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This is a list of current boxing world champions who are certified by the four major boxing sanctioning bodies and The Ring magazine. Each champion's professional boxing record is shown in the following format: wins-losses-draws-no contests (knockout wins).

The World Boxing Association (WBA) was founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA)—a national regulating body of the United States. On August 23, 1962, the NBA became the WBA—a Venezuelan-based worldwide regulating body. According to WBA championship rules, when a boxer holds both a WBA world title and a world title from at least one of the other three major sanctioning bodies, the boxer is granted special recognition: unified champion (if he holds two titles), undisputed champion (three titles), or super champion (all four titles). The "regular" WBA world title is then vacated.

The World Boxing Council (WBC) was founded in Mexico City, Mexico on February 14, 1963 in order to establish an international regulating body. The WBC established many of today's safety measures in boxing, such as standing eight-counts, a limit of 12 rounds instead of 15, and additional weight classes.

The International Boxing Federation (IBF) originated in September 1976 as the United States Boxing Association (USBA) when American members of the WBA withdrew in order to legitimize boxing in the United States with "unbiased" ratings. In April 1983, The organization established an international division that was known as the United States Boxing Association-International (USBA-I). In May 1984, the New Jersey-based USBA-I was renamed and became the IBF.

The World Boxing Organization (WBO) was founded in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1988. Its motto is "dignity, democracy, honesty." Some media sites do not include the WBO in their list of champions, whereas others do.

The Ring is not a sanctioning body but is a boxing magazine that was founded in 1922. In 2002, The Ring created a championship system that is "intended to reward fighters who, by satisfying rigid criteria, can justify a claim as the true and only world champion in a given weight class." There are only three ways that a boxer can win The Ring's title: defeat the reigning champion; unify the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles; or win a box-off between The Ring's number-one and number-two rated contenders (or, sometimes, number-one and number-three rated). There are also only three ways that a boxer can lose The Ring's title: lose a championship fight, move to a different weight class, or retire. (The Ring does not strip its champions' titles like the sanctioning bodies do.)

Current champions

Heavyweight (200+ lbs, 90.7+ kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Ruslan Chagaev 23-0-1 (17 KO) April 15, 2007	Oleg Maskaev 34-5 (26 KO) August 12, 2006	Wladimir Klitschko 48-3 (43 KO) April 22, 2006	Shannon Briggs 48-4-1 (42 KO) December 4, 2006	vacant

Cruiserweight (200 lb, 90.7 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Jean-Marc Mormeck 33-3 (22 KO) March 17, 2007	Jean-Marc Mormeck 33-3 (22 KO) March 17, 2007	Krzysztof Włodarczyk 37-1 (27 KO) November 25, 2006	Enzo Maccarinelli 26-1 (20 KO) July 8, 2006	Jean-Marc Mormeck 33-3 (22 KO) March 17, 2007
Virgil Hill 50-6 (23 KO) January 27, 2006
Valery Brudov 33-1 (25 KO) December 2, 2006

Light heavyweight (175 lb, 79.4 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Stipe Drviš 32-1 (13 KO) April 28, 2007	Chad Dawson 23-0-0-1 (15 KO) February 3, 2007	Clinton Woods 40-3-1 (24 KO) March 4, 2005	Zsolt Erdei 26-0 (16 KO) January 17, 2004	Bernard Hopkins 47-4-1-1 (32 KO) June 10, 2006

Super middleweight (168 lb, 76.2 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Mikkel Kessler 39-0 (29 KO) November 12, 2004	Mikkel Kessler 39-0 (29 KO) October 14, 2006	Alejandro Berrio 26-4 (25 KO) March 3, 2007	Joe Calzaghe 43-0 (32 KO) October 11, 1997	Joe Calzaghe 43-0 (32 KO) March 4, 2006
Anthony Mundine 28-3 (22 KO) March 7, 2007

Middleweight (160 lb, 72.6 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Felix Sturm 27-2 (12 KO) April 28, 2007	Jermain Taylor 26-0-1 (17 KO) July 16, 2005	Arthur Abraham 22-0 (17 KO) December 10, 2005	Jermain Taylor 26-0-1 (17 KO) July 16, 2005	Jermain Taylor 26-0-1 (17 KO) July 16, 2005

Super welterweight (154 lb, 69.9 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Travis Simms 25-0 (19 KO) January 6, 2007	Floyd Mayweather Jr. 38-0 (24 KO) May 5, 2007	Cory Spinks 36-3 (11 KO) July 8, 2006	Sergiy Dzinziruk 33-0 (21 KO) December 12, 2005	vacant

Welterweight (147 lb, 66.7 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Miguel Angel Cotto 29-0 (24 KO) December 2, 2006	Floyd Mayweather Jr. 38-0 (24 KO) November 4, 2006	Kermit Cintron 27-1 (25 KO) October 28, 2006	Antonio Margarito 34-4-0-1 (24 KO) February 18, 2005	Floyd Mayweather Jr. 38-0 (24 KO) April 8, 2006
	Shane Mosley 44-4-0-1 (37 KO) February 10, 2007

