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
31 March 1980	25 November 1981	Marvin Camel	Universal (WBC)
Camel and Mate Parlov fought to a draw in the first Cruiserweight championship bout on August 12, 1979, sanctioned by the World Boxing Council. Camel won the rematch to become champion. Since the WBC was the only sanctioning body to recognize a Cruiserweight division at the time, he is considered by some as an undisputed champion.
25 November 1980	27 June 1982	Carlos De León	Universal (WBC)
13 February 1982	1 December 1984	Ossie Ocasio	WBA
Ocasio defeated Robbie Williams in the first Cruiserweight championship bout sanctioned by the World Boxing Association.
26 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
Just as he had done with the WBC title, Camel became the first champion in the division crowned by the International Boxing Federation, defeating Roddy McDonald to win the title.
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 1986¹	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
Holyfield defeated Parkey to unify the World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation titles.
9 April 1988	4 December 1988³	Evander Holyfield	Universal
Holyfield defeated Carlos De León to earn the World Boxing Council championship, making him the division's first truly undisputed champion.
25 March 1989	25 September 1989²	Taoufik Belbouli	WBA
17 May 1989	27 July 1990	Carlos De León	WBC
3 June 1989	22 March 1990	Glenn McCrory	IBF
27 November 1989	8 March 1991	Robert Daniels	WBA
12 March 1989	17 May 1990	Boone Pultz	WBO
22 March 1990	27 July 1991²	Jeff Lampkin	IBF
17 May 1990	1 May 1992	Magne Havnå³	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
25 July 1992	13 February 1993	Tyrone Booze	WBO
30 July 1992	30 April 1996³	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
17 December 1994	1 January 1995³	Dariusz Michalczewski	WBO
10 June 1995	4 October 1997	Ralf Rocchigiani	WBO
22 July 1995	8 November 1997	Nate Miller	WBA
25 July 1995	21 February 1998	Marcelo Dominguez	WBC
31 August 1996	21 June 1997	Adolpho Washington	IBF
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 2002³	Juan Carlos Gómez	WBC
30 October 1998	5 June 1999	Arthur Williams	IBF
27 March 1999	22 September 2006	Johnny Nelson	WBO
5 June 1999	26 April 2003	Vassiliy Jirov	IBF
9 December 2000	23 February 2002	Virgil Hill	WBA
23 February 2002	7 January 2006	Jean-Marc Mormeck	WBA & WBC
When he defeated Wayne Braithwaite for the WBC title on 22 April 2005 the WBA "upgraded" Mormeck to the title of "Super Champion" and the "normal" WBA Cruiserweight championship was declared vacant.
12 October 2003	22 April 2005	Wayne Braithwaite	WBC
26 April 2003	9 December 2003³	James Toney	IBF
1 May 2004	20 May 2005³	Kelvin Davis	IBF
20 May 2005	7 January 2006	O'Neil Bell	IBF
7 January 2006	31 March 2006	O'Neil Bell	WBA (super Champion), WBC, & IBF
O'Neil Bell defeated Jean-Marc Mormeck on January 7, 2006, by knockout in round 10, unifying his IBF belt with Mormeck's WBA and WBC belts. That distinction lasted just under three months, as the IBF withdrew its recognition of Bell when Bell failed to reach an agreement to fight the organization's mandatory challenger.
27 January 2006	24 November 2007	Virgil Hill	WBA (regular champion)
31 March 2006	17 March 2007	O'Neil Bell	WBA (super champion), WBC
22 September 2006	8 March 2008	Enzo Maccarinelli	WBO
26 November 2006	26 May 2007	Krzysztof Włodarczyk	IBF
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	12 May 2008	David Haye	WBA (super champion), WBC
8 March 2008	12 May 2008	David Haye	WBA (super champion), WBC, WBO
David Haye defeated Enzo Maccarinelli on March 8, 2008, by knockout in round 2, unifying his WBA and WBC belt with Maccarinelli's WBO belt. On May 12, he relinquished his WBC belt in order to move up to the heavyweight division in an attempt to emulate the success of Evander Holyfield.
10 November 2007 WBA 12 May 2008 WBO	15 July 2008 ³	David Haye	WBA (super champion), WBO
24 November 2007	28 September 2008	Firat Arslan	WBA (regular champion)
28 September 2008	Present	Guillermo Jones	WBA
28 October 2008	22 November 2009	Giacobbe Fragomeni	WBC
11 December 2008	18 October 2009³	Tomasz Adamek	IBF
17 January 2009	29 August 2009	Victor Emilio Ramírez	WBO
29 August 2009	Present	Marco Huck	WBO
22 November 2009	22 January 2010³	Zsolt Erdei	WBC
16 May 2010	present	Krzysztof Włodarczyk	WBC
5 June 2010	1 October 2011	Steve Cunningham	IBF
1 October 2011	present	Yoan Pablo Hernandez	IBF

Footnotes

¹ Later known as Dwight Muhammad Qawi.

² Championship recognition withdrawn due to champion's failure/refusal to defend title against mandatory or designated challenger.

³ 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 a piece of the heavyweight title.
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.

List of Cruiserweight Champions Prior to 1980

The cruiserweight class was inaugurated by the WBC in 1979, and the belt was to be decided by the winner of a fight between Mate Parlov and Marvin Camel. The bout ended in a draw, and the champion wasn't crowned until their rematch on 31 March 1980, which was won by Camel. The WBA followed suit in 1982, inaugurating their belt in a battle between Ossie Ocasio and Robbie Williams, which was won by Ocasio.

World boxing champions

Champions by sanctioning body

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Champions by weight class

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