List of IBO world champions

The following is a List of IBO world champions, a table showing the world champions certificated by the International Boxing Organization (IBO).

r – Champion relinquished title.
s – Champion stripped of title.

Contents

Strawweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 Noel Tuñacao 2003-03-08 — 2003-12-16r 0
2 Nkosinathi Joyi 2006-11-04 — June 2009s 3
3 Gideon Buthelezi 2010-06-19 — 2011-01-27r 0
4 Hekkie Budler 2011-09-24 — present 0

Junior flyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 José Sanjuanelo 1998-11-07 — 2000-08-26 0
2 José García Bernal 2000-08-26 — 2002-04-17 1
3 Monelisi Mhikiza Myekeni 2002-04-17 — 2004s 1
4 Hekkie Budler 2010-02-27 — 2011-01-27 1
5 Gideon Buthelezi 2011-01-27 — 2011-09-24s 0

Flyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 Scotty Olson 1994-12-09 — 1998r 5
2 Zolile Mbityi 1999-10-22 — 2000-09-30 1
3 Damaen Kelly 2000-09-30 — 2001-11-21s 1
4 Masibulele Makepula 2002-01-26 — 2002-09-14 0
5 Mzukisi Sikali 2002-09-14 — 2005-03-27 2
6 Vic Darchinyan 2005-03-27 — 2007-07-07 5
7 Nonito Donaire 2007-07-07 — 2009r 3
8 César Seda 2009-09-18 — 2010s 0

Super flyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 Ángel Almena 1995-07-29 — 1995r 0
2 Ilido Julio 1998-09-19 — 1999-01-08 0
3 Edison Torres 1999-01-08 — 1999-04-03 0
4 Mauricio Pastrana 1999-04-03 — 1999r 0
5 Lunga Ntontela 2002-12-13 — 2003r 0
6 Jason Booth 2003-09-20 — 2004-12-17 1
7 Damaen Kelly 2004-12-17 — 2005r 0
8 Mbwana Matumla 2006-11-04 — 2007r 0
9 Vic Darchinyan 2007-10-20 — 2008r 0
10 Zolile Mbityi 2008-05-31 — 2009r 0

Bantamweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 Johnny Bredahl 1996-02-16 — 1998-06-05r 7
2 Noel Wilders 2000-03-20 — 2001r 1
3 José Sanjuanelo 2001-07-14 — 2002-03-02 1
4 Silence Mabuza 2002-03-02 — 2005-11-05 6
5 Rafael Márquez 2005-11-05 — 2006r 1
6 Silence Mabuza (2) 2007-05-12 — 2009r 2
7 Simpiwe Vetyeka 2009-07-11 — 2010r 0
8 Vic Darchinyan 2010-05-20 — 2010-12-11 0
9 Vic Darchinyan (2) 2011-04-23 — 2011-12-03s 1

Super bantamweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 John Lowey 1995-04-20 — 1995r 0
2 Serhiy Devakov 1996-05-21 — 1997r 0
3 Patrick Mullings 1998-03-28 — 1998-08-08 0
4 Simon Ramoni 1998-08-08 — 2001r 3
5 Paulie Ayala 2001-08-04 — 2002r 1
6 Zolani Marali 2003-07-11 — 2004-05-22 0
7 Thomas Mashaba 2004-05-22 — 2005r 0
8 Takalani Ndlovu 2005-11-04 — 2007-07-14s 3
9 Mike Oliver 2007-11-08 — 2008r 0
10 Tshifhiwa Munyai 2011-03-26 — present 0

Featherweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 Derrick Gainer 1993-11-30 — 1994r 0
2 Radford Beasley 1997-09-26 — 1998r 0
3 Junior Jones 1999-04-10 — 1999r 0
4 Marco Antonio Barrera 2001-04-07 — 2002r 0
5 Naseem Hamed 2002-05-18 — 2002r 0
6 Michael Brodie 2003-06-21 — 2003r 0
7 Vuyani Bungu 2004-02-07 — 2005-06-25 0
8 Thomas Mashaba 2005-06-25 — 2008-03-07 4
9 Cristóbal Cruz 2008-03-07 — 2008r 0
10 Fernando Beltrán Jr 2008-08-22 — 2009r 0
11 Jackson Asiku 2009-11-06 — 2010-09-15 0
12 Jhonny González 2010-09-15 — 2011s 0

