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The National Boxing Association (NBA), was formed in 1921 as the first organization aimed at regulating boxing on a national (and later global) level. The prominence of New York City as the epicenter of boxing would lead to a governmental entity, the powerful New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC), to join the NBA in sanctioning bouts as "world championships."
2.11 Super featherweight/Junior lightweight (130 lb/59 kg) 2.12 Featherweight (126 lb/57.2 kg) ... This is a list of current male world boxing champions.
This category lists professional boxers who have held a full featherweight world championship by the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF), or World Boxing Organization (WBO).
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 ...
This is a list of WBC world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the World Boxing Council (WBC). The WBC is one of the four major governing bodies in professional boxing , and certifies world champions in 18 different weight classes .
The list also includes champions certified by the National Boxing Association (NBA), the predecessor to the WBA. Boxers who won the title but were stripped due to the title bout being overturned to a no contest are not listed i.e. Evgeny Tishchenko won the inaugural bridgerweight title but was subsequently stripped after testing positive for ...
List of world super-bantamweight boxing champions; List of world super-featherweight boxing champions; List of world super-flyweight boxing champions; List of world super-middleweight boxing champions
This is a list of Super featherweight boxing champions, as recognized by boxing organizations: The World Boxing Association (WBA), established in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA). The World Boxing Council (WBC), established in 1963. The International Boxing Federation (IBF), established in 1983.