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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 .
The Ring began awarding championship belts in 1922, stopped giving belts to world champions in the 1990s, then reintroduced their title in 2002, and ignored the current ongoing world championship lineage. Under the original version of the policy, you could win the title by either defeating the reigning champion or winning a box-off between the ...
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.
Usyk was the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis was stripped of the title on 12 April 2000, [3] and the first heavyweight 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 Boxing Federation (IBF), and World ...
Holyfield vacated to move up to heavyweight full time. 9 Carlos de León (4) (def. Sammy Reeson) 17 May 1989 – 27 Jul 1990 1 10 Massimiliano Duran: 27 Jul 1990 – 20 Jul 1991 1 11 Anaclet Wamba: 20 Jul 1991 – 19 April 1996 7 Wamba is stripped of the title for being overweight before his fight against Marcelo Domínguez. [11] 12 Marcelo ...
In a quirk of traditional boxing rules, Fury’s WBC title was not on the line. ... “Francis Ngannou beat the WBC heavyweight champion of the world, I should be WBC champion of the world right ...
As of 2024, Wladimir Klitschko holds records of beating the most boxers for the world heavyweight title, with 23, and the longest cumulative heavyweight title reign of all time, with 4,382 days as world heavyweight champion. [nb 1] Joe Louis has won the most world heavyweight title bouts, with 27, [8] and had the most consecutive title defenses ...
This is a list of IBF world champions, showing every world champion recognized by the International Boxing Federation (IBF). The IBF is one of the four major governing bodies in professional boxing , and has awarded world champions in 17 different weight classes since 1983.