List of WBA world champions

This is a list of WBA world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the World Boxing Association (WBA). The list also includes champions certificated by the National Boxing Association (NBA).

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

Heavyweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Days
1	Ernie Terrell (v. Eddie Machen)	March 5, 1965 — February 6, 1967	2	703
2	Muhammad Ali	February 6, 1967 — April 27, 1968^s	1	446
Ali's title was stripped due to his conversion to Islam. This stripping took place long before his refusal to be drafted to Army service
3	Jimmy Ellis (v. Jerry Quarry)	April 27, 1968 — February 16, 1970	1	660
4	Joe Frazier	February 16, 1970 — January 22, 1973	4	1071
5	George Foreman	January 22, 1973 — October 30, 1974	2	646
6	Muhammad Ali (2)	October 30, 1974 — February 15, 1978	10	1204
7	Leon Spinks	February 15, 1978 — September 15, 1978	0	212
8	Muhammad Ali (3)	September 15, 1978 — October 18, 1979	0	398
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	163
10	Mike Weaver	March 31, 1980 — December 10, 1982	2	984
11	Michael Dokes	December 10, 1982 — September 23, 1983	1	287
12	Gerrie Coetzee	September 23, 1983 — December 1, 1984	0	435
13	Greg Page	December 1, 1984 — April 29, 1985	0	149
14	Tony Tubbs	April 29, 1985 — January 17, 1986	0	263
15	Tim Witherspoon	January 17, 1986 — December 12, 1986	1	329
16	James Smith	December 12, 1986 — March 7, 1987	0	85
17	Mike Tyson	March 7, 1987 — February 11, 1990	8	1072
18	James Douglas	February 11, 1990 — October 25, 1990	0	256
19	Evander Holyfield	October 25, 1990 — November 13, 1992	3	750
20	Riddick Bowe	November 13, 1992 — November 6, 1993	2	358
21	Evander Holyfield (2)	November 6, 1993 — April 22, 1994	0	167
22	Michael Moorer	April 22, 1994 — November 5, 1994	0	103
23	George Foreman (2)	November 5, 1994 — March 5, 1995^s	0	120
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	518
25	Mike Tyson (2)	September 7, 1996 — November 9, 1996	0	155
26	Evander Holyfield (3)	November 9, 1996 — November 13, 1999	4	1099
27	Lennox Lewis	November 13, 1999 — April 29, 2000^s	0	138
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	356
29	John Ruiz	March 3, 2001 — March 1, 2003	2	728
30	Roy Jones Jr.	March 1, 2003 — February 20, 2004^r	0	356
Jones Jr. vacated and moved back to light heavyweight
31	John Ruiz (2) (Interim champ promoted)	February 20, 2004 — December 17, 2005	2	666
32	Nikolai Valuev	December 17, 2005 — April 14, 2007	3	483
33	Ruslan Chagaev	April 14, 2007 — July 18, 2008 – (Was declared "Champion in Recess", then stripped)	2	461
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	342
35	David Haye	November 7, 2009 — July 2, 2011	2	602
Haye fought for the Super title against Wladimir Klitschko
36	Wladimir Klitschko – Super champion (v. David Haye)	July 2, 2011 — November 28, 2015	9	1610
37	Aleksander Povetkin (v. Ruslan Chagaev)	August 27, 2011 — October 5, 2013	4	770
Povetkin fought for the Super title against Wladimir Klitschko
38	Ruslan Chagaev – Regular champion (v. Fres Oquendo)	July 6, 2014 — July 25, 2016	1	750
Chagaev lost title to Lucas Browne on March 2016, although he was later reinstated as Browne failed the doping test. In July, Chagaev was stripped of title for failure to pay sanctioning fees.
39	Tyson Fury Super champion (v. Wladimir Klitschko )	November 28, 2015 — October 12, 2016	0	319
Fury vacated after cancelling a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko for a second time, citing depression after a postive test for cocaine.

Cruiserweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Days
1	Ossie Ocasio (v. Robbie Williams)	February 13, 1982 — December 1, 1984	3	1022
2	Piet Crous	December 1, 1984 — July 27, 1985	1	238
3	Dwight Muhammad Qawi	July 27, 1985 — July 12, 1986	1	350
4	Evander Holyfield	July 12, 1986 — 1988^r	5	903
Holyfield vacated to move up to heavyweight
5	Taoufik Belbouli (v. Michael Greer)	March 25, 1989 — 1989^r	0	281
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	466
7	Bobby Czyz	March 8, 1991 — 1992^r	2	664
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	501
9	Nate Miller	July 22, 1995 — November 8, 1997	4	840
10	Fabrice Tiozzo	November 8, 1997 — December 9, 2000	4	1127
11	Virgil Hill	December 9, 2000 — February 23, 2002	0	441
12	Jean-Marc Mormeck	February 23, 2002 — April 2, 2005	3	1134
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	280
14	O'Neil Bell – Super champion	January 7, 2006 — March 17, 2007	0	434
15	Virgil Hill (2) (v. Valery Brudov)	January 27, 2006 — November 24, 2007	0	666
16	Jean-Marc Mormeck (2) – Super champion	March 17, 2007 — November 10, 2007	0	238
17	David Haye – Super champion	November 10, 2007 — May 12, 2008^r	1	184
Haye vacated his title and moved up to heavyweight
18	Firat Arslan	November 24, 2007 — September 27, 2008	1	308
19	Guillermo Jones	September 27, 2008 — October 30, 2012	2	1494
Jones was declared Champion in recess
20	Denis Lebedev (Interim champ promoted)	October 30, 2012 — May 17, 2013	1	199
21	Guillermo Jones (2)	May 17, 2013 — October 18, 2013	0	154
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 — May 21, 2016	3	946
Lebedev fought for Super title against IBF champion Víctor Ramírez
23	Denis Lebedev – Super champion (v. Víctor Ramírez)	May 21, 2016 — Current	0	195
24	Beibut Shumenov – Regular champion (v. Junior Anthony Wright)	May 21, 2016 — Current	0	195

