, and has won both the European and IBO championships at the weight...

2003-11-08 — 2004-11-05 1
9   Aldo Nazareno Ríos 2004-11-05 — 2005r 0
10   Isaac Hlatshwayo
Isaac Hlatshwayo
Isaac Hlatshwayo is a professional boxer from South Africa. He resides in Soweto, Gauteng. His nickname is "The Angel". His professional record includes 32 fights: 29 wins , 1 loss, 1 draw and 1 no-contest. He won the vacant IBF Welterweight Title against Delvin Rodríguez from the Dominican...

2005-08-31 — 2006r 2
11   Juan Díaz 2008-09-06 — 2009-02-28s 0
12   Mlungisi Dlamini 2009-10-31 — 2010-01-29 0
13   Leonardo Zappavigna
Leonardo Zappavigna
Leonardo "Lenny" Zappavigna is a professional boxer of Italian descent. He is the current IBO Lightweight and IBF Pan Pacific Light Welterweight champion.-Honours:...

2010-03-06 — 2010s 0

Junior welterweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   Mike Evgen
Mike Evgen
Mike Evgen, alias The Rice Street Rocker, is a retired welterweight professional boxer from Minnesota.-Personal life:Mike Evgen, as his nickname implies, is from the Rice Street neighborhood in Saint Paul, Minnesota...

1992-04-09 — 1992r 0
2   Mike Johnson 1993-02-19 — 1994r 1
3   Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather is a retired professional boxer. He won two major world titles in two different weight classes. Throughout his career, Mayweather fought against many other boxing champions of the 1980s and 1990s. He is a part of the Mayweather boxing family; his brothers are former welterweight...

1994-05-28 — 1994r 0
4   Lester Ellis
Lester Ellis
Lester Ellis is a boxer, who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He was world boxing champion in 1985 winning the IBF super lightweight world title and also won the WBF Welterweight division 1993, IBO Light Welterweight division in 1994, IBO Lightweight division in 1995.Ellis earned early success as...

1994-12-03 — 1995r 0
5   Mario Martínez
Mario Martinez (boxer)
Mario Martínez is a former Mexican boxer best known for losing to fellow Mexican Julio César Chávez for a vacant world title. in 1984, it is said that such bout catapulted Chavez's career.-Career:Martinez turned pro in 1980...

1995-07-29 — 1995r 0
6   Darrell Hiles 1995-09-23 — 1995r 0
7   Verdell Smith
Verdell Smith
Verdell Smith, a.k.a. Tommy Bowles, a.k.a. Tim Brooks was a professional boxer in the light welterweight division...

1996-01-18 — 1996r 0
8   Johar Abu Lashin
Johar Abu Lashin
Johar Abu Lashin is a former lightweight and welterweight boxer, who was the first Israeli to win a world championship and was described in 2001 as "Israel's most successful boxer".-Personal life:...

1997-02-28 — 1997r 0
9   Israel Cardona 1997-04-25 — 1997r 0
10   Ener Julio
Ener Julio
Ener Julio is a boxer from Cartagena, Colombia, and a former WBO world junior welterweight champion.Julio began boxing professionally in 1994, and captured the WBO Light Welterweight Title with a decision victory over Randall Bailey. He lost the belt in his first defense to DeMarcus Corley after a...

1998-09-12 — 1998r 1
11   Newton Villarreal 2000-02-05 — 2001-04-07 2
12     Billy Schwer
Billy Schwer
William Schwer , more commonly known as Billy Schwer, is a former professional boxer from Luton in Bedfordshire, England....

2001-04-07 — 2001-07-14 0
13   Pablo Daniel Sarmiento
Daniel Sarmiento
Pablo Daniel Sarmiento is an Argentine professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division and is the former IBO Light Welterweight Champion...

2001-07-14 — 2004-05-08 3
14     Colin Lynes
Colin Lynes
Colin Lynes is a British professional boxer from Hornchurch in London. He is a former IBO World, British and European champion at light welterweight and is the reigning British champion at welterweight.-Early Professional Career:...

