List of cruiserweight boxing champions
"List of Cruiserweight Champions" redirects here. For a list of Cruiserweight Championships in professional wrestling, see Cruiserweight (professional wrestling) § Major championships.
This is a chronological List of World Cruiserweight 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 World Boxing Council (WBC), founded in 1963,
- The International Boxing Federation (IBF), founded in 1983,
- The World Boxing Organization (WBO), founded in 1988,
Reign Began | Reign Ended | Champion | Recognition |
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31 March 1980 | 25 November 1980 | Marvin Camel | Universal |
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25 November 1980 | 13 February 1982 | Carlos De León | Universal |
13 February 1982 | 27 June 1982 | Carlos De Leon | WBC |
13 February 1982 | 1 December 1984 | Ossie Ocasio | WBA |
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27 June 1982 | 17 July 1983 | S. T. Gordon | WBC |
17 July 1983 | 6 June 1985 | Carlos De León | WBC |
13 February 1983 | 6 October 1984 | Marvin Camel | IBF |
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6 October 1984 | 25 October 1986 | Lee Roy Murphy | IBF |
1 December 1984 | 27 July 1985 | Piet Crous | WBA |
6 June 1985 | 21 September 1985 | Alfonso Ratliff | WBC |
27 July 1985 | 12 July 1986 | Dwight Muhammad Qawi (Dwight Braxton) | WBA |
21 September 1985 | 22 March 1986 | Bernard Benton | WBC |
22 March 1986 | 9 April 1988 | Carlos De León | WBC |
12 July 1986 | 15 May 1987 | Evander Holyfield | WBA |
25 October 1986 | 15 May 1987 | Rickey Parkey | IBF |
15 May 1987 | 9 April 1988 | Evander Holyfield | WBA & IBF |
9 April 1988 | 4 December 19882 | Evander Holyfield | Universal |
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25 March 1989 | 25 September 19892 | Taoufik Belbouli | WBA |
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17 May 1989 | 27 July 1990 | Carlos De León | WBC |
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3 June 1989 | 22 March 1990 | Glenn McCrory | IBF |
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27 November 1989 | 8 March 1991 | Robert Daniels | WBA |
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3 December 1989 | 17 May 1990 | Boone Pultz | WBO |
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22 March 1990 | 27 July 19911 | Jeff Lampkin | IBF |
17 May 1990 | 1 May 1992 | Magne Havnå2 | WBO |
27 July 1990 | 20 July 1991 | Massimiliano Duran | WBC |
8 March 1991 | 5 August 19932 | Bobby Czyz | WBA |
20 July 1991 | 7 July 19952 | Anaclet Wamba | WBC |
7 September 1991 | 30 July 1992 | James Warring | IBF |
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25 July 1992 | 13 February 1993 | Tyrone Booze | WBO |
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30 July 1992 | 30 April 19962 | Alfred Cole | IBF |
13 February 1993 | 26 June 1993 | Markus Bott | WBO |
26 June 1993 | 17 December 1994 | Nestor Giovannini | WBO |
6 November 1993 | 22 July 1995 | Orlin Norris | WBA |
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17 December 1994 | 1 January 19952 | Dariusz Michalczewski | WBO |
10 June 1995 | 4 October 1997 | Ralf Rocchigiani | WBO |
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22 July 1995 | 8 November 1997 | Nate Miller | WBA |
25 July 1995 | 21 February 1998 | Marcelo Dominguez | WBC |
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31 August 1996 | 21 June 1997 | Adolpho Washington | IBF |
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21 June 1997 | 8 November 1997 | Uriah Grant | IBF |
4 October 1997 | 27 March 1999 | Carl Thompson | WBO |
8 November 1997 | 30 October 1998 | Imamu Mayfield | IBF |
8 November 1997 | 9 December 2000 | Fabrice Tiozzo | WBA |
21 February 1998 | 19 February 20022 | Juan Carlos Gómez | WBC |
30 October 1998 | 5 June 1999 | Arthur Williams | IBF |
27 March 1999 | 22 September 20062 | Johnny Nelson | WBO |
5 June 1999 | 26 April 2003 | Vassiliy Jirov | IBF |
9 December 2000 | 23 February 2002 | Virgil Hill | WBA |
23 February 2002 | 2 April 2005 | Jean-Marc Mormeck | WBA |
11 October 2002 | 2 April 2005 | Wayne Braithwaite | WBC |
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2 April 2005 | 7 January 2006 | Jean-Marc Mormeck | WBA & WBC |
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26 April 2003 | 9 December 20032 | James Toney | IBF |
1 May 2004 | 20 May 20052 | Kelvin Davis | IBF |
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20 May 2005 | 7 January 2006 | O'Neil Bell | IBF |
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7 January 2006 | 31 March 20061 | O'Neil Bell | WBA (super Champion), WBC, & IBF |
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27 January 2006 | 24 November 2007 | Virgil Hill | WBA (regular champion) |
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31 March 2006 | 17 March 2007 | O'Neil Bell | WBA (super champion) & WBC |
22 September 2006 | 8 March 2008 | Enzo Maccarinelli | WBO |
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26 November 2006 | 26 May 2007 | Krzysztof Włodarczyk | IBF |
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17 March 2007 | 10 November 2007 | Jean-Marc Mormeck | WBA (super champion), WBC |
26 May 2007 | 11 December 2008 | Steve Cunningham | IBF |
10 November 2007 | 8 March 2008 | David Haye | WBA (super champion), WBC |
24 November 2007 | 28 September 2008 | Firat Arslan | WBA (regular champion) |
8 March 2008 | 12 May 20082 | David Haye | WBA (super champion), WBC, WBO |
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28 September 2008 | 30 October 2012 1 | Guillermo Jones | WBA |
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28 October 2008 | 22 November 2009 | Giacobbe Fragomeni | WBC |
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11 December 2008 | 18 October 20092 | Tomasz Adamek | IBF |
17 January 2009 | 29 August 2009 | Victor Emilio Ramírez | WBO |
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29 August 2009 | 14 August 2015 | Marco Huck | WBO |
22 November 2009 | 22 January 20102 | Zsolt Erdei | WBC |
15 May 2010 | 27 September 2014 | Krzysztof Włodarczyk | WBC |
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5 June 2010 | 1 October 2011 | Steve Cunningham | IBF |
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1 October 2011 | 21 September 20151 | Yoan Pablo Hernández | IBF |
30 October 2012 | Present | Denis Lebedev | WBA |
29 May 2016 | Present | Tony Bellew | WBC |
27 September 2014 | 17 September 2016 | Krzysztof Głowacki | WBO |
21 September 2015 | Present | Victor Emilio Ramirez | IBF |
17 September 2016 | Present | Oleksander Usyk | WBO |
Footnotes
- 1 Championship recognition withdrawn due to champion's failure/refusal to defend title against mandatory or designated challenger.
- 2 Relinquished title.
Cruiserweight champions who won belts in other divisions
- Braxton, Michalczewski, Hill, Adamek and Tiozzo all were light-heavyweight champions.
- Holyfield and Haye are the only former cruiserweight champions to win the heavyweight title with Holyfield earning recognition as undisputed champions in both divisions.
- Toney won titles at middleweight and super middleweight. He also defeated John Ruiz in an attempt to win the heavyweight title but failed a post-fight drug test and the result was changed to a No Decision.
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