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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 ...
22–2 (21 KO) June 26, 2024 Oleksandr Usyk 23–0 (14 KO) September 25, 2021 Oleksandr Usyk 23–0 (14 KO) August 20, 2022 Kubrat Pulev Regular champion 32–3 (14 KO) December 7, 2024 Agit Kabayel Interim champion 26–0 (18 KO) February 22, 2025 Joseph Parker Interim champion 35–3 (23 KO) March 8, 2024
This is a list of WBC world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the World Boxing Council (WBC). The WBC is one of the four major governing bodies in professional boxing , and certifies world champions in 18 different weight classes .
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 14, 2015 – Jun 5, 2015 s: 0 14 Umar Salamov: May 21, 2016 – May 17, 2017 r: 0 15 Igor Mikhalkin
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 ...
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 ...
The following tables show the professional boxers listed in the latest top-10 pound for pound world rankings published by each of: The Ring magazine; Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA — men only) Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB — men only) ESPN; BoxRec
Itauma has aspirations for breaking the 38 year old Mike Tyson record for being the youngest heavyweight champion. [7] Itauma won the vacant WBO Intercontinental heavyweight title with a second-round stoppage victory against Germany's Ilja Mezencev on the undercard of the Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk bill in Saudi Arabia on 18 May 2024. [8]