Super featherweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 John Roby 1993-04-03 — 1994-04-21 0
2 Jeff Mayweather 1994-04-21 — 1995-08-25 2
3 Israel Cardona 1995-08-25 — 1995r 0
4 Jimmi Bredahl 1996-03-29 — 1996r 0
5 Israel Cardona (2) 1996-04-12 — 1996r 0
6 Troy Dorsey 1996-10-18 — 1997r 0
7 Charles Shepherd 1999-07-31 — 2000-02-26 0
8 Affif Djelti 2000-02-26 — 2002r 3
9 Cassius Baloyi 2002-04-17 — 2006-07-29 5
10 Gairy St Clair 2006-07-29 — 2006-11-04s 0
11 Cassius Baloyi (2) 2007-02-03 — 2007r 0
12 Billy Dib 2008-07-30 — 2008s 0
13 Zolani Marali 2009-04-02 — 2009-09-12 0
14 Ji Hoon Kim 2009-09-12 — 2010r 0
15 Will Tomlinson 2011-11-30 — present 0

Lightweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 Anthony Boyle 1993-12-28 — 1994r 0
2 Amado Cabato 1994-12-11 — 1995-03-10 0
3 Lester Ellis 1995-03-10 — 1995r 0
4 Billy Irwin 1995-06-08 — 1995r 0
5 Leavander Johnson 1995-07-29 — 1996r 0
6 Tony Pep 1996-03-07 — 1997r 1
7 Michael Ayers 1999-03-12 — 2001-12-26r 6
8 Jason Cook 2003-11-08 — 2004-11-05 1
9 Aldo Nazareno Ríos 2004-11-05 — 2005r 0
10 Isaac Hlatshwayo 2005-08-31 — 2006r 2
11 Juan Díaz 2008-09-06 — 2009-02-28s 0
12 Mlungisi Dlamini 2009-10-31 — 2010-01-29 (died in a vehicular accident) 0
13 Leonardo Zappavigna 2010-03-06 — 2010s 0

Junior welterweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 Mike Evgen 1992-04-09 — 1992r 0
2 Mike Johnson 1993-02-19 — 1994r 1
3 Roger Mayweather 1994-05-28 — 1994r 0
4 Lester Ellis 1994-12-03 — 1995r 0
5 Mario Martínez 1995-07-29 — 1995r 0
6 Darrell Hiles 1995-09-23 — 1995r 0
7 Verdell Smith 1996-01-18 — 1996r 0
8 Johar Abu Lashin 1997-02-28 — 1997r 0
9 Israel Cardona 1997-04-25 — 1997r 0
10 Ener Julio 1998-09-12 — 1998r 1
11 Newton Villarreal 2000-02-05 — 2001-04-07 2
12 Billy Schwer 2001-04-07 — 2001-07-14 0
13 Pablo Daniel Sarmiento 2001-07-14 — 2004-05-08 3
14 Colin Lynes 2004-05-08 — 2005r 1
15 Stevie Johnston 2006-01-27 — 2006r 0
16 Ricky Hatton 2007-01-20 — 2009-05-02 3
17 Manny Pacquiao 2009-05-02 — 2010s 0

Welterweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 Kenny Gould 1993-01-08 — 1993r 0
2 Johnny Bizzarro 1993-08-18 — 1994-08-04 1
3 Roger Mayweather 1994-08-04 — 1995r 1
4 Kip Diggs 1995-06-30 — 1995r 0
5 Kevin Lueshing 1996-07-17 — 1997-01-11s 0
6 José Antonio Rivera 1997-04-25 — 1998r 0
7 Dingaan Thobela 1999-03-06 — 1999r 0
8 Peter Malinga 1999-10-22 — 2000r 0
9 Willy Wise 2000-12-02 — 2001-06-11 0
10 Jawaid Khaliq 2001-06-11 — 2004-02-14r 7
11 Floyd Mayweather Jr 2006-04-08 — 2007r 1
12 Isaac Hlatshwayo 2007-05-12 — 2008r 2
13 Lovemore N'dou 2009-07-11 — 2010s 2
14 Chris van Heerden 2011-09-24 — present 0

Junior middleweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 Lonnie Beasley 1993-04-10 — 1994r 0
2 Lester Ellis 1995-07-17 — November 1995s 0
3 Patrick Goossen 1996-06-26 — 1996r 0
4 Manny Sobral 1996-12-12 — 1997r 1
5 Adrian Stone 2000-04-15 — 2001r 3
6 Richard Williams 2001-12-01 — 2003-06-21 3
7 Sergio Gabriel Martínez 2003-06-21 — 2004r 2
8 Mihály Kótai 2005-06-04 — 2006-03-03 1
9 Steve Conway 2006-03-03 — 2006-06-03 0
10 Attila Kovács 2006-06-03 — 2008s 1
11 Zaurbek Baysangurov 2010-12-04 — present 0

Middleweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 Glenwood Brown 1995-08-25 — 1997r 0
2 Freeman Barr 1997-09-20 — 1998r 1
3 Mpush Makambi 1998-09-08 — 2000-09-30 3
4 Raymond Joval 2000-09-30 — 2004s 4
5 Raymond Joval (2) 2005-06-03 — 2006r 1
6 Daniel Geale 2007-12-14 — 2009-05-27 1
7 Anthony Mundine 2009-05-27 — 2009r 0
8 Peter Manfredo Jr 2010-05-22 — 2011s 0
9 Avtandil Khurtsidze 2011-03-13 — 2011s 1
10 Gennady Golovkin 2011-12-09 — present 0

Super middleweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 Willie Ball 1992-07-17 — 1992-10-09 0
2 Todd Nadon 1992-10-09 — 1993r 0
3 Vinny Pazienza 1993-12-28 — 1994r 0
4 Rick Thornberry 1995-04-21 — 1996s 0
5 Karl Willis 1996-10-13 — 1996s 0
6 Eddie White 1996-11-27 — 1997s 0
7 Mads Larsen 1997-05-02 — 1999r 4
8 Dana Rosenblatt 1999-11-05 — 2000r 0
9 Adrian Dodson 2001-03-03 — 2001-04-07 0
10 Ramon Arturo Brítez 2001-04-07 — 2001-12-10 0
11 Brian Magee 2001-12-10 — 2004-06-26 7
12 Robin Reid 2004-06-26 — 2005-08-06 0
13 Jeff Lacy 2005-08-06 — 2006-03-04s 1
14 Fulgencio Zúñiga 2007-09-01 — 2008r 0
15 Sakio Bika 2008-11-13 — 2010s 0
16 Isaac Chilemba 2010-06-19 — 2011s 1
17 Thomas Oosthuizen 2011-03-26 — present 3

Light heavyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 Lenny LaPaglia 1993-08-20 — 1993r 0
2 Drake Thadzi 1997-05-14 — 1998-12-12r 1
3 Roy Jones Jr 2000-09-09 — 2004-05-15 5
4 Antonio Tarver 2004-05-15 — 2004-12-18 0
5 Glen Johnson 2004-12-18 — 2005-06-18 0
6 Antonio Tarver (2) 2005-06-18 — 2006-06-10 1
7 Bernard Hopkins 2006-06-10 — 2006r 0
8 Antonio Tarver (3) 2007-06-09 — 2008-10-11 2
9 Chad Dawson 2008-10-11 — 2010-08-14 2
10 Jean Pascal 2010-08-14 — 2011-05-21 1

Cruiserweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 David Izeqwire 1993-12-28 — 1994-11-05 1
2 Adolpho Washington 1994-11-05 — 1995-03-17s 0
3 Ted Cofie 1995-11-03 — 1997r 0
4 Booker T. Word 1997-04-18 — 1997r 0
5 James Toney 1997-06-14 — 1998r 0
6 Robert Daniels 1998-05-05 — 1999r 0
7 Thomas Hearns 1999-04-10 — 2000-04-08 0
8 Uriah Grant 2000-04-08 — 2001-02-03 0
9 Carl Thompson 2001-02-03 — 2001-11-26 0
10 Ezra Sellers 2001-11-26 — 2002-04-06s 0
11 Sebastiaan Rothmann 2002-10-26 — 2004-02-06 1
12 Carl Thompson (2) 2004-02-06 — 2005-11-26r 1
13 Tomasz Adamek 2007-06-09 — 2008r 0
14 Johnathon Banks 2008-07-12 — 2009-02-27s 0
15 Danny Green 2009-08-15 — 2011-07-20 4
16 Antonio Tarver 2011-07-20 — present 0

Heavyweight

No. Name Duration of reign Defences
1 Pinklon Thomas 1992-11-14 — 1993-01-29r 0
2 Lionel Butler 1993-02-23 — 1993r 0
3 Danell Nicholson 1994-08-04 — 1994r 0
4 Jimmy Thunder 1994-10-29 — 1995r 2
5 Brian Nielsen 1996-01-12 — September 1999r 6
6 Lennox Lewis 1999-11-13 — 2001-04-22 3
7 Hasim Rahman 2001-04-22 — 2001-11-17 0
8 Lennox Lewis (2) 2001-11-17 — 2004-02-06r 2
9 Wladimir Klitschko 2006-04-22 — present 10

See also

Champions by sanctioning body
Major titles
WBA (List) · WBC (List) · IBF (List) · WBO (List) · The Ring (List)
Minor titles
IBO (List) · WPBF · IBA · IBC · WBU (List) · IBU · WBF · UBO
Champions by weight class
Champions by different weight class
Terms