Light heavyweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Days
1	Willie Pastrano (v. Harold Johnson)	June 1, 1963 — March 30, 1965	2	688
2	José Torres	March 30, 1965 — December 16, 1966	3	626
3	Dick Tiger	December 16, 1966 — May 24, 1968	2	525
4	Bob Foster	May 24, 1968 — September 9, 1970^s	4	838
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	405
6	Bob Foster (2)	April 7, 1972 — September 16, 1974^r	5	892
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	1738
8	Mike Rossman	September 15, 1978 — April 14, 1979	1	211
9	Víctor Galíndez (2)	April 14, 1979 — November 30, 1979	0	230
10	Marvin Johnson	November 30, 1979 — March 31, 1980	0	122
11	Eddie Mustafa Muhammad	March 31, 1980 — July 18, 1981	2	474
12	Michael Spinks	July 18, 1981 — September 21, 1985^r	10	1526
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	468
14	Leslie Stewart	May 23, 1987 — September 5, 1987	0	105
15	Virgil Hill	September 5, 1987 — June 3, 1991	10	1367
16	Thomas Hearns	June 3, 1991 — March 20, 1992	0	291
17	Iran Barkley	March 20, 1992 — 1992^r	0	286
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	1718
19	Dariusz Michalczewski	June 13, 1997 — July 1, 1997^r	0	18
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	301
21	Roy Jones Jr.	July 18, 1998 — February, 2001	6	987
Jones was promoted to Super champion
22	Roy Jones Jr. – Super champion (Regular champ promoted)	February, 2001 — 2002	4	698
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	654
24	Mehdi Sahnoune	March 8, 2003 — October 10, 2003	0	216
25	Silvio Branco	October 10, 2003 — February 20, 2004	0	133
26	Roy Jones Jr. – Super champion (v. Antonio Tarver)	November 8, 2003 — May 15, 2004	0	189
27	Fabrice Tiozzo	February 20, 2004 — October 19, 2006^r	1	972
Tiozzo vacated and retired from professional boxing after defeating Dariusz Michalczewski
28	Antonio Tarver – Super champion	May 15, 2004 — December 2004^s	0	230
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	191
30	Stipe Drviš	April 28, 2007 — December 16, 2007	0	287
31	Danny Green	December 16, 2007 — March 25, 2008^r	0	100
Green vacated and announced retirement. He came back in April 2009
32	Hugo Garay (v. Yuriy Barashian)	July 3, 2008 — June 20, 2009	1	352
33	Gabriel Campillo	June 20, 2009 — January 29, 2010	1	223
34	Beibut Shumenov	January 29, 2010 — October 8, 2013	4	1348
Shumenov got promoted to Super champion
35	Beibut Shumenov – Super champion (Regular champ promoted)	October 8, 2013 — April 19, 2014	1	193
36	Jürgen Brähmer (v. Marcus Oliveira)	December 14, 2013 — October 1, 2016	6	1022
37	Bernard Hopkins – Super champion	April 19, 2014 — November 8, 2014	1	203
38	Sergey Kovalev – Super champion	November 8, 2014 - November 19, 2016	3	742
39	Nathan Cleverly	October 1, 2016 — Present	0	62
40	Andre Ward – Super champion	November 19, 2016 - Present	0	13

Super middleweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Days
1	Chong-Pal Park (v. Jesús Gallardo)	December 6, 1987 — May 23, 1988	1	169
2	Fulgencio Obelmejias	May 23, 1988 — May 28, 1989	0	370
3	In-Chul Baek	May 28, 1989 — March 30, 1990	2	305
4	Christophe Tiozzo	March 30, 1990 — April 5, 1991	2	371
5	Víctor Córdoba	April 5, 1991 — September 12, 1992	1	526
6	Michael Nunn	September 12, 1992 — February 26, 1994	4	532
7	Steve Little	February 26, 1994 — August 12, 1994	0	108
8	Frankie Liles	August 12, 1994 — June 12, 1999	7	1769
9	Byron Mitchell	June 12, 1999 — April 8, 2000	1	301
10	Bruno Girard	April 8, 2000 — 2000^s	1	267
Girard vacated and moved up to light heavyweight
11	Byron Mitchell (2) (v. Manny Siaca)	March 3, 2001 — March 15, 2003	2	773
Mitchell fought for Super title against Sven Ottke
12	Sven Ottke – Super champion (v. Byron Mitchell)	March 15, 2003 — March 27, 2004^r	4	378
Ottke vacated and retired undefeated from professional boxing
13	Anthony Mundine (v. Antwun Echols)	September 3, 2003 — May 5, 2004	1	245
14	Manny Siaca	May 5, 2004 — November 12, 2004	0	191
15	Mikkel Kessler	November 12, 2004 — October 14, 2006	2	701
Kessler fought for Super title against Markus Beyer
16	Mikkel Kessler – Super champion (v. Markus Beyer)	October 14, 2006 — November 4, 2007	1	355
16	Anthony Mundine (2) (v. Sam Soliman)	March 7, 2007 — May 27, 2008^r	4	447
Mundine vacated and moved down to middleweight
17	Joe Calzaghe – Super champion	November 4, 2007 — September 2008^r	0	334
Calzaghe vacated and moved up to light heavyweight
18	Mikkel Kessler (2) (v. Dimitri Sartison)	June 21, 2008 — November 21, 2009	2	521
Kesller fought for Super title against Andre Ward
19	Dimitri Sartison (v. Stjepan Bozic)	November 21, 2009 — July 15, 2011^s	1	601
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	2182
Ward vacated to move up to light heavyweight
21	Károly Balzsay (v. Stanislav Kashtanov)	August 26, 2011 — September 7, 2012^r	1	383
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	29
23	Mikkel Kessler (3)	December 8, 2012 — May 27, 2013	0	200
24	Carl Froch	May 25, 2013 — May 8, 2015	2	713
Froch was stripped of title for not defending it, he then retired
25	Fedor Chudinov (v. Felix Sturm)	May 9, 2015 Current	1	573
Chudinov promoted to Super champion following Andre Ward's vacancy of his title.
26	Fedor Chudinov – Super champion (regular champ promoted)	January 5, 2016 — February 20, 2016	0	46
27	Giovanni De Carolis (v. Vincent Feigenbutz)	January 9, 2016 — November 5, 2016	1	301
28	Felix Sturm – Super champion	February 20, 2016 — October 5, 2016 (vacated)	0	228
Sturm vacated citing impossibility to defend title after requiring surgery in both elbows
27	Tyron Zeuge	November 5, 2016 — Current	0	27

Middleweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Days
1	Dick Tiger (v. Gene Fullmer)	October 23, 1962 — December 7, 1963	2	410
2	Joey Giardello	December 7, 1963 — October 21, 1965	1	684
3	Dick Tiger (2)	October 21, 1965 — April 25, 1966	0	363
4	Emile Griffith	April 25, 1966 — April 17, 1967	2	357
5	Nino Benvenuti	April 17, 1967 — September 29, 1967	0	165
6	Emile Griffith (2)	September 29, 1967 — March 4, 1968	0	158
7	Nino Benvenuti (2)	March 4, 1968 — November 7, 1970	4	970
8	Carlos Monzón	November 7, 1970 — August 1977^r	14	2489
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	168
10	Hugo Pastor Corro	April 22, 1978 — June 30, 1979	2	799
11	Vito Antuofermo	June 30, 1979 — March 16, 1980	1	260
12	Alan Minter	March 16, 1980 — September 27, 1980	1	195
13	Marvin Hagler	September 27, 1980 — April 6, 1987^s	11	2382
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	525
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	965
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	527
17	John David Jackson	October 1, 1993 — May, 1994^r	0	212
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	494
19	Shinji Takehara	December 19, 1995 — June 24, 1996	0	188
20	William Joppy	June 24, 1996 — August 23, 1997	2	425
21	Julio César Green	August 23, 1997 — January 31, 1998	0	161
22	William Joppy (2)	January 31, 1998 — May 12, 2001	5	1197
23	Felix Trinidad	May 12, 2001 — September 29, 2001	0	140
Trinidad fought for Super title against Bernard Hopkins
24	Bernard Hopkins – Super champion (v. Félix Trinidad)	September 29, 2001 — July 16, 2005	6	1386
25	William Joppy (3) – Regular champion (v. Howard Eastman)	November 17, 2001 — December 13, 2003 (lost to super champion)	1	756
Joppy fought for Super title against Bernard Hopkins
26	Maselino Masoe – Regular champion (v. Evans Ashira)	May 1, 2004 — March 11, 2006	0	679
27	Jermain Taylor – Super champion	July 16, 2005 — December 14, 2006^s	1	527
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	126
29	Javier Castillejo	July 15, 2006 — April 28, 2007	1	287
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	1060
Sturm got promoted to Super champion
31	Felix Sturm – Super champion (Regular champ promoted)	March 23, 2010 — September 1, 2012	5	893
32	Gennady Golovkin – Regular champion (Interim champ promoted)	August 14, 2010 — June 3, 2014	10	1389
33	Daniel Geale – Super champion	September 1, 2012 — November 1, 2012^s	0	61
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	6	913
35	Daniel Jacobs – Regular champion (v. Jarrod Fletcher)	August 9, 2014 — Present	4	846

