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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.
Sullivan would be defeated for the title by "Gentleman" Jim Corbett over 21 rounds on September 7, 1892, the first heavyweight titleholder solely under Queensberry rules. In 1920, a de facto minimum weight for a heavyweight was set at 175 pounds (12 st 7 lb, 79 kg) with the standardization of a weight limit for the light heavyweight division.
Adamek vacated the title to move up to heavyweight. [12] 20 Steve Cunningham (2) (def. Troy Ross) 5 Jun 2010 – 1 Oct 2011 1 21 Yoan Pablo Hernández: 1 Oct 2011 – 22 Sep 2015 4 Hernández was stripped of the title after withdrawing from a scheduled mandatory defense against Víctor Emilio Ramírez due to injury. [13] 22 Victor Emilio Ramírez
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 ...
Bellew was stripped of the title and named Emeritus champion after moving up to heavyweight. [15] 24 Mairis Briedis (def. Marco Huck) 1 Apr 2017 – 27 Jan 2018 1 25 Oleksandr Usyk: 27 Jan 2018 – 4 Jun 2019 2 Usyk was stripped of the title and named champion in recess after moving up to heavyweight. [16] 26 Ilunga Makabu (def. Michał Cieślak)
3 Light heavyweight. 4 Super middleweight. 5 Middleweight. 6 Super welterweight. ... Official list of current IBO champions Archived May 23, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
Full list of current WWE Champions, including Universal, Intercontinental, Women's, US, Tag Team, and more across Raw, SmackDown and NXT.
Delaney vacates the title to move up to heavyweight. 4 Tommy Loughran (def. Mike McTigue) 7 Oct 1927 – 18 Jul 1929 5 Loughran vacates the title to move up to heavyweight. 5 Maxie Rosenbloom (def. Jimmy Slattery) 25 Jun 1930 – 16 Nov 1934 7 6 Bob Olin: 16 Nov 1934 – 31 Oct 1935 0 7 John Henry Lewis: 31 Oct 1935 – Jun 1939 5 Lewis retires. 8