List of lightweight boxing champions
WBC

List of lightweight boxing champions

Section Title: WBC
Table Section Text: None

Reign began	Reign ended	Champion	Recognition

1963-04-07	1965-04-10	Puerto Rico Carlos Ortiz	WBC

1965-04-10	1965-11-13	Panama Ismael Laguna	WBC

1965-11-13	1968-06-29	Puerto Rico Carlos Ortiz	WBC

1968-06-29	1969-02-18	Dominican Republic Carlos Teo Cruz	WBC

1969-02-18	1970-03-03	United States Mando Ramos	WBC

1970-03-03	1970-09-15-Stripped	Panama Ismael Laguna	WBC

1971-02-12	1971-06-25-Stripped	United Kingdom Ken Buchanan	WBC

1971-11-05	1972-02-18	Spain Pedro Carrasco	WBC

1972-02-18	1972-09-15	United States Mando Ramos	WBC

1972-09-15	1972-11-10	Mexico Chango Carmona	WBC

1972-11-10	1974-04-11	Mexico Rodolfo Gato González	WBC

1974-04-11	1976-05-08	Japan Guts Ishimatsu	WBC

1976-05-08	1978-01-21	Puerto Rico Esteban De Jesús	WBC

1978-01-21	1979-01-31	Panama Roberto Durán	WBC

Durán became WBA champion in 1972 by defeating Ken Buchanan. He unified the titles on January 21, 1978, by defeating Esteban De Jesús.

1979-04-17	1981-06-20	United Kingdom Jim Watt	WBC

1981-06-20	1983-Vacated	Nicaragua Alexis Argüello	WBC

1983-05-01	1984-11-03	Puerto Rico Edwin Rosario	WBC

1984-11-03	1985-08-10	Mexico José Luis Ramírez	WBC

1985-08-10	1987-Vacated	Puerto Rico Héctor Camacho	WBC

1987-07-19	1988-10-29	Mexico José Luis Ramírez	WBC

1988-10-29	1989	Mexico Julio César Chávez	WBC

1989-08-20	1991-10-05	United States Pernell Whitaker	WBC

1992-08-24	1995-08-19	Mexico Miguel Ángel González	WBC

1996-04-20	1997-03-01	France Jean Baptiste Mendy	WBC

1997-03-01	1998-06-13	United States Stevie Johnston	WBC

1998-06-13	1999-02-27	Mexico Cesar Bazan	WBC

1999-02-27	2000-06-17	United States Stevie Johnston	WBC

2000-06-17	2002-04-20	Mexico José Luis Castillo	WBC

2002-04-20	2003-11-01	United States Floyd Mayweather, Jr.	WBC

2004-06-05	2005-05-07	Mexico José Luis Castillo	WBC

2005-05-07	2006-10-06-Stripped	United States Diego Corrales	WBC

2006-10-07	2007-02-01	Cuba Joel Casamayor	WBC

2007-02-01	2008-06-28	United States David Díaz	WBC

2008-06-28	2009-02-24-Vacated	Philippines Manny Pacquiao	WBC

2009-04-04	2010-02-09-Vacated	Venezuela Edwin Valero	WBC

2010-03-17	2011-07-01-Vacated	Mexico Humberto Soto	WBC

2011-10-15	2012-11-17	Mexico Antonio DeMarco	WBC

2012-11-17	2014-01-27-Stripped	United States Adrien Broner	WBC

2014-01-27	2014-11-10-Stripped	United States Omar Figueroa Jr.	WBC

2014-12-30	2016-06-12	Venezuela Jorge Linares	WBC

2016-06-12	2017-01-28	Montenegro Dejan Zlatičanin	WBC

2017-01-28	Present	United States Mikey Garcia	WBC

Sentence(s)

Edwin Rosario won the the WBC lightweight champion (1983–84).

final_sentence: Edwin Rosario won the the WBC lightweight champion (1983–84).