Super welterweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Days
1	Denny Moyer (v. Joey Giambra)	October 20, 1962 — April 29, 1963	1	191
2	Ralph Dupas	April 29, 1963 — September 7, 1963	1	161
3	Sandro Mazzinghi	September 7, 1963 — June 18, 1965	3	650
4	Nino Benvenuti	June 18, 1965 — June 25, 1966	1	372
5	Ki-Soo Kim	June 25, 1966 — May 25, 1968	2	700
6	Sandro Mazzinghi (2)	May 25, 1968 — October 1968^s	1	159
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	479
8	Carmelo Bossi	July 9, 1970 — October 31, 1971	1	479
9	Koichi Wajima	October 31, 1971 — June 4, 1974	6	947
10	Oscar Albarado	June 4, 1974 — January 21, 1975	1	231
11	Koichi Wajima (2)	January 21, 1975 — June 7, 1975	0	137
12	Jae-Doo Yuh	June 7, 1975 — February 17, 1976	1	255
13	Koichi Wajima (3)	February 17, 1976 — May 18, 1976	0	91
14	José Duran	May 18, 1976 — October 8, 1976	0	143
15	Miguel Angel Castellini	October 8, 1976 — March 5, 1977	0	148
16	Eddie Gazo	March 5, 1977 — August 9, 1978	3	522
17	Masashi Kudo	August 9, 1978 — August 24, 1979	3	380
18	Ayub Kalule	August 24, 1979 — June 25, 1981	4	670
19	Sugar Ray Leonard	June 25, 1981 — 1981^r	0	181
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	81
21	Davey Moore	February 2, 1982 — June 16, 1983	3	499
22	Roberto Durán	June 16, 1983 — November 1983^r	0	163
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	1106
McCallum vacated to move up to middleweight
24	Julian Jackson (v. In-Chul Baek)	November 21, 1987 — 1990^r	3	1135
Jackson vacated to move up to middleweight
25	Gilbert Dele (v. Carlos Elliott)	February 23, 1991 — October 1, 1991	1	220
26	Vinny Pazienza	October 1, 1991 — 1992^r	0	457
Pazienza vacated after a car crash which kept him 3 months in hospital
27	Julio César Vásquez (v. Hitoshi Kamiyama)	December 21, 1992 — March 4, 1995	10	1169
28	Pernell Whitaker	March 4, 1995 — June 1995^r	0	118
Whitaker decided to vacate and move back to welterweight
29	Carl Daniels (v. Julio César Green)	June 16, 1995 — December 16, 1995	0	183
30	Julio César Vásquez (2)	December 16, 1995 — August 21, 1996	0	249
31	Laurent Boudouani	August 21, 1996 — March 6, 1999	4	927
32	David Reid	March 6, 1999 — March 3, 2000	2	366
33	Félix Trinidad	March 3, 2000 — May 12, 2001^r	2	435
Trinidad vacated to move up to middleweight
34	Fernando Vargas (v. José Flores)	September 22, 2001 — September 14, 2002	0	357
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	364
36	Santiago Samaniego – Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	September 14, 2002 — March 1, 2003	0	168
37	Alejandro Garcia– Regular Champion	March 1, 2003 — December 13, 2003	1	287
38	Shane Mosley – Super champion	September 13, 2003 — March 13, 2004	0	182
39	Travis Simms– Regular champion	December 13, 2003 — May 21, 2005^s	1	525
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	372
Wright vacated to challenge Félix Trinidad at middleweight
41	Alejandro Garcia (2) – Regular champion (interim champ promoted)	May 21, 2005 — May 6, 2006	1	350
42	José Antonio Rivera	May 6, 2006 — January 6, 2007	0	245
43	Travis Simms (2)	January 6, 2007 — July 7, 2007	0	182
44	Joachim Alcine	July 7, 2007 — July 11, 2008	1	370
45	Daniel Santos	July 11, 2008 — November 14, 2009	0	491
46	Yuri Foreman	November 14, 2009 — June 5, 2010	0	203
47	Miguel Cotto	June 5, 2010 — September 10, 2010	2	97
Cotto got promoted to Super champion
48	Miguel Cotto – Super Champion (Regular champ promoted)	September 10, 2010 — May 5, 2012	2	603
49	Austin Trout – Regular Champion (v. Rigoberto Álvarez)	February 5, 2011 — April 20, 2013	4	803
Trout fought for Unified title against Saúl Álvarez
50	Floyd Mayweather, Jr. – Super Champion	May 5, 2012 — January 31, 2016^r	1	1365
51	Saúl Álvarez – Unified Champion	April 20, 2013 — September 14, 2013	0	147
Álvarez fought for Super title against Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and lost
52	Erislandy Lara – Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	March 13, 2014 — June 8, 2016	5	818
53	Erislandy Lara – Super Champion (Regular champ promoted)	June 8, 2016 — present	0	177
54	Jack Culcay – Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	June 8, 2016 — present	0	177

Welterweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Days
1	Emile Griffith (v. Jorge José Fernández)	December 8, 1962 — March 21, 1963	0	103
2	Luis Manuel Rodríguez	March 21, 1963 — June 8, 1963	0	179
3	Emile Griffith (2)	June 8, 1963 — April 25, 1966^r	4	1052
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	968
7	José Nápoles	April 18, 1969 — December 3, 1970	3	594
8	Billy Backus	December 3, 1970 — June 4, 1971	0	183
9	José Nápoles (2)	June 4, 1971 — May 1975^r	9	1457
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	385
11	José Cuevas	July 17, 1976 — August 2, 1980	11	1862
12	Thomas Hearns	August 2, 1980 — September 16, 1981	3	410
13	Sugar Ray Leonard	September 16, 1981 — November 9, 1982^r	1	829
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	1322
15	Lloyd Honeyghan	September 27, 1986 — December 1986^r	0	1417
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	197
17	Marlon Starling	August 22, 1987 — July 29, 1988	2	342
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	136
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	519
20	Aaron Davis	July 8, 1990 — January 19, 1991	0	195
21	Meldrick Taylor	January 19, 1991 — October 31, 1992	2	651
22	Crisanto España	October 31, 1992 — June 4, 1994	2	581
23	Ike Quartey	June 4, 1994 — October 1998^s	7	1610
Quartey was stripped of title due to inactivity
24	James Page (v. Andrey Pestryaev)	October 10, 1998 — 2000^s	3	813
25	Andrew Lewis	February 17, 2001 — March 30, 2002	1
26	Ricardo Mayorga	March 30, 2002 — January 25, 2003	0	301
Mayorga fought for Super title against Vernon Forrest
26	Ricardo Mayorga – Super Champion (v. Vernon Forrest)	January 25, 2003 — December 13, 2003	1	322
27	Jose Antonio Rivera – Regular Champion (v. Michel Trabant)	September 13, 2003 — April 2, 2005	0	567
28	Cory Spinks – Super Champion	December 13, 2003 — February 5, 2005	2	420
29	Zab Judah– Super Champion	February 5, 2005 — January 7, 2006	1	336
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	406
31	Ricky Hatton	May 13, 2006 — August 31, 2006^r	0	110
Hatton vacated to move back to super lightweight
32	Miguel Cotto (v. Carlos Quintana)	December 2, 2006 — July 26, 2008	4	602
33	Antonio Margarito	July 26, 2008 — October 3, 2008	0	69
Margarito was promoted to Super champion
33	Antonio Margarito – Super Champion (Regular champ promoted)	October 3, 2008 — January 24, 2009	0	113
34	Yuriy Nuzhnenko – Regular Champion (Interim champ promoted)	October 3, 2008 — April 10, 2009	0	189
35	Shane Mosley – Super champion	January 24, 2009 — May 22, 2010^s	0	483
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	1116
37	Paul Malignaggi	April 30, 2012 — June 22, 2013	1	418
38	Adrien Broner	June 22, 2013 — December 14, 2013	0	175
39	Marcos René Maidana	December 14, 2013 — May 3, 2014	0	140
Maidana fought for Super title against Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
40	Floyd Mayweather, Jr. — Super Champion (v. Marcos Maidana)	May 3, 2014 — January 31, 2016^r	3	637
Mayweather stripped of title after announcing retirement following his fight with Andre Berto in October 2015
40	Keith Thurman — Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	January 28, 2015 — present	3	674

