List of WBA world champions

List of WBA world champions is a table showing the world champions certificated by World Boxing Association (WBA). This list includes champions certificated by the National Boxing Association (NBA).

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

Minimumweight (Super belt: Leo Gamez)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Leo Gamez (v. Kim Bong-Jun)	January 10, 1988 — 1989^r (vacated)	1
Gamez vacated after a broken arm didn't allow him to defend the title
2	Bong-Jun Kim (v. Agustín García)	April 16, 1989 — February 2, 1991	5
3	Hi-Yong Choi	February 2, 1991 — October 14, 1992	4
4	Hideyuki Ohashi	October 14, 1992 — February 10, 1993	0
5	Chana Porpaoin	February 10, 1993 — December 2, 1995	8
6	Rosendo Álvarez (stripped)	December 2, 1995 — November 13, 1998	5
Àlvarez stripped of title before his fight with Ricardo López for being overweight. Title was at stakes only for López who managed to beat the heavier Álvarez
7	Ricardo López (v. Rosendo Alvarez)	November 13, 1998 — July 1999^r	0
Lopez vacated in order to move up to light flyweight
8	Noel Arambulet (v. Joma Gamboa)	October 9, 1999 — August 20, 2000 (stripped)	1
Arambulet stripped of title before his rematch fight with Joma Gamboa for being overweight. Title was at stakes only for Gamboa who managed to beat the heavier Arambulet
9	Joma Gamboa (v. Noel Arambulet)	August 20, 2000 — December 6, 2000	0
10	Keitaro Hoshino	December 6, 2000 — April 16, 2001	0
11	Chana Porpaoin	April 16, 2001 — August 25, 2001	0
12	Yutaka Niida	August 25, 2001 — October 19, 2001^r (vacated)	0
Niida vacated and retired citing back problems and lack of interest in boxing
13	Keitaro Hoshino (2) (v. Joma Gamboa)	January 29, 2002 — July 29, 2002	0
14	Noel Arambulet (2)	July 29, 2002 — July 2, 2004^s (stripped)	2
Arambulet stripped of title before his rematch fight with Yutaka Niida for being overweight. Title was at stakes only for Niida who managed to beat the heavier Arambulet
15	Yutaka Niida (2) (v. Noel Arambulet)	July 3, 2004 — September 15, 2008	7
16	Roman Gonzalez	September 15, 2008 – October 8, 2010^r (vacated)	3
Gonzalez vacated in order to move up to light flyweight
17	Kwanthai Sithmorseng (v. Pigmy Kokietgym)	November 5, 2010 — April 19, 2011	0
18	Muhammad Rachman	April 19, 2011 — July 31, 2011	0
19	Pornsawan Porpramook	July 30, 2011 — October 24, 2011	0
20	Akira Yaegashi	October 24, 2011 — June 24, 2012	0
21	Kazuto Ioka	June 24, 2012 — October 10, 2012^r (vacated)	0
Ioka vacated in order to move up to light flyweight
22	Ryo Miyazaki (v. Pornsawan Porpramook)	December 31, 2012 – December 27, 2013^r	2
Miyazaki vacated in order to move up to light flyweight
23	Hekkie Budler (v. Karluis Díaz)	March 1, 2014 – Present	4

Light flyweight (Super belt: Myung-Woo Yuh)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Jaime Rios (v. Rigoberto Marcano)	August 23, 1975 — July 2, 1976	1
2	Juan Antonio Guzman	July 2, 1976 — October 10, 1976	0
3	Yoko Gushiken	October 10, 1976 — March 8, 1981	13
4	Pedro Flores	March 8, 1981 — July 19, 1981	0
5	Hwan-Jin Kim	July 19, 1981 — December 16, 1981	1
6	Katsuo Tokashiki	December 16, 1981 — July 10, 1983	5
7	Lupe Madera	July 10, 1983 — May 19, 1984	1
8	Francisco Quiróz	May 19, 1984 — March 29, 1985	1
9	Joey Olivo	March 29, 1985 — December 8, 1985	1
10	Myung-Woo Yuh	December 8, 1985 — December 17, 1991	17
11	Hiroki Ioka	December 17, 1991 — November 18, 1992	2
12	Myung-Woo Yuh (2)	November 18, 1992 — 1993^r (vacated	1
Yuh vacated and retired from professional boxing
13	Leo Gamez (v. Shiro Yahiro)	October 21, 1993 — February 4, 1995	3
14	Hi-Yong Choi	February 4, 1995 — January 13, 1996	1
15	Carlos Murillo	January 13, 1996 — May 21, 1996	1
16	Keiji Yamaguchi	May 21, 1996 — December 3, 1996	1
17	Pichitnoi Sitbangprachan	December 3, 1996 — July 2000^s (stripped)	5
18	Beibis Mendoza (v. Rosendo Alvarez)	August 12, 2000 — March 3, 2001	0
19	Rosendo Alvarez	March 3, 2001 — October 2, 2004^s (stripped)	3
Alvarez was stripped of title before his fourth fight with Beibis Mendoza for being overweight.
20	Roberto Vásquez (v. Beibis Mendoza)	April 29, 2005 — May 25, 2006^r (vacated)	3
Vásquez vacated to move up to flyweight
21	Kōki Kameda (v. Juan José Landaeta)	August 2, 2006 — January 18, 2007^r	1
Kameda vacated to move up to flyweight
22	Juan Carlos Reveco (v. Nethra Sasiprapa)	June 22, 2007 — December 8, 2007	1
23	Brahim Asloum	December 8, 2007 — 2008 (retired)	1
Asloum was declared Champion in recess on July 18, 2008. On September 2009 and retired from boxing
24	Giovanni Segura (interim champ promoted)	June 5, 2009 — August 28, 2010 (won Super title)	3
Segura promoted to Super champion
25	Giovanni Segura– Super Champion (v. Iván Calderón)	August 28, 2010 — November 26, 2010^r (vacated)	0
Segura vacated to fight at flyweight
26	Juan Carlos Reveco (interim champ promoted)	August 28, 2010 — November 26, 2010^r (vacated)	0
Reveco vacated to move up to flyweight
27	Roman Gonzalez (interim champ promoted)	February 4, 2011 – November 30, 2012 (promoted to Super Champion)	5
28	Roman Gonzalez – Super Champion (regular champ promoted)	November 30, 2012 - January 14, 2014^r (vacated)	0
Gonzalez vacated to move up to flyweight
29	Kazuto Ioka (v. José Alfredo Rodríguez)	December 31, 2012 – February 28, 2014^r (vacated)	3
Ioka vacated to move up to flyweight
30	Alberto Rossel (interim champ promoted)	July 8, 2014 – December 31, 2014	0
31	Ryoichi Taguchi	December 31, 2014 – Present	2

