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World champions were initially recognized by wide public acclamation, with heavyweight champions winning and losing championship recognition solely in the ring. Retirements periodically resulted in no one, true champion being recognized, while in other cases new champions were proclaimed only to see a previously recognized champion come out of ...
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.
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)
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 ...
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 NBA changes its name to WBA on 23 August 1962, [5] making Patterson the first WBA heavyweight champion and last NBA heavyweight champion. 15 Sonny Liston: 25 Sep 1962 – 25 Feb 1964 1 16 Muhammad Ali: 25 Feb – 14 Sep 1964 0 Ali was stripped of the title for signing to a rematch with Liston. [6] 17 Ernie Terrell (def. Eddie Machen)
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 IBO world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the International Boxing Organization (IBO) since 1993. r – Champion relinquished title s – Champion stripped of title