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De La Hoya vacates the title to stay at welterweight. The title is vacated on WBC's May ratings posted on 17 June. [68] 25 Kostya Tszyu (def. Miguel Ángel González) 21 Aug 1999 – 9 Oct 2003 7 Tszyu is stripped of the title and is designated by the WBC as Champion Emeritus. [69] 26 Arturo Gatti (def. Gianluca Branco) 24 Jan 2004 – 25 Jun ...
In December 1981, it was announced that the reigning WBC super welterweight champion Wilfred Benítez would defend his title the following month against former lightweight and welterweight champion Roberto Durán, who was moving up in weight in pursuit of becoming a three-division champion. [3]
Benitez first won the 140-pound WBA light-welterweight title from Antonio Cervantes on March 6, 1976, at the age of 17. He moved up in weight to win the 147-pound WBC welterweight title from Carlos Palomino on January 14, 1979, and finally won a third title when he added the 154-pound WBC light-middleweight title from Maurice Hope on May 23, 1981.
Ellie Scotney unifies super-bantamweight division by beating Segolene Lefebvre ... (WBC light-welterweight title) 27 April. Peter McGrail beats Marc Leach on points (super-bantamweight)
WBA/WBC 18 April 1969 3 December 1970 José Nápoles: WBA/WBC 3 December 1970 4 June 1971 Billy Backus: WBA/WBC 4 June 1971 6 December 1975 José Nápoles: WBA/WBC 16 September 1981 9 November 1982 (retires) Sugar Ray Leonard: WBA/WBC Title Split into WBA, WBC, and IBF Belts: 6 December 1985 27 September 1986 Donald Curry: WBA/WBC/IBF 27 ...
Earlier in the year, 2-division world champion Roberto Durán had lost to WBC super middleweight champion Wilfred Benítez in his bid for a third world title in a third different weight class. [5] Having lost his last two world title fights, the 31-year old Durán was thought to possibly be on the decline, though he announced his intentions to ...
The light middleweight division (also known as junior middleweight in the IBF or super welterweight in the WBA and WBC), is a weight division in professional boxing, above 66.7 kg and up to 69.9 kg (147–154 pounds).
Known as Boots, Ennis won 119-107, 117-109, 116-110 on the scorecards to retain the IBF welterweight championship. 'Boots' Ennis defends welterweight championship with unanimous decision win over ...