List of WBU world champions

The following is a list of WBU world champions, a table showing the world champions certificated by the World Boxing Union (WBU), founded in the United States in 1995. This does not includes champions of the identically named German based organization that was active in the 2010s.

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

List of WBU Champions

WBU heavyweight champions have included:[1][2][3]

Name Duration of reign Defenses Notes
George Foreman March 29, 1995 – 1997 2 Foreman was recognized as champion after he was stripped of the IBF title
Corrie Sanders November 15, 1997 – May 20, 2000 3 Defeated Ross Purity
Hasim Rahman May 20, 2000 – April 21, 2001 0 Relinquished the title in order to fight Lennox Lewis for the IBF, IBO and WBC titles
Johnny Nelson November 24, 2001 – December 4, 2001 0 Defeated Alexander Vasiliev. Relinquished the title in order to concentrate on defending his WBO Cruiserweight title
Georgi Kandelaki December 21, 2002 – January 2004 0 Defeated Alexander Vasiliev. Kandelaki either relinquished or was stripped of the title
Matt Skelton February 25, 2005 – January 26, 2009 0 Skelton relinquished the title

Cruiserweight

Name Duration of reign Defenses Notes
Thomas Hearns March 31, 1995 –1996 0 Won vacant title
James Toney February 22, 1997 –1997 0 Won vacant title
Don Diego Poeder June 14, 1997 –1997 1 Won vacant title
Jacob Mofokeng September 12, 1998 –1999 0 Won vacant title
Vincenzo Cantatore March 20, 1999 –March 1999 0 Won vacant title
Rob Norton April 1, 1999 –24 September 1999 0 Won vacant title
Sebastiaan Rothmann 24 September 1999 –2003 6
Enzo Maccarinelli 28 June 2003 –2006 7 Won vacant title
Mark Hobson 8 September 2006 –2009 0 Won vacant title

Light-Heavyweight

Name Duration of reign Defenses Notes
James Toney June 18, 1995 –6 December 1996 3 Won vacant title
Montell Griffin 6 December 1996 –1997 0
Frank Tate 30 August 1997 –? 0 Won vacant title
Dario Walter Matteoni 2 March 2000 –? 0 Won vacant title
Tony Oakey 4 March 2002 –11 October 2003 3 Won vacant title
Matthew Barney 11 October 2003 –? 0

Super-Middleweight

Name Duration of reign Defenses Notes
Thomas Tate 21 November 1995 –1996 0 Won vacant title
Vinny Pazienza 23 August 1996 –1998 0 Won vacant title
Norbert Nieroba 18 April 1998 – 8 May 1999 0 Won vacant title
Nordin Ben Salah 8 May 1999 – 2000 0
Silvio Branco 15 April 2000 – ? 1 Won vacant title
Eric Teymour 24 November 2004 – ? 0 Won vacant title

Middleweight

Name Duration of reign Defenses Notes
Dana Rosenblatt 13 April 1996 –1996 0 Won vacant title
Silvio Branco 19 September 1996 –18 December 1998 6
Agostino Cardemone 18 December 1998 –26 June 1999 1
Raymond Joval 26 June 1999 –13 December 1999 0
Antonio Perugino 13 December 1999 –2000 0
Kevin Kelly 5 May 2000 –2000 0 Won vacant title
Antonio Perugino 3 June 2000 –? 0 Won vacant title
Ruben Groenewald 6 June 2002 –28 September 2002 0 Won vacant title
Anthony Farnell 28 September 2002 –5 April 2003 1
Wayne Ellcock 5 April 2003 –29 November 2003 0
Lawrence Murphy 29 November 2003 –6 March 2004 0
Anthony Farnell 6 March 2004 –12 June 2004 0
Eugenio Monteiro 12 June 2004 –? 0
Gary Lockett 11 March 2006 –? 2

