List of lightweight boxing champions
WBA

List of lightweight boxing champions

Section Title: WBA
Table Section Text: None

Reign began	Reign ended	Champion	Recognition

1962-04-21	1965-04-10	Puerto Rico Carlos Ortiz	WBA

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

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

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

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

1970-03-03	1970-09-26	Panama Ismael Laguna	WBA

1970-09-26	1972-06-26	United Kingdom Ken Buchanan	WBA

1972-06-26	1979-01-31	Panama Roberto Durán	WBA

1979-06-16	1980-03-02	Venezuela Ernesto España	WBA

1980-03-02	1981-04-12	United States Hilmer Kenty	WBA

1981-04-12	1981-04-12	United States Sean O'Grady	WBA

1981-09-12	1981-12-05	Trinidad and Tobago Claude Noel	WBA

1981-12-05	1982-05-08	United States Arturo Frias	WBA

1982-05-08	1984-06-01	United States Ray Mancini	WBA

1984-06-01	1986-09-26	Saint Kitts and Nevis Livingstone Bramble	WBA

1986-09-26	1987-11-21	Puerto Rico Edwin Rosario	WBA

1987-11-21	1988-10-29	Mexico Julio César Chávez	WBA

1989-07-09	1990-04-04	Puerto Rico Edwin Rosario	WBA

1990-04-04	1990-08-11	Puerto Rico Juan Nazario	WBA

1990-08-11	1991-10-05	United States Pernell Whitaker	WBA

1992-06-13	1992-10-24	United States Joey Gamache	WBA

1992-10-24	1993-06-26	United States Tony Lopez	WBA

1993-06-26	1993-10-30	South Africa Dingaan Thobela	WBA

1993-10-30	1998-05-16	Kyrgyzstan Orzubek Nazarov	WBA

1998-05-16	1999-04-10	France Jean Baptiste Mendy	WBA

1999-04-10	1999-08-07	France Julien Lorcy	WBA

1999-08-07	1999-11-13	Italy Stefano Zoff	WBA

1999-11-13	2000-06-11	Venezuela Gilberto Serrano	WBA

2000-06-11	2001-07-01	Japan Takanori Hatakeyama	WBA

2001-07-01	2001-10-08	France Julien Lorcy	WBA

2001-10-08	2002-01-05	Argentina Raul Horacio Balbi	WBA

2002-01-05	2003-05-17	Romania Leonard Doroftei	WBA

2004-04-10	2004-07-17	Mongolia Lakva Sim	WBA

2004-07-17	2008-03-08	United States Juan Díaz	WBA Super Champion

2007-12-29	2008-05-19	Nicaragua Jose Alfaro	WBA Regular Champion

2008-03-08	2009-01-10-Vacated	United States Nate Campbell	WBA Super Champion

2008-05-19	2009-01-03	Japan Yusuke Kobori	WBA Regular Champion

2009-01-03	2010-05-29	Namibia Paulus Moses	WBA Regular Champion

2009-02-28	2012-01-05-Stripped	Mexico Juan Manuel Márquez	WBA Super Champion

2010-05-29	2011-02-26	Venezuela Miguel Acosta	WBA Regular Champion

2011-02-26	2011-12-02-Stripped	United States Brandon Rios	WBA Regular Champion

2013-02-28	2015-04-09-Stripped	Cuba Richar Abril	WBA

2015-04-09	2015-11-21	Colombia Darleys Perez	WBA

2015-11-21	2016-09-25	United Kingdom Anthony Crolla	WBA

2018-05-12	Present	Ukraine Vasyl Lomachenko	WBA

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Noel held the WBA Lightweight title.
Noel held the WBA Lightweight title.
Noel held the WBA Lightweight title.

final_sentence: Noel held the WBA Lightweight title.
final_sentence: Noel held the WBA Lightweight title.
final_sentence: Noel held the WBA Lightweight title.