List of light-heavyweight boxing champions
Championship awarding organizations
The World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA); it changed its name in 1961 and allowed membership from outside the USA.

List of light-heavyweight boxing champions

Section Title: Championship awarding organizations
Table Section Text: The World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA); it changed its name in 1961 and allowed membership from outside the USA.

Reign Began	Reign Ended	Champion	Recognition

World

1903-04-22	1903-07-04	United States Jack Root	World

1903-07-04	1903-11-25	Republic of Ireland George Gardner	World

The light-heavyweight division was not recognized outside North America until the Gardiner-Fitzsimmons title fight of November 1903

1903-11-25	1905-12-20	United Kingdom Bob Fitzsimmons	World

1905-12-20	1905-12-20-Vacated	United States Philadelphia Jack O'Brien	World

1913-02-17	1913-02-17	United States Bob Moha	NYSAC

1914-04-14	1916-10-24	United States Jack Dillon	World

1916-10-24	1920-10-12	United States Battling Levinsky	World

1920-10-12	1922-09-24	France Georges Carpentier	World

1922-09-24	1923-03-17	Senegal Battling Siki	World

1923-03-17	1925-05-30	Republic of Ireland Mike McTigue	World

1925-05-30	1926-07-16	United States Paul Berlenbach	World

1926-07-16	1927-07-27-Vacated	Canada Jack Delaney	World

Delaney vacated the title to campaign in the heavyweight division.

1927-08-30	1927-12-12	United States Jimmy Slattery	NBA

1927-10-07	1929-07-18-Vacated	United States Tommy Loughran	NYSAC

1930-02-10	1930-06-25	United States Jimmy Slattery	NYSAC

1930-06-25	1933-03-10	United States Maxie Rosenbloom	NYSAC

1932-03-18	1932-12-17-Stripped	United States George Nichols	NBA

Nichols was stripped of the title after losing a non-title bout to Lou Scozza.

Awarded the title	1933-03-01	United States Joe Knight	NBA

1933-03-01	1933-03-24	United States Bob Godwin	NBA

1933-03-24	1934-11-16	United States Maxie Rosenbloom	World

1934-11-16	1935-10-31	United States Bob Olin	World

1935-10-31	1938-10-28-Vacated	United States John Henry Lewis	World

Lewis retired due to failing eyesight.

1938-11-29	1939-02-03	United States Tiger Jack Fox	NYSAC

1939-02-03	1939-07-13	Italy Melio Bettina	NYSAC

1939-07-10	1942-06-20	United Kingdom Len Harvey	EBU

1939-07-13	1940-06-05-Vacated	United States Billy Conn	NBA/NYSAC

1941-01-13	1941-05-22	Greece Anton Christoforidis	NBA

1941-05-22	1941-11-14	United States Gus Lesnevich	NBA/NYSAC

1942-06-20	1946-05-14	United Kingdom Freddie Mills	EBU

1946-05-14	1948-07-26	United States Gus Lesnevich	World

1948-07-26	1950-01-24	United Kingdom Freddie Mills	World

1950-01-24	1952-12-17	United States Joey Maxim	World

1952-12-17	1960-10-??	United States Archie Moore	World

Moore was stripped of the NBA title for inactivity but retained the NYSAC and EBU versions.

1960-10-??	1962-02-09	United States Archie Moore	NYSAC/EBU

Moore was stripped of the EBU and NYSAC titles for inactivity.

1961-02-07	1962-05-12	United States Harold Johnson	NBA

1962-05-12	1963-06-01	United States Harold Johnson	World

1963-06-01	1965-03-30	United States Willie Pastrano	WBA/WBC

1965-03-30	1966-12-16	Puerto Rico José Torres	WBA/WBC

1966-12-16	1968-05-24	Nigeria Dick Tiger	WBA/WBC

Title Split into WBA and WBC Belts

WBC

Title inaugurated

1963-06-01	1965-03-30	United States Willie Pastrano	WBC

1965-05-30	1966-12-16	Puerto Rico José Torres	WBC

1966-12-16	1968-05-24	Nigeria Dick Tiger	WBC

1968-05-24	1974-06-17-Vacated	United States Bob Foster	WBC

1974-10-01	1977-05-21-Stripped	United Kingdom John Conteh	WBC

1977-05-21	1978-01-07	Argentina Miguel Angel Cuello	WBC

1978-01-07	1978-12-02	Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Mate Parlov	WBC

