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This is a chronological List of World Super Welterweight / Junior Middleweight / Light Middleweight Boxing Champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations: The World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA), The World Boxing Council (WBC), founded in 1963,
2.7 Super welterweight/Junior middleweight (154 lb/69.9 kg) ... 2.17 Light flyweight/Junior flyweight ... This is a list of current male world boxing champions.
This category lists professional boxers who have held a full light middleweight world championship by the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF), or World Boxing Organization (WBO).
WBA Super Champion 2001-11-17 2003-12-13-Lost to Super Champion William Joppy: WBA Regular Champion 2004-05-01 2006-03-11 Maselino Masoe: WBA Regular Champion 2005-07-16 2006-12-14-Stripped Jermain Taylor: WBA Super Champion 2006-03-11 2006-07-15 Felix Sturm: WBA Regular Champion 2006-07-15 2007-04-28 Javier Castillejo: WBA Regular Champion ...
The WBC is one of the four major governing bodies in professional boxing, and certifies world champions in 18 different weight classes. In 1963, the year of its foundation, the WBC inaugurated titles in all divisions with the exception of light flyweight , super flyweight , super bantamweight , super middleweight , cruiserweight and ...
The light middleweight division (also known as junior middleweight in the IBF or super welterweight in the WBA and WBC), is a weight division in professional boxing, above 66.7 kg and up to 69.9 kg (147–154 pounds).
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 ...
Tuur retired as the WBO junior lightweight world champion. [74] 7 Barry Jones (def. Wilson Palacio) 19 Dec 1997 – 1998 0 Jones lost his boxing license after a brain scan found an anomaly. The WBO vacated his title before Jones regained his license. 8 Anatoly Alexandrov (def. Julien Lorcy) 16 May 1998 – 7 Aug 1999 1 9 Acelino Freitas