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The newly founded World Boxing Council and other sanctioning groups continued to recognize Ali as champion. The World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council, New York State Athletic Commission and others withdrew their championship recognition of Ali following his refusal to be inducted into the United States Army subsequent to his conscription.
The list does not include The Ring and lineal championship fights after July 2, 1921, although it only includes heavyweight champions that captured undisputed championship (July 2, 1921–present), lineal championship (August 29, 1885–July 2, 1921) or The Ring championship. The list only includes title reigns during which the champion:
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
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 ...
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There are now four major sanctioning bodies in professional boxing. The official rules and regulations of the WBA, [1] World Boxing Council (WBC), [2] International Boxing Federation (IBF), [3] and World Boxing Organization (WBO) [4] all recognize each other in their rankings and title unification rules. Each of these organizations sanction and ...
WBC Light heavyweight: Jan 13, 1997 Interim promoted [11] WBC Light heavyweight – (2) Aug 7, 1997: Montell Griffin: KO 1/12 WBC Light heavyweight – (3) Jun 1998 Reinstated: WBA Light heavyweight, later promoted to inaugural Super champion; Status changed to Unified champion on WBA's official rankings. Jul 18, 1998 Lou Del Valle: UD 12/12 ...
Lewis retired as champion and chose not to accept a rematch with Vitali Klitschko before a WBC-mandated 1 March deadline to accept the bout. [8] 26 Vitali Klitschko (def. Corrie Sanders) 24 Apr 2004 – 9 Nov 2005 1 Vitali Klitschko retired after withdrawing from a bout against Hasim Rahman due to injuries. [9] 27 Wladimir Klitschko