Flyweight (Super belt: Pascual Perez)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Fighting Harada (v. Pone Kingpetch)	October 10, 1962 — January 12, 1963	0
2	Pone Kingpetch	January 12, 1963 — September 18, 1963	0
3	Hiroyuki Ebihara	September 18, 1963 — January 23, 1964	0
4	Pone Kingpetch (2)	January 23, 1964 — April 23, 1965	0
5	Salvatore Burruni	April 23, 1965 — November 1965^s	0
Burruni was stripped of title for failing to meet the organization's number one contender, Hiroyuki Ebihara
6	Horacio Accavallo (v. Katsuyoshi Takayama)	March 1, 1966 — October 1, 1968^r	3
Accavallo retired after his third defense fight, against Hiroyuki Ebihara
7	Hiroyuki Ebihara (2) (v. José Severino)	March 30, 1969 — October 19, 1969	0
8	Bernabe Villacampo	October 19, 1969 — April 5, 1970	0
9	Berkrerk Chartvanchai	April 5, 1970 — October 22, 1970	0
10	Masao Ohba	October 22, 1970 — 1973^r	5
Three weeks after his fifth defense, Ohba died in a car accident in Tokyo
11	Chartchai Chionoi (v. Fritz Chervet)	May 17, 1973 — October 18, 1974	2
12	Susumu Hanagata	October 18, 1974 — April 1, 1975	0
13	Erbito Salavarria	April 1, 1975 — February 27, 1976	1
14	Alfonso Lopez	February 27, 1976 — October 2, 1976	1
15	Guty Espadas	October 2, 1976 — August 12, 1978	4
16	Betulio González	August 12, 1978 — November 17, 1979	3
17	Luis Ibarra	November 17, 1979 — February 17, 1980	0
18	Tae-Shik Kim	February 17, 1980 — December 13, 1980	1
19	Peter Mathebula	December 13, 1980 — March 28, 1981	0
20	Santos Benigno Laciar	March 28, 1981 — June 6, 1981	0
21	Luis Ibarra (2)	June 6, 1981 — September 26, 1981	0
22	Juan Herrera	September 26, 1981 — May 1, 1982	1
23	Santos Benigno Laciar (2)	May 1, 1982 — July 19, 1985^r	9
Laciar vacated in order to move up to super flyweight
24	Hilario Zapata (v. Alonzo González)	October 5, 1985 — February 13, 1987	5
25	Fidel Bassa	February 13, 1987 — September 30, 1989	6
26	Jesús Kiki Rojas	September 30, 1989 — March 10, 1990	0
27	Yul-Woo Lee	March 10, 1990 — July 29, 1990	0
28	Leopard Tamakuma	July 29, 1990 — March 14, 1991	1
29	Elvis Álvarez	March 14, 1991 — June 1, 1991	0
30	Yong-Kang Kim	June 1, 1991 — September 26, 1992	2
31	Aquiles Guzman	September 26, 1992 — December 15, 1992	0
32	David Griman	December 15, 1992 — February 13, 1994	2
33	Saen Sor Ploenchit	February 13, 1994 — November 24, 1996	9
34	Jose Bonilla	November 24, 1996 — May 29, 1998	3
35	Hugo Rafael Soto	May 29, 1998 — March 13, 1999	0
36	Leo Gamez	March 13, 1999 — September 3, 1999	0
37	Sornpichai Kratingdaenggym	September 3, 1999 — August 5, 2000	1
38	Eric Morel	August 5, 2000 — December 6, 2003	5
39	Lorenzo Parra	December 6, 2003 — March 19, 2007	5
40	Takefumi Sakata	March 19, 2007 — December 31, 2008	4
41	Denkaosan Kaovichit	December 31, 2008 — February 7, 2010	2
42	Daiki Kameda	February 7, 2010 — January 4, 2011	2
Kameda vacated in order to move up to super flyweight
43	Luis Concepcion (interim champ promoted)	January 4, 2011 — April 2, 2011	0
44	Hernán Márquez	April 2, 2011 — November 17, 2012	2
Marquez fights for Super title against Brian Viloria
45	Brian Viloria – Super Champion (v. Hernán Márquez)	November 17, 2012 — April 6, 2013	0
46	Juan Carlos Reveco (interim champ promoted)	November 17, 2012 – April 22, 2015	6
47	Juan Francisco Estrada – Super Champion	April 6, 2013 — Present	5
48	Kazuto Ioka – Regular Champion	April 22, 2015 – Present	2

Super flyweight (Super belt: Khaosai Galaxy)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Gustavo Ballas (v. Bae Sok-Chul)	September 12, 1981 — December 5, 1981	0
2	Rafael Pedroza	December 5, 1981 — April 8, 1982	0
3	Jiro Watanabe	April 8, 1982 — July 5, 1984^s	6
Watanabe was stripped of title for not fighting mandatory challenger Khaosai Galaxy
4	Khaosai Galaxy	November 21, 1984 — 1992^r	19
Galaxy retired vacated and retired from professional boxing
5	Katsuya Onizuka (v. Thanomsak Sithbaobay)	April 10, 1992 — September 18, 1994	5
6	Hyung-Chul Lee	September 18, 1994 — July 22, 1995	1
7	Alimi Goitia	July 22, 1995 — August 24, 1996	3
8	Yokthai Sithoar	August 24, 1996 — December 23, 1997	4
9	Satoshi Iida	December 23, 1997 — December 23, 1998	2
10	Jesús Kiki Rojas	December 23, 1998 — July 31, 1999	1
11	Hideki Todaka	July 31, 1999 — October 9, 2000	2
12	Leo Gamez	October 9, 2000 — March 11, 2001	0
13	Celes Kobayashi	March 11, 2001 — March 9, 2002	1
14	Alexander Muñoz	March 9, 2002 — December 3, 2004	3
15	Martín Castillo	December 3, 2004 — July 22, 2006	3
16	Nobuo Nashiro	July 22, 2006 — May 3, 2007	1
17	Alexander Munoz (2)	May 3, 2007 — May 17, 2008	2
Muñoz then fought for Super title against Cristian Mijares
18	Cristian Mijares – Super Champion (v. Alexander Muñoz)	May 17, 2008 — November 1, 2008	1
19	Nobuo Nashiro (2) – Regular Champion (v. Kohei Kono)	September 15, 2008 — May 8, 2010	2
20	Vic Darchinyan – Super Champion	November 1, 2008— May 8, 2010	3
Darchinyan vacated to move up to bantamweight
21	Hugo Cázares – Regular Champion	May 8, 2010 — August 31, 2011	4
22	Tomonobu Shimizu	August 31, 2011 — November 10, 2011	0
Shimizu declared Champion in recess
23	Tepparith Kokietgym (interim champ promoted)	November 10, 2011 – December 31, 2012	3
24	Kohei Kono	December 31, 2012 – May 6, 2013	0
25	Liborio Solís	May 6, 2013 – December 2, 2013^s	0
Solís was stripped of his title before the fight with Daiki Kameda for being overweight. Solís won the fight in split decision but title was at stakes for Kameda only
26	Kohei Kono (2) (v. Denkaosan Kaovichit)	March 26, 2014 – Present	2

Bantamweight (Super belt: Eder Jofre)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Eder Jofre (v. Bae Sok-Chul)	September 11, 1962 — May 18, 1965	3
2	Fighting Harada	May 18, 1965 — February 27, 1968	4
3	Lionel Rose	February 27, 1968 — August 22, 1969	3
4	Rubén Olivares	August 22, 1969 — October 16, 1970	2
5	Chucho Castillo	October 16, 1970 — April 2, 1971	0
6	Rubén Olivares (2)	April 2, 1971 — March 19, 1972	2
7	Rafael Herrera	March 19, 1972 — July 29, 1972	0
8	Enrique Pinder	July 29, 1972 — January 20, 1973	0
9	Romeo Anaya	January 20, 1973 — November 3, 1973	2
10	Arnold Taylor	November 3, 1973 — July 3, 1974	0
11	Soo-Hwan Hong	July 3, 1974 — March 14, 1975	1
12	Alfonso Zamora	March 14, 1975 — November 19, 1977	5
13	Jorge Luján	November 19, 1977 — August 29, 1980	5
14	Julian Solís	August 29, 1980 — November 14, 1980	0
15	Jeff Chandler	November 14, 1980 — April 7, 1984	9
16	Richie Sandoval	April 7, 1984 — March 10, 1986	2
17	Gaby Canizales	March 10, 1986 — June 4, 1986	0
18	Bernardo Pinango	June 4, 1986 — 1987^r	3
Pinango vacated in order to move up to super bantamweight
19	Takuya Muguruma (v. Azael Moran)	March 29, 1987 — May 24, 1987	0
20	Chan-Young Park	May 24, 1987 — October 4, 1987	0
21	Wilfredo Vazquez	October 4, 1987 — May 9, 1988	1
22	Kaokor Galaxy	May 9, 1988 — August 14, 1988	0
23	Sung-Kil Moon	August 14, 1988 — July 9, 1989	2
24	Kaokor Galaxy (2)	July 9, 1989 — October 18, 1989	0
25	Luisito Espinosa	October 18, 1989 — October 19, 1991	2
26	Israel Contreras	October 19, 1991 — March 15, 1992	0
27	Eddie Cook	March 15, 1992 — October 9, 1992	0
28	Jorge Julio Rocha	October 9, 1992 — October 23, 1993	2
29	Junior Jones	October 23, 1993 — April 22, 1994	1
30	John Michael Johnson	April 22, 1994 — July 16, 1994	0
31	Daorung Chuvatana	July 16, 1994 — September 17, 1995	2
32	Veeraphol Sahaprom	September 17, 1995 — January 28, 1996	0
33	Nana Konadu	January 28, 1996 — October 27, 1996	0
34	Daorung Chuvatana (2)	October 27, 1996 — June 21, 1997	1
35	Nana Konadu (2)	June 21, 1997 — December 5, 1998	1
36	Johnny Tapia	December 5, 1998 — June 26, 1999	0
37	Paulie Ayala	June 26, 1999 — August 7, 2001^s	3
Ayala vacated in order to move up to super bantamweight
38	Eidy Moya (v. Adán Vargas)	October 14, 2001 — April 19, 2002	0
39	Johnny Bredahl	April 19, 2002 — October 11, 2004^r	3
Bredahl vacated and retired from boxing
40	Wladimir Sidorenko (v. Julio Zamora)	February 26, 2005 — May 31, 2008	6
41	Anselmo Moreno	May 31, 2008 — November 19, 2010	7
Moreno got promoted so Super champion
42	Anselmo Moreno – Super Champion	November 19, 2010 — September 26, 2014	5
43	Koki Kameda – Regular Champion (v. Alexander Muñoz)	December 26, 2010 — December 6, 2013^r	8
Kameda vacated his title following a call for a unification match with WBA Super Champion Anselmo Moreno, in order to move down to super flyweight
44	Jamie McDonnell – Regular Champion (v. Tabtimdaeng Na Rachawat)	May 31, 2014 — Present	3
45	Juan Carlos Payano – Super Champion	September 26, 2014 — Present	1

