List of WBC world champions
Middleweight

List of WBC world champions

Section Title: Middleweight
Table Section Text: None

Name	Reign period	No. of successful defenses	Days

Nigeria Dick Tiger	August 10, 1963 – December 7, 1963	0	119

United States Joey Giardello	December 7, 1963 – October 21, 1965	1	182

Nigeria Dick Tiger	October 21, 1965 – April 25, 1966	0	186

United States Virgin Islands Emile Griffith	April 25, 1966 – April 17, 1967	2	357

Italy Nino Benvenuti	March 4, 1968 – November 7, 1970	4	978

Argentina Carlos Monzón	November 7, 1970 – February 9, 1974 (stripped)	9	1190

Colombia Rodrigo Valdéz def. Bennie Briscoe	May 25, 1974 – June 26, 1976	4	763

Argentina Carlos Monzón	June 26, 1976 – August 1977 (retired)	1	376

Colombia Rodrigo Valdéz def. Bennie Briscoe	November 5, 1977 – April 22, 1978	0	168

Argentina Hugo Corro	April 22, 1978 – June 30, 1979	2	434

Italy Vito Antuofermo	June 30, 1979 – March 16, 1980	1	260

United Kingdom Alan Minter	March 16, 1980 – September 27, 1980	1	195

United States Marvelous Marvin Hagler	September 27, 1980 – April 6, 1987	12	2474

United States Sugar Ray Leonard	April 6, 1987 – May 27, 1987 (retired)	0	51

United States Thomas Hearns def. Juan Roldán	October 29, 1987 – June 6, 1988	0	253

United States Iran Barkley	June 6, 1988 – February 24, 1989	0	263

Panama Roberto Durán	February 24, 1989 – December 1989 (vacated)	0	310

United States Virgin Islands Julian Jackson def. Herol Graham	November 24, 1990 – May 8, 1993	4	896

United States Gerald McClellan	May 8, 1993 – May 7, 1994 (vacated)	3	364

United States Virgin Islands Julian Jackson def. Agostino Cardamone	March 17, 1995 – August 19, 1995	0	155

United States Quincy Taylor	August 19, 1995 – March 16, 1996	0	211

United States Keith Holmes	March 16, 1996 – May 2, 1998	2	716

France Hacine Cherifi	May 2, 1998 – April 24, 1999	0	357

United States Keith Holmes	April 24, 1999 – April 14, 2001	2	721

United States Bernard Hopkins	April 14, 2001 – July 16, 2005	7	1554

United States Jermain Taylor	July 16, 2005 – September 29, 2007	4	805

United States Kelly Pavlik	September 29, 2007 – April 17, 2010	3	931

Argentina Sergio Martínez	April 17, 2010 – January 17, 2011 (stripped)	1	214

Germany Sebastian Zbik (Elevated from interim status)	January 17, 2011 – June 4, 2011	0	138

Mexico Julio César Chávez Jr.	June 4, 2011 – September 15, 2012	3	469

Argentina Sergio Martínez	September 15, 2012 – June 7, 2014	1	630

Puerto Rico Miguel Cotto	June 7, 2014 – November 17, 2015 (stripped)	1	528

Mexico Canelo Álvarez (def. Miguel Cotto)	November 21, 2015 – May 18, 2016 (vacated)	1	179

Kazakhstan Gennady Golovkin (Elevated from interim status)	May 18, 2016 – September 15, 2018	4	850

Mexico Saúl Álvarez	September 15, 2018 – present	0	227

Sentence(s)

On May 18, 2016, Álvarez vacated the WBC middleweight title, which resulted in Golovkin being awarded the WBC middleweight title.

final_sentence: On May 18, 2016, Álvarez vacated the WBC middleweight title, which resulted in Golovkin being awarded the WBC middleweight title.