List of The Ring world champions

Boxing magazine The Ring has awarded world championships in professional boxing within each weight class from its foundation in 1922. The first Ring world title belt was awarded to heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, and the second was awarded to flyweight champion Pancho Villa. The magazine stopped giving belts to world champions in the 1990s, but reintroduced their titles in 2001.

Boxers who won the title but was immediately stripped and the title bout being overturned to a no contest will not be listed.

	Current champion
	Most consecutive title defenses

Heavyweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Jack Dempsey (awarded inaugural title)	1922	2
2	Gene Tunney	23 September 1926 – 31 July 1928	3
Tunney retires.[1]
3	Max Schmeling (def. Jack Sharkey)	12 June 1930	1
4	Jack Sharkey	21 June 1932	0
5	Primo Carnera	29 June 1933	2
6	Max Baer	14 June 1934	0
7	James J. Braddock	13 June 1935	0
8	Joe Louis	22 June 1937 – 1 March 1949	26
Louis retires.[2]
9	Ezzard Charles (def. Joe Louis)	27 September 1950	4
10	Jersey Joe Walcott	18 July 1951	1
11	Rocky Marciano	23 September 1952 – 27 April 1956	6
Marciano retires.[3]
12	Floyd Patterson (def. Archie Moore)	30 November 1956	4
13	Ingemar Johansson	26 June 1959	0
14	Floyd Patterson (2)	29 June 1960	2
15	Sonny Liston	25 September 1962	1
16	Muhammad Ali	25 February 1964 – 13 March 1970	9
Ali is stripped of his title due to repeated retirement announcements.[4]
17	Joe Frazier (awarded title)	May 1970	4
18	George Foreman	22 January 1973	2
19	Muhammad Ali (2)	30 October 1974	10
20	Leon Spinks	15 February 1978	0
21	Muhammad Ali (3)	15 September 1978 – 4 July 1979	0
Ali retires.[5]
22	Larry Holmes (def. Muhammad Ali)	2 October 1980	12
23	Michael Spinks	21 September 1985	3
24	Mike Tyson	27 June 1988 – February 1990	2
New ownership discontinued under the championship policy during Tyson's reign.
25	Lennox Lewis (awarded title)	June 2002 – 6 February 2004	2
Lewis retired as champion and chose not to rematch Vitali Klitschko ahead of a WBC-mandated 1 March deadline to accept the bout.[6]
26	Vitali Klitschko (def. Corrie Sanders)	24 April 2004 – 9 November 2005	1
Klitschko announced his retirement after withdrawing from a bout against Hasim Rahman due to injuries.[7]
27	Wladimir Klitschko (def. Ruslan Chagaev)	20 June 2009	11
28	Tyson Fury	28 November 2015 – 1 February 2018	0
Fury is stripped of the title for failing to reveal an opponent by 31 January 2018, the deadline set by The Ring.[8]
29	Tyson Fury (2) (def. Deontay Wilder)	22 February 2020 – present	1

Cruiserweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Carlos de León (awarded inaugural title)	3 February 1984	2
2	Alfonzo Ratliff	6 June 1985	0
3	Bernard Benton	21 September 1985	0
4	Carlos de León (2)	22 March 1986 – 30 March 1987	2
Title is vacated because The Ring stopped recognizing the division.
5	Jean-Marc Mormeck (def. Wayne Braithwaite)	2 April 2005	0
6	O'Neil Bell	7 January 2006	0
7	Jean-Marc Mormeck (2)	17 March 2007	0
8	David Haye	10 November 2007 – 30 June 2008	1
Haye expressed that he'll move up to heavyweight. The title is vacated on 30 June ratings.[9]
9	Tomasz Adamek (def. Steve Cunningham)	11 December 2008 – 10 February 2010	2
Adamek vacated the title to stay at heavyweight.[10]
10	Yoan Pablo Hernández (def. Steve Cunningham)	4 February 2012 – 23 November 2015	3
Hernández is stripped of the title due to inactivity.[11]
11	Oleksandr Usyk (def. Murat Gassiev)	21 July 2018 – 16 October 2019	1
Usyk vacated the title to move up to heavyweight.[12]
12	Mairis Briedis (def. Yuniel Dorticos)	26 September 2020 – present	1