Super bantamweight (Super belt: Wilfredo Gomez)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Soo-Hwan Hong (v. Ricardo Cardona)	January 26, 1977 — May 7, 1978	1
2	Ricardo Cardona	May 7, 1978 — May 4, 1980	5
3	Leo Randolph	May 4, 1980 — August 9, 1980	0
4	Sergio Victor Palma	August 9, 1980 — June 12, 1982	5
5	Leo Cruz	June 12, 1982 — February 22, 1984	3
6	Loris Stecca	February 22, 1984 — May 26, 1984	0
7	Victor Callejas	May 26, 1984 — 1986^r	2
Callejas started a period of inactivity and vacated the title
8	Louie Espinoza (v. Tommy Valoy)	January 11, 1987 — November 28, 1987	2
9	Julio Gervacio	November 28, 1987 — February 27, 1988	0
10	Bernardo Pinango	February 27, 1988 — May 28, 1988	0
11	Juan Jose Estrada	May 28, 1988 — November 11, 1989	3
12	Jesús Salud	November 11, 1989 — April 1990^r	0
Salud stripped of title for failing to defend it in Colombia against the No. 1 contender, Luis Mendoza
13	Luis Enrique Mendoza (v. Rubén Darío Palacios)	September 11, 1990 — October 7, 1991	4
14	Raúl Pérez	October 7, 1991 — March 27, 1992	0
15	Wilfredo Vázquez	March 27, 1992 — May 13, 1995	9
16	Antonio Cermeño	May 13, 1995 — 1998^r	7
Cermeño vacated to move up to featherweight
17	Enrique Sánchez (v. Rafael del Valle)	February 8, 1998 — December 12, 1998	0
18	Néstor Garza	December 12, 1998 — March 4, 2000	2
19	Clarence Adams	March 4, 2000 — 2001^s	2
Adams vacated in order to fight Paulie Ayala for the IBO super bantamweight title
20	Yober Ortega (v. José Rojas)	November 17, 2001 — February 21, 2002	0
21	Yoddamrong Sithyodthong	February 21, 2002 — May 18, 2002	0
22	Osamu Sato	May 18, 2002 — October 9, 2002	0
23	Salim Medjkoune	October 9, 2002 — July 4, 2003	1
24	Mahyar Monshipour	July 4, 2003 — March 18, 2006	5
25	Somsak Sithchatchawal	March 18, 2006 — October 4, 2006	0
26	Celestino Caballero	October 4, 2006 — November 21, 2008	5
Caballero fought for Super title against Steve Molitor
27	Celestino Caballero– Super Champion (v. Steve Molitor)	November 21, 2008 — December 10, 2010	2
Caballero vacated to fight at featherweight
28	Ricardo Cordoba– Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	November 21, 2008 — March 21, 2009	0
29	Bernard Dunne	March 21, 2009 — September 26, 2009	0
30	Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym	September 26, 2009 — October 2, 2010	2
31	Ryol Li Lee	October 2, 2010 — January 31, 2010	0
32	Akifumi Shimoda	January 31, 2010 — July 9, 2011	0
33	Rico Ramos	July 9, 2011 – January 20, 2012	0
34	Guillermo Rigondeaux	January 20, 2012 – April 13, 2013	2
Rigondeaux fought for Super title against Nonito Donaire
35	Guillermo Rigondeaux – Super Champion (v. Nonito Donaire)	April 13, 2013 – October 30, 2015	3
Rigondeaux was declared Champion in Recess due to inactivity
36	Scott Quigg – Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	September 5, 2013 – Present	6

Featherweight (Super belt: Eusebio Pedroza)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Sugar Ramos (v. Davey Moore)	March 21, 1963 — September 26, 1964	3
2	Vicente Saldivar	September 26, 1964 — 1967^r	7
Saldívar announced retiremente after his 7th defense
3	Raul Rojas (v. Enrique Higgins)	March 28, 1968 — September 27, 1968	0
4	Shozo Saijo	September 27, 1968 — September 2, 1971	5
5	Antonio Gomez	September 2, 1971 — August 19, 1972	1
6	Ernesto Marcel	August 19, 1972 — February 16, 1974^r	4
Marcel announced retirement after his 4th defense, against Alexis Argüello
7	Rubén Olivares (v. Zensuke Otagawa)	July 9, 1974 — November 23, 1974	0
8	Alexis Argüello	November 23, 1974 — 1976^r	4
Argüello vacated his title to move up to super featherweight
9	Rafael Ortega (v. Francisco Coronado)	January 15, 1977 — December 17, 1977	1
10	Cecilio Lastra	December 17, 1977 — April 15, 1978	0
11	Eusebio Pedroza	April 15, 1978 — June 8, 1985	19
12	Barry McGuigan	June 8, 1985 — June 23, 1986	2
13	Steve Cruz	June 23, 1986 — March 6, 1987	0
14	Antonio Esparragoza	March 6, 1987 — March 30, 1991	7
15	Yong-Kyun Park	March 30, 1991 — December 4, 1993	8
16	Eloy Rojas	December 4, 1993 — May 18, 1996	6
17	Wilfredo Vázquez	May 18, 1996 — 1997^s	4
Vázquez was stripped of title for failing to set up a fight with mandatory challenger Antonio Cermeño
18	Freddie Norwood (v. Antonio Cermeño)	April 3, 1998 — September 22, 1998^s	2
Norwood was stripped of his title for coming overweight to his 3rd defense fight, against Koji Matsumoto
19	Antonio Cermeño (v. Genaro Rios)	October 3, 1998 — May 29, 1999	1
20	Freddie Norwood (2)	May 29, 1999 — September 9, 2000	3
21	Derrick Gainer	September 9, 2000 — November 1, 2003	3
Gainer fought for Super title against Juan Manuel Márquez
22	Juan Manuel Marquez– Super Champion (v. Derrick Gainer)	November 1, 2003 — August 22, 2005^s	3
Márquez was stripped for his inability to defend against various boxers after potential bouts failed to draw a bid
23	Chris John– Regular champion (interim champ promoted)	November 1, 2003 — June 27, 2009	11
John was promoted to Super champion
24	Chris John– Super champion (regular champ promoted)	June 27, 2009 — July 14, 2010	1
John was declared Champion in Recess
25	Yuriorkis Gamboa – Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	June 27, 2009 — September 11, 2010	3
Gamboa fought for WBA Unified title against Orlando Salido
26	Yuriorkis Gamboa – Unified Champion (v. Orlando Salido)	September 11, 2010 — June 11, 2011	1
Gamboa was stripped of his Unified title for not complying with the IBF rules of a second weigh-in in his last fight with Jorge Solís. He was stripped of the IBF title and thus was no longer a unified champion
27	Jonathan Victor Barros – Regular Champion (v. Irving Berry)	December 4, 2010 — October 14, 2011	2
28	Chris John– Super champion (reinstated)	December 5, 2010 — December 6, 2013	6
29	Celestino Caballero – Regular Champion	October 14, 2011 – October 7, 2012^r	1
Caballero vacated for not accepting a low budget on a mandatory fight with Nicholas Walters.
30	Nicholas Walters – Regular Champion (v. Daulis Prescott)	December 9, 2012 – October 18, 2014	2
Walters fought for Super title against Nonito Donaire
31	Simpiwe Vetyeka – Super Champion	December 6, 2013 – May 31, 2014	0
32	Nonito Donaire – Super Champion	May 31, 2014 – October 18, 2014	0
33	Nicholas Walters – Super Champion	October 18, 2014 – June 13, 2015^s	0
Walters was stripped of title for failing to make weight on his first defense fight against Miguel Marriaga. Title was at stakes for Marriaga but Walters won by unanimous decision
34	Jesús Cuéllar – Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	February 21, 2015 – Present	2
35	Leo Santa Cruz – Super Champion (v. Abner Mares)	August 29, 2015 – Present	0

