List of WBO world champions
Junior welterweight

List of WBO world champions

Section Title: Junior welterweight
Table Section Text: None

Name:	Date:	Location:	Defenses:

Puerto Rico Héctor Camacho def. Ray Mancini	March 6, 1989	Reno, Nevada, United States	2

United States Greg Haugen	February 23, 1991	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	0

Puerto Rico Héctor Camacho (2)	May 19, 1991	Reno, Nevada, United States	0

Title vacated	1992

Mexico Carlos González def. Jimmy Paul	June 29, 1992	Inglewood, California, United States	3

United States Zack Padilla	June 7, 1993	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	4

Title vacated	July 24, 1994	Title vacated when Padilla retired after his final defense against Juan Laporte in Los Angeles, California.

Puerto Rico Sammy Fuentes def. Fidel Avendano	February 20, 1995	Inglewood, California, United States	1

Italy Giovanni Parisi	March 9, 1996	Milan, Italy	5

Mexico Carlos González (2)	May 29, 1998	Pesaro, Italy	0

United States Randall Bailey	May 15, 1999	Miami, Florida, United States	2

Colombia Ener Julio	July 22, 2000	Miami, Florida, United States	0

Title vacated	June 2001	Title vacated when a routine eye exam reveals that Julio has cataracts.

United States DeMarcus Corley def. Felix Flores	June 30, 2001	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	2

United States Zab Judah	July 12, 2003	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	1

Title vacated	2004	Judah vacated the title to move up to the Welterweight division.

Puerto Rico Miguel Cotto def. Kelson Pinto	September 11, 2004	San Juan, Puerto Rico	6

Title vacated	2006	Cotto vacated the title to move up to Welterweight and challenge for the WBA title His last defense was against Paul Malignaggi on June 10, 2006 in New York City, New York.

Colombia Ricardo Torres def. Mike Arnaoutis	November 18, 2006	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	3

United States Kendall Holt def. Ricardo Torres	July 5, 2008	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	1

United States Timothy Bradley this bout was a title unification match for both WBO and WBC titles	April 4, 2009	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	1

Title vacated	June 27, 2012	Bradley vacated the title to move up to Welterweight and challenge for the WBO title His last defense was against Joel Casamayor on November 12, 2011 in Las Vegas.

Mexico Juan Manuel Márquez interim champ promoted	June 27, 2012	Mexico City, Mexico	0

Title vacated	October 12, 2013	Márquez vacated the title to move up to Welterweight and challenge Timothy Bradley for the WBO belt

United States Mike Alvarado interim champ promoted	October 12, 2013	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	0

Russia Ruslan Provodnikov	October 19, 2013	Denver, Colorado, United States	0

United States Chris Algieri	June 14, 2014	Brooklyn, New York, United States	0

Title stripped	November 22, 2014	Algieri was stripped of title before challenging Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight belt.

United States Terence Crawford def. Thomas Dulorme	April 18, 2015	Arlington, Texas	6

Title vacated	October 26, 2017	Crawford vacated to move up to welterweight

United States Maurice Hooker def. Terry Flanagan	June 9, 2018	Manchester, England	2

Sentence(s)

Crawford, the WBO junior-welterweight champion, had vacated to move up to welterweight.

final_sentence: Crawford, the WBO junior-welterweight champion, had vacated to move up to welterweight.