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This is a list of IBO world champions , showing every world champion certificated by the International Boxing Organization (IBO) since 1993.
r – Champion relinquished title
s – Champion stripped of title
Heavyweight [ ]
[1]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
Pinklon Thomas
Nov 14, 1992 – Jan 29, 1993s
0
2
Lionel Butler
Feb 23, 1993 – Mar 1993r
0
3
Danell Nicholson
Aug 4, 1994 – Oct 1994r
0
4
Jimmy Thunder
Oct 29, 1994 – Jul 16, 1995r
2
5
Brian Nielsen
Jan 12, 1996 – Jun 18, 1999s
5
6
Lennox Lewis
Nov 13, 1999 – Apr 22, 2001
3
7
Hasim Rahman
Apr 22, 2001 – Nov 17, 2001
0
8
Lennox Lewis (2)
Nov 17, 2001 – Feb 6, 2004r
2
9
Wladimir Klitschko
Apr 22, 2006 – Nov 28, 2015
18
10
Tyson Fury
Nov 28, 2015 – Oct 12, 2016r
0
11
Anthony Joshua
Apr 29, 2017 – Jun 1, 2019
3
12
Andy Ruiz Jr.
Jun 1, 2019 – Dec 7, 2019
0
13
Anthony Joshua (2)
Dec 7, 2019 – Sep 25, 2021
1
14
Oleksandr Usyk
Sep 25, 2021 - present
0
Cruiserweight [ ]
[2]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
David Izeqwire
Dec 28, 1993 – Nov 5, 1994
1
2
Adolpho Washington
Nov 5, 1994 – Mar 17, 1995s
0
3
Ted Cofie
Nov 3, 1995 – 1997r
0
4
Booker T. Word
Apr 18, 1997 – 1997r
0
5
James Toney
Jun 14, 1997 – 1998r
0
6
Robert Daniels
May 5, 1998 – 1999r
0
7
Thomas Hearns
Apr 10, 1999 – Apr 8, 2000
0
8
Uriah Grant
Apr 8, 2000 – Feb 3, 2001
0
9
Carl Thompson
Feb 3, 2001 – Nov 26, 2001
0
10
Ezra Sellers
Nov 26, 2001 – Apr 6, 2002s
0
11
Sebastiaan Rothmann
Oct 26, 2002 – Feb 6, 2004
1
12
Carl Thompson (2)
Feb 6, 2004 – Feb 2006s [3]
1
13
Tomasz Adamek
Jun 9, 2007 – 2008r
0
14
Johnathon Banks
Jul 12, 2008 – Feb 27, 2009s
0
15
Danny Green
Aug 15, 2009 – Jul 20, 2011
4
16
Antonio Tarver
Jul 20, 2011 – Jul 2012s
1
17
Danny Green (2)
Nov 21, 2012 – 2013r
0
18
Ola Afolabi
Nov 2, 2013 – 2015r
0
19
Rakhim Chakhkiev
May 22, 2015 – Nov 4, 2015
0
20
Ola Afolabi (2)
Nov 4, 2015 – Feb 27, 2016
0
21
Marco Huck
Feb 27, 2016 – Apr 1, 2017s
1
22
Kevin Lerena
Sep 9, 2017 – Nov 1, 2021s
6
23
Jack Massey
Nov 27, 2021 – present
0
Light heavyweight [ ]
[4]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
Lenny LaPaglia
Aug 20, 1993 – 1993r
0
2
Drake Thadzi
May 14, 1997 – Dec 12, 1998r
1
3
Roy Jones Jr.