Super lightweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Day
1	Eddie Perkins (v. Duilio Loi)	September 14, 1962 — December 15, 1962	0	92
2	Duilio Loi	December 15, 1962 — January 1963^r	0	47
Loi vacated and retired from boxing
3	Roberto Cruz (v. Battling Torres)	March 21, 1963 — June 15, 1963	0	86
4	Eddie Perkins (2)	June 15, 1963 — January 18, 1965	2	583
5	Carlos Hernández	January 18, 1965 — April 29, 1966	2	466
6	Sandro Lopopolo	April 29, 1966 — April 30, 1967	1	366
13	Takeshi Fuji	April 30, 1967 — December 12, 1968	1	592
14	Nicolino Locche	December 12, 1968 — March 10, 1972	5	1184
15	Alfonso Frazer	March 10, 1972 — October 28, 1972	0	232
16	Antonio Cervantes	October 28, 1972 — March 6, 1976	10	1225
17	Wilfred Benítez	March 6, 1976 — July 1977^s	2	512
Benitez vacated to move up to welterweight
18	Antonio Cervantes (2) (v. Carlos María Giménez)	June 25, 1977 — August 2, 1980	6	1134
19	Aaron Pryor	August 2, 1980 — September 9, 1983^r	8	1133
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	131
21	Gene Hatcher	June 1, 1984 — July 21, 1985	1	415
22	Ubaldo Nestor Sacco	July 21, 1985 — March 15, 1986	0	237
23	Patrizio Oliva	March 15, 1986 — July 4, 1987	2	476
24	Juan Martin Coggi	July 4, 1987 — August 17, 1990	4	1140
25	Loreto Garza	August 17, 1990 — June 14, 1991	1	301
26	Edwin Rosario	June 14, 1991 — April 10, 1992	0	301
27	Akinobu Hiranaka	April 10, 1992 — September 9, 1992	0	152
28	Morris East	September 9, 1992 — January 12, 1993	0	125
29	Juan Martin Coggi (2)	January 12, 1993 — September 17, 1994	6	613
30	Frankie Randall	September 17, 1994 — January 13, 1996	2	483
31	Juan Martin Coggi (3)	January 13, 1996 — August 16, 1996	0	216
32	Frankie Randall (2)	August 16, 1996 — January 11, 1997	0	148
33	Khalid Rahilou	January 11, 1997 — October 10, 1998	2	637
34	Sharmba Mitchell	October 10, 1998 — September 16, 2000	4	707
Mitchell fought for Super title against Kostya Tszyu
35	Kostya Tszyu – Super Champion (v. Sharmba Mitchell)	September 16, 2000 — March 16, 2004^r	4	1277
Tszyu was stripped of title due to inactivity
36	Diosbelys Hurtado – Regular Champion	May 11, 2002 — October 19, 2002	0	222
37	Vivian Harris	October 19, 2002 — June 25, 2005	3	980
38	Carlos Maussa	June 25, 2005 — November 26, 2005	0	154
Fought for Super title against Ricky Hatton
39	Ricky Hatton – Super Champion (v. Carlos Maussa)	November 26, 2005 — May 4, 2006^r	1	159
Hatton vacated to move up to welterweight
40	Souleymane M'baye – Regular Champion (v. Raúl Horacio Balbi)	September 2, 2006 — July 21, 2007	1	322
41	Gavin Rees	July 21, 2007 — March 22, 2008	0	245
42	Andreas Kotelnik	March 22, 2008 — July 18, 2009	2	483
43	Amir Khan	July 18, 2009 — July 23, 2011	5	735
Khan fought for Super title against Zab Judah
44	Amir Khan– Super Champion (v. Zab Judah)	July 23, 2011 — December 10, 2011	5	140
45	Marcos René Maidana – Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	July 23, 2011 — July 16, 2012^r	1	359
Maidana vacted to move up to welterweight and fight Devon Alexander
45	Lamont Peterson– Super Champion	December 10, 2011 — June 27, 2012	0	200
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	3
47	Danny García– Super Champion	July 14, 2012 — September 11, 2015	4	1154
Garcia vacates after moving up to welterweight
48	Khabib Allakhverdiev– Regular Champion (v. Joan Guzmán)	November 30, 2012 — April 12, 2014	1	498
49	Jessie Vargas – Regular Champion	April 12, 2014 — June 27, 2015	2	441
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 – (v. Khabib Allakhverdiev)	October 3, 2015 — March 31, 2016	0	171
Broner stripped of title before his defense fight with Ashley Theophane for being overweight. Title was at stakes only for Theophane who lost by a TKO in round 9
51	Ricky Burns – (v. Michele Di Rocco)	May 28,2016 — present	1	188

Lightweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Day
1	Carlos Ortiz (v. Joe Brown)	April 21, 1962 — April 10, 1965	4	1065
2	Ismael Laguna	April 10, 1965 — November 13, 1965	0	217
3	Carlos Ortiz (2)	November 13, 1965 — June 29, 1968	5	959
4	Carlos Teo Cruz	June 29, 1968 — February 18, 1969	1	234
5	Mando Ramos	February 18, 1969 — March 3, 1970	1	378
6	Ismael Laguna (2)	March 3, 1970 — September 26, 1970	1	207
7	Ken Buchanan	September 26, 1970 — June 26, 1972	2	639
8	Roberto Durán	June 26, 1972 — January 1979^r	12	2410
Durán vacated to move up to welterweight
9	Ernesto España (v. Claude Noel)	June 16, 1979 — March 2, 1980	1	260
10	Hilmer Kenty	March 2, 1980 — April 12, 1981	3	406
11	Sean O'Grady	April 12, 1981 — 1981^r	0	263
O'Grady was stripped of title for not defending it
12	Claude Noel (v. Rodolfo González)	September 12, 1981 — December 5, 1981	0	84
13	Arturo Frias	December 5, 1981 — May 8, 1982	1	154
14	Ray Mancini	May 8, 1982 — June 1, 1984	4	755
15	Livingstone Bramble	June 1, 1984 — September 26, 1986	2	847
16	Edwin Rosario	September 26, 1986 — November 21, 1987	1	421
17	Julio César Chávez	November 21, 1987 — October 29, 1988^r	2	343
Chávez vacated to move up to super lightweight
18	Edwin Rosario (2) (v. Anthony Jones)	July 9, 1989 — May 4, 1990	0	299
19	Juan Nazario	May 4, 1990 — August 11, 1990	0	99
20	Pernell Whitaker	August 11, 1990 — 1992^r	3	873
Whitaker vacated to move up to super lightweight
21	Joey Gamache (v. Chil-Sung Jun)	June 13, 1992 — October 24, 1992	0	133
22	Tony Lopez	October 24, 1992 — June 26, 1993	1	245
23	Dingaan Thobela	June 26, 1993 — October 30, 1993	0	126
24	Orzubek Nazarov	October 30, 1993 — May 16, 1998	6	1659
25	Jean Baptiste Mendy	May 16, 1998 — April 10, 1999	1	329
26	Julien Lorcy	April 10, 1999 — August 7, 1999	0	119
27	Stefano Zoff	August 7, 1999 — November 13, 1999	0	98
28	Gilberto Serrano	November 13, 1999 — June 11, 2000	1	211
29	Takanori Hatakeyama	June 11, 2000 — July 1, 2001	2	385
30	Julien Lorcy (2)	July 1, 2001 — October 18, 2001	0	139
31	Raul Horacio Balbi	October 18, 2001 — January 5, 2002	0	79
32	Leonard Doroftei	January 5, 2002 — October 24, 2003^s	2	657
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	98
34	Juan Díaz	July 17, 2004 — February 23, 2007	5	981
Diaz was promoted to Super champion
35	Juan Díaz – Super Champion (regular champ promoted)	February 23, 2007 — March 8, 2008	2	379
36	Jose Alfaro – Regular Champion (v. Prawet Singwancha)	December 29, 2007 — May 19, 2008	0	142
37	Nate Campbell – Super Champion	March 8, 2008 — January 10, 2009^r	0	309
Campbell vacated because of concerns regarding sanctioning fees and proposed mandatory defenses
38	Yusuke Kobori – Regular Champion	May 19, 2008 — January 3, 2009	0	229
39	Paulus Moses – Regular Champion	January 3, 2009 — May 29, 2010	1	511
40	Juan Manuel Márquez – Super Champion (v. Juan Diaz)	February 28, 2009 — January 8, 2012^s	2	1044
Marquez vacated to move up to welterweight and fight Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
41	Miguel Acosta – Regular Champion	May 29, 2010 — February 26, 2011	1	334
42	Brandon Rios	February 26, 2011 — December 2, 2011^s	1	279
Rios was stripped of title before his second defense against John Murray for being overweight
43	Richar Abril (interim champ promoted)	February 28, 2013 — April 10, 2015	2	771
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	225
45	Anthony Crolla	November 21, 2015 — September 24, 2016	1	308
46	Jorge Linares	September 24, 2016 — Present	0	69

Super featherweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Days
1	Gabriel Elorde (v. Johnny Bizarro)	February 16, 1963 — June 15, 1967	5	1580
2	Yoshiaki Numata	June 15, 1967 — December 14, 1967	0	181
3	Hiroshi Kobayashi	December 14, 1967 — July 29, 1971	6	1323
4	Alfredo Marcano	July 29, 1971 — April 25, 1972	1	271
5	Ben Villaflor	April 25, 1972 — March 12, 1973	1	321
6	Kuniaki Shibata	March 12, 1973 — October 17, 1973	1	219
7	Ben Villaflor (2)	October 17, 1973 — October 16, 1976	5	1095
8	Samuel Serrano	October 16, 1976 — August 2, 1980	10	1386
9	Yasutsune Uehara	August 2, 1980 — April 9, 1981	1	250
10	Samuel Serrano (2)	April 9, 1981 — January 19, 1983	3	650
11	Roger Mayweather	January 19, 1983 — February 26, 1984	2	403
12	Rocky Lockridge	February 26, 1984 — May 19, 1985	2	448
13	Wilfredo Gómez	May 19, 1985 — May 24, 1986	0	370
14	Alfredo Layne	May 24, 1986 — September 27, 1986	0	126
15	Brian Mitchell	September 27, 1986 — 1991^s	12	1921
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	186
Gamache vacates to move up to lightweight division
17	Genaro Hernandez (v. Daniel Londas)	June 28, 1991 — April 1995^r	8	1402
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	1050
19	Takanori Hatakeyama	September 5, 1998 — October 31, 1999	1	421
20	Lakva Sim	June 27, 1999 — October 31, 1999	0	126
21	Jong-Kwon Baek	October 31, 1999 — May 21, 2000	1	203
22	Joel Casamayor	May 21, 2000 — January 12, 2002	4	601
Casamayor fought for Super title against Acelino Freitas
23	Acelino Freitas– Super Champion (v. Joel Casamayor)	January 12, 2002 — August 9, 2003^r	3	574
Freitas vacated and moved up to lightweight
24	Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai– Regular Champion (v. Lakva Sim)	April 13, 2002 — April 30, 2005	3	1113
25	Vicente Mosquera	April 30, 2005 — August 5, 2006	1	462
26	Edwin Valero	August 5, 2006 — September 3, 2008^r	4	760
Valero vacated and moved up to lightweight
27	Jorge Linares (v. Whyber Garcia)	November 28, 2008 — October 10, 2009	1	316
28	Juan Carlos Salgado	October 10, 2009 — January 11, 2010	0	93
29	Takashi Uchiyama	January 11, 2010 — February 21, 2015	9	1807
Uchiyama was promoted to Super champion
30	Takashi Uchiyama – Super Champion (regular champ promoted)	February 21, 2015 — April 27, 2016	2	431
31	Jezreel Corrales – Super Champion	April 27, 2016 — Present	0	219
32	Javier Fortuna (v. Bryan Vásquez)	May 29, 2015 - June 24, 2016	1	392
33	Jason Sosa	June 24, 2016 — Present	1	161

Featherweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Days
1	Sugar Ramos (v. Davey Moore)	March 21, 1963 — September 26, 1964	3	555
2	Vicente Saldivar	September 26, 1964 — 1967^r	7	1191
Saldívar announced retirement after his 7th defense
3	Raul Rojas (v. Enrique Higgins)	March 28, 1968 — September 27, 1968	0	183
4	Shozo Saijo	September 27, 1968 — September 2, 1971	5	1070
5	Antonio Gomez	September 2, 1971 — August 19, 1972	1	352
6	Ernesto Marcel	August 19, 1972 — February 16, 1974^r	4	546
Marcel announced retirement after his 4th defense, against Alexis Argüello
7	Rubén Olivares (v. Zensuke Otagawa)	July 9, 1974 — November 23, 1974	0	137
8	Alexis Argüello	November 23, 1974 — 1976^r	4	769
Argüello vacated his title to move up to super featherweight
9	Rafael Ortega (v. Francisco Coronado)	January 15, 1977 — December 17, 1977	1	336
10	Cecilio Lastra	December 17, 1977 — April 15, 1978	0	119
11	Eusebio Pedroza	April 15, 1978 — June 8, 1985	19	2611
12	Barry McGuigan	June 8, 1985 — June 23, 1986	2
13	Steve Cruz	June 23, 1986 — March 6, 1987	0	407
14	Antonio Esparragoza	March 6, 1987 — March 30, 1991	7	1485
15	Yong-Kyun Park	March 30, 1991 — December 4, 1993	8	980
16	Eloy Rojas	December 4, 1993 — May 18, 1996	6	896
17	Wilfredo Vázquez	May 18, 1996 — 1997^s	4	592
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	172
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	238
20	Freddie Norwood (2)	May 29, 1999 — September 9, 2000	3	469
21	Derrick Gainer	September 9, 2000 — November 1, 2003	3	1148
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	660
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	2065
John was promoted to Super champion
24	Chris John– Super champion (regular champ promoted)	June 27, 2009 — July 14, 2010	1	382
John was declared Champion in Recess
25	Yuriorkis Gamboa – Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	June 27, 2009 — September 11, 2010	3	441
Gamboa fought for WBA Unified title against Orlando Salido
26	Yuriorkis Gamboa – Unified Champion (v. Orlando Salido)	September 11, 2010 — June 11, 2011	1	273
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	345
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	359
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	678
Walters fought for Super title against Nonito Donaire
31	Simpiwe Vetyeka – Super Champion	December 6, 2013 – May 31, 2014	0	176
32	Nonito Donaire – Super Champion	May 31, 2014 – October 18, 2014	0	140
33	Nicholas Walters – Super Champion	October 18, 2014 – June 13, 2015^s	0	238
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	650
35	Leo Santa Cruz – Super Champion (v. Abner Mares)	August 29, 2015 – July 30, 2016	1	336
36	Carl Frampton – Super Champion	July 30, 2016 – Present	0	125

