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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 ...
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
Ennis is 29-0 with 27 KOs and aspires to fight all of the elite in boxing's welterweight division. His next bout is Saturday in Washington, D.C., against Karen Chukhadzhian.
Maidana vacated the title to move up to welterweight and fight Devon Alexander. [139] 4 Khabib Allakhverdiev (def. Joan Guzmán) 30 Nov 2012 – 12 Apr 2014 1 5 Jessie Vargas: 12 Apr 2014 – 27 Jun 2015 2 Vargas vacated the title before challenging WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley to avoid paying WBA's sanctioning fees. [140] 6 Mario ...
How to watch Olympic boxing final. Imane Khelif vs Yang Liu: Olympic final LIVE. 15:02, Alex Pattle. Imane Khelif will box for Olympic gold tonight, facing Yang Liu in the welterweight final at ...
The event appeared at the first Olympic boxing tournament in 1904, was not held in 1908, and has been held at every Games with boxing (that is, excluding 1912) since, beginning with 1920. The maximum weight for the welterweight class has been 69 kg since 2004 and remains there for 2020; the removal of the light-welterweight class moves the ...
2. José Antonio Valenzuela Gastélum (born 25 May 1999) is an American professional boxer who has held the World Boxing Association (WBA) title since August 2024.
There are now four major sanctioning bodies in professional boxing. The official rules and regulations of the World Boxing Association (WBA), [1] World Boxing Council (WBC), [2] International Boxing Federation (IBF), [3] and World Boxing Organization (WBO) [4] all recognize each other in their rankings and title unification rules. Each of these ...