2004-05-08 — 2005r 1
15   Stevie Johnston
Stevie Johnston
Steven Earl Johnston is an American boxer in the lightweight division. Johnston is a two-time former WBC Lightweight Champion.- Amateur career :...

2006-01-27 — 2006r 0
16     Ricky Hatton
Ricky Hatton
Richard John Hatton MBE, more commonly known as Ricky "the Hitman" Hatton, , is a former British professional boxer, and currently a promoter....

2007-01-20 — 2009-05-02 3
17   Manny Pacquiao
Manny Pacquiao
Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...

2009-05-02 — 2010s 0

Welterweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   Kenny Gould 1993-01-08 — 1993r 0
2   Johnny Bizzarro 1993-08-18 — 1994-08-04 1
3   Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather is a retired professional boxer. He won two major world titles in two different weight classes. Throughout his career, Mayweather fought against many other boxing champions of the 1980s and 1990s. He is a part of the Mayweather boxing family; his brothers are former welterweight...

1994-08-04 — 1995r 1
4   Kip Diggs
Kip Diggs
Kip Andre Diggs is an American professional boxer who has a record of 30-5 . He fought his first match at the Cape Cod Melody Tent.-External links:*...

1995-06-30 — 1995r 0
5     Kevin Lueshing 1996-07-17 — 1997-01-11s 0
6   José Antonio Rivera
José Antonio Rivera
José Antonio Rivera is an American professional boxer in the super welterweight division.His record is 39-6-1 . He is a former WBA welterweight and WBA world super welterweight champion. He is of Puerto Rican descent....

1997-04-25 — 1998r 0
7   Dingaan Thobela
Dingaan Thobela
Dingaan Bongane Thobela , is a professional boxer in the Super Middleweight division."Rose of Soweto" The Dingaan Thobela story , the intimate biography written by Internationally renowned Deon Potgieter is available for order through all leading on-line stores world wide e.g.; Amazon, Barnes &...

1999-03-06 — 1999r 0
8   Peter Malinga 1999-10-22 — 2000r 0
9   Willy Wise 2000-12-02 — 2001-06-11 0
10     Jawaid Khaliq 2001-06-11 — 2004-02-14r 7
11   Floyd Mayweather Jr 2006-04-08 — 2007r 1
12   Isaac Hlatshwayo
Isaac Hlatshwayo
Isaac Hlatshwayo is a professional boxer from South Africa. He resides in Soweto, Gauteng. His nickname is "The Angel". His professional record includes 32 fights: 29 wins , 1 loss, 1 draw and 1 no-contest. He won the vacant IBF Welterweight Title against Delvin Rodríguez from the Dominican...

2007-05-12 — 2008r 2
13   Lovemore N'dou
Lovemore N'dou
Lovemore N'dou is an Australian based South African boxer.He was the IBF world light welterweight champion, until he lost the title to Paul Malignaggi.-Fight career:...

2009-07-11 — 2010s 2
14   Chris van Heerden 2011-09-24 — present 0

Junior middleweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   Lonnie Beasley 1993-04-10 — 1994r 0
2   Lester Ellis
Lester Ellis
Lester Ellis is a boxer, who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He was world boxing champion in 1985 winning the IBF super lightweight world title and also won the WBF Welterweight division 1993, IBO Light Welterweight division in 1994, IBO Lightweight division in 1995.Ellis earned early success as...

1995-07-17 — November 1995s 0
3   Patrick Goossen 1996-06-26 — 1996r 0
4   Manny Sobral 1996-12-12 — 1997r 1
5     Adrian Stone 2000-04-15 — 2001r 3
6     Richard Williams 2001-12-01 — 2003-06-21 3
7   Sergio Gabriel Martínez
Sergio Gabriel Martínez
Sergio Gabriel Martínez is an Argentine professional boxer and the current The Ring middleweight champion....

2003-06-21 — 2004r 2
8   Mihály Kótai 2005-06-04 — 2006-03-03 1
9     Steve Conway
Steve Conway
Steve Conway is an Irish broadcaster and writer, formerly of the offshore pirate station Radio Caroline and most recently a presenter on the Dublin indie rock station Phantom 105.2....

