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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) The World Boxing Council (WBC), founded in 1963
The cable television network ESPN has occasionally broadcast boxing events over the majority of its history, as part of several arrangements, including contracts with specific promotions and consortiums such as Golden Boy Promotions, Premier Boxing Champions, and Top Rank, as well as Friday Night Fights—a semi-regular series that was broadcast by ESPN and ESPN2 from 1998 through 2015.
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 ...
Boxing magazine The Ring has awarded world championships in professional boxing within each weight class from its foundation in 1922. The first Ring world title belt was awarded to heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, and the second was awarded to flyweight champion Pancho Villa. The magazine stopped giving belts to world champions in the 1990s ...
Schedule and results for the biggest boxing fights in 2025. ... (WBO welterweight world title) 5 April. Astana, Kazakhstan ... 19 foods that are banned in America. Food.
Welterweight champions Terence Crawford and Errol Spence Jr. have reportedly agreed to a deal to fight on July 29 in Las Vegas, according to ESPN.
Welterweight 28 May 1934 Henry Armstrong: Featherweight 29 Oct 1937 Welterweight 31 May 1938 Lightweight 17 Aug 1938 Sugar Ray Robinson: Welterweight 20 Dec 1946 Middleweight 14 Feb 1951 Carmen Basilio: Welterweight 10 Jun 1955 Middleweight 23 Sep 1957 Carlos Ortiz: Light welterweight 12 Jun 1959 Lightweight 21 Apr 1962 Fighting Harada: Flyweight
Keith Fitzgerald Thurman (born November 23, 1988) is an American professional boxer.He is a former unified welterweight world champion, having held the WBA title from 2016 to 2019 (promoted to Super champion in 2017), and the WBC title from 2017 to 2018.