Sep 9, 2000 – May 15, 2004
5
4
Antonio Tarver
May 15, 2004 – Dec 18, 2004
0
5
Glen Johnson
Dec 18, 2004 – Jun 18, 2005
0
6
Antonio Tarver (2)
Jun 18, 2005 – Jun 10, 2006
1
7
Bernard Hopkins
Jun 10, 2006 – 2007r
0
8
Antonio Tarver (3)
Jun 9, 2007 – Oct 11, 2008
2
9
Chad Dawson
Oct 11, 2008 – Aug 14, 2010
2
10
Jean Pascal
Aug 14, 2010 – May 21, 2011
1
11
Andrzej Fonfara
Nov 16, 2012 – 2013s
0
12
Blake Caparello
Oct 17, 2013 – 2014s
0
13
Thomas Oosthuizen
Mar 14, 2015 – Jun 5, 2015s
0
14
Umar Salamov
May 21, 2016 – May 17, 2017r
0
15
Igor Mikhalkin
May 19, 2017 – Mar 14, 2018r
1
16
Karo Murat
Mar 24, 2018 – Dec 15, 2018
0
17
Sven Fornling
Dec 15, 2018 – Nov 16, 2019
0
18
Dominic Boesel
Nov 16, 2019 – Oct 10, 2020
0
19
Robin Krasniqi
Oct 10, 2020 – Oct 09, 2021
0
20
Dominic Boesel (2)
Oct 09, 2021 – present
0
Super middleweight [ ]
[5]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
Willie Ball
Jul 17, 1992 – Oct 9, 1992
0
2
Todd Nadon
Oct 9, 1992 – 1993r
0
3
Vinny Pazienza
Dec 28, 1993 – 1994r
0
4
Rick Thornberry
Apr 21, 1995 – 1996s
0
5
Karl Willis
Oct 13, 1996 – 1996s
0
6
Eddie White
Nov 27, 1996 – 1997s
0
7
Mads Larsen
May 2, 1997 – 1999r
4
8
Dana Rosenblatt
Nov 5, 1999 – 2000r
0
9
Adrian Dodson
Mar 3, 2001 – Apr 7, 2001
0
10
Ramon Arturo Brítez
Apr 7, 2001 – Dec 10, 2001
0
11
Brian Magee
Dec 10, 2001 – Jun 26, 2004
7
12
Robin Reid
Jun 26, 2004 – Aug 6, 2005
0
13
Jeff Lacy
Aug 6, 2005 – Mar 4, 2006s
1
14
Fulgencio Zúñiga
Sep 1, 2007 – 2008r
0
15
Sakio Bika
Nov 13, 2008 – 2010s
0
16
Isaac Chilemba
Jun 19, 2010 – 2011s
1
17
Thomas Oosthuizen
Mar 26, 2011 – 2014s
7
18
Donovan George
Aug 23, 2014 – 2014s
0
19
Zac Dunn
Jun 27, 2015 – 2016s
0
20
Renold Quinlan
Oct 14, 2016 – Feb 4, 2017
0
21
Chris Eubank Jr.
Feb 4, 2017 – Feb 17, 2018s
2
22
Chris Eubank Jr. (2)
Feb 23, 2019 - Dec 17, 2019r
0
23
Carlos Góngora
Dec 18, 2020 – present [6]
1
Middleweight [ ]
[7]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
Glenwood Brown
Aug 25, 1995 – 1997r
0
2
Freeman Barr
Sep 20, 1997 – 1998r
1
3
Mpush Makambi
Sep 8, 1998 – Sep 30, 2000
3
4
Raymond Joval
Sep 30, 2000 – 2004s
4
5
Raymond Joval (2)
Jun 3, 2005 – 2006r
1
6
Daniel Geale
Dec 14, 2007 – May 27, 2009
1
7
Anthony Mundine
May 27, 2009 – 2009r
0
8
Peter Manfredo Jr.
May 22, 2010 – 2011s
0
9
Avtandil Khurtsidze
Mar 13, 2011 – 2011s
1
10
Gennady Golovkin
Dec 9, 2011 – Sep 15, 2018s
17
11
Gennady Golovkin (2)
Oct 5, 2019 – present
1
Super welterweight [ ]
[8]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
Lonnie Beasley
Apr 10, 1993 – 1994r
0
2
Lester Ellis
Jul 17, 1995 – 1995s
0
3
Patrick Goossen
Jun 26, 1996 – 1996r
0
4
Manny Sobral
Dec 12, 1996 – 1997r
1
5
Adrian Stone
Apr 15, 2000 – 2001r
3
6
Richard Williams
Dec 1, 2002– Jun 21, 2003
3
7
Sergio Martínez
Jun 21, 2003 – 2004r
2
8
Mihály Kótai
Jun 4, 2005 – Mar 3, 2006
1
9
Steve Conway
Mar 3, 2006 – Jun 3, 2006