Super featherweight (Super belt: Gabriel Elorde)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Gabriel Elorde (v. Johnny Bizarro)	February 16, 1963 — June 15, 1967	5
2	Yoshiaki Numata	June 15, 1967 — December 14, 1967	0
3	Hiroshi Kobayashi	December 14, 1967 — July 29, 1971	6
4	Alfredo Marcano	July 29, 1971 — April 25, 1972	1
5	Ben Villaflor	April 25, 1972 — March 12, 1973	1
6	Kuniaki Shibata	March 12, 1973 — October 17, 1973	1
7	Ben Villaflor (2)	October 17, 1973 — October 16, 1976	5
8	Samuel Serrano	October 16, 1976 — August 2, 1980	10
9	Yasutsune Uehara	August 2, 1980 — April 9, 1981	1
10	Samuel Serrano (2)	April 9, 1981 — January 19, 1983	3
11	Roger Mayweather	January 19, 1983 — February 26, 1984	2
12	Rocky Lockridge	February 26, 1984 — May 19, 1985	2
13	Wilfredo Gómez	May 19, 1985 — May 24, 1986	0
14	Alfredo Layne	May 24, 1986 — September 27, 1986	0
15	Brian Mitchell	September 27, 1986 — 1991^s	12
Mitchell was stripped of title after facing Tony Lopez for the IBF belt
16	Joey Gamache (v. Jerry Ngobeni)	June 28, 1991 — 1991^r	0
Gamache vacates to move up to lightweight division
17	Genaro Hernandez (v. Daniel Londas)	June 28, 1991 — April 1995^r	8
Hernandez vacated to face Oscar de la Hoya at lightweight
18	Yong-Soo Choi (v. Víctor Hugo Paz)	October 21, 1995 — September 5, 1998	7
19	Takanori Hatakeyama	September 5, 1998 — October 31, 1999	1
20	Lakva Sim	June 27, 1999 — October 31, 1999	0
21	Jong-Kwon Baek	October 31, 1999 — May 21, 2000	1
22	Joel Casamayor	May 21, 2000 — January 12, 2002	4
Casamayor fought for Super title against Acelino Freitas
23	Acelino Freitas– Super Champion (v. Joel Casamayor)	January 12, 2002 — August 9, 2003^r	3
Freitas vacated and moved up to lightweight
24	Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai– Regular Champion (v. Lakva Sim)	April 13, 2002 — April 30, 2005	3
25	Vicente Mosquera	April 30, 2005 — August 5, 2006	1
26	Edwin Valero	August 5, 2006 — September 3, 2008^r	4
Valero vacated and moved up to lightweight
27	Jorge Linares (v. Whyber Garcia)	November 28, 2008 — October 10, 2009	1
28	Juan Carlos Salgado	October 10, 2009 — January 11, 2010	0
29	Takashi Uchiyama	January 11, 2010 — February 21, 2015	9
Uchiyama was promoted to Super champion
30	Takashi Uchiyama – Super Champion (regular champ promoted)	February 21, 2015 — Present	2
31	Javier Fortuna (v. Bryan Vásquez)	May 29, 2015 — Present	1

Lightweight (Super belt: Roberto Duran)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Carlos Ortiz (v. Joe Brown)	April 21, 1962 — April 10, 1965	4
2	Ismael Laguna	April 10, 1965 — November 13, 1965	0
3	Carlos Ortiz (2)	November 13, 1965 — June 29, 1968	5
4	Carlos Teo Cruz	June 29, 1968 — February 18, 1969	1
5	Mando Ramos	February 18, 1969 — March 3, 1970	1
6	Ismael Laguna (2)	March 3, 1970 — September 26, 1970	1
7	Ken Buchanan	September 26, 1970 — June 26, 1972	2
8	Roberto Durán	June 26, 1972 — January 1979^r	12
Durán vacated to move up to welterweight
9	Ernesto España (v. Claude Noel)	June 16, 1979 — March 2, 1980	1
10	Hilmer Kenty	March 2, 1980 — April 12, 1981	3
11	Sean O'Grady	April 12, 1981 — 1981^r	0
O'Grady was stripped of title for not defending it
12	Claude Noel (v. Rodolfo González)	September 12, 1981 — December 5, 1981	0
13	Arturo Frias	December 5, 1981 — May 8, 1982	1
14	Ray Mancini	May 8, 1982 — June 1, 1984	4
15	Livingstone Bramble	June 1, 1984 — September 26, 1986	2
16	Edwin Rosario	September 26, 1986 — November 21, 1987	1
17	Julio César Chávez	November 21, 1987 — October 29, 1988^r	2
Chávez vacated to move up to super lightweight
18	Edwin Rosario (2) (v. Anthony Jones)	July 9, 1989 — May 4, 1990	0
19	Juan Nazario	May 4, 1990 — August 11, 1990	0
20	Pernell Whitaker	August 11, 1990 — 1992^r	3
Whitaker vacated to move up to super lightweight
21	Joey Gamache (v. Chil-Sung Jun)	June 13, 1992 — October 24, 1992	0
22	Tony Lopez	October 24, 1992 — June 26, 1993	1
23	Dingaan Thobela	June 26, 1993 — October 30, 1993	0
24	Orzubek Nazarov	October 30, 1993 — May 16, 1998	6
25	Jean Baptiste Mendy	May 16, 1998 — April 10, 1999	1
26	Julien Lorcy	April 10, 1999 — August 7, 1999	0
27	Stefano Zoff	August 7, 1999 — November 13, 1999	0
28	Gilberto Serrano	November 13, 1999 — June 11, 2000	1
29	Takanori Hatakeyama	June 11, 2000 — July 1, 2001	2
30	Julien Lorcy (2)	July 1, 2001 — October 18, 2001	0
31	Raul Horacio Balbi	October 18, 2001 — January 5, 2002	0
32	Leonard Doroftei	January 5, 2002 — October 24, 2003^s	2
Doroffei was stripped of title when he came 2kg overweight to his bout with Miguel Callist. The fight was cancelled
33	Lakva Sim (v. Miguel Callist)	April 10, 2004 — July 17, 2004	0
34	Juan Díaz	July 17, 2004 — February 23, 2007	5
Diaz was promoted to Super champion
35	Juan Díaz – Super Champion (regular champ promoted)	February 23, 2007 — March 8, 2008	2
36	Jose Alfaro – Regular Champion (v. Prawet Singwancha)	December 29, 2007 — May 19, 2008	0
37	Nate Campbell – Super Champion	March 8, 2008 — January 10, 2009^r	0
Campbell vacated because of concerns regarding sanctioning fees and proposed mandatory defenses
38	Yusuke Kobori – Regular Champion	May 19, 2008 — January 3, 2009	0
39	Paulus Moses – Regular Champion	January 3, 2009 — May 29, 2010	1
40	Juan Manuel Márquez – Super Champion (v. Juan Diaz)	February 28, 2009 — January 8, 2012^s	2
Marquez vacated to move up to welterweight and fight Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
41	Miguel Acosta – Regular Champion	May 29, 2010 — February 26, 2011	1
42	Brandon Rios	February 26, 2011 — December 2, 2011^s	1
Rios was stripped of title before his second defense against John Murray for being overweight
43	Richard Abril (interim champ promoted)	February 28, 2013 — April 10, 2015	2
Abril was declared Champion in Recess after he cancelled his fight with Derry Matthews
44	Darleys Perez (interim champ promoted)	April 10, 2015 — November 21, 2015	1
45	Anthony Crolla	November 21, 2015 — Present	0

