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Beginning with boxer Pat Bradley, is a chronological widely recognized List of World Welterweight 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
Aaron Pryor (October 20, 1955 – October 9, 2016) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1976 to 1990. He was a two-time light welterweight world champion, having held the WBA title from 1980 to 1983, and the IBF title from 1984 to 1985.
It is one of four premier amateur boxing tournaments, the others being the National Golden Gloves Tournament, which crowns its own amateur welterweight champion, the Police Athletic League Tournament, and the United States Armed Forces Tournament, all sending champions to the US Olympic Trials. It was contested at 147lbs until 2002 when it was ...
Maidana vacated the title to move up to welterweight and fight Devon Alexander. [142] 4 Khabib Allakhverdiev (def. Joan Guzmán) 30 Nov 2012 – 12 Apr 2014 1 5 Jessie Vargas: 12 Apr 2014 – 27 Jun 2015 2 Vargas vacated the title before challenging WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley to avoid paying WBA's sanctioning fees. [143] 6 Mario ...
This is a chronological List of World Super Lightweight/Light Welterweight/Junior Welterweight 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,
Terence Allan Crawford (born September 28, 1987) is an American professional boxer.He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, from lightweight to light middleweight, including lineal titles in three of those weight classes, the undisputed championship [b] at light welterweight and welterweight—and is the first male boxer in history to become a two-weight undisputed ...
He defended his welterweight title a total of nineteen times. The Ring magazine named him Fighter of the Year in 1937. The Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) named him Fighter of the Year in 1940. He is currently ranked by BoxRec as the 12th-greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time. [1]
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1951 Ricardo Gonzales Ali Martucci Juan Rodríguez 1955 Salvador Enriquez Wardy Yee Roberto Lobos 1959 Waldomiro Pinto ()