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Heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and professional wrestling. Boxing. Professional. Male boxers who weigh over 200 pounds (91 kg; 14 st 4 lb) are ...
The first of the current organizations to award a world title was the World Boxing Association (WBA), then known as the National Boxing Association (NBA), when it sanctioned its first title fight in 1921 between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier for the world heavyweight championship.
The Ring has recognized heavyweight champions during two periods, commencing with its inaugural issue in 1922 and continuing until the 1990s, then again from 2002 to the present day. Under its original policy, a champion earned championship recognition in the ring, defeating the preceding champion or winning a bout between its top rated contenders.
Diagram that represents top 26 world heavyweight champions by number of opponents beaten for the world heavyweight title (as of 19 May 2024) The list does not include The Ring and lineal championship fights after July 2, 1921, although it only includes heavyweight champions that captured undisputed championship (July 2, 1921–present), lineal ...
As professional boxing has four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) each with their own champions, the sport doesn't have a centralized ranking system.The rankings published by these organizations share the trait of not ranking the other organizations' champions, as each one of the sanctioning bodies expects their champion to frequently defend their title against their top-ranked ...
The lower limit for "heavyweight" was established in 1948 at 81 kg. When a new limit of 91+ kg was established in 1984, the name "heavyweight" was kept by the 81+ kg class, and the 91+ kg class was named "super heavyweight", a name not currently used in professional boxing. Classes are as follows: [16]
WBC Light heavyweight – (2) Aug 7, 1997: Montell Griffin: KO 1/12 WBC Light heavyweight – (3) Jun 1998 Reinstated: WBA Light heavyweight, later promoted to inaugural Super champion; Status changed to Unified champion on WBA's official rankings. Jul 18, 1998 Lou Del Valle: UD 12/12 Super Dec 2000 Unified Aug 5, 2002 IBF Light heavyweight ...
Light heavyweight: WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO, and The Ring (Undisputed) 4 8 4 4 5 Canelo Álvarez: 61–2–2 (39 KO) Super middleweight: WBA (Super), WBC, WBO, and The Ring: 6 4 7 5 2 Dmitry Bivol: 23–1 (11 KO) Light heavyweight – 5 7 5 6 7 Errol Spence Jr. 28–1 (22 KO) Welterweight – 7 5 – – – Devin Haney: 31–0 (1) (15 KO ...