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Camel and Mate Parlov fought to a draw in the first Cruiserweight championship bout on 12 August 1979, sanctioned by the World Boxing Council. Camel won the rematch to become champion. Since the WBC was the only sanctioning body to recognize a Cruiserweight division at the time, he is considered by some an undisputed champion. 2 25 November 1980
This category lists professional boxers who have held a full cruiserweight world championship by the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF), or World Boxing Organization (WBO).
List of British cruiserweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British cruiserweight title, which has been the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) since 1985. A champion will often voluntarily relinquish the title in order to fight for a higher-ranked championship, such as the world or European .
An all-time great in the boxing ring, the 45-year-old is the sport’s only eight-division world champion. ... The greatest cruiserweight of this generation, Usyk is the only man to have been ...
Holyfield vacated to move up to heavyweight full time. 9 Carlos de León (4) (def. Sammy Reeson) 17 May 1989 – 27 Jul 1990 1 10 Massimiliano Duran: 27 Jul 1990 – 20 Jul 1991 1 11 Anaclet Wamba: 20 Jul 1991 – 19 April 1996 7 Wamba is stripped of the title for being overweight before his fight against Marcelo Domínguez. [11] 12 Marcelo ...
There is a shake-up in this list as Devin Haney is on the rise, Canelo slides down the ranking, and Usyk has taken over.
Evander Holyfield (born October 19, 1962) is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2011. He reigned as the undisputed champion [a] in the cruiserweight division in the late 1980s and at heavyweight in the early 1990s, and was the only boxer in history to win the undisputed championship in two weight classes in the "three-belt era", a feat later surpassed by ...
Holyfield vacated the title to move up to heavyweight full time. 5 Glenn McCrory (def. Patrick Lumumba) 3 June 1989 – 22 Mar 1990 1 6 Jeff Lampkin: 22 Mar 1990 – 14 Aug 1991 1 IBF coordinator Bill Brennan revealed that Lampkin vacated the title for unknown reasons. [6] 7 James Warring (def. James Pritchard) 7 Sep 1991 – 30 Jul 1992 2 8 Al ...