0
10
Attila Kovács
Jun 3, 2006 – 2008s
1
11
Zaurbek Baysangurov
Dec 4, 2010 – 2012s
1
12
Zaurbek Baysangurov (2)
Apr 12, 2014 – 2015s
0
13
Erislandy Lara
Jun 12, 2015 – Apr 7, 2018
4
14
Jarrett Hurd
Apr 7, 2018 - May 11, 2019
1
15
Julian Williams
May 11, 2019 – Jan 18, 2020
0
16
Jeison Rosario
Jan 18, 2020 – Apr 1, 2020r
0
17
Erislandy Lara (2)
Aug 29, 2020 – Sep 1, 2021r
1
Welterweight [ ]
[9]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
Kenny Gould
Jan 8, 1993 – 1993r
0
2
Johnny Bizzarro
Aug 18, 1993 – Aug 4, 1994
1
3
Roger Mayweather
Aug 4, 1994 – 1995r
1
4
Kip Diggs
Jun 30, 1995 – 1995r
0
5
Kevin Lueshing
Jul 17, 1996 – Jan 11, 1997s
0
6
José Antonio Rivera
Apr 25, 1997 – 1998r
0
7
Dingaan Thobela
Mar 6, 1999 – 1999r
0
8
Peter Malinga
Oct 22, 1999 – 2000r
0
9
Willy Wise
Dec 2, 2000 – Jun 11, 2001
0
10
Jawaid Khaliq
Jun 11, 2001 – Feb 2006s [3]
7
11
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Apr 8, 2006 – 2007r
1
12
Isaac Hlatshwayo
May 12, 2007 – 2008r
2
13
Lovemore Ndou
Jul 11, 2009 – 2010s
2
14
Chris van Heerden
Sep 24, 2011 – 2014s
2
15
Ali Funeka
Nov 15, 2014 – Jul 24, 2015
0
16
Tsiko Mulovhedzi
Jul 24, 2015 – 2017s
1
17
Thulani Mbenge
Jun 25, 2018 – Jul 6, 2019
1
18
Sebastian Formella
Jul 6, 2019 – Aug 22, 2020s
1
Super lightweight [ ]
[10]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
Mike Evgen
Apr 9, 1992 – 1992r
0
2
Mike Johnson
Feb 19, 1993 – 1994r
1
3
Roger Mayweather
May 28, 1994 – 1994r
0
4
Lester Ellis
Dec 3, 1994 – 1995r
0
5
Mario Martínez
Jul 29, 1995 – 1995r
0
6
Darrell Hiles
Sep 23, 1995 – 1995r
0
7
Verdell Smith
Jan 18, 1996 – 1996r
0
8
Johar Abu Lashin
Feb 28, 1997 – 1997r
0
9
Israel Cardona
Apr 25, 1997 – 1997r
0
10
Ener Julio
Sep 12, 1998 – 1998r
1
11
Newton Villarreal
Feb 5, 2000 – Apr 7, 2001
2
12
Billy Schwer
Apr 7, 2001 – Jul 14, 2001
0
13
Pablo Daniel Sarmiento
Jul 14, 2001 – May 8, 2004
3
14
Colin Lynes
May 8, 2004 – 2005r
1
15
Stevie Johnston
Jan 27, 2006 – 2006r
0
16
Ricky Hatton
Jan 20, 2007 – May 2, 2009
3
17
Manny Pacquiao
May 2, 2009 – 2010s
0
18
Kaizer Mabuza
Mar 3, 2012 – Jun 20, 2012
0
19
Khabib Allakhverdiev
Jun 20, 2012 – Apr 12, 2014
2
20
Eduard Troyanovsky
Apr 10, 2015 – Dec 3, 2016
3
21
Julius Indongo
Dec 3, 2016 – Aug 7, 2017s
1
22
Mohamed Mimoune
Jan 20, 2018 – Apr 27, 2019s
1
23
Jeremias Nicolas Ponce
Sep 14, 2019 – present
0
Lightweight [ ]
[11]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
Anthony Boyle
Dec 28, 1993 – 1994r
0
2
Amado Cabato
Dec 11, 1994 – Mar 10, 1995
0
3
Lester Ellis
Mar 10, 1995 – 1995r
0
4
Billy Irwin
Jun 8, 1995 – 1995r
0
5
Leavander Johnson
Jul 29, 1995 – 1996r
0
6
Tony Pep
Mar 7, 1996 – 1997r
1
7
Michael Ayers
Mar 12, 1999 – Dec 26, 2001r
6
8
Jason Cook
Nov 8, 2003 – Nov 5, 2004
1
9
Aldo Nazareno Ríos
Nov 5, 2004 – 2005r
0
10
Isaac Hlatshwayo
Aug 31, 2005 – 2006r
2
11
Juan Díaz