Super lightweight (Super belt: Antonio Cervantes)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Eddie Perkins (v. Duilio Loi)	September 14, 1962 — December 15, 1962	0
2	Duilio Loi	December 15, 1962 — January 1963^r	0
Loi vacated and retired from boxing
3	Roberto Cruz (v. Battling Torres)	March 21, 1963 — June 15, 1963	0
4	Eddie Perkins (2)	June 15, 1963 — January 18, 1965	2
5	Carlos Hernández	January 18, 1965 — April 29, 1966	2
6	Sandro Lopopolo	April 29, 1966 — April 30, 1967	1
13	Takeshi Fuji	April 30, 1967 — December 12, 1968	1
14	Nicolino Locche	December 12, 1968 — March 10, 1972	5
15	Alfonso Frazer	March 10, 1972 — October 28, 1972	0
16	Antonio Cervantes	October 28, 1972 — March 6, 1976	10
17	Wilfred Benítez	March 6, 1976 — July 1977^s	2
Benitez vacated to move up to welterweight
18	Antonio Cervantes (2) (v. Carlos María Giménez)	June 25, 1977 — August 2, 1980	6
19	Aaron Pryor	August 2, 1980 — September 9, 1983^r	8
Pryor was stripped of title after announcing retirement after beating Alexis Argüello for the second time. He came back from retirement less than a year later
20	Johnny Bumphus (v. Lorenzo Luis García)	January 22, 1984 — June 1, 1984	0
21	Gene Hatcher	June 1, 1984 — July 21, 1985	1
22	Ubaldo Nestor Sacco	July 21, 1985 — March 15, 1986	0
23	Patrizio Oliva	March 15, 1986 — July 4, 1987	2
24	Juan Martin Coggi	July 4, 1987 — August 17, 1990	4
25	Loreto Garza	August 17, 1990 — June 14, 1991	1
26	Edwin Rosario	June 14, 1991 — April 10, 1992	0
27	Akinobu Hiranaka	April 10, 1992 — September 9, 1992	0
28	Morris East	September 9, 1992 — January 12, 1993	0
29	Juan Martin Coggi (2)	January 12, 1993 — September 17, 1994	6
30	Frankie Randall	September 17, 1994 — January 13, 1996	2
31	Juan Martin Coggi (3)	January 13, 1996 — August 16, 1996	0
32	Frankie Randall (2)	August 16, 1996 — January 11, 1997	0
33	Khalid Rahilou	January 11, 1997 — October 10, 1998	2
34	Sharmba Mitchell	October 10, 1998 — September 16, 2000	4
Mitchell fought for Super title against Kostya Tszyu
35	Kostya Tszyu – Super Champion (v. Sharmba Mitchell)	September 16, 2000 — March 16, 2004^r	4
Tszyu was stripped of title due to inactivity
36	Diosbelys Hurtado – Regular Champion	May 11, 2002 — October 19, 2002	0
37	Vivian Harris	October 19, 2002 — June 25, 2005	3
38	Carlos Maussa	June 25, 2005 — November 26, 2005	0
Fought for Super title against Ricky Hatton
39	Ricky Hatton – Super Champion (v. Carlos Maussa)	November 26, 2005 — May 4, 2006^r	1
Hatton vacated to move up to welterweight
40	Souleymane M'baye – Regular Champion (v. Raúl Horacio Balbi)	September 2, 2006 — July 21, 2007	1
41	Gavin Rees	July 21, 2007 — March 22, 2008	0
42	Andreas Kotelnik	March 22, 2008 — July 18, 2009	2
43	Amir Khan	July 18, 2009 — July 23, 2011	5
Khan fought for Super title against Zab Judah
44	Amir Khan– Super Champion (v. Zab Judah)	July 23, 2011 — December 10, 2011	5
45	Marcos René Maidana – Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	July 23, 2011 — July 16, 2012^r	1
Maidana vacted to move up to welterweight and fight Devon Alexander
45	Lamont Peterson– Super Champion	December 10, 2011 — June 27, 2012	0
Peterson was stripped of title after testing positive for testosterone on a random test in March 2012.
46	Amir Khan– Super Champion (reinstated)	July 11, 2012 — July 14, 2012	0
47	Danny García– Super Champion	July 14, 2012 — September 11, 2015	4
Garcia vacates after moving up to welterweight
48	Khabib Allakhverdiev– Regular Champion (v. Joan Guzmán)	November 30, 2012 — April 12, 2014	1
49	Jessie Vargas – Regular Champion	April 12, 2014 — June 27, 2015	2
Vargas vacated title before fighting Timothy Bradley for the World Boxing Organization weltereweight title to avoid paying a sanctioning fee to the WBA
50	Adrien Broner – Regular Champion (v. Khabib Allakhverdiev)	October 3, 2015 — Current	0

Welterweight (Super belt: Sugar Ray Robinson)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Emile Griffith (v. Jorge José Fernández)	December 8, 1962 — March 21, 1963	0
2	Luis Manuel Rodríguez	March 21, 1963 — June 8, 1963	0
3	Emile Griffith (2)	June 8, 1963 — April 25, 1966^r	4
Griffith vacated to move up to middleweight. He lost three fights during his reign as WBA welterweight champion
6	Curtis Cokes (v. Manuel González)	August 24, 1966 — April 18, 1969	5
7	José Nápoles	April 18, 1969 — December 3, 1970	3
8	Billy Backus	December 3, 1970 — June 4, 1971	0
9	José Nápoles (2)	June 4, 1971 — May 1975^r	9
Nápoles was stripped of his WBA title for failure to sign for a fight against the WBA's No. 1-rated welterweight contender, Ángel Espada
10	Ángel Espada (v. Clyde Gray)	June 28, 1975 — July 17, 1976	1
11	José Cuevas	July 17, 1976 — August 2, 1980	11
12	Thomas Hearns	August 2, 1980 — September 16, 1981	3
13	Sugar Ray Leonard	September 16, 1981 — November 9, 1982^r	1
Leonard vacated title after being diagnosed with a detached retina and announced his retirement. He would come back in 1984
14	Donald Curry (v. Jun-Suk Hwang)	February 13, 1983 — September 27, 1986	7
15	Lloyd Honeyghan	September 27, 1986 — December 1986^r	0
Honeyghan vacated after the WBA mandated that he defend the title against South African Harold Volbrecht. Honeyghan dropped the WBA title belt into a trash can on a London street to protest the WBA's continued sanctioning of bouts involving citizens of apartheid-governed South Africa
16	Mark Breland (v. Harold Volbrecht)	February 6, 1987 — August 22, 1987	0
17	Marlon Starling	August 22, 1987 — July 29, 1988	2
Starling lost the title in his third defense in controversial fashion to Tomas Molinares. Molinares hit Starling with a punch that was clearly thrown after the bell. Starling went down for the only time in his career, and the referee counted him out. Molinares was declared the new champion by knock out. However, the decision was later changed to a no contest but the Colombian kept the title
18	Tomas Molinares	July 29, 1988 — December 12, 1988^r	0
Molinares withdrew from his defense fight with Mark Breland citing severe depression. He was stripped of the title
19	Mark Breland (2) (v. Seung-Soon Lee)	February 4, 1989 — July 8, 1990	4
20	Aaron Davis	July 8, 1990 — January 19, 1991	0
21	Meldrick Taylor	January 19, 1991 — October 31, 1992	2
22	Crisanto España	October 31, 1992 — June 4, 1994	2
23	Ike Quartey	June 4, 1994 — October 1998^s	7
Quartey was stripped of title due to inactivity
24	James Page (v. Andrey Pestryaev)	October 10, 1998 — 2000^s	3
25	Andrew Lewis	February 17, 2001 — March 30, 2002	1
26	Ricardo Mayorga	March 30, 2002 — January 25, 2003	0
Mayorga fought for Super title against Vernon Forrest
26	Ricardo Mayorga – Super Champion (v. Vernon Forrest)	January 25, 2003 — December 13, 2003	1
27	Jose Antonio Rivera – Regular Champion (v. Michel Trabant)	September 13, 2003 — April 2, 2005	0
28	Cory Spinks – Super Champion	December 13, 2003 — February 5, 2005	2
29	Zab Judah– Super Champion	February 5, 2005 — January 7, 2006	1
Judah fought with Carlos Baldomir for the WBC belt as the latter didn't pay the sanctioning fee for the WBA and IBF belt. Judah lost the bout and the WBA subsequently stripped him of the title
30	Luis Collazo – Regular Champion	April 2, 2005 — May 13, 2006	1
31	Ricky Hatton	May 13, 2006 — August 31, 2006^r	0
Hatton vacated to move back to super lightweight
32	Miguel Cotto (v. Carlos Quintana)	December 2, 2006 — July 26, 2008	4
33	Antonio Margarito	July 26, 2008 — October 3, 2008	0
Margarito was promoted to Super champion
33	Antonio Margarito – Super Champion (Regular champ promoted)	October 3, 2008 — January 24, 2009	0
34	Yuriy Nuzhnenko – Regular Champion (Interim champ promoted)	October 3, 2008 — April 10, 2009	0
35	Shane Mosley – Super champion	January 24, 2009 — May 22, 2010^s	0
The WBA stripped Mosley of the title for not agreeing on the terms for his bout with Floyd Mayweather, Jr., who refused to pay the sanctioning fees for the title and Mosley fought without reaching a deal with the WBA. Mosley lost via unanimous decision
36	Vyacheslav Senchenko – Regular Champion	April 10, 2009 — April 30, 2012	3
37	Paul Malignaggi	April 30, 2012 — June 22, 2013	1
38	Adrien Broner	June 22, 2013 — December 14, 2013	0
39	Marcos René Maidana	December 14, 2013 — May 3, 2014	0
Maidana fought for Super title against Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
40	Floyd Mayweather, Jr. — Super Champion (v. Marcos Maidana)	May 3, 2014 — present	3
40	Keith Thurman — Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	January 28, 2015 — present	2