Super bantamweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Days
1	Soo-Hwan Hong (v. Ricardo Cardona)	January 26, 1977 — May 7, 1978	1	466
2	Ricardo Cardona	May 7, 1978 — May 4, 1980	5	728
3	Leo Randolph	May 4, 1980 — August 9, 1980	0	97
4	Sergio Victor Palma	August 9, 1980 — June 12, 1982	5	672
5	Leo Cruz	June 12, 1982 — February 22, 1984	3	620
6	Loris Stecca	February 22, 1984 — May 26, 1984	0	94
7	Victor Callejas	May 26, 1984 — 1986^r	2	949
Callejas started a period of inactivity and vacated the title
8	Louie Espinoza (v. Tommy Valoy)	January 11, 1987 — November 28, 1987	2	321
9	Julio Gervacio	November 28, 1987 — February 27, 1988	0	91
10	Bernardo Pinango	February 27, 1988 — May 28, 1988	0	456
11	Juan Jose Estrada	May 28, 1988 — November 11, 1989	3	532
12	Jesús Salud	November 11, 1989 — April 1990^r	0	170
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	26
14	Raúl Pérez	October 7, 1991 — March 27, 1992	0	172
15	Wilfredo Vázquez	March 27, 1992 — May 13, 1995	9	1142
16	Antonio Cermeño	May 13, 1995 — 1998^r	7	232
Cermeño vacated to move up to featherweight
17	Enrique Sánchez (v. Rafael del Valle)	February 8, 1998 — December 12, 1998	0	326
18	Néstor Garza	December 12, 1998 — March 4, 2000	2	509
19	Clarence Adams	March 4, 2000 — 2001^s	2	606
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	96
21	Yoddamrong Sithyodthong	February 21, 2002 — May 18, 2002	0	86
22	Osamu Sato	May 18, 2002 — October 9, 2002	0	144
23	Salim Medjkoune	October 9, 2002 — July 4, 2003	1	268
24	Mahyar Monshipour	July 4, 2003 — March 18, 2006	5	1322
25	Somsak Sithchatchawal	March 18, 2006 — October 4, 2006	0	200
26	Celestino Caballero	October 4, 2006 — November 21, 2008	5	779
Caballero fought for Super title against Steve Molitor
27	Celestino Caballero– Super Champion (v. Steve Molitor)	November 21, 2008 — December 10, 2010	2	19
Caballero vacated to fight at featherweight
28	Ricardo Cordoba– Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	November 21, 2008 — March 21, 2009	0	120
29	Bernard Dunne	March 21, 2009 — September 26, 2009	0	189
30	Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym	September 26, 2009 — October 2, 2010	2	555
31	Ryol Li Lee	October 2, 2010 — January 31, 2011	0	121
32	Akifumi Shimoda	January 31, 2011 — July 9, 2011	0	159
33	Rico Ramos	July 9, 2011 – January 20, 2012	0	195
34	Guillermo Rigondeaux	January 20, 2012 – April 13, 2013	2	449
Rigondeaux fought for Super title against Nonito Donaire
35	Guillermo Rigondeaux – Super Champion (v. Nonito Donaire)	April 13, 2013 – October 30, 2015	3	930
Rigondeaux was declared Champion in Recess due to inactivity
36	Scott Quigg – Regular Champion (interim champ promoted)	September 5, 2013 – February 27, 2016	6	905
Quigg fought for WBA Super title against Carl Frampton
37	Carl Frampton – Super Champion (b. Scott Quigg)	February 27, 2016 – April 7, 2016	0	40
Frampton was stripped of title after choosing to fight Leo Santa Cruz for the WBA Featherweight title instead of mandatory challenger Guillermo Rigondeaux
38	Guillermo Rigondeaux – Super Champion (reinstated)	May 6, 2016 - Present	1	210
39	Nehomar Cermeño – Regular Champion (b. Qiu Xiaojun)	June 24, 2016 – Present	1	161

Bantamweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Days
1	Eder Jofre (v. Bae Sok-Chul)	September 11, 1962 — May 18, 1965	3	980
2	Fighting Harada	May 18, 1965 — February 27, 1968	4	1015
3	Lionel Rose	February 27, 1968 — August 22, 1969	3	542
4	Rubén Olivares	August 22, 1969 — October 16, 1970	2	420
5	Chucho Castillo	October 16, 1970 — April 2, 1971	0	168
6	Rubén Olivares (2)	April 2, 1971 — March 19, 1972	2	352
7	Rafael Herrera	March 19, 1972 — July 29, 1972	0	132
8	Enrique Pinder	July 29, 1972 — January 20, 1973	0	175
9	Romeo Anaya	January 20, 1973 — November 3, 1973	2	287
10	Arnold Taylor	November 3, 1973 — July 3, 1974	0	242
11	Soo-Hwan Hong	July 3, 1974 — March 14, 1975	1	254
12	Alfonso Zamora	March 14, 1975 — November 19, 1977	5	981
13	Jorge Luján	November 19, 1977 — August 29, 1980	5	1014
14	Julian Solís	August 29, 1980 — November 14, 1980	0	77
15	Jeff Chandler	November 14, 1980 — April 7, 1984	9	1240
16	Richie Sandoval	April 7, 1984 — March 10, 1986	2	702
17	Gaby Canizales	March 10, 1986 — June 4, 1986	0	86
18	Bernardo Pinango	June 4, 1986 — 1987^r	3	575
Pinango vacated in order to move up to super bantamweight
19	Takuya Muguruma (v. Azael Moran)	March 29, 1987 — May 24, 1987	0	56
20	Chan-Young Park	May 24, 1987 — October 4, 1987	0	133
21	Wilfredo Vazquez	October 4, 1987 — May 9, 1988	1	218
22	Kaokor Galaxy	May 9, 1988 — August 14, 1988	0	97
23	Sung-Kil Moon	August 14, 1988 — July 9, 1989	2	329
24	Kaokor Galaxy (2)	July 9, 1989 — October 18, 1989	0	102
25	Luisito Espinosa	October 18, 1989 — October 19, 1991	2	731
26	Israel Contreras	October 19, 1991 — March 15, 1992	0	148
27	Eddie Cook	March 15, 1992 — October 9, 1992	0	208
28	Jorge Julio Rocha	October 9, 1992 — October 23, 1993	2	379
29	Junior Jones	October 23, 1993 — April 22, 1994	1	181
30	John Michael Johnson	April 22, 1994 — July 16, 1994	0	85
31	Daorung Chuvatana	July 16, 1994 — September 17, 1995	2	428
32	Veeraphol Sahaprom	September 17, 1995 — January 28, 1996	0	133
33	Nana Konadu	January 28, 1996 — October 27, 1996	0	273
34	Daorung Chuvatana (2)	October 27, 1996 — June 21, 1997	1	237
35	Nana Konadu (2)	June 21, 1997 — December 5, 1998	1	532
36	Johnny Tapia	December 5, 1998 — June 26, 1999	0	203
37	Paulie Ayala	June 26, 1999 — August 7, 2001^s	3	773
Ayala vacated in order to move up to super bantamweight
38	Eidy Moya (v. Adán Vargas)	October 14, 2001 — April 19, 2002	0	187
39	Johnny Bredahl	April 19, 2002 — October 11, 2004^r	3	904
Bredahl vacated and retired from boxing
40	Wladimir Sidorenko (v. Julio Zamora)	February 26, 2005 — May 31, 2008	6	1190
41	Anselmo Moreno	May 31, 2008 — November 19, 2010	7	902
Moreno got promoted so Super champion
42	Anselmo Moreno – Super Champion	November 19, 2010 — September 26, 2014	5	1407
43	Koki Kameda – Regular Champion (v. Alexander Muñoz)	December 26, 2010 — December 6, 2013^r	8	1076
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	5	916
45	Juan Carlos Payano – Super Champion	September 26, 2014 — June 18, 2016	1	631
46	Rau'shee Warren – Super Champion	June 18, 2016 — Present	0	167

