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The World Boxing Organization (WBO) is a sanctioning organization currently recognizing 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....
 world champions. Its offices are located in San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan is the Capital and largest Municipalities of Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico. As of the United States Census Bureau, it has a population of 433,733, making it the List of United States cities by population city under the jurisdiction of the United States....
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WBO started after a group of Puerto Rican
Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
 and Dominican
Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are List of divided islands, Saint Martin being the other....
 businessmen broke out of the World Boxing Association
World Boxing Association

The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title, at the professional level....
's 1988 annual convention in Isla Margarita
Isla Margarita

Margarita Island is the largest island of the Nueva Esparta States of Venezuela in Venezuela, situated in the Caribbean Sea, off the northeastern coast of the country....
, Venezuela
Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
, claiming to be disgusted by the WBA's questionable rules and ratings systems.

The WBO's first president was Ramon Pina Acevedo of the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are List of divided islands, Saint Martin being the other....
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The World Boxing Organization (WBO) is a sanctioning organization currently recognizing 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....
 world champions. Its offices are located in San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan is the Capital and largest Municipalities of Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico. As of the United States Census Bureau, it has a population of 433,733, making it the List of United States cities by population city under the jurisdiction of the United States....
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History

The WBO started after a group of Puerto Rican
Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
 and Dominican
Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are List of divided islands, Saint Martin being the other....
 businessmen broke out of the World Boxing Association
World Boxing Association

The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title, at the professional level....
's 1988 annual convention in Isla Margarita
Isla Margarita

Margarita Island is the largest island of the Nueva Esparta States of Venezuela in Venezuela, situated in the Caribbean Sea, off the northeastern coast of the country....
, Venezuela
Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
, claiming to be disgusted by the WBA's questionable rules and ratings systems.

The WBO's first president was Ramon Pina Acevedo of the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are List of divided islands, Saint Martin being the other....
. Soon after its beginning, the WBO was staging world championship bouts around the globe. Its first championship fight was for its vacant super middleweight
Super middleweight

Super middleweight is a boxing Boxing weight classes that has a weight limit of 168 pounds. There was interest in a division between middleweight and light heavyweight in the 1970s, and a few states briefly recognized a "Junior Light Heavyweight" division at 167 pounds....
 title, between Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns

Thomas "Hitman" Hearns , is an United States 8-time world champion professional boxing.Hearns became the first ever quadruple world champion in boxing history....
 and James Kinchen; Hearns won by decision. In order to gain respectability, the WBO next elected former world light heavyweight champion Jose Torres
José Torres

Jos? Torres, known as "Chegui", was a Puerto Rican people professional boxing. As an amateur boxer, Torres won a silver medal in the junior middleweight at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne....
 of Ponce, Puerto Rico
Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce , officially the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce, is a Municipalities of Puerto Rico of Puerto Rico located in the Southern Coastal Plain region of the island, south of Adjuntas, Utuado and Jayuya; east of Pe?uelas; and west of Juana D?az....
, as its president. Torres left in 1996, giving way to Puerto Rican lawyer Francisco Varcarcel
Francisco Varcarcel

Francisco Valcarcel is a Puerto Rico lawyer who is also president of the World Boxing Organization....
 as president. Varcarcel has been there since.

The WBO was made popular by boxers such as Oscar De La Hoya
Oscar de la Hoya

Oscar De La Hoya — nicknamed "The Golden Boy" — is an United States boxing and promoter who won a List of Olympic medalists in boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics....
, 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....
, Naseem Hamed
Naseem Hamed

Naseem Hamed is a United Kingdom boxing and former Bantamweight and Featherweight champion born to Yemeni parents who emigrated to Sheffield. Hamed adopted the moniker "Prince" Naseem Hamed....
, Michael Carbajal
Michael Carbajal

Michael Carbajal is a Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona, United States native who is a retired four-time world boxing champion. He is nickname "Little Hands Of Stone," after his favorite boxer, the legendary "Hands Of Stone," Panamanian Roberto Dur?n....
, Johnny Tapia
Johnny Tapia

John Lee Tapia is a five-time world boxing champion. He is nicknamed "Mi Vida Loca"....
, Harry Simon
Harry Simon

Harry Eugene Simon was an United States shooting sports who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.In 1908 he won a silver medal in 300 metre free rifle event and took 19th place in the individual free rifle competition, scoring 86 points out of a possible 100 at the distance of 1000 yards....
, Nigel Benn
Nigel Benn

Nigel Benn is an England former Boxing who held world titles at both middleweight and super middleweight and was known as "The Dark Destroyer." He also served in Her Majesty's Armed Forces....
, Gerald McClellan
Gerald McClellan

Gerald McClellan is a former Boxing from the United States of America, who was world middleweight champion. McClellan's record as a professional boxer was 31 wins and 3 losses with 29 wins by knockout....
, Joe Calzaghe
Joe Calzaghe

Joseph William Calzaghe member of the Order of the British Empire, Order of the British Empire is an undefeated Welsh People former professional boxer....
, Steve Collins
Steve Collins

Steve Collins, nicknamed The Celtic Warrior, is a former boxing champion.He was born Stephen Collins on 21 July 1964, in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland....
, Michael Moorer
Michael Moorer

