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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 ...
There are now four major sanctioning bodies in professional boxing. The official rules and regulations of the WBA, [1] World Boxing Council (WBC), [2] International Boxing Federation (IBF), [3] and World Boxing Organization (WBO) [4] all recognize each other in their rankings and title unification rules. Each of these organizations sanction and ...
The Ring, boxing's most respected magazine, has awarded world championships in professional boxing within each weight class from its foundation in 1922 until the 1990s, and again since 2001. The Ring champions were at one point held the linear reign to the throne, the man who beat the man.
LISTEN: 5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce podcast. 2025 results. 8 January. Queensland, Australia. Jai Opetaia stops David Nyika in devastating fashion (IBF cruiserweight world title) 11 January ...
Boxing magazine The Ring has awarded world championships in professional boxing within each weight class from its foundation in 1922. The first Ring world title belt was awarded to heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, and the second was awarded to flyweight champion Pancho Villa. The magazine stopped giving belts to world champions in the 1990s ...
Álvarez intends to stay at middleweight. The title is vacated on WBO's May 2017 rankings. [41] 14 Miguel Cotto (def. Yoshihiro Kamegai) 26 Aug – 2 Dec 2017 0 15 Sadam Ali: 2 Dec 2017 – 12 May 2018 0 16 Jaime Munguía: 12 May 2018 – 23 Nov 2019 5 Munguia vacated the title to move up to middleweight. [42] 17 Patrick Teixeira (interim ...
Title Split into WBA, WBC, and IBF Belts: 6 December 1985 27 September 1986 Donald Curry: WBA/WBC/IBF 27 September 1986 22 August 1987 Lloyd Honeyghan: WBA/WBC/IBF 13 December 2003 5 February 2005 Cory Spinks: WBA/WBC/IBF 5 February 2005 7 January 2006 Zab Judah: WBA/WBC/IBF 29 July 2023 Present Terence Crawford: WBO/WBA (Super)/WBC/IBF
Bowe vacated the title instead of fighting mandatory challenger Lennox Lewis, then dumped his WBC belt in a trash bin during a news conference in London. [4] 16 Lennox Lewis (no. 1 contender promoted) 14 Dec 1992 – 24 Sep 1994 3 17 Oliver McCall: 24 Sep 1994 – 2 Sep 1995 1 18 Frank Bruno: 2 Sep 1995 – 16 Mar 1996 0 19 Mike Tyson (2)