Light heavyweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Mike McTigue (awarded inaugural title)	1924	0
2	Paul Berlenbach	23 May 1925	3
3	Jack Delaney	16 July 1926 – June 1927	1
Delaney vacates the title to move up to heavyweight.
4	Tommy Loughran (def. Mike McTigue)	7 October 1927 – 18 July 1929	5
Loughran vacates the title to move up to heavyweight.
5	Maxie Rosenbloom (def. Jimmy Slattery)	25 June 1930	7
6	Bob Olin	16 November 1934	0
7	John Henry Lewis	31 October 1935 – June 1939	5
Lewis retires.
8	Billy Conn (def. Melio Bettina)	13 July 1939 – June 1941	3
Conn vacates the title to move up to heavyweight.
9	Gus Lesnevich (def. Tami Mauriello)	26 August 1941	4
10	Freddie Mills	26 July 1948	0
11	Joey Maxim	24 January 1950	2
12	Archie Moore	17 December 1952 – 12 May 1962	9
Moore vacates the title to move up to heavyweight.
13	Harold Johnson (def. Doug Jones)	12 May 1962	1
14	Willie Pastrano	1 June 1963	2
15	José Torres	30 March 1965	3
16	Dick Tiger	16 December 1966	2
17	Bob Foster	24 May 1968 – 16 September 1974	14
Foster retires.
18	Matthew Saad Muhammad (awarded title)	30 November 1979	7
19	Dwight Muhammad Qawi	19 December 1981	3
20	Michael Spinks	18 March 1983 – 21 September 1985	4
Spinks vacates the title to stay at heavyweight.
21	Roy Jones Jr. (awarded title)	2001	3
22	Antonio Tarver	15 May 2004	0
23	Glen Johnson	18 December 2004	0
24	Antonio Tarver (2)	18 June 2005	1
25	Bernard Hopkins	10 June 2006	1
26	Joe Calzaghe	19 April 2008 – 5 February 2009	1
Calzaghe retires.[13]
27	Jean Pascal (def. Chad Dawson)	14 August 2010	1
28	Bernard Hopkins (2)	21 May 2011	0
29	Chad Dawson	28 April 2012	0
30	Adonis Stevenson	8 June 2013 – 23 November 2015	6
Stevenson is stripped of the title for failing to fight a top 5 contender within 2 years of his last fight against another top 5 contender.[11]
31	Andre Ward (def. Sergey Kovalev)	17 June 2017 – 21 September 2017	0
Ward retires.[14]

Super middleweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Joe Calzaghe (def. Jeff Lacy)	4 March 2006 – 28 September 2008	3
Calzaghe vacates the title to stay at light heavyweight.[15]
2	Andre Ward (def. Carl Froch)	17 December 2011 – 19 February 2015	1
Ward is stripped of the title for failing to schedule a fight with a top 5 contender from any weight class for two years per The Ring policy.[16]
3	Callum Smith (def. George Groves)	28 September 2018	2
4	Canelo Álvarez	19 December 2020 – present	3

Middleweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Harry Greb (awarded inaugural title)	1924	3
2	Tiger Flowers	26 February 1926	1
3	Mickey Walker	3 December 1926 – 19 June 1931	3
Walker vacated to move up to heavyweight.[17]
4	Marcel Thil (def. Gorilla Jones)	11 June 1932 – 23 September 1937	10
Thil retires.
5	Freddie Steele (awarded title)	23 September 1937 – 1938	1
Steele stripped of the title.
6	Tony Zale (def. Georgie Abrams)	28 November 1941	1
7	Rocky Graziano	16 July 1947	0
8	Tony Zale (2)	10 June 1948	0
9	Marcel Cerdan	21 September 1948	0
10	Jake LaMotta	17 June 1949	2
11	Sugar Ray Robinson	14 February 1951	0
12	Randy Turpin	10 July 1951	0
13	Sugar Ray Robinson (2)	12 September 1951 – 18 December 1952	2
Robinson vacated and announced first retirement.[18]
14	Carl Olson (def. Randy Turpin)	21 October 1953	3
15	Sugar Ray Robinson (3)	9 December 1955	1
16	Gene Fullmer	2 January 1957	0
17	Sugar Ray Robinson (4)	1 May 1957	0
18	Carmen Basilio	23 September 1957	0
19	Sugar Ray Robinson (5)	25 March 1958	0
20	Paul Pender	22 January 1960	3
21	Terry Downes	11 July 1961	0
22	Paul Pender (2)	7 April 1962 – 7 May 1963	0
Pender retires.[19]
23	Dick Tiger (awarded title)	7 May 1963	1
24	Joey Giardello	7 December 1963	1
25	Dick Tiger (2)	21 October 1965	0
26	Emile Griffith	25 April 1966	2
27	Nino Benvenuti	17 April 1967	0
28	Emile Griffith (2)	29 September 1967	0
29	Nino Benvenuti (2)	4 March 1968	4
30	Carlos Monzón	7 November 1970 – 29 August 1977	14
Monzón retires.[20]
31	Rodrigo Valdez (def. Bennie Briscoe)	5 November 1977	0
32	Hugo Corro	22 April 1978	2
33	Vito Antuofermo	30 June 1979	1
34	Alan Minter	16 March 1980	1
35	Marvin Hagler	27 September 1980	12
36	Sugar Ray Leonard	6 April 1987 – 27 May 1987	0
Leonard retires.[21]
37	Sumbu Kalambay (awarded title)	6 July 1988 – 1989	2
New ownership discontinued under the championship policy during Kalambay's reign.
38	Bernard Hopkins (def. Félix Trinidad)	29 September 2001	6
39	Jermain Taylor	16 July 2005	4
40	Kelly Pavlik	29 September 2007	3
41	Sergio Martínez	17 April 2010	6
42	Miguel Cotto	7 June 2014	1
43	Canelo Álvarez	21 November 2015 – 12 June 2018	2
Álvarez is stripped of the title after testing positive of Clenbuterol.[22]
44	Canelo Álvarez (2) (def. Gennady Golovkin)	15 September 2018 – 2 January 2021	1
The title is vacated one day after[23] Álvarez vacates his last alphabet title to stay at super middleweight.[24]

