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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.