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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) 2007-04-15	Oleg Maskaev 34-5 (26 KO) 2006-08-12	Wladimir Klitschko 48-3 (43 KO) 2006-04-22	Shannon Briggs 48-4-1 (42 KO) 2007-11-04	vacant

Cruiserweight (200 lb, 90.7 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Jean-Marc Mormeck 33-3 (22 KO) 2007-03-17	Jean-Marc Mormeck 33-3 (22 KO) 2007-03-17	Krzysztof Włodarczyk 37-1 (27 KO) 2006-11-25	Enzo Maccarinelli 26-1 (20 KO) 2006-07-08	Jean-Marc Mormeck 33-3 (22 KO)
Valery Brudov 33-1 (25 KO) 2006-12-02

Light heavyweight (175 lb, 79.4 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Stipe Drviš 32-1 (13 KO) 2007-04-28	Chad Dawson 23-0-0-1 (15 KO) 2007-02-03	Clinton Woods 40-3-1 (24 KO) 2005-03-04	Zsolt Erdei 26-0 (16 KO) 2004-01-17	Bernard Hopkins 47-4-1-1 (32 KO)

Super middleweight (168 lb, 76.2 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Mikkel Kessler 39-0 (29 KO) 2007-03-24	Mikkel Kessler 39-0 (29 KO) 2006-10-14	Alejandro Berrio 26-4 (25 KO) 2007-03-03	Joe Calzaghe 43-0 (32 KO) 1997-10-11	Joe Calzaghe 43-0 (32 KO)
Anthony Mundine 28-3 (22 KO) 2007-03-07

Middleweight (160 lb, 72.6 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Felix Sturm 27-2 (12 KO) 2007-04-28	Jermain Taylor 26-0-1 (17 KO) 2005-07-16	Arthur Abraham 22-0 (17 KO) 2005-12-10	Jermain Taylor 26-0-1 (17 KO) 2005-07-16	Jermain Taylor 26-0-1 (17 KO)

Super welterweight (154 lb, 69.9 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Travis Simms 25-0 (19 KO) 2006-05-06	Floyd Mayweather Jr. 38-0 (24 KO) 2007-05-05	Cory Spinks 36-3 (11 KO) 2006-07-08	Sergiy Dzinziruk 33-0 (21 KO) 2006-10-21	vacant

Welterweight (147 lb, 66.7 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Miguel Angel Cotto 29-0 (24 KO) 2006-12-02	Shane Mosley 44-4-0-1 (37 KO) 2007-02-10	Kermit Cintron 27-1 (25 KO) 2006-10-28	Antonio Margarito 34-4-0-1 (24 KO) 2006-12-02	Floyd Mayweather Jr 38-0-24 (24 KO) 2006-08-10

Super lightweight (140 lb, 63.5 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Souleymane M'baye 35-1-1 (20 KO) 2006-09-02	Junior Witter 35-1-2 (20 KO) 2006-09-15	Lovemore N'dou 45-8-1 (30 KO) 2007-02-12	Ricardo Torres 31-1 (27 KO) 2006-11-18	Ricky Hatton 42-0 (30 KO)

Lightweight (135 lb, 61.2 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Juan Díaz 32-0 (16 KO) 2004-07-17	David Díaz 32-1-1 (17 KO) 2006-08-12	Julio Díaz 34-3 (25 KO) 2007-02-03	Juan Díaz 32-0 (16 KO) 2007-04-28	Joel Casamayor 34-3-1 (21 KO)
vacant			Michael Katsidis 22-0 (20 KO) 2007-02-17

Super featherweight (130 lb, 59 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Edwin Valero 22-0 (22 KO) 2006-08-05	Juan Manuel Márquez 47-3-1 (35 KO) 2007-03-17	Mzonke Fana 26-3 (9 KO) 2007-04-20	Joan Guzman 27-0 (17 KO) 2006-12-18	vacant

Featherweight (126 lb, 57.2 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Chris John 39-0-1 (20 KO) 2006-11-04	In Jin Chi 31-3-1 (18 KO) 2006-12-16	Robert Guerrero 20-2-1 (13 KO) 2007-02-23	vacant	vacant

Super bantamweight (122 lb, 55.3 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Celestino Caballero 26-2 (18 KO) 2006-10-04	Rafael Márquez 37-3 (33 KO) 2006-12-03	Steve Molitor 23-0 (9 KO) 2006-11-10	Daniel Ponce de León 31-1 (28 KO) 2005-10-29	Rafael Márquez 37-3 (33 KO)

