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This is a list of WBC world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the World Boxing Council (WBC). The WBC is one of the four major governing bodies in professional boxing , and certifies world champions in 18 different weight classes .
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.
The World Boxing Association modified its championship structure, creating a new "Super Champion" status to be awarded to champions who hold multiple titles simultaneously. Now subordinated to this was the status of "World Champion," commonly referred to as the "Regular" champion.
This category is for all of the boxers who have ever won a world boxing title in any weight class.Any boxer who won one or more of the following titles is eligible for inclusion in this category: the universal world title (using Marquess of Queensberry rules), the NBA world title (1921–1962), the WBA world title (1962–present), the WBC world title (1963–present), the IBF world title ...
The all-time lineal heavyweight champions boxing list started in 1885 and includes Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson among others.
Categories of professional boxers who have held a full world championship by the World Boxing Association (WBA), the World Boxing Council (WBC), the International Boxing Federation (IBF), and the World Boxing Organization (WBO), arranged by weight class.
Manny Pacquiao, who won titles in a record eight weight classes from flyweight to super welterweight while becoming one of boxing's biggest draws, was elected Thursday to the International Boxing ...
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 ...