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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 ...
World champions were initially recognized by wide public acclamation, with heavyweight champions winning and losing championship recognition solely in the ring. Retirements periodically resulted in no one, true champion being recognized, while in other cases new champions were proclaimed only to see a previously recognized champion come out of ...
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.
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 ...
The Super champion is the WBA's primary champion, while the World champion – commonly known as the Regular champion by boxing publications – is only considered the primary champion by the other three major sanctioning bodies (WBC, IBF, and WBO) if the Super title is vacant.
Men's top 10 rankings Boxer Record Current weight class Current world title(s) Ranker The Ring [1] BWAA [2] TBRB [3] ESPN [4] BoxRec [5] Oleksandr Usyk: 22–0 (14 KO) Heavyweight: WBA (Super), WBC, WBO, and The Ring: 1 3 1 1 13 Naoya Inoue: 28–0 (25 KO) Super bantamweight: WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO, and The Ring (Undisputed) 2 2 2 2 1 ...
6 Light heavyweight. ... 9 Heavyweight. 10 Super heavyweight. 11 Medal table. 12 See also. 13 Notes. 14 References. 15 ... This is a List of World Championships ...
Spinks, who had won the IBF heavyweight title the previous month against Larry Holmes, was stripped of the WBC light heavyweight title due to the WBC's policy against fighters holding world titles in multiple divisions at the same time. [21] 13 J. B. Williamson (def. Prince Mama Mohammed) 10 Dec 1985 – 30 Apr 1986 0 14 Dennis Andries