Super flyweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Days
1	Gustavo Ballas (v. Bae Sok-Chul)	September 12, 1981 — December 5, 1981	0	81
2	Rafael Pedroza	December 5, 1981 — April 8, 1982	0	124
3	Jiro Watanabe	April 8, 1982 — July 5, 1984^s	6	819
Watanabe was stripped of title for not fighting mandatory challenger Khaosai Galaxy
4	Khaosai Galaxy	November 21, 1984 — 1992^r	19	2962
Galaxy retired vacated and retired from professional boxing
5	Katsuya Onizuka (v. Thanomsak Sithbaobay)	April 10, 1992 — September 18, 1994	5	891
6	Hyung-Chul Lee	September 18, 1994 — July 22, 1995	1	307
7	Alimi Goitia	July 22, 1995 — August 24, 1996	3	399
8	Yokthai Sithoar	August 24, 1996 — December 23, 1997	4	395
9	Satoshi Iida	December 23, 1997 — December 23, 1998	2	365
10	Jesús Kiki Rojas	December 23, 1998 — July 31, 1999	1	220
11	Hideki Todaka	July 31, 1999 — October 9, 2000	2	436
12	Leo Gamez	October 9, 2000 — March 11, 2001	0	153
13	Celes Kobayashi	March 11, 2001 — March 9, 2002	1	363
14	Alexander Muñoz	March 9, 2002 — December 3, 2004	3	1000
15	Martín Castillo	December 3, 2004 — July 22, 2006	3	596
16	Nobuo Nashiro	July 22, 2006 — May 3, 2007	1	285
17	Alexander Munoz (2)	May 3, 2007 — May 17, 2008	2	380
Muñoz then fought for Super title against Cristian Mijares
18	Cristian Mijares – Super Champion (v. Alexander Muñoz)	May 17, 2008 — November 1, 2008	1	168
19	Nobuo Nashiro (2) – Regular Champion (v. Kohei Kono)	September 15, 2008 — May 8, 2010	2	600
20	Vic Darchinyan – Super Champion	November 1, 2008— May 8, 2010	3	553
Darchinyan vacated to move up to bantamweight
21	Hugo Cázares – Regular Champion	May 8, 2010 — August 31, 2011	4	480
22	Tomonobu Shimizu	August 31, 2011 — November 10, 2011	0	71
Shimizu declared Champion in recess
23	Tepparith Kokietgym (interim champ promoted)	November 10, 2011 – December 31, 2012	3	417
24	Kohei Kono	December 31, 2012 – May 6, 2013	0	126
25	Liborio Solís	May 6, 2013 – December 2, 2013^s	0	210
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	3	891
27	Luis Concepción	August 31, 2016 – Present	0	93

Flyweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Days
1	Fighting Harada (v. Pone Kingpetch)	October 10, 1962 — January 12, 1963	0	94
2	Pone Kingpetch	January 12, 1963 — September 18, 1963	0	249
3	Hiroyuki Ebihara	September 18, 1963 — January 23, 1964	0	127
4	Pone Kingpetch (2)	January 23, 1964 — April 23, 1965	0	456
5	Salvatore Burruni	April 23, 1965 — November 1965^s	0	192
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	945
Accavallo retired after his third defense fight, against Hiroyuki Ebihara
7	Hiroyuki Ebihara (2) (v. José Severino)	March 30, 1969 — October 19, 1969	0	214
8	Bernabe Villacampo	October 19, 1969 — April 5, 1970	0	351
9	Berkrerk Chartvanchai	April 5, 1970 — October 22, 1970	0	200
10	Masao Ohba	October 22, 1970 — 1973^r	5	1166
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	550
12	Susumu Hanagata	October 18, 1974 — April 1, 1975	0	134
13	Erbito Salavarria	April 1, 1975 — February 27, 1976	1	332
14	Alfonso Lopez	February 27, 1976 — October 2, 1976	1	218
15	Guty Espadas	October 2, 1976 — August 12, 1978	4	679
16	Betulio González	August 12, 1978 — November 17, 1979	3	1192
17	Luis Ibarra	November 17, 1979 — February 17, 1980	0	92
18	Tae-Shik Kim	February 17, 1980 — December 13, 1980	1	300
19	Peter Mathebula	December 13, 1980 — March 28, 1981	0	105
20	Santos Benigno Laciar	March 28, 1981 — June 6, 1981	0	70
21	Luis Ibarra (2)	June 6, 1981 — September 26, 1981	0	112
22	Juan Herrera	September 26, 1981 — May 1, 1982	1	217
23	Santos Benigno Laciar (2)	May 1, 1982 — July 19, 1985^r	9	1175
Laciar vacated in order to move up to super flyweight
24	Hilario Zapata (v. Alonzo González)	October 5, 1985 — February 13, 1987	5	575
25	Fidel Bassa	February 13, 1987 — September 30, 1989	6	960
26	Jesús Kiki Rojas	September 30, 1989 — March 10, 1990	0	161
27	Yul-Woo Lee	March 10, 1990 — July 29, 1990	0	141
28	Leopard Tamakuma	July 29, 1990 — March 14, 1991	1	169
29	Elvis Álvarez	March 14, 1991 — June 1, 1991	0	79
30	Yong-Kang Kim	June 1, 1991 — September 26, 1992	2	483
31	Aquiles Guzman	September 26, 1992 — December 15, 1992	0	80
32	David Griman	December 15, 1992 — February 13, 1994	2	425
33	Saen Sor Ploenchit	February 13, 1994 — November 24, 1996	9	712
34	Jose Bonilla	November 24, 1996 — May 29, 1998	3	551
35	Hugo Rafael Soto	May 29, 1998 — March 13, 1999	0	288
36	Leo Gamez	March 13, 1999 — September 3, 1999	0	174
37	Sornpichai Kratingdaenggym	September 3, 1999 — August 5, 2000	1	337
38	Eric Morel	August 5, 2000 — December 6, 2003	5	1584
39	Lorenzo Parra	December 6, 2003 — March 19, 2007	5	1199
40	Takefumi Sakata	March 19, 2007 — December 31, 2008	4	653
41	Denkaosan Kaovichit	December 31, 2008 — February 7, 2010	2	403
42	Daiki Kameda	February 7, 2010 — January 4, 2011	2	331
Kameda vacated in order to move up to super flyweight
43	Luis Concepcion (interim champ promoted)	January 4, 2011 — April 2, 2011	0	88
44	Hernán Márquez	April 2, 2011 — November 17, 2012	2	381
Marquez fights for Super title against Brian Viloria
45	Brian Viloria – Super Champion (v. Hernán Márquez)	November 17, 2012 — April 6, 2013	0	146
46	Juan Carlos Reveco (interim champ promoted)	November 17, 2012 – April 22, 2015	6	886
47	Juan Francisco Estrada – Super Champion	April 6, 2013 — September 14, 2016	5	1257
Estrada vacated and moved to super flyweight
48	Kazuto Ioka – Regular Champion	April 22, 2015 – Present	3	590

