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Beginning with boxer Pat Bradley, is a chronological widely recognized List of World Welterweight Boxing Champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations: The World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA)
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.
Mayweather Jr. vacates the title to focus in the welterweight division. [53] 39 Vernon Forrest (def. Carlos Baldomir) 28 Jul 2007 – 7 Jun 2008 1 40 Sergio Mora: 7 Jun – 13 Sep 2008 0 41 Vernon Forrest (2) 13 Sep 2008 – 21 May 2009 0 Forrest is stripped of his title because of a rib injury that prevented him from defending his title. [54] 42
Succeeding champions will not be marked as Regular, Unified, Undisputed, or Super because of the title reduction plan. 54 Alberto Puello (def. Batyr Akhmedov) 20 Aug 2022 – 10 May 2023 0 Puello was made champion in recess after testing positive for banned substance before his defense against Rolando Romero. [141] 55 Rolando Romero
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 ...
World Muay Thai Council (WMC), welterweight range is from 140 to 147 lb or 63.5 to 66.6 kg; World Muay Thai Federation (WMF, the official amateur organization), fixed welterweight from 65.0 to 67.0 kg (143.3 to 147.7 lb) for adult and junior; The official rules of shoot boxing define welterweights as between 65 and 67 kg (143 and 148 lb).
This is a list of WBO world champions, showing every world champion certified by the World Boxing Organization (WBO). The WBO is one of the four major governing bodies in professional boxing , and has awarded world championships in 17 different weight classes since 1989.
This category lists professional boxers who have held a full welterweight world championship by the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF), or World Boxing Organization (WBO).