List of welterweight boxing champions
WBA

List of welterweight boxing champions

Section Title: WBA
Table Section Text: None

Date won	Date lost	Name

8 December 1962	21 March 1963	United States Virgin IslandsEmile Griffith	WBA

21 March 1963	8 June 1963	Cuba Luis Manuel Rodriguez	WBA

8 June 1963	25 April 1966-Vacated	United States Virgin Islands Emile Griffith	WBA

24 August 1966	18 April 1969	United States Curtis Cokes	WBA

18 April 1969	3 December 1970	Cuba Jose Napoles	WBA

3 December 1970	4 June 1971	United States Billy Backus	WBA

4 June 1971	1975-Stripped	Cuba Jose Napoles	WBA

28 June 1975	17 July 1976	Puerto Rico Ángel Espada	WBA

17 July 1976	2 August 1980	Mexico Pipino Cuevas	WBA

2 August 1980	16 September 1981	United States Thomas Hearns	WBA

16 September 1981	9 November 1982-Retired	United States Sugar Ray Leonard	WBA

13 February 1983	27 September 1986	United States Donald Curry	WBA

27 September 1986	1987-Vacated	United Kingdom Lloyd Honeyghan	WBA

6 February 1987	22 August 1987	United States Mark Breland	WBA

22 August 1987	29 July 1988	United States Marlon Starling	WBA

29 July 1988	12 December 1988-Vacated	Colombia Tomas Molinares	WBA

4 February 1989	8 July 1990	United States Mark Breland	WBA

8 July 1990	19 January 1991	United States Aaron Davis	WBA

19 January 1991	31 October 1992	United States Meldrick Taylor	WBA

31 October 1992	4 June 1994	Venezuela Crisanto España	WBA

4 June 1994	17 October 1997-Vacated	Ghana Ike Quartey	WBA

10 October 1998	2000-Stripped	United States James Page	WBA

17 February 2001	30 March 2002	Guyana Andrew Lewis	WBA

30 March 2002	13 December 2003	Nicaragua Ricardo Mayorga	WBA Super Champion

12 September 2003	2 April 2005	United States Jose Antonio Rivera	WBA Regular Champion

13 December 2003	5 February 2005	United States Cory Spinks	WBA Super Champion

5 February 2005	7 January 2006-Stripped	United States Zab Judah	WBA Super Champion

2 April 2005	13 May 2006	United States Luis Collazo	WBA Regular Champion

13 May 2006	31 August 2006-Vacated	United Kingdom Ricky Hatton	WBA

2 December 2006	26 July 2008	Puerto Rico Miguel Cotto	WBA

26 July 2008	24 January 2009	Mexico Antonio Margarito	WBA Super Champion

3 October 2008	10 April 2009	Ukraine Yuriy Nuzhnenko	WBA Regular Champion

24 January 2009	22 May 2010-Stripped	United States Shane Mosley	WBA Super Champion

10 April 2009	29 April 2012	Ukraine Vyacheslav Senchenko	WBA Regular Champion

29 April 2012	22 June 2013	United States Paul Malignaggi	WBA

22 June 2013	14 December 2013	United States Adrien Broner	WBA

14 December 2013	3 May 2014	Argentina Marcos Maidana	WBA

3 May 2014	11 January 2016-Stripped after retirement	United States Floyd Mayweather, Jr.	WBA Super Champion

16 January 2015	Present	United States Keith Thurman	WBA Super Champion

15 July 2018	Present	Philippines Manny Pacquiao	WBA Regular

Sentence(s)

Crisanto España, was the WBA welterweight champion.

final_sentence: Crisanto España, was the WBA welterweight champion.