List of cruiserweight boxing champions
Championship recognition
The World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA), The World Boxing Council (WBC), founded in 1963, The International Boxing Federation (IBF), founded in 1983, The World Boxing Organization (WBO), founded in 1988,

List of cruiserweight boxing champions

Section Title: Championship recognition
Table Section Text: The World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA), The World Boxing Council (WBC), founded in 1963, The International Boxing Federation (IBF), founded in 1983, The World Boxing Organization (WBO), founded in 1988,

Reign began	Reign ended	Champion	Recognition

31 March 1980	25 November 1980	United States Marvin Camel	Universal

Camel and Mate Parlov fought to a draw in the first Cruiserweight championship bout on 12 August 1979, sanctioned by the World Boxing Council.

25 November 1980	13 February 1982	Puerto Rico Carlos De León	Universal

13 February 1982	27 June 1982	Puerto Rico Carlos De Leon	WBC

13 February 1982	1 December 1984	Puerto Rico Ossie Ocasio	WBA

Ocasio defeated Robbie Williams in the first Cruiserweight championship bout sanctioned by the World Boxing Association.

27 June 1982	17 July 1983	United States S. T. Gordon	WBC

17 July 1983	6 June 1985	Puerto Rico Carlos De León	WBC

13 February 1983	6 October 1984	United States Marvin Camel	IBF

Just as he had done with the WBC title, Camel became the first champion in the division crowned by the International Boxing Federation, defeating Roddy McDonald to win the vacant title.

6 October 1984	25 October 1986	United States Lee Roy Murphy	IBF

1 December 1984	27 July 1985	South Africa Piet Crous	WBA

6 June 1985	21 September 1985	United States Alfonso Ratliff	WBC

27 July 1985	12 July 1986	United States Dwight Muhammad Qawi (Dwight Braxton)	WBA

21 September 1985	22 March 1986	United States Bernard Benton	WBC

22 March 1986	9 April 1988	Puerto Rico Carlos De León	WBC

12 July 1986	15 May 1987	United States Evander Holyfield	WBA

25 October 1986	15 May 1987	United States Rickey Parkey	IBF

15 May 1987	9 April 1988	United States Evander Holyfield	WBA & IBF

9 April 1988	4 December 19882	United States Evander Holyfield	Universal

Holyfield unified his titles with Carlos De Leon's WBC title, making him the division's first truly undisputed champion.

25 March 1989	25 September 19892	Tunisia Taoufik Belbouli	WBA

Belbouli defeated Michael Greer to win the vacant title.

17 May 1989	27 July 1990	Puerto Rico Carlos De León	WBC

De Leon defeated Sammy Reeson to win the vacant title.

3 June 1989	22 March 1990	United Kingdom Glenn McCrory	IBF

McCrory defeated Patrick Lumumba to win the vacant title.

27 November 1989	8 March 1991	United States Robert Daniels	WBA

Daniels defeated Dwight Muhammad Qawi to win the vacant title.

3 December 1989	17 May 1990	United States Boone Pultz	WBO

Pultz defeated Magne Havnå to win the inaugural WBO cruiserweight title.

22 March 1990	27 July 19911	United States Jeff Lampkin	IBF

17 May 1990	1 May 1992	Norway Magne Havnå2	WBO

27 July 1990	20 July 1991	Italy Massimiliano Duran	WBC

8 March 1991	5 August 19932	United States Bobby Czyz	WBA

20 July 1991	7 July 19952	France Anaclet Wamba	WBC

7 September 1991	30 July 1992	United States James Warring	IBF

Warring defeated James Pritchard to win the vacant title.

25 July 1992	13 February 1993	United States Tyrone Booze	WBO

Booze defeated Derek Angol to win the vacant title.

30 July 1992	30 April 19962	United States Alfred Cole	IBF

13 February 1993	26 June 1993	Germany Markus Bott	WBO

26 June 1993	17 December 1994	Argentina Nestor Hipolito Giovannini	WBO

6 November 1993	22 July 1995	United States Orlin Norris	WBA

Norris defeated Marcelo Victor Figueroa to win the vacant title.

17 December 1994	1 January 19952	Germany Dariusz Michalczewski	WBO

10 June 1995	4 October 1997	Germany Ralf Rocchigiani	WBO

Rocchigiani defeated Carl Thompson to win the vacant title.

22 July 1995	8 November 1997	United States Nate Miller	WBA

25 July 1995	21 February 1998	Argentina Marcelo Dominguez	WBC

Dominguez defeated Akim Tafer to win the vacant title.

31 August 1996	21 June 1997	United States Adolpho Washington	IBF

Washington defeated Torsten May to win the vacant title.

21 June 1997	8 November 1997	Jamaica Uriah Grant	IBF

4 October 1997	27 March 1999	United Kingdom Carl Thompson	WBO

8 November 1997	30 October 1998	United States Imamu Mayfield	IBF

8 November 1997	9 December 2000	France Fabrice Tiozzo	WBA

21 February 1998	19 February 20022	Cuba Juan Carlos Gómez	WBC

30 October 1998	5 June 1999	United States Arthur Williams	IBF

27 March 1999	22 September 20062	United Kingdom Johnny Nelson	WBO

5 June 1999	26 April 2003	Kazakhstan Vassiliy Jirov	IBF

9 December 2000	23 February 2002	United States Virgil Hill	WBA

23 February 2002	2 April 2005	France Jean-Marc Mormeck	WBA

11 October 2002	2 April 2005	Guyana Wayne Braithwaite	WBC

Braithwaite defeated Vincenzo Cantatore to win the vacant title.