Bantamweight (118 lb, 53.5 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Wladimir Sidorenko 19-0-2 (6 KO) 2005-02-26	Hozumi Hasegawa 22-2 (7 KO) 2005-04-16	vacant	Jhonny Gonzalez 34-5 (29 KO) 2005-10-29	vacant

Super flyweight (115 lb, 52.2 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Alexander Muñoz 30-2 (27 KO) 2007-05-03	Cristian Mijares 31-3-2 (12 KO) 2006-09-18	vacant	Fernando Montiel 33-2-1 (24 KO) 2005-04-09	vacant

Flyweight (112 lb, 50.8 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Takefumi Sakata 30-4-1 (15 KO) 2007-03-19	Pongsaklek Wonjongkam 65-2 (34 KO) 2006-11-16	Vic Darchinyan 28-0 (22 KO) 2004-12-16	Omar Andrés Narváez 24-0-2 (15 KO) 2002-07-13	vacant
Roberto Vásquez 24-1 (17 KO) 2006-12-02

Light flyweight (108 lb, 49 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
vacant	Edgar Sosa 27-5 (14 KO) 2007-04-13	Ulises Solis 23-1-2 (17 KO) 2006-01-07	Hugo Cázares 25-3-1 (19 KO) 2005-04-30	Hugo Cázares 25-3-1 (19 KO)

Strawweight (105 lb, 47.6 kg)

WBA	WBC	IBF	WBO	The Ring
Yutaka Niida 21-1-3 (8 KO) 2004-07-03	Eagle Kyowa 17-1 (6 KO) 2005-08-06	Muhammad Rachman 61-5-5 (31 KO) 2004-09-14	Ivan Calderón 28-0 (6 KO) 2003-05-03	vacant

See also

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

Notes

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.
2. Bastidas, Angel M. World Boxing Association History. World Boxing Association. URL accessed 6 July 2006.
3. WBA officials. World Boxing Association World Championships Regulations. World Boxing Association. PDF accessed 6 July 2006.
4. WBC officials. World Boxing Council: History & Founding Fathers. World Boxing Council. URL accessed 6 July 2006.
5. WBC officials. Rules that have changed the History of Boxing. World Boxing Council. URL accessed 6 July 2006.
6. ^ WBC officials. Permanent Medical Research Program. World Boxing Council. URL accessed 6 July 2006.
7. ^ IBF-USBA officials. History of the IBF. 4 December 2000. IBF-USBA. URL accessed 6 July 2006.
8. WBO officials. WBO logo. World Boxing Organization. JPEG accessed 6 July 2006.
9. The Sports Network editors. Current Boxing Champions. 5 July 2006. SI.com. URL accessed 6 July 2006.
10. Yahoo! editors. Current Boxing Champions. 5 July 2006. Yahoo! URL accessed 6 July 2006.
11. Eisele, Andrew. Boxing Champions. 2 July 2006. About.com. URL accessed 6 July 2006.
12. BBC Sport editors. List of Champions. 3 July 2006. BBC Sport. URL accessed 6 July 2006.
13. The Ring editors. About The Ring. 26 June 2006. The Ring. URL accessed 6 July 2006.
14. ^ Kellerman, Max. "Gatti vs. the unknown." 22 January 2004. ESPN.com. URL accessed 6 July 2006.
15. ^ The WBO junior heavyweight (a.k.a. cruiserweight) limit is 190 lb (86.2 kg). WBO heavyweights are 190+ lb (86.2+ kg).
16. ^ Unified Champion.
17. ^ WBO Super Champion.
18. ^ Interim Champion.

References

• BoxRec.com editors. BoxRec title search. BoxRec.com. URL accessed 24 June 2006.
• IBF-USBA officials. IBF-USBA Boxing - Rankings. 14 July 2006. International Boxing Federation. URL accessed 25 July 2006.
• Mendoza, Gilberto. WBA official ratings as of July 2006. 17 August 2006. World Boxing Association. URL accessed 21 August 2006.
• The Ring editors. The Ring Ratings. 31 July 2006. The Ring. URL accessed 1 August 2006.
• WBC officials. World Boxing Council - All Ratings. 30 July 2006. World Boxing Council. URL accessed 1 August 2006.
• WBO officials. WBO Champs. December 2006. World Boxing Organization. URL accessed 24 December 2006.

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