Sep 6, 2008 – Feb 28, 2009s
0
12
Mlungisi Dlamini
Oct 31, 2009 – Jan 29, 2010 (died in a vehicular accident)
0
13
Leonardo Zappavigna
Mar 6, 2010 – 2010s
0
14
Emiliano Marsili
Jan 20, 2012 – 2012s
0
15
Daud Yordan
Jul 6, 2013 – 2014s
1
16
Xolisani Ndongeni
Nov 28, 2015 – 2016s
0
17
Emmanuel Tagoe
Dec 2, 2016 – Jun 13, 2018s
1
18
Jovanni Straffon
May 1, 2021 – Sep 4, 2021
0
19
Maxi Hughes
Sep 4, 2021 – present
0
Super featherweight [ ]
[12]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
John Roby
Apr 3, 1993 – Apr 21, 1994
0
2
Jeff Mayweather
Apr 21, 1994 – Aug 25, 1995
2
3
Israel Cardona
Aug 25, 1995 – 1995r
0
4
Jimmi Bredahl
Mar 29, 1996 – 1996r
0
5
Israel Cardona (2)
Apr 12, 1996 – 1996r
0
6
Troy Dorsey
Oct 18, 1996 – 1997r
0
7
Charles Shepherd
Jul 31, 1999 – Feb 26, 2000
0
8
Affif Djelti
Feb 26, 2000 – 2002r
3
9
Cassius Baloyi
Apr 17, 2002 – Jul 29, 2006
5
10
Gairy St Clair
Jul 29, 2006 – Nov 4, 2006s
0
11
Cassius Baloyi (2)
Feb 3, 2007 – 2007r
0
12
Billy Dib
Jul 30, 2008 – 2008s
0
13
Zolani Marali
Apr 2, 2009 – Sep 12, 2009
0
14
Kim Ji-hoon
Sep 12, 2009 – 2010r
0
15
Will Tomlinson
Nov 30, 2011 – 2014s
3
16
José Pedraza
Mar 22, 2014 – 2014s
0
17
Jack Asis
Apr 11, 2015 – Aug 5, 2016
0
18
Malcolm Klassen
Aug 5, 2016 – Aug 5, 2017s
0
19
Shavkat Rakhimov
Sep 9, 2017 – Oct 1, 2019r
3
20
Michael Magnesi
Nov 27, 2020 – present
1
Featherweight [ ]
[13]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
Derrick Gainer
Nov 30, 1993 – 1994r
0
2
Radford Beasley
Sep 26, 1997 – 1998r
0
3
Junior Jones
Apr 10, 1999 – 1999r
0
4
Marco Antonio Barrera
Apr 7, 2001 – 2002r
0
5
Naseem Hamed
May 18, 2002 – 2002r
0
6
Michael Brodie
Jun 21, 2003 – 2003r
0
7
Vuyani Bungu
Feb 7, 2004 – Jun 25, 2005
0
8
Thomas Mashaba
Jun 25, 2005 – Mar 7, 2008
4
9
Cristóbal Cruz
Mar 7, 2008 – 2008r
0
10
Fernando Beltrán Jr.
Aug 22, 2008 – 2009r
0
11
Jackson Asiku
Nov 6, 2009 – Sep 15, 2010
0
12
Jhonny González
Sep 15, 2010 – 2011s
0
13
Daud Yordan
May 5, 2012 – Apr 14, 2013
1
14
Simpiwe Vetyeka
Apr 14, 2013 – 2014s
1
15
Lusanda Komanisi
Jul 18, 2014 – 2016s
2
16
Claudio Marrero
Apr 29, 2017 – Sep 15, 2017s
0
17
Tugstsogt Nyambayar
Jan 26, 2019 – Feb 8, 2020s
0
Super bantamweight [ ]
[14]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
John Lowey
Apr 20, 1995 – 1995r
0
2
Serhiy Divakov
May 21, 1996 – 1997r
0
3
Patrick Mullings
Mar 28, 1998 – Aug 8, 1998
0
4
Simon Ramoni
Aug 8, 1998 – 2001r
3
5
Paulie Ayala
Aug 4, 2001 – 2002r
1
6
Zolani Marali
Jul 11, 2003 – May 22, 2004
0
7
Thomas Mashaba
May 22, 2004 – 2005r
0
8
Takalani Ndlovu
Nov 4, 2005 – Jul 14, 2007s
3
9
Mike Oliver
Nov 8, 2007 – 2008r
0
10
Tshifhiwa Munyai
Mar 26, 2011 – 2012r
0
11
Sep 18, 2012 – Apr 20, 2013r
0
12
Thabo Sonjica
Jul 6, 2013 – Aug 8, 2014s
1
13
Paulus Ambunda
Aug 1, 2015 – Jun 11, 2016
1
14
Moises Flores
Jun 11, 2016 – Jun 17, 2017s
0
15
Paulus Ambunda
Sep 21, 2018 – May 11, 2019