Super lightweight (140 lb, 63.5 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Souleymane M'baye 35-1-1 (20 KO) September 2, 2006	Junior Witter 35-1-2 (20 KO) September 15, 2006	Lovemore N'dou 45-8-1 (30 KO) December 12, 2006	Ricardo Torres 31-1 (27 KO) November 18, 2006	Ricky Hatton 42-0 (30 KO) June 6, 2005

Lightweight (135 lb, 61.2 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Juan Díaz 32-0 (16 KO) July 17, 2004	David Díaz 32-1-1 (17 KO) August 12, 2006	Julio Díaz 34-3 (25 KO) February 3, 2007	Juan Díaz 32-0 (16 KO) April 28, 2007	Joel Casamayor 34-3-1 (21 KO) October 7, 2006
vacant	Joel Casamayor 34-3-1 (21 KO) October 7, 2006		Michael Katsidis 22-0 (20 KO) February 17, 2007

Super featherweight (130 lb, 59 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Edwin Valero 22-0 (22 KO) August 5, 2006	Juan Manuel Márquez 47-3-1 (35 KO) March 17, 2007	Mzonke Fana 26-3 (9 KO) April 20, 2007	Joan Guzman 27-0 (17 KO) September 16, 2006	vacant

Featherweight (126 lb, 57.2 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Chris John 39-0-1 (20 KO) June 4, 2004	In Jin Chi 31-3-1 (18 KO) December 17, 2006	Robert Guerrero 20-2-1 (13 KO) February 23, 2007	vacant	vacant

Super bantamweight (122 lb, 55.3 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Celestino Caballero 26-2 (18 KO) October 4, 2006	Rafael Márquez 37-3 (33 KO) March 3, 2007	Steve Molitor 23-0 (9 KO) November 10, 2006	Daniel Ponce de León 31-1 (28 KO) October 29, 2005	Rafael Márquez 37-3 (33 KO) March 3, 2007

Bantamweight (118 lb, 53.5 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Wladimir Sidorenko 19-0-2 (6 KO) February 26, 2005	Hozumi Hasegawa 22-2 (7 KO) April 16, 2005	vacant	Jhonny Gonzalez 34-5 (29 KO) October 29, 2005	vacant

Super flyweight (115 lb, 52.2 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Alexander Muñoz 30-2 (27 KO) May 3, 2007	Cristian Mijares 31-3-2 (12 KO) September 18, 2006	vacant	Fernando Montiel 33-2-1 (24 KO) April 9, 2005	vacant

Flyweight (112 lb, 50.8 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Takefumi Sakata 30-4-1 (15 KO) March 19, 2007	Pongsaklek Wonjongkam 65-2 (34 KO) March 2, 2001	Vic Darchinyan 28-0 (22 KO) December 16, 2004	Omar Andrés Narváez 24-0-2 (15 KO) August 5, 2006	vacant
Roberto Vásquez 24-1 (17 KO) December 2, 2006

Light flyweight (108 lb, 49 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
vacant	Edgar Sosa 27-5 (14 KO) April 13, 2007	Ulises Solis 23-1-2 (17 KO) January 7, 2006	Hugo Cázares 25-3-1 (19 KO) April 30, 2005	Hugo Cázares 25-3-1 (19 KO) September 30, 2006

Strawweight (105 lb, 47.6 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Yutaka Niida 21-1-3 (8 KO) July 3, 2004	Eagle Kyowa 17-1 (6 KO) August 6, 2005	Muhammad Rachman 61-5-5 (31 KO) September 14, 2004	Ivan Calderón 28-0 (6 KO) May 3, 2003	vacant

See also

• Boxing weight classes
• List of male boxers
• Ring Magazine pound for pound

References

1. The official rules and regulations of the WBA, IBF, and WBO all mention by name the other three major sanctioning bodies in their title unification rules. The WBC does not mention by name any other sanctioning body in its rules, but it does list the other three major sanctioning bodies' champions on its ratings page. Thus, all four organizations consider only themselves and the other three organizations to be major sanctioning bodies. They do not consider organizations such as the IBO and IBA to be major sanctioning bodies.
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7. ^ International Boxing Federation (December 4, 2000). "History of the IBF". Archived from the original on 2000-12-04. Retrieved 2006-06-06.
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14. ^ Kellerman, Max (January 22, 2004). "Gatti vs. the unknown". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2006-06-06.
15. ^ The WBO junior heavyweight (a.k.a. cruiserweight) limit is 190 lbs. (86.2 kg). WBO heavyweights are 190+ lbs. (86.2+ kg).
16. ^ Unified Champion.
17. ^ Interim Champion.
18. ^ WBO Super Champion.

• Boxrec.com editors. "BoxRec title search". BoxRec.com. Retrieved 2006-05-07. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
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• WBO officials (April 2007). "WBO official champions". World Boxing Organization. Retrieved 2007-05-07.

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