Super welterweight (Super belt: Thomas Hearns)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Denny Moyer (v. Joey Giambra)	October 20, 1962 — April 29, 1963	1
2	Ralph Dupas	April 29, 1963 — September 7, 1963	1
3	Sandro Mazzinghi	September 7, 1963 — June 18, 1965	3
4	Nino Benvenuti	June 18, 1965 — June 25, 1966	1
5	Ki-Soo Kim	June 25, 1966 — May 25, 1968	2
6	Sandro Mazzinghi (2)	May 25, 1968 — October 1968^s	1
Mazzinghi fought on his second defense against Freddie Little. The bout was stopped with Mazzinghi bleeding from cuts over both eyes, the ringside officials rule a "No-Contest", though under normal circumstances Little would have won by "TKO 8". Mazzinghi was stripped of his World Title shortly thereafter, because of the controversial result
7	Freddie Little (v. Stanley Hayward)	March 17, 1969 — July 9, 1970	2
8	Carmelo Bossi	July 9, 1970 — October 31, 1971	1
9	Koichi Wajima	October 31, 1971 — June 4, 1974	6
10	Oscar Albarado	June 4, 1974 — January 21, 1975	1
11	Koichi Wajima (2)	January 21, 1975 — June 7, 1975	0
12	Jae-Doo Yuh	June 7, 1975 — February 17, 1976	1
13	Koichi Wajima (3)	February 17, 1976 — May 18, 1976	0
14	José Duran	May 18, 1976 — October 8, 1976	0
15	Miguel Angel Castellini	October 8, 1976 — March 5, 1977	0
16	Eddie Gazo	March 5, 1977 — August 9, 1978	3
17	Masashi Kudo	August 9, 1978 — August 24, 1979	3
18	Ayub Kalule	August 24, 1979 — June 25, 1981	4
19	Sugar Ray Leonard	June 25, 1981 — 1981^r	0
Leonard vacated and move down to welterweight to fight in a unification bout against Thomas Hearns
20	Tadashi Mihara (v. Rocky Fratto)	November 7, 1981 — February 2, 1982	0
21	Davey Moore	February 2, 1982 — June 16, 1983	3
22	Roberto Durán	June 16, 1983 — November 1983^r	0
Durán was stripped of WBA for fighting Thomas Hearns instead of the mandatory WBA challenger, Mike McCallum
23	Mike McCallum (v. Sean Mannion)	November 19, 1984 — November 1987^r	6
McCallum vacated to move up to middleweight
24	Julian Jackson (v. In-Chul Baek)	November 21, 1987 — 1990^r	3
Jackson vacated to move up to middleweight
25	Gilbert Dele (v. Carlos Elliott)	February 23, 1991 — October 1, 1991	1
26	Vinny Pazienza	October 1, 1991 — 1992^r	0
Pazienza vacated after a car crash which kept him 3 months in hospital
27	Julio César Vásquez (v. Hitoshi Kamiyama)	December 21, 1991 — March 4, 1995	10
28	Pernell Whitaker	March 4, 1995 — June 1995^r	0
Whitaker decided to vacate and move back to welterweight
29	Carl Daniels (v. Julio César Green)	June 16, 1995 — December 16, 1995	0
30	Julio César Vásquez (2)	December 16, 1995 — August 21, 1996	0
31	Laurent Boudouani	August 21, 1996 — March 6, 1999	4
32	David Reid	March 6, 1999 — March 3, 2000	2
33	Félix Trinidad	March 3, 2000 — May 12, 2001^r	2
Trinidad vacated to move up to middleweight
34	Fernando Vargas (v. José Flores)	September 22, 2001 — September 14, 2002	0
Vargas fought for Super title against Oscar de la Hoya
35	Oscar De La Hoya – Super Champion (v. Fernando Vargas)	September 14, 2002 — September 13, 2003	1
36	Santiago Samaniego – Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	September 14, 2002 — March 1, 2003	0
37	Alejandro Garcia– Regular Champion	March 1, 2003 — December 13, 2003	1
38	Shane Mosley – Super champion	September 13, 2003 — March 13, 2004	0
39	Travis Simms– Regular champion	December 13, 2003 — May 21, 2005^s	1
Simms was stripped of the belt in May 2005 because he filed a lawsuit against the WBA Organization (in November 2004) for not enforcing his mandatory contract that he received from the organization when he won the regular world title
40	Ronald Wright – Super champion	March 13, 2004 — March 20, 2005^r	1
Wright vacated to challenge Félix Trinidad at middleweight
41	Alejandro Garcia (2) – Regular champion (interim champ promoted)	May 21, 2005 — May 6, 2006	1
42	José Antonio Rivera	May 6, 2006 — January 6, 2007	0
43	Travis Simms (2)	January 6, 2007 — July 7, 2007	0
44	Joachim Alcine	July 7, 2007 — July 11, 2008	1
45	Daniel Santos	July 11, 2008 — November 14, 2009	0
46	Yuri Foreman	November 14, 2009 — June 5, 2010	0
47	Miguel Cotto	June 5, 2010 — September 10, 2010	2
Cotto got promoted to Super champion
48	Miguel Cotto – Super Champion (Regular champ promoted)	September 10, 2010 — May 5, 2012	2
49	Austin Trout – Regular Champion (v. Rigoberto Álvarez)	February 5, 2011 — April 20, 2013	4
Trout fought for Unified title against Saúl Álvarez
50	Floyd Mayweather, Jr. – Super Champion	May 5, 2012 — present	1
51	Saúl Álvarez – Unified Champion	April 20, 2013 — September 14, 2013	0
Álvarez fought for Super title against Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and lost
52	Erislandy Lara – Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	March 13, 2014 — present	3

