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Bridgerweight, also known as super cruiserweight, is a weight class in professional boxing used by the World Boxing Council (WBC) since 2020 and the World Boxing Association (WBA) since 2023. [1] The division is for boxers weighing between 200 pounds (91 kg; 14 st 4 lb) and 224 pounds (102 kg; 16 st 0 lb).
In 1963, the year of its foundation, the WBC inaugurated titles in all divisions with the exception of light flyweight, super flyweight, super bantamweight, super middleweight, cruiserweight and bridgerweight, which were inaugurated in the subsequent decades. The most recent title inaugurated by the WBC is in the bridgerweight division in 2021.
This is a list of WBA world champions, showing every world champion certified by the World Boxing Association (WBA). The list also includes champions certified by the National Boxing Association (NBA), the predecessor to the WBA.
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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 ...
The World Boxing Council created a new division called bridgerweight for boxers weighing between 200 and 225 pounds. As of June 2022, no other major organization has recognized the division. The championship of the heavyweight division has been fractured or disputed at various times in its history.
Lerena faced the former WBA (Regular) cruiserweight titleholder Ryad Merhy in a WBC bridgerweight title eliminator on May 13, 2023, at the Emperors Palace in Kempton Park, South Africa. [35] He won the fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 118–110, 116–112 and 115–113.
Bridgerweight: vacant: Cruiserweight: Yamil Peralta: 16–1 (9 KO) 1 Light heavyweight: Willy Hutchinson: 16–1 (12 KO) 0 Super middleweight: Ivan Zucco 18–0 (15 KO) 1 Middleweight: Fiodor Czerkaszyn: 26-1 (15 KO) 0 Super welterweight: Ermal Hadribeaj: 17–0–1 (7 KO) 3 Welterweight: Mazlum Akdeniz 19–0 (8 KO) 0 Super lightweight: Pierce ...