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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)
Notable was the emergence of a young boxer named Cassius Clay, who would, in his own words shock the world, declare himself against war, and change his name to Muhammad Ali. [ 1 ] Among significant boxers in lower weights, were middleweights Emile Griffith , Nino Benvenuti and Dick Tiger , and lightweights Joe Brown , Carlos Ortiz and Ismael ...
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.
The list also includes champions certified by the National Boxing Association (NBA), the predecessor to the WBA. Boxers who won the title but were stripped due to the title bout being overturned to a no contest are not listed i.e. Evgeny Tishchenko won the inaugural bridgerweight title but was subsequently stripped after testing positive for ...
This category lists professional boxers who have held a full welterweight world championship by the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF), or World Boxing Organization (WBO).
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 ...
1.6 Light welterweight. 1.7 Welterweight. ... This is the complete list of Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing from 1930 to 2014. Men's ... (57–60 kg) details ...
World welterweight boxing champions (1 C, 125 P) Pages in category "Welterweight boxers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,324 total.