2006-03-03 — 2006-06-03 0
10   Attila Kovács
Attila Kovacs
Attila Kovács is a former Hungarian sprinter, born in Szekszard. He is 11 times the Hungarian 100 metre Champion, and 4 times the 200 metre champion.-Best performances:* 100 m: 10"09 in Miskolc * 200 m: 20"11 in Miskolc...

2006-06-03 — 2008s 1
11   Zaurbek Baysangurov
Zaurbek Baysangurov
Zaurbek Baysangurov is a chechen boxer and the current interim WBO Light Middleweight Champion.-Amateur:...

2010-12-04 — present 0

Middleweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   Glenwood Brown
Glenwood Brown
Glenwood Brown was a professional boxer in the welterweight division.- Amateur career :...

1995-08-25 — 1997r 0
2   Freeman Barr
Freeman Barr
Freeman Barr is a boxer from the Bahamas, who made his professional debut on 1993-02-26. He is nicknamed The Natural.-Pro career:...

1997-09-20 — 1998r 1
3   Mpush Makambi 1998-09-08 — 2000-09-30 3
4   Raymond Joval
Raymond Joval
Raymond Joval is a professional boxer from The Netherlands, who was formerly the International Boxing Organization World Middleweight Champion....

2000-09-30 — 2004s 4
5   Raymond Joval (2) 2005-06-03 — 2006r 1
6   Daniel Geale
Daniel Geale
Daniel Geale is a middleweight boxer and current IBF middleweight champion from Australia, who won the gold medal in the men's welterweight division at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, United Kingdom.-Amateur career:Other than winning the 2002 2002 Commonwealth Games at welterweight,...

2007-12-14 — 2009-05-27 1
7   Anthony Mundine
Anthony Mundine
Anthony Mundine is an Australian professional boxer and former rugby league footballer.He is the current interim WBA Light Middleweight Champion boxer, former two-time WBA Super Middleweight Champion, former IBO Middleweight Champion and New South Wales State of Origin representative footballer....

2009-05-27 — 2009r 0
8   Peter Manfredo Jr 2010-05-22 — 2011s 0
9   Avtandil Khurtsidze 2011-03-13 — 2011s 1

Super middleweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   Willie Ball 1992-07-17 — 1992-10-09 0
2   Todd Nadon 1992-10-09 — 1993r 0
3   Vinny Pazienza 1993-12-28 — 1994r 0
4   Rick Thornberry 1995-04-21 — 1996s 0
5   Karl Willis 1996-10-13 — 1996s 0
6   Eddie White 1996-11-27 — 1997s 0
7   Mads Larsen
Mads Larsen
Mads Larsen , known as Golden Boy, is a professional boxer in the super middleweight division. During his career Larsen has held the European, IBO and WBF world super middleweight champion...

1997-05-02 — 1999r 4
8   Dana Rosenblatt
Dana Rosenblatt
"Dangerous" Dana Rosenblatt was a left-handed professional boxer who held a variety of minor boxing titles.Rosenblatt began practicing martial arts at age 13 and earned a black belt in Tang Soo Do when he was 16...

1999-11-05 — 2000r 0
9     Adrian Dodson
Adrian Dodson
Adrian Dodson is a British former Olympic boxer. He competed for Guyana at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul under the name Adrian Carew before representing Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics....

2001-03-03 — 2001-04-07 0
10   Ramon Arturo Brítez 2001-04-07 — 2001-12-10 0
11     Brian Magee
Brian Magee
Brian Magee is reigning European super middleweight boxing champion, who as an amateur competed for Ireland in the middleweight division at the 1996 Summer Olympics...

2001-12-10 — 2004-06-26 7
12     Robin Reid 2004-06-26 — 2005-08-06 0
13   Jeff Lacy
Jeff Lacy
Jeffrey Scott Lacy is an American boxer. He is a former International Boxing Federation super middleweight champion.-Amateur career:...

