List of world light welterweight boxing champions

This list of world light welterweight boxing champions provides an overview of all universal world boxing champions as well as all of the former NYSAC association and all of the NBA (the NBA was renamed WBA in 1962 ) and all of the four recognized and currently active world associations ( WBC , WBA , IBF , WBO ) in light welterweight in chronological order in separate tables. The WBA superchampions are listed both in the chronological WBA table and in a separate table. The status of the super champion of the WBA is ranked higher than that of the regular. Therefore, the WBA super champion is the actual world champion. The WBO has only been one of the major associations since 2007.

Universal

No.	World Champion	From	To	Number of title defenses
1	Pinky Mitchell	November 15, 1922	March 27, 1925	4th
2	James Herring	March 31, 1925	October 1925	1
3	Mushy Callahan	September 21, 1926	February 18, 1930	3
4th	Jackie Berg	February 18, 1930	April 24, 1931	6th
5	Tony Canzoneri	April 24, 1931	January 18, 1932	3
6th	Johnny Jadick	March 18, 1932	February 20, 1933	1
7th	Battling Shaw	February 20, 1933	May 21, 1933	0
8th	Tony Canzoneri (2)	May 21, 1933	June 23, 1933	0
9	Barney Ross	June 23, 1933	April 9, 1935	10
10	Tippy Larkin	April 29, 1946	1946	1
11	Carlos Ortiz	June 12, 1959	September 1, 1960	2
12	Duilio Loi	May 10, 1961	September 14, 1962	1

NYSAC

No.	World Champion	From	To	Number of title defenses
1	Carlos Ortiz	June 12, 1959	September 1, 1960	0
2	Wilfred Benitez	3rd August 1977	November 30, 1979	0

WBC

World Champion	Office
Eddie Perkins	1963-1965
Carlos Hernández	1965-1966
Sandro Lopopolo	1966-1967
Takeshi Fuji	1967-1968
Pedro Adigue Jr.	1968-1970
Bruno Arcari	1970-1974
Perico Fernandez	1974-1975
Saensak Muangsurin	1975-1976
Miguel Velázquez	1976
Saensak Muangsurin (2)	1976-1988
Sang Hyun Kim	1978-1980
Saoul Mamby	1980-1982
Leroy Haley	1982-1983
Bruce Curry	1983-1984
Billy Costello	1984-1985
Lonnie Smith	1985-1986
Rene Arredondo	1986
Tsuyoshi Hamada	1986-1987
Rene Arredondo (2)	1987
Roger Mayweather	1987-1989
Julio César Chavez	1989-1994
Frankie Randall	1994
Julio César Chavez (2)	1994-1996
Óscar de la Hoya	1996-1997
Kostya Tszyu	1999-2004
Arturo Gatti	2004-2005
Floyd Mayweather Jr.	2005
Junior Witter	2006-2008
Timothy Bradley	2008-2009
Devon Alexander	2009-2011
Timothy Bradley (2)	2011
Timothy Bradley (2)	2011-2013
Erik Morales	2011–2012
Danny García	2012-2015
Viktor Postol	2015-2016
Terence Crawford	2016-2017
José Ramírez	since 2018

NBA

No.	World Champion	From	To	Number of title defenses
1	James Herring	March 21, 1925	1926	1
2	Mushy Callahan	September 21, 1926	February 18, 1930	3
3	Jackie Berg	February 18, 1930	April 24, 1931	6th
4th	Tony Canzoneri	April 24, 1931	January 18, 1932	0
5	Johnny Jadick	January 18, 1932	February 20, 1933	0

