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Current WBA (Super), WBC, WBO, IBO, TBRB and The Ring heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk Current IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois At boxing 's beginning, the heavyweight division had no weight limit , and historically the weight class has gone with vague or no definition.
Spinks, who had won the IBF heavyweight title the previous month against Larry Holmes, was stripped of the WBC light heavyweight title due to the WBC's policy against fighters holding world titles in multiple divisions at the same time. [21] 13 J. B. Williamson (def. Prince Mama Mohammed) 10 Dec 1985 – 30 Apr 1986 0 14 Dennis Andries
The World Boxing Council (WBC) was founded in Mexico City, Mexico, on February 14, 1963, to establish an international regulating body. [7] The WBC established many of today's safety measures in boxing, such as the standing eight count , [ 8 ] a limit of 12 rounds instead of 15, and additional weight divisions.
Shields made history by taking down WBC heavyweight champion Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse by technical knockout in the second round, becoming the first female boxer with five titles. Shields, also a ...
This is a list of current WBC International champions. [1] ... Light heavyweight: Willy Hutchinson: 16–1 (12 KO) 0 Super middleweight: Ivan Zucco 18–0 (15 KO) 1
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 ...
Usyk was the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis was stripped of the title on 12 April 2000, [2] and the first heavyweight in history to hold the world titles of all four major sanctioning bodies—the WBA (Super version), WBC, International Boxing Federation (IBF), and WBO—in the "four-belt era". [3]
Tyson Luke Fury (born 12 August 1988) [3] is a British professional boxer.He has held multiple world heavyweight championships, including unified [b] titles from 2015 to 2016, the Ring magazine title twice between 2015 and 2022, and the World Boxing Council (WBC) title from 2020 to 2024.