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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)
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 ...
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 ...
The co-main event, a 12-round WBC/WBA super welterweight world title eliminator bout between rising 22-year-old star Jesus Ramos and Erickson Lubin, turned into a sleeper with very little action ...
Algieri vacated the title due to moving up and challenging WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao. [61] 21 Terence Crawford (def. Thomas Dulorme) 18 Apr 2015 – 26 Oct 2017 6 Crawford vacated the title to move up to welterweight. [62] 22 Maurice Hooker (def. Terry Flanagan) 9 Jun 2018 – 28 Jul 2019 2 23 José Ramírez: 28 Jul 2019 – 22 ...
This is a list of WBC world champions, ... Durán vacates the title to move up to welterweight. [81] 16 Jim Watt (def. Alfredo Pitalua) 17 Apr 1979 – 20 Jun 1981 4 17
This category lists professional boxers who have held a full welterweight world championship by the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF), or World Boxing Organization (WBO).
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.