Middleweight (Super belt: Carlos Monzon)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Dick Tiger (v. Gene Fullmer)	October 23, 1962 — December 7, 1963	2
2	Joey Giardello	December 7, 1963 — October 21, 1965	1
3	Dick Tiger (2)	October 21, 1965 — April 25, 1966	0
4	Emile Griffith	April 25, 1966 — April 17, 1967	2
5	Nino Benvenuti	April 17, 1967 — September 29, 1967	0
6	Emile Griffith (2)	September 29, 1967 — March 4, 1968	0
7	Nino Benvenuti (2)	March 4, 1968 — November 7, 1970	4
8	Carlos Monzón	November 7, 1970 — August 1977^r	14
Monzón retired after his second fight with Rodrigo Valdez, without losing the title for almost 7 years
9	Rodrigo Valdez (v. Bennie Briscoe)	November 5, 1977 — April 22, 1978	0
10	Hugo Pastor Corro	April 22, 1978 — June 30, 1979	2
11	Vito Antuofermo	June 30, 1979 — March 16, 1980	1
12	Alan Minter	March 16, 1980 — September 27, 1980	1
13	Marvin Hagler	September 27, 1980 — April 6, 1987^s	11
Hagler was stripped of title for signing a fight with Sugar Ray Leonard instead of mandatory challenger, Herol Graham. Graham next lost a fight for the European title against Sumbu Kalambay and was not given the chance of fighting for the world title
14	Sumbu Kalambay (v. Iran Barkley)	October 23, 1987 — March 1989^s	3
Kalambay was stripped of title for choosing to fight IBF Middleweight Champion Michael Nunn, instead of mandatory challenger Herol Graham
15	Mike McCallum (v. Herol Graham)	May 10, 1989 — December, 1991^r	3
The WBA demanded McCallum defend against Steve Collins, whom he decisively outpointed in a title defense the previous year. McCallum chose to fight with IBF champion James Toney and was stripped of title
16	Reggie Johnson (v. Steve Collins)	April 22, 1992 — October 1, 1993	3
17	John David Jackson	October 1, 1993 — May, 1994^r	0
Jackson was stripped of title for participating in a non-title bout without the permission of the WBA.
18	Jorge Castro (v. Reggie Johnson)	August 12, 1994 — December 19, 1995	4
19	Shinji Takehara	December 19, 1995 — June 24, 1996	0
20	William Joppy	June 24, 1996 — August 23, 1997	2
21	Julio César Green	August 23, 1997 — January 31, 1998	0
22	William Joppy (2)	January 31, 1998 — May 12, 2001	5
23	Felix Trinidad	May 12, 2001 — September 29, 2001	0
Trinidad fought for Super title against Bernard Hopkins
24	Bernard Hopkins – Super champion (v. Félix Trinidad)	September 29, 2001 — July 16, 2005	6
25	William Joppy (3) – Regular champion (v. Howard Eastman)	November 17, 2001 — December 13, 2003 (lost to super champion)	1
Joppy fought for Super title against Bernard Hopkins
26	Maselino Masoe – Regular champion (v. Evans Ashira)	May 1, 2004 — March 11, 2006	0
27	Jermain Taylor – Super champion	July 16, 2005 — December 14, 2006^s	1
Taylor was stripped of title after not paying sanctioning fees to the WBA and thus not exposing the WBA Super title in his previous 2 fights, with Ronald Wright and Kassim Ouma
28	Felix Sturm – Regular champion	March 11, 2006 — July 15, 2006	0
29	Javier Castillejo	July 15, 2006 — April 28, 2007	1
Castillejo lost his defense fight against Mariano Carrera but Carrera tested positive for clenbuterol later. Castillejo was reinstated as champion and fight was counted as a mandatory defense
30	Felix Sturm (2)	April 28, 2007 — March 23, 2010	7
Sturm got promoted to Super champion
31	Felix Sturm – Super champion (Regular champ promoted)	March 23, 2010 — September 1, 2012	5
32	Gennady Golovkin – Regular champion (Interim champ promoted)	August 14, 2010 — June 3, 2014	10
33	Daniel Geale – Super champion	September 1, 2012 — November 1, 2012^s	0
Geale was stripped of title as he chose to fight Anthony Mundine instead of mandatory challenger Gennady Golovkin
34	Gennady Golovkin – Super champion (Regular champ promoted)	June 3, 2014 — Present	5
35	Daniel Jacobs – Regular champion (v. Jarrod Fletcher)	August 9, 2014 — Present	3

Super middleweight (Super belt: Sugar Ray Leonard)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Chong-Pal Park (v. Jesús Gallardo)	December 6, 1987 — May 23, 1988	1
2	Fulgencio Obelmejias	May 23, 1988 — May 28, 1989	0
3	In-Chul Baek	May 28, 1989 — March 30, 1990	2
4	Christophe Tiozzo	March 30, 1990 — April 5, 1991	2
5	Víctor Córdoba	April 5, 1991 — September 12, 1992	1
6	Michael Nunn	September 12, 1992 — February 26, 1994	4
7	Steve Little	February 26, 1994 — August 12, 1994	0
8	Frankie Liles	August 12, 1994 — June 12, 1999	7
9	Byron Mitchell	June 12, 1999 — April 8, 2000	1
10	Bruno Girard	April 8, 2000 — 2000^s	1
Girard vacated and moved up to light heavyweight
11	Byron Mitchell (2) (v. Manny Siaca)	March 3, 2001 — March 15, 2003	2
Mitchell fought for Super title against Sven Ottke
12	Sven Ottke – Super champion (v. Byron Mitchell)	March 15, 2003 — March 27, 2004^r	4
Ottke vacated and retired undefeated from professional boxing
13	Anthony Mundine (v. Antwun Echols)	September 3, 2003 — May 5, 2004	1
14	Manny Siaca	May 5, 2004 — November 12, 2004	0
15	Mikkel Kessler	November 12, 2004 — October 14, 2006	2
Kessler fought for Super title against Markus Beyer
16	Mikkel Kessler – Super champion (v. Markus Beyer)	October 14, 2006 — November 4, 2007	1
16	Anthony Mundine (2) (v. Sam Soliman)	March 7, 2007 — May 27, 2008^r	4
Mundine vacated and moved down to middleweight
17	Joe Calzaghe – Super champion	November 4, 2007 — September 2008^r	0
Calzaghe vacated and moved up to light heavyweight
18	Mikkel Kessler (2) (v. Dimitri Sartison)	June 21, 2008 — November 21, 2009	2
Kesller fought for Super title against Andre Ward
19	Dimitri Sartison (v. Stjepan Bozic)	November 21, 2009 — July 15, 2011^s	1
Sartison was stripped of title after failing to fight in defense fights against Brian Magee and later Robert Stieglitz
20	Andre Ward – Super champion (v. Mikkel Kessler)	November 21, 2009 — November 12, 2015	6
Ward vacated to move up to light heavyweight
21	Károly Balzsay (v. Stanislav Kashtanov)	August 26, 2011 — September 7, 2012^r	1
Balzsay was declared Champion in recess and then retired from professional boxing
22	Brian Magee (Interim champ promoted)	November 9, 2012 — December 8, 2012	0
23	Mikkel Kessler (3)	December 8, 2012 — May 27, 2013	0
24	Carl Froch	May 25, 2013 — May 8, 2015	2
Froch was stripped of title for not defending it, he then retired
25	Fedor Chudinov (v. Felix Sturm)	May 9, 2015 — Current	1
Chudinov promoted to Super champion following Andre Ward's vacancy of his title.
26	Fedor Chudinov – Super champion (regular champ promoted)	January 5, 2016 — Current	0
27	Giovanni De Carolis (v. Vincent Feigenbutz)	January 9, 2016 — Current	0

Light heavyweight (Super belt: Virgil Hill)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Willie Pastrano (v. Harold Johnson)	June 1, 1963 — March 30, 1965	2
2	José Torres	March 30, 1965 — December 16, 1966	3
3	Dick Tiger	December 16, 1966 — May 24, 1968	2
4	Bob Foster	May 24, 1968 — September 9, 1970^s	4
Foster then fought for the heavyweight title against Joe Frazier and the WBA stripped him of the title for not fighting mandatory challenger Jimmy Dupree
5	Vicente Rondón (v. Jimmy Dupree)	February 27, 1971 — April 7, 1972	4
6	Bob Foster (2)	April 7, 1972 — September 16, 1974^r	5
Foster vacated and announced retirement, although he came back a year later and fought until 1978
7	Víctor Galíndez (v. Len Hutchins)	December 7, 1974 — September 15, 1978	10
8	Mike Rossman	September 15, 1978 — April 14, 1979	1
9	Víctor Galíndez (2)	April 14, 1979 — November 30, 1979	0
10	Marvin Johnson	November 30, 1979 — March 31, 1980	0
11	Eddie Mustafa Muhammad	March 31, 1980 — July 18, 1981	2
12	Michael Spinks	July 18, 1981 — September 21, 1985^r	10
Spinks vacated to fight for the Lineal heavyweight title against Larry Holmes
13	Marvin Johnson (2) (v. Leslie Stewart)	February 9, 1986 — May 23, 1987	1
14	Leslie Stewart	May 23, 1987 — September 5, 1987	0
15	Virgil Hill	September 5, 1987 — June 3, 1991	10
16	Thomas Hearns	June 3, 1991 — March 20, 1992	0
17	Iran Barkley	March 20, 1992 — 1992^r	0
Barkley was also the IBF Super Middleweight champion at the moment and decided to defend that title against James Toney instead of fighting at light heavyweight
18	Virgil Hill (2) (v. Frank Tate)	September 29, 1992 — June 13, 1997	10
19	Dariusz Michalczewski	June 13, 1997 — July 1, 1997^r	0
The WBA immediately stripped Michalczewski of his title for displaying its belt along with that of the WBO, an organization it didn't recognize
20	Lou Del Valle (v. Eddie Smulders)	September 20, 1997 — July 18, 1998	0
21	Roy Jones Jr.	July 18, 1998 — February, 2001	6
Jones was promoted to Super champion
22	Roy Jones Jr. – Super champion (Regular champ promoted)	February, 2001 — 2002	4
Jones was stripped of title somewhere between 2002 and 2003, possibly due to inactivity.
23	Bruno Girard (v. Robert Koon)	December 22, 2001 — March 8, 2003	2
24	Mehdi Sahnoune	March 8, 2003 — October 10, 2003	0
25	Silvio Branco	October 10, 2003 — February 20, 2004	0
26	Roy Jones Jr. – Super champion (v. Antonio Tarver)	November 8, 2003 — May 15, 2004	0
27	Fabrice Tiozzo	February 20, 2004 — October 19, 2006^r	1
Tiozzo vacated and retired from professional boxing after defeating Dariusz Michalczewski
28	Antonio Tarver – Super champion	May 15, 2004 — December 2004^s	0
Tarver was stripped of title when he decided to fight IBF champion, Glen Johnson instead of WBA's mandatory challenger
29	Silvio Branco (2) (Interim champ promoted)	October 19, 2006 — April 28, 2007	0
30	Stipe Drviš	April 28, 2007 — December 16, 2007	0
31	Danny Green	December 16, 2007 — March 25, 2008^r	0
Green vacated and announced retirement. He came back in April 2009
32	Hugo Garay (v. Yuriy Barashian)	July 3, 2008 — June 20, 2009	1
33	Gabriel Campillo	June 20, 2009 — January 29, 2010	1
34	Beibut Shumenov	January 29, 2010 — October 8, 2013	4
Shumenov got promoted to Super champion
35	Beibut Shumenov – Super champion (Regular champ promoted)	October 8, 2013 — April 19, 2014	1
36	Jürgen Brähmer (v. Marcus Oliveira)	December 14, 2013 — Present	5
37	Bernard Hopkins – Super champion	April 19, 2014 — November 8, 2014	1
38	Sergey Kovalev – Super champion	November 8, 2014 — Present	3

