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List of EBU light heavyweight champions. [3] Name Date of title victory Successful defences Nationality Georges Carpentier: 12 February 1913: 0 French Battling Siki: 24 September 1922: 0 French Raymond Bonnel 1 December 1923: 0 French Louis Clement 27 March 1924: 1 Swiss Herman van 't Hof 5 January 1926: 0 Dutch Fernand Delarge: 25 July 1926: 2 ...
Since at least John L. Sullivan, in the late 19th century, there have been world champions in professional boxing. 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 ...
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 ...
A third entity, the European Boxing Union (IBU) would follow suit, but with limited exception in the heavyweight division the three organizations recognized the same champion. At its 1962 convention, the NBA's non-United States members exploited a membership rule and took effective control of the organization, rebranding it as the World Boxing ...
Drozd is declared champion in recess due to injury. [14] 23 Tony Bellew (def. Ilunga Makabu) 29 May 2016 – 28 Mar 2017 1 Bellew was stripped of the title and named Emeritus champion after moving up to heavyweight. [15] 24 Mairis Briedis (def. Marco Huck) 1 Apr 2017 – 27 Jan 2018 1 25 Oleksandr Usyk: 27 Jan 2018 – 4 Jun 2019 2
Usyk is the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis was stripped of the title on 12 April 2000, [2] and the first heavyweight in history to hold the world titles of all four major sanctioning bodies—the World Boxing Association (WBA) (Super version), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF), and World ...
The British Boxing Board of Control and the newly formed French FFB tried to constitute a new European body—the European Boxing Association (EBA)--but other countries protested because the two veteran countries would have reintroduced the principle that the European Champion would be decided by a bout between British and French champions ...
Agit Kabayel (born 23 September 1992) is a German professional boxer.At regional level, he has held multiple heavyweight championships, including the European title twice between 2017 and January 2024.