0
16
Stephen Fulton
May 11, 2019 – Jan 25, 2020r
0
Bantamweight [ ]
[15]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
Johnny Bredahl
Feb 16, 1996 – Jun 5, 1998r
7
2
Noel Wilders
Mar 20, 2000 – 2001r
1
3
José Sanjuanelo
Jul 14, 2001 – Mar 2, 2002
1
4
Silence Mabuza
Mar 2, 2002 – Nov 5, 2005
6
5
Rafael Márquez
Nov 5, 2005 – 2006r
1
6
Silence Mabuza (2)
May 12, 2007 – 2009r
2
7
Simpiwe Vetyeka
Jul 11, 2009 – 2010r
0
8
Vic Darchinyan
May 20, 2010 – Dec 11, 2010s
0
9
Vic Darchinyan (2)
Apr 23, 2011 – Dec 3, 2011s
1
10
Joseph Agbeko
Mar 22, 2013 – 2013s
0
11
Juan Carlos Payano
Aug 2, 2015 – Jun 18, 2016
0
12
Rau'shee Warren
Jun 18, 2016 – Feb 10, 2017s
0
13
Michael Dasmariñas
Apr 20, 2018 – 2019s
0
14
Michell Banquez
Jul 12, 2019 – present
0
Super flyweight [ ]
[16]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
Ángel Almena
Jul 29, 1995 – 1995r
0
2
Ilido Julio
Sep 19, 1998 – Jan 8, 1999
0
3
Edison Torres
Jan 8, 1999 – Apr 3, 1999
0
4
Mauricio Pastrana
Apr 3, 1999 – 1999r
0
5
Lunga Ntontela
Dec 13, 2002 – 2003r
0
6
Jason Booth
Sep 20, 2003 – Dec 17, 2004
1
7
Damaen Kelly
Dec 17, 2004 – February 2006s [3]
0
8
Mbwana Matumla
Nov 4, 2006 – 2007r
0
9
Vic Darchinyan
Oct 20, 2007 – 2008r
0
10
Zolile Mbityi
May 31, 2008 – 2009r
0
11
Gideon Buthelezi
Nov 10, 2012 – Jun 15, 2013
0
12
Edrin Dapudong
Jun 15, 2013 – Jul 18, 2014
0
13
Lwandile Sityatha
Jul 18, 2014 – 2015r
2
14
Gideon Buthelezi (2)
Dec 18, 2015 – Nov 1, 2021s
3
Flyweight [ ]
[17]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
Scotty Olson
Dec 9, 1994 – 1998r
5
2
Zolile Mbityi
Oct 22, 1999 – Sep 30, 2000
1
3
Damaen Kelly
Sep 30, 2000 – Nov 21, 2001s
1
4
Masibulele Makepula
Jan 26, 2002 – Sep 14, 2002
0
5
Mzukisi Sikali
Sep 14, 2002 – Mar 27, 2005
2
6
Vic Darchinyan
Mar 27, 2005 – Jul 7, 2007
5
7
Nonito Donaire
Jul 7, 2007 – 2009r
3
8
César Seda
Sep 18, 2009 – 2010s
0
9
Moruti Mthalane
Mar 15, 2014 – 2017s
3
10
Maximino Flores
Aug 25, 2019 – present
0
Light flyweight [ ]
[18]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
José Sanjuanelo
Nov 7, 1998 – Aug 26, 2000
0
2
José García Bernal
Aug 26, 2000 – Apr 17, 2002
1
3
Monelisi Mhikiza Myekeni
Apr 17, 2002 – 2004s
1
4
Hekkie Budler
Feb 27, 2010 – Jan 27, 2011
1
5
Gideon Buthelezi
Jan 27, 2012 – Sep 24, 2011s
0
6
Rey Loreto
Feb 1, 2014 – 2016s
1
7
Hekkie Budler (2)
Feb 4, 2017 – Sep 16, 2017s
0
8
Tibo Monabesa
Jul 7, 2019 – Mar 1, 2019r
0
Minimumweight [ ]
[19]
No.
Name
Duration of reign
Defences
1
Noel Tuñacao
Mar 8, 2003 – Dec 16, 2003r
0
2
Nkosinathi Joyi
Nov 4, 2006 – Jun 2009s
3
3
Gideon Buthelezi
Jun 19, 2010 – Jan 27, 2011r
0
4
Hekkie Budler
Sep 24, 2011 – Mar 19, 2016s
8
5
Simphiwe Khonco
Jun 11, 2016 – Oct 1, 2019r
4
6
Nkosinathi Joyi (2)
Dec 16, 2019 – May 20, 2021s
0
7
Ayanda Ndulani
May 21, 2021 – present
1
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