Michael Lee Moorer is a boxing who is a former light heavyweight and heavyweight World Champion....
, Dariusz Michalczewski
Dariusz Michalczewski

Dariusz Michalczewski is a former Poland light heavyweight boxer....
, Chris Eubank
Chris Eubank

Chris Eubank is a retired boxer and English celebrity who held the WBO Middleweight and Super Middleweight titles. He was world champion for over five years and undefeated as a middleweight....
, Vitali Klitschko
Vitali Klitschko

Dr. Vitali Vladimirovich Klitschko born 19 July 1971 in Belovodsk, Kyrgyzstan). Klitschko is a Ukrainian professional heavyweight boxing and the current World Boxing Council heavyweight champion....
, Wladimir Klitschko
Wladimir Klitschko

Wladimir Vladimirovich Klitschko is a Ukraine heavyweight Boxing. Klitschko currently holds the International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization world heavyweight titles and is ranked number one by the International_Boxing_Organization in the top 100 computerized rankings....
 and Chris Byrd
Chris Byrd

Chris Cornelius Byrd in Flint, Michigan where he attended Flint Northwestern High School is a 6'1" / 185.4 cm. tall Southpaw boxing, who was nicknamed "Rapid Fire"....
 in the 1990s.

Criticism


Initial holder of heavyweight title

The WBO sanctioned a fight between two relatively unknown fighters, Francesco Damiani
Francesco Damiani

Francesco Damiani was an Italy boxing who won the silver medal at the 1982 World Championships and at the 1984 Summer Olympics. As a professional, he was the first WBO heavyweight champion....
 and Johnny DuPlooy
Johnny DuPlooy

Johnny DuPlooy is a former South African boxer....
, to determine the initial holder of its heavyweight title in 1989, although all other sanctioning bodies of boxing recognized Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson

Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson, also known as Malik Abdul, is a retired United States Boxing. He was the List of undisputed boxing champions#Heavyweight and remains the youngest man ever to win a world heavyweight title at just 20 years old....
 as the heavyweight champion at the time. Damiani went on to win the initial WBO heavyweight title.

Ranking of deceased boxer

The WBO twice moved Darrin Morris
Darrin Morris

Darrin Morris was an United States super middleweight boxing, nicknamed "The Mongoose".Morris was born in Detroit and died in West Palm Beach....
 up in its super-middleweight rankings in 2001, despite the fact that he was dead. Morris was #7 at the time of his death and #5 when the WBO discovered the error. Varcarcel said, "We obviously missed the fact that Darrin was dead. It is regrettable." Valcarcel also stated that other boxing sanctioning organizations had made similar errors in the past by continuing to rank another boxer after he was dead. One week after British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 newspaper The Independent
The Independent

The Independent is a United Kingdom Compact newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly's Independent News & Media. It is nicknamed the Indy, with the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, being the Sindy....
 broke the story, one of the three men ranking the boxers, Gordon Volkman, still had not heard that Morris was dead.

Current WBO world title holders

Weight class:Title holder:Date won:
Mini flyweight Donnie Nietes
Donnie Nietes

Donnie Nietes is a Filipino people professional Boxing and the current World Boxing Organization minimumweight champion.His nickname "Ahas" which is Tagalog for "snake" comes from the way he approaches the ring with a python around him, a personal pet of his....
 September 30 2007
Junior flyweight Ivan Calderón
Ivan Calderón (boxer)

Iv?n Calder?n Marrero is a Puerto Rican people professional Boxing. As an amateur Calder?n represented Puerto Rico in international competitions and attended the 2000 Olympic Games in Australia....
 August 25 2007
Flyweight
Flyweight

Flyweight is a class in boxing which includes fighters weighing less than 112 lb but above 108 lb ....
 Omar Andrés Narváez
Omar Andrés Narváez

Omar Andr?s Narv?ez is a southpaw professional boxing in the flyweight division and is the WBO flyweight champion. Narv?ez was also the first boxer from the 2000 Olympics to capture a major world title....
 July 13 2002
Junior bantamweight Fernando Montiel
Fernando Montiel

Fernando Montiel is a professional boxing in the Super flyweight division. He is the current World Boxing Organization Super flyweight champion....
 April 9 2005
Bantamweight
Bantamweight

The term bantamweight usually refers to a boxing weight classes in boxing or boxers who human weight between 112 and 118 pound . Wrestling also has similar wrestling weight classes including bantamweight....
 Gerry Peñalosa
Gerry Peñalosa

Geronimo "Gerry" Pe?alosa is a Filipino professional Boxing. He's a winner of the World Boxing Council super flyweight and the WBO bantamweight championships....
 August 11 2007
Junior featherweight Juan Manuel Lopez
Juan Manuel López (boxer)

Juan Manuel "Juanma" L?pez Rivera is a Puerto Rican people Professional boxing Boxing. As an amateur boxing, Lopez represented Puerto Rico at numerous international tournaments including the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games, 2003 Pan American Games and the 2004 Summer Olympics....
 June 7 2008
Featherweight
Featherweight

Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing and wrestling ....
 Steven Luevano
Steven Luevano

Steven Luevano is an Mexican-American boxer in the Featherweight division.Luevano turned pro in 2000 and compiled a record of 32-1-0, which included a win over future champion Cristobal Cruz....
 July 14 2007
Junior lightweight Nicky Cook
Nicky Cook

Nicky Cook is an England boxing who fights at featherweight he is the current WBO super-featherweight champion and is the former BBBofC, Commonwealth and EBU featherweight champion....
  September 6 2008 
Lightweight
Lightweight

The word lightweight usually refers to a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight. It is also a slang term, indicating insignificance or ineptitude, for example having a low tolerance for liquor....
 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....
 February 28 2009
Junior welterweight Kendall Holt
Kendall Holt

Kendall Holt is an United States Professional boxing and the World Boxing Organization light welterweight champion....
 July 5 2008
Welterweight
Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system....
 Miguel Cotto
Miguel Cotto

Miguel ?ngel Cotto is a Puerto Rican people professional boxing. As an amateur, Cotto represented Puerto Rico in the lightweight and light welterweight divisions at various international events including the 1999 Pan American Games, the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 1998 Junior World Championships where he won a silver medal....
 February 21 2009
Junior middleweight Sergiy Dzinziruk December 3 2005
Middleweight
Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or Boxing weight classes, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s....
 Kelly Pavlik
Kelly Pavlik

Kelly Johnson Pavlik is an United States professional boxing. He is The Ring , World Boxing Council, and World Boxing Organization middleweight champion, defeating Jermain Taylor to earn those titles....
 September 29 2007
Super middleweight
Super middleweight

Super middleweight is a boxing Boxing weight classes that has a weight limit of 168 pounds. There was interest in a division between middleweight and light heavyweight in the 1970s, and a few states briefly recognized a "Junior Light Heavyweight" division at 167 pounds....
 Károly Balzsay
Károly Balzsay

K?roly Balzsay , nicknamed Karesz is a Hungary boxing who is currently the reigning World Boxing Organization Super middleweight champion...
 January 10 2009
Light heavyweight
Light heavyweight

In boxing, the light heavyweight division is the boxing weight classes between cruiserweight and super middleweight. The light heavyweight class has produced some of boxing's greatest champions: Muhammad Ali , Tommy Loughran, Billy Conn, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, Bob Foster, Michael Spinks, Bernard Hopkins, Roy Jones Jr....
 Zsolt Erdei
Zsolt Erdei

Zsolt Erdei is a Hungarian boxing in the light heavyweight division. He is the current World Boxing Organization light heavyweight champion.Erdei Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics....
 January 17 2004
Cruiserweight
Cruiserweight

Cruiserweight is a Boxing weight classes in boxing between light heavyweight and heavyweight. Before the advent of the current cruiserweight class, "light heavyweight" and "cruiserweight" were sometimes used interchangeably in Great Britain....
 Enzo Maccarinelli
Enzo Maccarinelli

Enzo Maccarinelli is a Welsh professional boxing and former World Boxing Organization World Cruiserweight champion.Professional career ...
 December 6 2008
Heavyweight
Heavyweight

Heavyweight is a division, or boxing weight classes, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Organization, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing Organization....
 Wladimir Klitschko
Wladimir Klitschko

Wladimir Vladimirovich Klitschko is a Ukraine heavyweight Boxing. Klitschko currently holds the International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization world heavyweight titles and is ranked number one by the International_Boxing_Organization in the top 100 computerized rankings....
 February 23 2008


Former champions


WBO affiliated organizations

  • North American Boxing Organization
    North American Boxing Organization

    The North American Boxing Organization is one of several regulators of boxing that works in North America.The North American Boxing Organization, also widely known as NABO, is affiliated to the World Boxing Organization....
     (NABO)
  • WBO LATINO (LATINO)
  • WBO Asia-Pacific


Transition of WBO titles

  • List of WBO world champions
    List of WBO world champions

    The following are lists of world champions in the World Boxing Organization. Champions listed defeated the previous champion unless noted....
  • List of WBO Asia Pacific champions
  • List of WBO Inter-Continental champions
  • List of WBO Latino champions


Other boxing organizations

  • World Boxing Association
    World Boxing Association

    The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title, at the professional level....
     (WBA)
  • World Boxing Council
    World Boxing Council

    The World Boxing Council was initially created by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo L?pez Mateos, to create an international boxi...
     (WBC)
  • International Boxing Federation
    International Boxing Federation

    The International Boxing Federation, or IBF, is one of four major organizations recognized by IBHOF which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council and WBO....
     (IBF)
  • World Professional Boxing Federation
    World Professional Boxing Federation

    The World Professional Boxing Federation is a non-profit governing body that sanctions world championship boxing bouts and subordinate championships bouts....
     (WPBF)
  • 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....
     (IBO)
  • World Boxing Union
    World Boxing Union

    The World Boxing Union is a lightly regarded boxing sanctioning body whose "world champions" often lack widespread recognition. WBU titles are often a stepping-stone for fighters who progress to other titles....
     (WBU)
  • International Boxing Association (IBA)


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