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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 the standing eight-count, 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. Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States of America. 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 currently only two ways that a boxer can win The Ring's title: defeat the reigning champion; or winning a box-off between The Ring's number-one and number-two rated contenders (or, sometimes, number-one and number-three rated). The Ring had a long-standing policy of awarding their championship to a boxer who had unified the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, but rescinded this policy in September 2007. 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 14, 2007	Oleg Maskaev 34-5 (26 KO) August 12, 2006	Wladimir Klitschko 49-3 (44 KO) April 22, 2006	Sultan Ibragimov 22-0-1 (17 KO) June 2, 2007	vacant
	Samuel Peter 29-1 (22 KO) September 24, 2007

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	Steve Cunningham 20-1 (10 KO) May 26, 2007	Enzo Maccarinelli 27-1 (20 KO) July 8, 2006	Jean-Marc Mormeck 33-3 (22 KO) March 17, 2007
Virgil Hill 50-6 (23 KO) January 27, 2006
Firat Arslan 27-3-1 (18 KO) June 16, 2007

Light heavyweight (175 lb, 79.4 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Stipe Drews 32-1 (13 KO) April 28, 2007	Chad Dawson 25-0-0-1 (17 KO) February 3, 2007	Clinton Woods 41-3-1 (24 KO) March 4, 2005	Zsolt Erdei 27-0 (17 KO) January 17, 2004	Bernard Hopkins 48-4-1-1 (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	Lucian Bute 21-0 (17 KO) October 19, 2007	Joe Calzaghe 43-0 (32 KO) October 11, 1997	Joe Calzaghe 43-0 (32 KO) March 4, 2006
Anthony Mundine 29-3 (22 KO) March 7, 2007

Middleweight (160 lb, 72.6 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Felix Sturm 28-2-1 (12 KO) April 28, 2007	Kelly Pavlik 32-0 (29 KO) September 29, 2007	Arthur Abraham 24-0 (19 KO) December 10, 2005	Kelly Pavlik 32-0 (29 KO) September 29, 2007	Kelly Pavlik 32-0 (29 KO) September 29, 2007

Super welterweight (154 lb, 69.9 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Joachim Alcine 29-0 (18 KO) July 7, 2007	Vernon Forrest 39-2-0-1 (28 KO) July 28, 2007	Cory Spinks 36-4 (11 KO) July 8, 2006	Sergiy Dzinziruk 34-0 (22 KO) December 3, 2005	vacant
	Floyd Mayweather Jr. 38-0 (24 KO) May 5, 2007

Welterweight (147 lb, 66.7 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Miguel Angel Cotto 30-0 (25 KO) December 2, 2006	Floyd Mayweather Jr. 38-0 (24 KO) November 4, 2006	Kermit Cintron 28-1 (26 KO) October 28, 2006	Paul Williams 33-0 (24 KO) July 14, 2007	Floyd Mayweather Jr. 38-0 (24 KO) August 10, 2006

Super lightweight (140 lb, 63.5 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Gavin Rees 27-0 (13 KO) July 21, 2007	Junior Witter 36-1-2 (21 KO) September 15, 2006	Paul Malignaggi 23-1 (5 KO) June 16, 2007	Ricardo Torres 32-1 (28 KO) November 18, 2006	Ricky Hatton 43-0 (31 KO) June 4, 2005

Lightweight (135 lb, 61.2 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Juan Díaz 33-0 (17 KO) July 17, 2004	David Díaz 33-1-1 (17 KO) August 12, 2006	Juan Díaz 33-0 (17 KO) October 13, 2007	Juan Díaz 33-0 (17 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 23-0 (20 KO) February 17, 2007

Super featherweight (130 lb, 59 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Manny Pacquiao 22-0 (22 KO) August 5, 2006	Juan Manuel Márquez 47-3-1 (35 KO) March 17, 2007	Mzonke Fana 27-3 (10 KO) April 20, 2007	Joan Guzman 27-0 (17 KO) September 16, 2006	vacant
			Alex Arthur 25-1 (19 KO) July 21, 2007

Featherweight (126 lb, 57.2 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Chris John 40-0-1 (21 KO) September 26, 2003	Jorge Linares 24-0 (15 KO) July 21, 2007	Robert Guerrero 20-1-1-1 (13 KO) February 23, 2007	Steven Luevano 34-1 (15 KO) July 14, 2007	vacant

Super bantamweight (122 lb, 55.3 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Celestino Caballero 27-2 (18 KO) October 4, 2006	Israel Vazquez 42-4 (31 KO) August 4, 2007	Steve Molitor 25-0 (10 KO) November 10, 2006	Daniel Ponce de León 33-1 (30 KO) October 29, 2005	Israel Vazquez 42-4 (31 KO) August 4, 2007

Bantamweight (118 lb, 53.5 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Wladimir Sidorenko 20-0-2 (7 KO) February 26, 2005	Hozumi Hasegawa 22-2 (7 KO) April 16, 2005	Joseph Agbeko 25-1 (22 KO) September 29, 2007	Gerry Penalosa 52-6-2 (35 KO) August 11, 2007	vacant

Super flyweight (115 lb, 52.2 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Alexander Muñoz 31-2 (27 KO) May 3, 2007	Cristian Mijares 33-3-2 (14 KO) September 18, 2006	Dimitri Kirilov 29-3 (9 KO) October 13, 2007	Fernando Montiel 35-2-1 (26 KO) April 9, 2005	vacant

Flyweight (112 lb, 50.8 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Takefumi Sakata 31-4-1 (15 KO) March 19, 2007	Daisuke Naito 32-2-2 (20 KO) July 18, 2007	Nonito Donaire 18-1 (11 KO) July 7, 2007	Omar Andrés Narváez 25-0-2 (16 KO) July 13, 2002	vacant

Light flyweight (108 lb, 49 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Juan Carlos Reveco 17-0 (8 KO) June 22, 2007	Edgar Sosa 29-5 (15 KO) April 13, 2007	Ulises Solís 25-1-2 (19 KO) January 7, 2006	Iván Calderón 29-0 (6 KO) August 25, 2007	Iván Calderón 29-0 (6 KO) August 25, 2007

Strawweight (105 lb, 47.6 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Yutaka Niida 22-1-3 (8 KO) July 3, 2004	Eagle Den Janlaphan 18-1 (6 KO) August 6, 2005	Florante Condes 22-3-1 (20 KO) July 7, 2007	Donnie Nietes 22-1-3 (13 KO) September 30, 2007	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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14. ^ Kellerman, Max (January 22, 2004). "Gatti vs. the unknown". ESPN. Retrieved 2006-06-06. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
15. ^ Interim world champion.
16. ^ WBA unified champion.
17. ^ WBO super champion.
18. WBC emeritus champion.
19. WBA undisputed champion.

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