Cruiserweight (Super belt: Evander Holyfield)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Ossie Ocasio (v. Robbie Williams)	February 13, 1982 — December 1, 1984	3
2	Piet Crous	December 1, 1984 — July 27, 1985	1
3	Dwight Muhammad Qawi	July 27, 1985 — July 12, 1986	1
4	Evander Holyfield	July 12, 1986 — 1988^r	5
Holyfield vacated to move up to heavyweight
5	Taoufik Belbouli (v. Michael Greer)	March 25, 1989 — 1989^r	0
Belbouli never defended the title and vacated it 6 months after winning it
6	Robert Daniels (v. Dwight Muhammad Qawi)	November 27, 1989 — March 8, 1991	2
7	Bobby Czyz	March 8, 1991 — 1992^r	2
Czyz was involved in a car accident and he had to vacate the title for his inability to defend it
8	Orlin Norris (v. Marcelo Figueroa)	November 6, 1993 — July 22, 1995	4
9	Nate Miller	July 22, 1995 — November 8, 1997	4
10	Fabrice Tiozzo	November 8, 1997 — December 9, 2000	4
11	Virgil Hill	December 9, 2000 — February 23, 2002	0
12	Jean-Marc Mormeck	February 23, 2002 — April 2, 2005	3
Mormeck fought for the Super title against Wayne Braithwaite
13	Jean-Marc Mormeck – Super champion (v. Wayne Braithwaite)	April 2, 2005 — January 7, 2006	0
14	O'Neil Bell – Super champion	January 7, 2006 — March 17, 2007	0
15	Virgil Hill (2) (v. Valery Brudov)	January 27, 2006 — November 24, 2007	0
16	Jean-Marc Mormeck (2) – Super champion	March 17, 2007 — November 10, 2007	0
17	David Haye – Super champion	November 10, 2007 — May 12, 2008^r	1
Haye vacated his title and moved up to heavyweight
18	Firat Arslan	November 24, 2007 — September 27, 2008	1
19	Guillermo Jones	September 27, 2008 — October 30, 2012	3
Jones was declared Champion in recess
20	Denis Lebedev (Interim champ promoted)	October 30, 2012 — May 17, 2013	1
21	Guillermo Jones (2)	May 17, 2013 — October 18, 2013	0
Jones was stripped of title after failing a drug test from his fight with Denis Lebedev. Lebedev was reinstated as champion
22	Denis Lebedev (2) (Reinstated)	October 18, 2013 — Present	3

Heavyweight (Super belt: Muhammad Ali)

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses
1	Ernie Terrell (v. Eddie Machen)	March 5, 1965 — February 6, 1967	2
2	Muhammad Ali	February 6, 1967 — April 27, 1968^s	1
Ali's title was stripped due to his refusal to be drafted to Army service
3	Jimmy Ellis (v. Jerry Quarry)	April 27, 1968 — February 16, 1970	1
4	Joe Frazier	February 16, 1970 — January 22, 1973	4
5	George Foreman	January 22, 1973 — October 30, 1974	2
6	Muhammad Ali (2)	October 30, 1974 — February 15, 1978	10
7	Leon Spinks	February 15, 1978 — September 15, 1978	0
8	Muhammad Ali (3)	September 15, 1978 — October 18, 1979	0
Ali vacated and announced retirement although he would come back a year later to fight Larry Holmes
9	John Tate (v. Gerrie Coetzee)	October 20, 1979 — March 31, 1980	0
10	Mike Weaver	March 31, 1980 — December 10, 1982	2
11	Michael Dokes	December 10, 1982 — September 23, 1983	1
12	Gerrie Coetzee	September 23, 1983 — December 1, 1984	0
13	Greg Page	December 1, 1984 — April 29, 1985	0
14	Tony Tubbs	April 29, 1985 — January 17, 1986	0
15	Tim Witherspoon	January 17, 1986 — December 12, 1986	1
16	James Smith	December 12, 1986 — March 7, 1987	0
17	Mike Tyson	March 7, 1987 — February 11, 1990	8
18	James Douglas	February 11, 1990 — October 25, 1990	0
19	Evander Holyfield	October 25, 1990 — November 13, 1992	3
20	Riddick Bowe	November 13, 1992 — November 6, 1993	2
21	Evander Holyfield (2)	November 6, 1993 — April 22, 1994	0
22	Michael Moorer	April 22, 1994 — November 5, 1994	0
23	George Foreman (2)	November 5, 1994 — March 5, 1995^s	0
Foreman was stripped of title after refusing to fight mandatory challenger, Tony Tucker
24	Bruce Seldon (v. Tony Tucker)	April 8, 1995 — September 7, 1996	1
25	Mike Tyson (2)	September 7, 1996 — November 9, 1996	0
26	Evander Holyfield (3)	November 9, 1996 — November 13, 1999	4
27	Lennox Lewis	November 13, 1999 — April 29, 2000^s	0
Lewis was stripped of title after agreeing to fight WBC challenger, Michael Grant first and then John Ruiz. Ruiz challenged this decision in court on the basis of a clause in the Lewis-Holyfield rematch contract that said Lewis's first bout as undisputed champion would be against the WBA's number one contender. For this reason, the WBA then created the Super belt
28	Evander Holyfield (4) (v. John Ruiz)	August 12, 2000 — March 3, 2001	0
29	John Ruiz	March 3, 2001 — March 1, 2003	2
30	Roy Jones Jr.	March 1, 2003 — February 20, 2004^r	0
Jones Jr. vacated and moved back to light heavyweight
31	John Ruiz (2) (Interim champ promoted)	February 20, 2004 — December 17, 2005	2
32	Nikolai Valuev	December 17, 2005 — April 14, 2007	3
33	Ruslan Chagaev	April 14, 2007 — July 18, 2008 – (Was declared "Champion in Recess", then stripped)	2
Chagaev got injured and was declared Champion in Recess. Then he was stripped of title for not agreeing on a rematch with Valuev
34	Nikolai Valuev (2) (v. John Ruiz)	August 30, 2008 — November 7, 2009	1
35	David Haye	November 7, 2009 — July 2, 2011	2
Haye fought for the Super title against Wladimir Klitschko
36	Wladimir Klitschko – Super champion (v. David Haye)	July 2, 2011 — November 28, 2015	9
37	Aleksander Povetkin (v. Ruslan Chagaev)	August 27, 2011 — October 5, 2013	4
Povetkin fought for the Super title against Wladimir Klitschko
38	Ruslan Chagaev Regular champion (v. Fres Oquendo)	July 6, 2014 — Present	1
39	Tyson Fury Super champion (v. Wladimir Klitschko )	November 28, 2015 — Present	0

Notes

¹ Date listed is when the World title was won (WBA was formed in 1921).

External links

All-time WBA World champions - Reference book
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