2005-08-06 — 2006-03-04s 1
14   Fulgencio Zúñiga
Fulgencio Zúñiga
Fulgencio Zúñiga is a professional boxer of 178 cm height, current IBO Super middleweight champion, having beaten previously undefeated knockout artist Victor Oganov for the vacant title on September 1, 2007...

2007-09-01 — 2008r 0
15   Sakio Bika
Sakio Bika
Sakio "The Scorpion" Bika , is a professional boxer in the super middleweight division. He is the former IBO super middleweight world champion.-Amateur career:...

2008-11-13 — 2010s 0
16   Isaac Chilemba
Isaac Chilemba
Isaac Chilembe is a Malawian professional boxer who competes in the light heavyweight and super middleweight divisions. He is the current holder of the full IBO belt at super middleweight and the WBC International title at light heavyweight. He has also held the African Boxing Union titles at...

2010-06-19 — 2011s 1
17   Thomas Oosthuizen
Thomas Oosthuizen
Thomas "Tommy Gun" Oosthuizen is a South African professional boxer and the current IBO Super Middleweight champion.. The Ring Magazine presently ranks him at ninth in the Super Middleweight division, while ESPN has him at number ten...

2011-03-26 — present 3

Light heavyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   Lenny LaPaglia 1993-08-20 — 1993r 0
2   Drake Thadzi
Drake Thadzi
Drake Thadzi is a 6'1 light heavyweight retired boxer from Malawi, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California...

1997-05-14 — 1998-12-12r 1
3   Roy Jones Jr 2000-09-09 — 2004-05-15 5
4   Antonio Tarver
Antonio Tarver
Antonio Deon Tarver , nicknamed the "Magic Man", is a professional boxer from Orlando, Florida and the former WBC, WBA, IBF, & The Ring light heavyweight champion....

2004-05-15 — 2004-12-18 0
5   Glen Johnson
Glen Johnson (boxer)
Glengoffe Donovan Johnson is a professional boxer. Nicknamed Gentleman and The Road Warrior, Johnson is the former IBF and Ring magazine light heavyweight champion.-Amateur career:...

2004-12-18 — 2005-06-18 0
6   Antonio Tarver (2) 2005-06-18 — 2006-06-10 1
7   Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins Jr, known as The Executioner is an American boxer and the current Ring Magazine and WBC light heavyweight champion...

2006-06-10 — 2006r 0
8   Antonio Tarver (3) 2007-06-09 — 2008-10-11 2
9   Chad Dawson
Chad Dawson
"Bad" Chad Dawson is an American boxer from Hartsville, South Carolina, USA, and the former WBC & IBF light heavyweight champion. Dawson is rated by The Ring Magazine as the number four Light Heavyweight boxer in the world.-Early life:...

2008-10-11 — 2010-08-14 2
10   Jean Pascal
Jean Pascal
Jean-Thenistor Pascal is a Canadian professional boxer. He is the former WBC, IBO and Ring magazine light heavyweight champion of the world.-Early life:...

2010-08-14 — 2011-05-21 1

Cruiserweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   David Izeqwire 1993-12-28 — 1994-11-05 1
2   Adolpho Washington
Adolpho Washington
Adolpho Washington was a professional boxer best known to hold the IBF Cruiser title for one fight. He had little power but a "steel" chin, and was never knocked out as a pro ....

1994-11-05 — 1995-03-17s 0
3   Ted Cofie 1995-11-03 — 1997r 0
4   Booker T. Word 1997-04-18 — 1997r 0
5   James Toney
James Toney
James Nathanial Toney is an American professional boxer who has held world titles in the middleweight, super middleweight, and cruiserweight divisions. Toney currently fights in the heavyweight division in boxing and also now competes in mixed martial arts.-Boxing career:Toney's amateur boxing...

1997-06-14 — 1998r 0
6   Robert Daniels
Robert Daniels
Robert Daniels , is a professional boxer in the Cruiserweight division.Daniels, known as "Preacherman," turned pro in 1984 and in 1989 he captured the vacant World Boxing Association cruiserweight title by defeating a badly faded 36-year old Dwight Muhammad Qawi...

