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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)
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.
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 ...
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).
1.6 Light welterweight. 1.7 Welterweight. ... This is the complete list of Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing from 1930 to 2014. ... (57–60 kg) details Shelley ...
Welterweight 1 Apr 1961 Middleweight 25 Apr 1966 Dick Tiger: Middleweight 10 Aug 1963 Light heavyweight 16 Dec 1966 Nino Benvenuti: Light middleweight 18 Jun 1965 Middleweight 17 Apr 1967 Evander Holyfield: Cruiserweight 9 Apr 1988: Heavyweight 25 Oct 1990: Terence Crawford: Light welterweight 19 Aug 2017: Welterweight 29 Jul 2023: Naoya Inoue ...
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 .
List of British welterweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British welterweight title. The title has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club since 1909, and later by its replacement British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) since 1929.