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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.
April 18 – Eddie Perkins retains the world Jr. Welterweight title over Bunny Grant, who was attempting to be Jamaica's first boxing world champion, with a fifteen-round decision, Kingston, Jamaica. May 9 – Sugar Ramos retains the world Featherweight title with a controversial fifteen-round decision over Floyd Robertson , Accra, Ghana .
Mayweather Jr. vacates the title to stay at welterweight. [70] 28 Junior Witter (def. DeMarcus Corley) 15 Sep 2006 – 10 May 2008 2 29 Timothy Bradley: 10 May 2008 – 28 Apr 2009 2 Bradley is stripped of his title for refusing to fight his mandatory challenger Devon Alexander. [71] 30 Devon Alexander (def. Junior Witter) 1 Aug 2009 – 20 Jan ...
George Leslie "Bunny" Grant (29 September 1940 – 1 November 2018) was a Jamaican professional feather/super feather/light/light welter/welterweight/light middleweight boxer of the 1950s, '60s and '70s who won the Jamaican lightweight title, Jamaican welterweight title, Central American light welterweight Title, Latin American junior welterweight title, and British Commonwealth lightweight ...
Joe Tetteh (10 December 1941 – 20 April 2002) born in Accra was a Ghanaian professional super feather/light/light welterweight boxer of the 1950s, '60s and '70s who won the Ghanaian featherweight title, and inaugural British Commonwealth light welterweight title, and was a challenger for the West African featherweight title against Lat Shonibare, British Commonwealth featherweight title ...
Clyde Gray (born March 10, 1947) is a Canadian professional welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1960s, '70s and '80s who won the Canada welterweight title, and Commonwealth welterweight title, and was a challenger for the North American Boxing Federation (NABF) welterweight title against Armando Muñíz, and Pete Ranzany, World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight title against José ...
1.7 Welterweight. 1.8 Light middleweight. ... This is the complete list of Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing from 1930 to 2014. Men's ... (57–60 kg) details ...