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Super Featherweight (also known as Junior Lightweight) is a weight division
Boxing weight classes

Boxing body weight-class names are not always consistent, as shown in the following table:Current weight classes for boxing at the Summer Olympics:...
 in professional boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
. The maximum weight for this division is 130 lbs.

The super featherweight division was created by the New York Walker Law
Walker Law

The Walker Law passed in 1920 was an early New York state law regulating boxing. The law reestablished legal boxing in the state following the three-year ban created by the repeal of the Frawley Law....
 in 1920, although first established by the New York State Athletic Commission
New York State Athletic Commission

The New York State Athletic Commission or NYSAC, also known as the New York Athletic Commission, regulates all contests and exhibitions of unarmed combat within the state of New York, including licensure and supervision of promoters, boxing, professional wrestling, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, seconds, ring officials, managers,...
 (NYSAC) in 1930. The first English champion was "Battling Kid" Nelson in 1914 who lost his title to Benny "Kid" Berger in 1915. Artie O’Leary also claimed this lightly regarded title in 1917.






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Super Featherweight (also known as Junior Lightweight) is a weight division
Boxing weight classes

Boxing body weight-class names are not always consistent, as shown in the following table:Current weight classes for boxing at the Summer Olympics:...
 in professional boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
. The maximum weight for this division is 130 lbs.

The super featherweight division was created by the New York Walker Law
Walker Law

The Walker Law passed in 1920 was an early New York state law regulating boxing. The law reestablished legal boxing in the state following the three-year ban created by the repeal of the Frawley Law....
 in 1920, although first established by the New York State Athletic Commission
New York State Athletic Commission

The New York State Athletic Commission or NYSAC, also known as the New York Athletic Commission, regulates all contests and exhibitions of unarmed combat within the state of New York, including licensure and supervision of promoters, boxing, professional wrestling, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, seconds, ring officials, managers,...
 (NYSAC) in 1930. The first English champion was "Battling Kid" Nelson in 1914 who lost his title to Benny "Kid" Berger in 1915. Artie O’Leary also claimed this lightly regarded title in 1917. This weight class appeared into two distinct historical periods: 1921-1933 and 1959-present.

Notable fighters to hold championship titles at this weight have been Flash Elorde, Alexis Argüello
Alexis Argüello

Alexis "The Explosive Thin Man" Arg?ello , is a former professional Boxing and three time World champion. Since his retirement from boxing, Arg?ello has become active in Nicaraguan politics and in November 2008 he was elected mayor of Managua, the nation's capital city....
, Azumah Nelson
Azumah Nelson

Azumah Nelson is a former boxer and three-time world champion. A native of Ghana.Nelson also has endured personal loss: His wife for many years died during the 1990s of cancer....
, Julio César Chávez
Julio César Chávez

Julio C?sar Ch?vez Gonz?lez is a legendary Mexico professional boxing....
, Diego Corrales
Diego Corrales

Diego "Chico" Corrales was a former super featherweight and lightweight world boxing champion. He is most noted for his series of bouts with Jos? Luis Castillo....
, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Érik Morales
Erik Morales

?rik Isaac "El Terrible" Morales Elvira is a semi-retired Mexican professional Boxing. He is a former seven-time world champion at WBC / WBO Super bantamweight , WBC Featherweight , WBC Super featherweight, WBC International Super Featherweight , and the IBF Junior lightweight divisions....
, Marco Antonio Barrera
Marco Antonio Barrera

Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia is a Mexicoprofessional boxing. He is a seven time world champion in three different weight classes; he is a former world champion at WBO Super Bantamweight , IBO / WBC Featherweight , WBC Super featherweight and IBF Junior lightweight divisions....
, Juan Manuel Márquez
Juan Manuel Márquez

Juan Manuel M?rquez M?ndez is a Mexico professional Boxing and the current World Boxing Association, World Boxing Organization and International Boxing Organization lightweight world champion as well as the current The Ring lightweight champion....
, and Manny Pacquiao
Manny Pacquiáo

Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao , known as Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao is a professional Filipino people boxing. He is the former World Boxing Council List of WBC world champions#Lightweight, World Boxing Council List of WBC world champions#Superfeatherweight, International Boxing Federation List of IBF world champions#Junior featherweight, and...
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Professional Champions

  • List of super featherweight boxing champions
    List of super featherweight boxing champions

    This is a chronological List of World Super Featherweight Boxing Champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations:...