1978-12-02	1979-04-22	United States Marvin Johnson	WBC

1979-04-22	1981-12-19	United States Matthew Saad Muhammad	WBC

1981-12-19	1983-03-18	United States Dwight Muhammad Qawi	WBC

1983-03-18	1985-06-06-Vacated	United States Michael Spinks	WBC

1985-12-10	1986-04-30	United States JB Williamson	WBC

1986-04-30	1987-03-07	United Kingdom Dennis Andries	WBC

1987-03-07	1987-Vacated	United States Thomas Hearns	WBC

1987-11-27	1988-11-07	Canada Donny Lalonde	WBC

1988-11-07	1989-Vacated	United States Sugar Ray Leonard	WBC

1989-02-21	1989-06-24	United Kingdom Dennis Andries	WBC

1989-06-24	1990-07-28	Australia Jeff Harding	WBC

1990-07-28	1991-09-11	United Kingdom Dennis Andries	WBC

1991-09-11	1994-07-23	Australia Jeff Harding	WBC

1994-07-23	1995-06-16	Jamaica Mike McCallum	WBC

1995-06-16	1997-03-Vacated	France Fabrice Tiozzo	WBC

1997-03	1997-03-21	United States Roy Jones Jr.	WBC

1997-03-21	1997-08-07	United States Montell Griffin	WBC

1997-08-07	2003-03-01-Vacated	United States Roy Jones Jr.	WBC

1998-03-21	2000-04-15	Germany Graciano Rocchigiani	WBC (Restored Champion)

