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On February 20, 2004, Jones relinquished his heavyweight title to resume boxing as a light heavyweight, at which point Ruiz was elevated to full championship recognition. On April 30, 2005, Ruiz was defeated by James Toney in a championship defense, but post-fight drug testing determined Toney had taken Nandrolone , an anabolic steroid .
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 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 Georges Carpentier for the world heavyweight championship.
Boxing pound-for-pound rankings as of July 25. 1. Naoya Inoue (25-0, 22 KOs), WBC-WBO super bantamweight champion. ... Tyson Fury (33-0-1, 24 KOs), WBC heavyweight champion. Previous Ranking: 7 9 ...
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 .
Andrés Ponce Ruiz Jr. (born September 11, 1989) is a Mexican and American professional boxer.He is a former unified world heavyweight champion, having held the World Boxing Association (WBA) (Super version), International Boxing Federation (IBF), and World Boxing Organization (WBO) titles in 2019.
Usyk was the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis was stripped of the title on 12 April 2000, [3] and is the first and only cruiserweight and heavyweight boxer in history to hold the world titles of all four major sanctioning bodies—the World Boxing Association (WBA) (Super title), World Boxing Council (WBC), International ...
This is a list of IBO world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the International Boxing Organization (IBO) since 1993. r – Champion relinquished title s – Champion stripped of title