2 April 2005	7 January 2006	France Jean-Marc Mormeck	WBA & WBC

Upon unifying the WBA and WBC titles against Wayne Braithwaite, the WBA upgraded Mormeck to the title of "super champion" and the "regular" title was declared vacant.

26 April 2003	9 December 20032	United States James Toney	IBF

1 May 2004	20 May 20052	United States Kelvin Davis	IBF

Davis defeated Ezra Sellers to win the vacant title.

20 May 2005	7 January 2006	Jamaica O'Neil Bell	IBF

Bell defeated Dale Brown to win the vacant title.

7 January 2006	31 March 20061	Jamaica O'Neil Bell	WBA (super Champion), WBC, & IBF

O'Neil Bell defeated Jean-Marc Mormeck on 7 January 2006, by knockout in round 10, unifying his IBF belt with Mormeck's WBA and WBC belts.

27 January 2006	24 November 2007	United States Virgil Hill	WBA (regular champion)

Hill defeated Valery Brudov to win the vacant WBA "regular" title.

31 March 2006	17 March 2007	Jamaica O'Neil Bell	WBA (super champion) & WBC

22 September 2006	8 March 2008	United Kingdom Enzo Maccarinelli	WBO

Maccarinelli won the interim title by defeating Marcelo Dominguez on 8 July 2006. Upon champion Johnny Nelson's retirement, Maccarinelli was upgraded to full champion status.

26 November 2006	26 May 2007	Poland Krzysztof Włodarczyk	IBF

Wlodarczyk defeated Steve Cunningham to win the vacant title.

17 March 2007	10 November 2007	France Jean-Marc Mormeck	WBA (super champion), WBC

26 May 2007	11 December 2008	United States Steve Cunningham	IBF

10 November 2007	8 March 2008	United Kingdom David Haye	WBA (super champion), WBC

24 November 2007	28 September 2008	Germany Firat Arslan	WBA (regular champion)

8 March 2008	12 May 20082	United Kingdom David Haye	WBA (super champion), WBC, WBO

David Haye defeated Enzo Maccarinelli on 8 March 2008 and unified his WBA and WBC titles with Maccarinelli's WBO title. On 12 May, he relinquished his WBC belt and would eventually relinquish the WBA and WBO belts in order to move up in weight.

28 September 2008	30 October 2012 1	Panama Guillermo Jones	WBA

On 30 October 2012, Guillermo Jones was stripped of the WBA title and named "Champion in Recess" due to his failure to meet mandatory challenger and interim champion Denis Lebedev in a timely manner thus elevating Lebedev to full champion status.

28 October 2008	22 November 2009	Italy Giacobbe Fragomeni	WBC

Fragomeni defeated Rudolf Kraj to win the vacant title.

11 December 2008	18 October 20092	Poland Tomasz Adamek	IBF

17 January 2009	29 August 2009	Argentina Victor Emilio Ramírez	WBO

Ramirez defeated Aleksandr Alekseyev to win the interim title. Once champion David Haye made it clear he would no longer compete in the cruiserweight division, Ramirez was upgraded to full champion status.

29 August 2009	14 August 2015	Germany Marco Huck	WBO

22 November 2009	22 January 20102	Hungary Zsolt Erdei	WBC

15 May 2010	27 September 2014	Poland Krzysztof Włodarczyk	WBC

Wlodarczyk defeated Giacobbe Fragomeni to win the vacant title.

5 June 2010	1 October 2011	United States Steve Cunningham	IBF

Cunninghum defeated Troy Ross to win the vacant title.

1 October 2011	21 September 20151	Cuba Yoan Pablo Hernández	IBF

30 October 2012	1 February 2018	Russia Denis Lebedev	WBA

29 May 2016	Vacated	United Kingdom Tony Bellew	WBC

27 September 2014	17 September 2016	Poland Krzysztof Głowacki	WBO

21 September 2015	21 May 2016	Argentina Victor Emilio Ramirez	IBF

21 May 2016	3 December 2016	Russia Denis Lebedev	WBA, IBF

17 September 2016	Present	Ukraine Oleksandr Usyk	WBO

3 December 2016	21 July 2018	Russia Murat Gassiev	IBF

1 April 2017	27 January 2018	Latvia Mairis Briedis	WBC

27 January 2018	Present	Ukraine Oleksandr Usyk	WBO, WBC

3 February 2018	21 July 2018	Russia Murat Gassiev	WBA, IBF

21 July 2018	Present	Ukraine Oleksandr Usyk	WBO, WBC, WBA, IBF

Sentence(s)

Marvin Camel was the first person recognized as the cruiserweight boxing champion of the world by two different sanctioning bodies.

final_sentence: Marvin Camel was the first person recognized as the cruiserweight boxing champion of the world by two different sanctioning bodies.