Light-Middleweight

Name Duration of reign Defenses Notes
Emmett Linton 3 November –1996 1 Won vacant title
Verno Phillips 21 May 1997 –1998 2 Won vacant title
Rashid Matumla 19 December 1998 –? 1 Won vacant title
Takaloo 7 July 2001 –17 August 2002 2 Won vacant title
Daniel Santos 17 August 2002 –2002 0
Takaloo 2 January 2003 –10 September 2004 1 Won vacant title
Wayne Alexander 10 September 2004–? 1

Welterweight

Name Duration of reign Defenses Notes
Gary Murray 26 August 1995 –26 October 1996 4 Won vacant title
Alessandro Duran 26 October 1996 –30 July 1997 1
Peter Malinga 30 July 1997 –17 November 1997 0
Alessandro Duran 17 November 1997 –5 May 1998 0
Michele Piccirillo 5 May 1998 –2001 8
Jan Piet Bergman 2 June 2001 –2003 3 Won Vacant Title
Eamonn Magee 6 October 2003 –20 May 2006 1 Won Vacant Title
Takaloo 20 May 2008 –7 April 2010
Ben Reiter 7 April 2010 –May 2015 10
Cristian Charquero 15 June 2015 –May 2016 5 Won Vacant Title
Tomas Valko 10 May 2016 –2016 Won Unification world Title

Light-Welterweight

Name Duration of reign Defenses Notes
Shea Neary 26 October 1996 –11 March 2000 5 Vacant title
Micky Ward 11 March 2000 –2000 0
Jason Rowland 21 October 2000 –2001 0 Vacant title
Ricky Hatton 26 March 2001 –? 15 Vacant title
Lee McAllister 29 March 2008 –? 0 Vacant title

Lightweight

Name Duration of reign Defenses Notes
George Scott 7 October 1995 –1997 4 Vacant title
Colin Dunne 28 November 1997 –7 December 2002 7 Vacant title
David Burke 7 December 2002 –2003 0
Toncho Tonchev 31 March 2004 –? 0 Vacant title
Graham Earl 28 October 2006 –? 0 Vacant title
Lee McAllister 6 October 2008 –? 0 Vacant title
Willie Limond 29 March 2009 –? 0 Vacant title

Super-Featherweight

Name Duration of reign Defenses Notes
Angel Manfredy 18 October 1995 –1998 7 Vacant title
Jorge Rodrigo Barrios 10 July 1997 –2001 2 Vacant title
Phillip Ndou 25 July 2001 –2002 3 Vacant title
Kevin Lear I May 2002 –2003 1 Vacant title
Michael Gomez 3 April 2004 –11 February 2005 2 Vacant title

Featherweight

Name Duration of reign Defenses Notes
Kevin Kelley 2 February 1996 –1998 4 Vacant title
Cassius Baloyi 22 April 1998 –2001 7 Vacant title
Lehlo Ledwaba 27 July 2002 –? 0 Vacant title
Stephen Foster 11 May 2005 –14 October 2006 1
Derry Matthews 14 October 2006–5 April 2008 2
Choi Tseveenpurev 5 April 2008–? 0;

Super-Bantamweight

Name Duration of reign Defenses Notes
Kennedy McKinney 26 August 1995 –1996 0 Vacant title
Max Gomez 16 March 1996 –9 June 1996 0 Vacant title
Frankie Toledo 9 June 1996 –15 November 1996 0
Cassius Baloyi 15 November 1996 –1998 3
Carlos Navarro 21 February 1998 –11 December 1999 2
Carlos Contreras 11 December 1999 –2001 1
Nedal Hussein 29 June 2001 –? 0 Vacant Title

See also

References

  1. ^ "Steve Dimitry's Heavyweight Boxing History". Archived from the original on 2007-12-08. Retrieved 3 November 2007.
  2. ^ "All World Boxing Union fights registeres by BoxRec.com".
  3. ^ "WBU Titles 2015-2019 | World Boxing Union".
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