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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 ...
World champions were initially recognized by wide public acclamation, with heavyweight champions winning and losing championship recognition solely in the ring. Retirements periodically resulted in no one, true champion being recognized, while in other cases new champions were proclaimed only to see a previously recognized champion come out of ...
Men's top 10 rankings Boxer Record Current weight class Current world title(s) Ranker The Ring [1] BWAA [2] TBRB [3] ESPN [4] BoxRec [5] Oleksandr Usyk: 22–0 (14 KO) Heavyweight: WBA (Super), WBC, WBO, and The Ring: 1 3 1 1 13 Naoya Inoue: 28–0 (25 KO) Super bantamweight: WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO, and The Ring (Undisputed) 2 2 2 2 1 ...
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 Georges Carpentier for the world heavyweight championship.
Diagram that represents top 26 world heavyweight champions by number of opponents beaten for the world heavyweight title (as of 19 May 2024) The list does not include The Ring and lineal championship fights after July 2, 1921, although it only includes heavyweight champions that captured undisputed championship (July 2, 1921–present), lineal ...
Jun 18, 2005 – Jun 10, 2006 1 7 Bernard Hopkins: Jun 10, 2006 – 2007 r: 0 8 Antonio Tarver (3) Jun 9, 2007 – Oct 11, 2008 2 9 Chad Dawson: Oct 11, 2008 – Aug 14, 2010 2 10 Jean Pascal: Aug 14, 2010 – May 21, 2011 1 11 Andrzej Fonfara: Nov 16, 2012 – 2013 s: 0 12 Blake Caparello: Oct 17, 2013 – 2014 s: 0 13 Thomas Oosthuizen: Mar ...
Top Rank Boxing is returning to Corpus Christi with undefeated heavyweight fighter Jared “The Real Big Baby” Anderson and Belgian contender Ryad Merhy taking center stage in a 10-round main ...
6 Light heavyweight. ... 9 Heavyweight. 10 Super heavyweight. 11 Medal table. 12 See also. 13 Notes. 14 References. 15 ... This is a List of World Championships ...