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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)
During the 1970s, boxing was characterized by dominating champions and history-making rivalries. The decade had many superstars, who also had fierce rivals. Alexis Argüello, for example, who won the world Featherweight and Jr. Lightweight titles in the '70s, had to overcome Alfredo Escalera twice before the decade was over.
Lost WBC and The Ring welterweight titles: 31 Win 27–1–3 Armando Muñíz: UD 15 May 27, 1978 Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Retained WBC and The Ring welterweight titles: 30 Win 26–1–3 Mimoun Mohatar TKO 9 (15) Mar 18, 1978 The Aladdin, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Retained WBC and The Ring welterweight titles: 29 Win 25 ...
Crawford vacates the title to move up to junior welterweight. [69] 14 Terry Flanagan (def. Jose Zepeda) 11 Jul 2015 – 26 Oct 2017 5 Flanagan vacated the title to move up to junior welterweight. [70] 15 Ray Beltrán (def. Paulus Moses) 16 Feb – 25 Aug 2018 0 16 José Pedraza: 25 Aug – 8 Dec 2018 0 17 Vasiliy Lomachenko: 8 Dec 2018 – Oct ...
Mayweather Jr. vacates the title to stay at welterweight. [70] 28 Junior Witter (def. DeMarcus Corley) 15 Sep 2006 – 10 May 2008 2 29 Timothy Bradley: 10 May 2008 – 28 Apr 2009 2 Bradley is stripped of his title for refusing to fight his mandatory challenger Devon Alexander. [71] 30 Devon Alexander (def. Junior Witter) 1 Aug 2009 – 20 Jan ...
Welterweight 28 May 1934 Henry Armstrong: Featherweight 29 Oct 1937 Welterweight 31 May 1938 Lightweight 17 Aug 1938 Sugar Ray Robinson: Welterweight 20 Dec 1946 Middleweight 14 Feb 1951 Carmen Basilio: Welterweight 10 Jun 1955 Middleweight 23 Sep 1957 Carlos Ortiz: Light welterweight 12 Jun 1959 Lightweight 21 Apr 1962 Fighting Harada: Flyweight
Clyde Gray (born March 10, 1947) is a Canadian professional welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1960s, '70s and '80s who won the Canada welterweight title, and Commonwealth welterweight title, and was a challenger for the North American Boxing Federation (NABF) welterweight title against Armando Muñíz, and Pete Ranzany, World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight title against José ...
Emile Alphonse Griffith (February 3, 1938 – July 23, 2013) was an American professional boxer who won world titles in three weight divisions.He held the world light middleweight, [1] undisputed welterweight, [2] and middleweight titles. [3]