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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).
This category lists professional boxers who have held a full Bridgerweight world championship by the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF), or World Boxing Organization (WBO).
Bridgerweight has been recognised by the WBC since November 2020, [13] and WBA since December 2023 under the "super cruiserweight" label, [14] but is not currently recognized by any other bodies. The date is that since which a continuous world title has been recognised by a major sanctioning body; some classes had earlier champions recognised ...
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.
Bridgerweight boxers today weigh between 200 (90.7 kg) and 224 pounds (102 kg). In earlier times the minimum weight was anything above 175 pounds for the heavyweight division, and many early heaviweight champions weighed under 200 pounds.
Óscar Andres Rivas Torres (born 6 June 1987) is a Colombian professional boxer.He held the WBC bridgerweight title from 2021 to 2023. He also challenged for the vacant WBC interim heavyweight title in 2019, and previously held the IBF International, WBC-NABF and WBO-NABO heavyweight titles.
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 ...
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.