1998-05-05 — 1999r 0
7   Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns
Thomas "Hitman" Hearns is a retired American boxer. Nicknamed the "Motor City Cobra" and more famously "The Hitman", Hearns became the first boxer in history to win world titles in four divisions. He would also become the first fighter in history to win five world titles in five different divisions...

1999-04-10 — 2000-04-08 0
8   Uriah Grant
Uriah Grant
Uriah Grant was a professional boxer. Nicknamed "Bossman", Grant was not a force in his weight classes, but was a notable contender who briefly captured the IBF Cruiserweight Title.-Pro career:...

2000-04-08 — 2001-02-03 0
9     Carl Thompson
Carl Thompson (boxer)
Carl Adrian Thompson is a retired British boxer and the former WBO, European, & British cruiserweight champion.- Professional boxing career :...

2001-02-03 — 2001-11-26 0
10   Ezra Sellers 2001-11-26 — 2002-04-06s 0
11   Sebastiaan Rothmann 2002-10-26 — 2004-02-06 1
12     Carl Thompson (2) 2004-02-06 — 2005-11-26r 1
13   Tomasz Adamek
Tomasz Adamek
Tomasz Adamek is a Polish professional heavyweight boxer. His record is 44-2 .He is the former WBC world light heavyweight champion and the former IBF, IBO and The Ring magazine cruiserweight champion. As of the end of 2009, Ring Magazine has ranked Adamek as the 30th best boxer in the world...

2007-06-09 — 2008r 0
14   Johnathon Banks
Johnathon Banks
Johnathon Maurice Banks is a professional boxer. Prior to turning pro, Banks was a three time National Amateur Champion at 178 lbs.Banks started playing the piano in middle school, but boxing soon took over and dominated that desire...

2008-07-12 — 2009-02-27s 0
15   Danny Green
Danny Green
Daniel "Danny" Green is an Australian professional boxer and the former IBO cruiserweight champion.- Amateur boxing career and the Olympics :...

2009-08-15 — 2011-07-20 4
16   Antonio Tarver
Antonio Tarver
Antonio Deon Tarver , nicknamed the "Magic Man", is a professional boxer from Orlando, Florida and the former WBC, WBA, IBF, & The Ring light heavyweight champion....

2011-07-20 — present 0

Heavyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1   Pinklon Thomas
Pinklon Thomas
Pinklon Thomas is a retired heavyweight boxer and former WBC heavyweight champion whose trademark pink boxing trunks and a left jab were key distinguishing characteristics....

1992-11-14 — 1993-01-29r 0
2   Lionel Butler 1993-02-23 — 1993r 0
3   Danell Nicholson
Danell Nicholson
Danell Nicholson was an American Olympian and a boxer in the heavyweight division.-Amateur career:Nicholson was a member of the 1992 United States Olympic Team as a Heavyweight...

1994-08-04 — 1994r 0
4   Jimmy Thunder
Jimmy Thunder
Jimmy Thunder , is a former Samoan boxer.- Early life :During his early life and amateur career, Thunder was known as Jimmy Peau. His mother Papaliitele Milagi Leaupepe is from the village of Fasitoouta, and his father Lupematasila Maalo Faasavalu Peau is from the village of Falelatai...

1994-10-29 — 1995r 2
5   Brian Nielsen 1996-01-12 — September 1999r 6
6     Lennox Lewis
Lennox Lewis
Lennox Claudius Lewis, CM, CBE is a retired boxer and the most recent British undisputed world heavyweight champion. He holds dual British and Canadian citizenship...

1999-11-13 — 2001-04-22 3
7   Hasim Rahman
Hasim Rahman
Hasim Sharif Rahman is an American professional boxer. Rahman is the former Lineal, WBC, IBO, & IBF heavyweight champion...

2001-04-22 — 2001-11-17 0
8     Lennox Lewis (2) 2001-11-17 — 2004-02-06r 2
9   Wladimir Klitschko
Wladimir Klitschko
Wladimir Klitschko is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer. Klitschko is the WBA , IBF, WBO Super, IBO & Ring Magazine Champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC champion...

2006-04-22 — present 10

See also

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