2003-04-23	2003-11-08	United States Antonio Tarver	WBC

2003-11-08	2004-05-15	United States Roy Jones Jr.	WBC

2004-05-15	2004-12-Stripped	United States Antonio Tarver	WBC

2005-05-21	2007-02-03	Poland Tomasz Adamek	WBC

2007-02-03	2008-07-11-Stripped	United States Chad Dawson	WBC

2008-07-11	2009-06-19	Romania Adrian Diaconu	WBC

2009-06-19	2011-05-21	Canada Jean Pascal	WBC

2011-05-21	2012-04-28	United States Bernard Hopkins	WBC

2012-04-28	2013-06-08	United States Chad Dawson	WBC

2013-06-08	2018-12-01	Canada Adonis Stevenson	WBC

2018-12-01	Present	Ukraine Oleksandr Gvozdyk	WBC

WBA

Title inaugurated

1963-06-01	1965-03-30	United States Willie Pastrano	WBA

1965-03-30	1966-12-16	Puerto Rico José Torres	WBA

1966-12-16	1968-05-24	Nigeria Dick Tiger	WBA

1968-05-24	1970-12-09-Stripped	United States Bob Foster	WBA

1971-02-27	1972-04-07	Venezuela Vicente Rondon	WBA

1972-04-07	1974-09-16-Vacated	United States Bob Foster	WBA

1974-12-07	1978-09-15	Argentina Victor Galindez	WBA

1978-09-15	1979-04-14	United States Mike Rossman	WBA

1979-04-14	1979-11-30	Argentina Victor Galindez	WBA

1979-11-30	1980-03-31	United States Marvin Johnson	WBA

1980-03-31	1981-07-18	United States Eddie Mustafa Muhammad	WBA

1981-07-18	1985-09-21-Vacated	United States Michael Spinks	WBA

1986-02-09	1987-05-23	United States Marvin Johnson	WBA

1987-05-23	1987-09-05	Trinidad and Tobago Leslie Stewart	WBA

1987-09-05	1991-06-03	United States Virgil Hill	WBA

1991-06-03	1992-03-20	United States Thomas Hearns	WBA

1992-03-20	1992-Vacated	United States Iran Barkley	WBA

1992-09-29	1997-06-13	United States Virgil Hill	WBA

1997-06-13	1997-07-01-Vacated	Poland Dariusz Michalczewski	WBA

1997-09-20	1998-07-18	United States Lou Del Valle	WBA

1998-07-18	2004-05-15	United States Roy Jones Jr.	WBA Super Champion

2001-12-22	2003-03-08	France Bruno Girard	WBA Regular Champion

2003-03-08	2003-10-10	France Mehdi Sahnoune	WBA Regular Champion

2003-10-10	2004-03-20	Italy Silvio Branco	WBA Regular Champion

2004-03-20	2006-10-19-Retired	France Fabrice Tiozzo	WBA Regular Champion

2004-05-15	2004-12-Stripped	United States Antonio Tarver	WBA Super Champion

2006-10-19	2007-04-28	Italy Silvio Branco	WBA

2007-04-28	2007-12-16	Croatia Stipe Drvis	WBA

2007-12-16	2008-03-25-Retired	Australia Danny Green	WBA

2008-07-03	2009-06-20	Argentina Hugo Garay	WBA

2009-06-20	2010-01-29	Spain Gabriel Campillo	WBA

2010-01-29	2014-04-19	Kazakhstan Beibut Shumenov	WBA Super Champion

2013-12-14	2016-10-01	Germany Juergen Braehmer	WBA Regular Champion

2014-04-19	2014-11-08	United States Bernard Hopkins	WBA Super Champion

2014-11-08	2016-11-19	Russia Sergey Kovalev	WBA Super Champion

2016-10-01	Present	United Kingdom Nathan Cleverly	WBA Regular Champion

2016-11-19	2017-09-21	United States Andre Ward	WBA Super Champion

2017-09-23	Present	Russia Dmitry Bivol	WBA

IBF

Title inaugurated

1984-02-25	1985-09-21-Vacated	United States Michael Spinks	IBF

1985-12-21	1986-09-06	Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Kačar	IBF

1986-09-06	1987-10-29	United States Bobby Czyz	IBF

1987-10-29	1993-03-20	United States Charles Williams	IBF

1993-03-20	1996-11-23	Germany Henry Maske	IBF

1996-11-23	1997-06-13	United States Virgil Hill	IBF

1997-06-13	1997-06-16-Vacated	Poland Dariusz Michalczewski	IBF

1997-07-19	1998-02-06	United States William Guthrie	IBF

1998-02-06	1999-06-05	United States Reggie Johnson	IBF

1999-06-05	2003-03-01-Vacated	United States Roy Jones Jr.	IBF

2003-04-26	2003-11-08-Stripped	United States Antonio Tarver	IBF

2004-02-06	2004-12-Vacated	Jamaica Glen Johnson	IBF

2005-03-04	2008-04-12	United Kingdom Clinton Woods	IBF

2008-04-12	2008-10-11	United States Antonio Tarver	IBF

2008-10-11	2009-05-27-Vacated	United States Chad Dawson	IBF

2009-08-28	2013-03-09	United States Tavoris Cloud	IBF

2013-03-09	2014-11-08	United States Bernard Hopkins	IBF

2014-11-08	2016-11-19	Russia Sergey Kovalev	IBF

2016-11-19	2017-09-21	United States Andre Ward	IBF

2017-11-11	Present	Russia Artur Beterbiev	IBF

WBO

Title inaugurated

1988-12-03	1990-12-15-Vacated	United States Michael Moorer	WBO

1991-05-09	1994-09-10	United States Leeonzer Barber	WBO

1994-09-10	2003-10-18	Poland Dariusz Michalczewski	WBO

2003-10-18	2004-01-17	Mexico Julio César González	WBO

2004-01-17	2009-11-Vacated	Hungary Zsolt Erdei	WBO

2009-11-13	2011-05-19-Stripped	Germany Jürgen Brähmer	WBO

2011-05-19	2013-08-17	United Kingdom Nathan Cleverly	WBO

2013-08-17	2016-11-19	Russia Sergey Kovalev	WBO

2016-11-19	2017-09-21	United States Andre Ward	WBO

2017-11-25	2018-08-04	Russia Sergey Kovalev	WBO

2018-08-04	Present	Colombia Eleider Álvarez	WBO

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Loughran was a boxer and a light heavyweight champion.

final_sentence: Loughran was a boxer and a light heavyweight champion.