Light flyweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Days
1	Jaime Rios (v. Rigoberto Marcano)	August 23, 1975 — July 2, 1976	1	314
2	Juan Antonio Guzman	July 2, 1976 — October 10, 1976	0	100
3	Yoko Gushiken	October 10, 1976 — March 8, 1981	13	1618
4	Pedro Flores	March 8, 1981 — July 19, 1981	0	133
5	Hwan-Jin Kim	July 19, 1981 — December 16, 1981	1	150
6	Katsuo Tokashiki	December 16, 1981 — July 10, 1983	5	571
7	Lupe Madera	July 10, 1983 — May 19, 1984	1	314
8	Francisco Quiróz	May 19, 1984 — March 29, 1985	1	314
9	Joey Olivo	March 29, 1985 — December 8, 1985	1	254
10	Myung-Woo Yuh	December 8, 1985 — December 17, 1991	17	2200
11	Hiroki Ioka	December 17, 1991 — November 18, 1992	2	337
12	Myung-Woo Yuh (2)	November 18, 1992 — 1993^r (vacated	1	409
Yuh vacated and retired from professional boxing
13	Leo Gamez (v. Shiro Yahiro)	October 21, 1993 — February 4, 1995	3	471
14	Hi-Yong Choi	February 4, 1995 — January 13, 1996	1	343
15	Carlos Murillo	January 13, 1996 — May 21, 1996	1	129
16	Keiji Yamaguchi	May 21, 1996 — December 3, 1996	1	196
17	Pichitnoi Sitbangprachan	December 3, 1996 — July 2000^s (stripped)	5	1336
18	Beibis Mendoza (v. Rosendo Alvarez)	August 12, 2000 — March 3, 2001	0	212
19	Rosendo Alvarez	March 3, 2001 — October 2, 2004^s (stripped)	3	1309
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	391
Vásquez vacated to move up to flyweight
21	Kōki Kameda (v. Juan José Landaeta)	August 2, 2006 — January 18, 2007^r	1	169
Kameda vacated to move up to flyweight
22	Juan Carlos Reveco (v. Nethra Sasiprapa)	June 22, 2007 — December 8, 2007	1	169
23	Brahim Asloum	December 8, 2007 — 2008 (retired)	1	389
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	449
Segura promoted to Super champion
25	Giovanni Segura– Super Champion (v. Iván Calderón)	August 28, 2010 — November 26, 2010^r (vacated)	0	90
Segura vacated to fight at flyweight
26	Juan Carlos Reveco (interim champ promoted)	August 28, 2010 — November 26, 2010^r (vacated)	0	314
Reveco vacated to move up to flyweight
27	Roman Gonzalez (interim champ promoted)	February 4, 2011 – November 30, 2012 (promoted to Super Champion)	5	484
28	Roman Gonzalez – Super Champion (regular champ promoted)	November 30, 2012 - January 14, 2014^r (vacated)	0	314
Gonzalez vacated to move up to flyweight
29	Kazuto Ioka (v. José Alfredo Rodríguez)	December 31, 2012 – February 28, 2014^r (vacated)	3	424
Ioka vacated to move up to flyweight
30	Alberto Rossel (interim champ promoted)	July 8, 2014 – December 31, 2014	0	176
31	Ryoichi Taguchi	December 31, 2014 – Present	4	702

Minimumweight

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Days
1	Leo Gamez (v. Kim Bong-Jun)	January 10, 1988 — 1989^r (vacated)	1	721
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	657
3	Hi-Yong Choi	February 2, 1991 — October 14, 1992	4	620
4	Hideyuki Ohashi	October 14, 1992 — February 10, 1993	0	247
5	Chana Porpaoin	February 10, 1993 — December 2, 1995	8	1205
6	Rosendo Álvarez (stripped)	December 2, 1995 — November 13, 1998	5	1077
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	260
Lopez vacated in order to move up to light flyweight
8	Noel Arambulet (v. Joma Gamboa)	October 9, 1999 — August 20, 2000 (stripped)	1	377
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	106
10	Keitaro Hoshino	December 6, 2000 — April 16, 2001	0	131
11	Chana Porpaoin	April 16, 2001 — August 25, 2001	0	131
12	Yutaka Niida	August 25, 2001 — October 19, 2001^r (vacated)	0	55
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	182
14	Noel Arambulet (2)	July 29, 2002 — July 2, 2004^s (stripped)	2	704
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	1535
16	Roman Gonzalez	September 15, 2008 – October 8, 2010^r (vacated)	3	753
Gonzalez vacated in order to move up to light flyweight
17	Kwanthai Sithmorseng (v. Pigmy Kokietgym)	November 5, 2010 — April 19, 2011	0	165
18	Muhammad Rachman	April 19, 2011 — July 31, 2011	0	103
19	Pornsawan Porpramook	July 30, 2011 — October 24, 2011	0	86
20	Akira Yaegashi	October 24, 2011 — June 24, 2012	0	244
21	Kazuto Ioka	June 24, 2012 — October 10, 2012^r (vacated)	0	108
Ioka vacated in order to move up to light flyweight
22	Ryo Miyazaki (v. Pornsawan Porpramook)	December 31, 2012 – December 27, 2013^r	2	361
Miyazaki vacated in order to move up to light flyweight
23	Hekkie Budler (v. Karluis Díaz)	March 1, 2014 – January 22, 2016	4	692
Budler was elevated to Super champion on January 2016
24	Hekkie Budler – Super Champion (Regular champ promoted)	January 22, 2016 – March 19, 2016	0	57
25	Byron Rojas	March 19, 2016 – June 29, 2016	0	102
Rojas was only awarded regular title although he beat the Super champion, Hekkie Budler
26	Knockout CP Freshmart	June 29, 2016 – Current	0	156

Notes

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

• Top 10

Weight class:	Champion:	Reign began:	Days
Super flyweight	Khaosai Galaxy	November 21, 1984 — 1992r	2962^(4°)
Welterweight	Cecilia Brækhus (NOR)	14 March 2009 - Present	2820^(6°)
Featherweight	Eusebio Pedroza	April 15, 1978 — June 8, 1985	2611^(7°)
Light flyweight	Yesica Bopp (ARG)	20 June 2009- Present	2722^(8°)
Middleweight	Carlos Monzón	November 7, 1970 — August 1977r	2489^(9°)
Lightweight	Roberto Durán	June 26, 1972 — January 1979r	2410
Middleweight	Marvin Hagler	September 27, 1980 — April 6, 1987s	2382
Light flyweight	Myung-Woo Yuh	December 8, 1985 — December 17, 1991	2200
Super middleweight	Andre Ward	November 21, 2009 — November 12, 2015	2182
Featherweight	Chris John	November 1, 2003 — June 27, 2009	2065

(*)from all federations

See also

• List of WBC world champions
• List of IBF world champions
• List of WBO world champions
• List of IBO world champions
• List of The Ring world champions
• List of undisputed boxing champions
• List of lineal boxing world champions

External links

• All-time WBA World champions - Reference book
• Ken Buchanan - Lightweight Champion of the World - Ken Buchanan site with detailed bio, statistics, full fights and more