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Current WBA (Super), WBC, WBO, IBO, TBRB and The Ring heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk Current IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois At boxing 's beginning, the heavyweight division had no weight limit , and historically the weight class has gone with vague or no definition.
Spinks, who had won the IBF heavyweight title the previous month against Larry Holmes, was stripped of the WBC light heavyweight title due to the WBC's policy against fighters holding world titles in multiple divisions at the same time. [21] 13 J. B. Williamson (def. Prince Mama Mohammed) 10 Dec 1985 – 30 Apr 1986 0 14 Dennis Andries
The World Boxing Council (WBC) was founded in Mexico City, Mexico, on February 14, 1963, to establish an international regulating body. [7] The WBC established many of today's safety measures in boxing, such as the standing eight count , [ 8 ] a limit of 12 rounds instead of 15, and additional weight divisions.
Shields made history by taking down WBC heavyweight champion Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse by technical knockout in the second round, becoming the first female boxer with five titles. Shields, also a ...
Last October, Ngannou made his boxing debut against WBC heavyweight champion Fury, knocking down the Briton before losing a hotly-disputed decision in Riyadh. In a quirk of traditional boxing ...
This is a list of current WBC International champions. [1] ... Light heavyweight: Willy Hutchinson: 16–1 (12 KO) 0 Super middleweight: Ivan Zucco 18–0 (15 KO) 1
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 ...
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Усик, pronounced [olekˈsɑndr ˈusɪk]; born 17 January 1987) is a Ukrainian professional boxer who is the World Boxing Association (WBA) (Super version), World Boxing Council (WBC), World Boxing Organization (WBO), International Boxing Organization (IBO), and The Ring magazine heavyweight champion.