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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 ...
Akinwande vacated the title at the request of the WBC to become the mandatory challenger of the upcoming fight between Lennox Lewis and Oliver McCall for the vacant belt. [4] 9 Herbie Hide (2) (def. Tony Tucker) 28 Jun 1997 – 26 Jun 1999 2 10 Vitali Klitschko: 26 Jun 1999 – 1 Apr 2000 2 11 Chris Byrd: 1 Apr – 14 Oct 2000 0 12 Wladimir ...
Full list of current WWE Champions, including Universal, Intercontinental, Women's, US, Tag Team, and more across Raw, SmackDown and NXT.