List of WBO world champions
Light heavyweight

List of WBO world champions

Section Title: Light heavyweight
Table Section Text: None

Name:	Date:	Location:	Defenses:

United States Michael Moorer def. Ramzi Hassan	December 3, 1988	Brook Park, Ohio, United States	9

Title vacated	1991	Moorer vacated the title in order to move up to Heavyweight. His last defense was against Danny Stonewalker on December 15, 1990 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

United States Leeonzer Barber def. Tom Collins	May 9, 1991	Leeds, England	4

Poland Dariusz Michalczewski	September 10, 1994	Hamburg, Germany	23

Mexico Julio César González	October 10, 2003	Hamburg, Germany	0

Hungary Zsolt Erdei	January 17, 2004	Karlsruhe, Germany	11

Title vacated	November 13, 2009	Erdei vacated the title in order to move up to Cruiserweight. His last defense was against Yuriy Barashian on January 10, 2009 at Magdeburg, Germany

Germany Jürgen Brähmer interim champ promoted	November 13, 2009	N/A	2

Title stripped	May 19, 2011	Brähmer was stripped of the title after withdrawing from a bout for the title against Nathan Cleverly citing eye injury. His last defense was against Mariano Nicolas Plotinsky on April 24, 2010 at Alsterdorf, Germany

United Kingdom Nathan Cleverly interim champ promoted	May 19, 2011	N/A	5

Russia Sergey Kovalev	August 18, 2013	Cardiff, Wales	8

United States Andre Ward	November 19, 2016	Las Vegas, United States	1

Title vacated	September 21, 2017	Ward announced retirement and vacated his 3 titles. His last defense was against Sergey Kovalev on June 6, 2017 at Las Vegas, USA

Russia Sergey Kovalev def. Vyacheslav Shabranskyy	November 25, 2017	Madison Square Garden, New York, United States	1

Colombia Eleider Álvarez	August 4, 2018	Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Atlantic City, United States	0

Russia Sergey Kovalev	February 2, 2019	Ford Center at The Star, Frisco, Texas, United States	0

Sentence(s)

Andre Ward was the WBO light heavyweight champion.

final_sentence: Andre Ward was the WBO light heavyweight champion.