WBA

World Champion	Office
Eddie Perkins	1962
Duilio Loi	1962
Roberto Cruz	1963
Eddie Perkins (2)	1963-1965
Carlos Hernández	1965-1966
Sandro Lopopolo	1966-1967
Takeshi Fuji	1967-1968
Nicolino Locche	1968-1972
Alfonso Frazer	1972
Antonio Cervantes	1972-1976
Wilfred Benitez	1976-1977
Antonio Cervantes (2)	1977-1980
Aaron Pryor	1980-1983
Johnny Bumphus	1984
Gene Hatcher	1984-1985
Ubaldo Nestor Sacco	1985-1986
Patrizio Oliva	1986-1987
Juan Martin Coggi	1987-1990
Loreto Garza	1990-1991
Edwin Rosario	1991-1992
Akinobu Hiranaka	1992
Morris East	1992-1993
Juan Martin Coggi (2)	1993-1994
Frankie Randall	1994-1996
Juan Martin Coggi (3)	1996
Frankie Randall (2)	1996-1997
Khalid Rahilou	1997-1998
Sharmba Mitchell	1998-2001
Kostya Tszyu	2001-2004
Diosbely's Hurtado	2002
Vivian Harris	2002-2005
Carlos Maussa	2005
Ricky Hatton	2005-2006
Souleymane M'baye	2006-2007
Gavin Rees	2007-2008
Andreas Kotelnik	2008-2009
Amir Khan	2009-2011
Marcos René Maidana	2011–2012
Lamont Peterson	2011–2012
Amir Khan	2012
Danny Garcia	2012-2015
Khabib Allakhverdiev	2012-2014
Jessie Vargas	2014-2015
Adrien Broner	2015-2016
Ricky Burns	2016-2017
Julius Indongo	2017
Terence Crawford	2017
Kiryl Relikh	since 2018

WBA super champions

World Champion	Office
Kostya Tszyu	2001-2004
Ricky Hatton	2005-2006
Amir Khan	2011
Lamont Peterson	2011–2012
Amir Khan (2)	2012
Danny García	2012-2015
Julius Indongo	2017
Terence Crawford	2017

IBF

World Champion	Office
Aaron Pryor	1984-1985
Gary Hinton	1986
Joe Manley	1986-1987
Terry Marsh	1987
Buddy McGirt	1988
Meldrick Taylor	1988-1990
Julio César Chavez	1990-1991
Rafael Pineda	1991-1992
Pernell Whitaker	1992-1993
Charles Murray	1993-1994
Jake Rodriguez	1994-1995
Kostya Tszyu	1995-1997
Vince Phillips	1997-1999
Terron Millett	1999-2000
Zab Judah	2000-2001
Kostya Tszyu (2)	2001-2005
Ricky Hatton	2005-2006
Juan Urango	2006-2007
Ricky Hatton (2)	2007
Lovemore N'dou	2007
Paul Malignaggi	2007-2008
Juan Urango (2)	2009-2010
Devon Alexander	2010
Zab Judah (2)	2011
Amir Khan	2011
Lamont Peterson	2011-2015
César René Cuenca	2015
Eduard Trojanowski	2015-2016
Julius Indongo	2016-2017
Terence Crawford	2017
Sergey Lipinets	2017-2018
Miguel Ángel García	2018
Ivan Baranchyk	since 2018

WBO

World Champion	Office
Hector Camacho	1989-1991
Greg Haugen	1991
Hector Camacho (2)	1991-1992
Carlos González	1992-1993
Zack Padilla	1993-1994
Sammy Fuentes	1995-1996
Giovanni Parisi	1996-1998
Carlos Gonzalez (2)	1998-1999
Randall Bailey	1999-2000
Ener Julio	2000-2001
DeMarcus Corley	2001-2003
Zab Judah	2003-2004
Miguel Angel Cotto	2004-2006
Ricardo Torres	2006-2008
Kendall Holt	2008-2009
Timothy Bradley	2009–2012
Juan Manuel Marquez	2012-2013
Mike Alvarado	2013
Ruslan Provodnikov	2013-2014
Chris Algieri	2014
Terence Crawford	2015-2017
Maurice Hooker	since 2018

Web links

• WBC Light Welterweight Champion
• WBA Light Welterweight Champion
• IBF Light Welterweight Champion
• WBO Light Welterweight Champion
• WBA Light Welterweight Super champion
• World Light Welterweight Champion
• The Ring Magazine Champions
• The Ring Magazine Champions

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joshua's compatriot owned the belts of WBA, IBF and WBC, at that time the WBO was not yet part of the illustrious circle. She has only been there since 2007. Since then, the undisputed champion has had four titles.