Junior middleweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Oscar Albarado (def. Koichi Wajima)	4 June 1974	1
2	Koichi Wajima	21 January 1975	0
3	Yuh Jae-Doo	7 June 1975	1
4	Koichi Wajima (2)	17 February 1976	0
5	José Durán	18 May 1976	0
6	Miguel Angel Castellini	8 October 1976	0
7	Eddie Gazo	5 March 1977	3
8	Masashi Kudo	9 August 1978	3
9	Ayub Kalule	24 October 1979	4
10	Sugar Ray Leonard	25 June 1981 – 1982	0
Leonard vacates the title to move back down to welterweight.
11	Thomas Hearns (def. Wilfred Benítez)	3 December 1982 – 24 October 1986	4
Hearns vacates his alphabet title to officially move up in weight class.[25]
12	Oscar De La Hoya (def. Fernando Vargas)	14 September 2002	1
13	Shane Mosley	13 September 2003	0
14	Winky Wright	13 March 2004 – 2 November 2005	1
Wright stays at middleweight. The title is vacated on 2 November ratings.[26]
15	Canelo Álvarez (def. Austin Trout)	20 April 2013	0
16	Floyd Mayweather Jr.	14 September 2013 – 10 August 2015	0
Mayweather Jr. is stripped of the title due to inactivity in the weight class.[27]
17	Jermell Charlo (def. Jeison Rosario)	26 September 2020 – present	1

Welterweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Mickey Walker (awarded inaugural title)	1924	2
2	Pete Latzo	20 May 1926	2
3	Joe Dundee	3 June 1927	0
4	Jackie Fields	25 July 1929	0
5	Jack Thompson	9 May 1930	0
6	Tommy Freeman	5 September 1930	0
7	Jack Thompson (2)	14 April 1931	0
8	Lou Brouillard	23 October 1931	0
9	Jackie Fields (2)	28 January 1932	0
10	Young Corbett III	22 February 1933	0
11	Jimmy McLarnin	29 May 1933	0
12	Barney Ross	28 May 1934	0
13	Jimmy McLarnin (2)	17 September 1934	0
14	Barney Ross (2)	28 May 1935	2
15	Henry Armstrong	31 May 1938	19
16	Fritzie Zivic	4 October 1940	1
17	Freddie Cochrane	29 July 1941	0
18	Marty Servo	1 February 1946 – 25 September 1946	0
Servo retires.[28]
19	Sugar Ray Robinson (def. Tommy Bell)	20 December 1946 – 15 February 1951	5
Robinson's title is automatically vacated after winning the middleweight title.[29]
20	Kid Gavilán (def. Billy Graham)	29 August 1951	7
21	Johnny Saxton	20 October 1954	0
22	Tony DeMarco	1 April 1955	0
23	Carmen Basilio	10 June 1955	1
24	Johnny Saxton (2)	14 March 1956	0
25	Carmen Basilio (2)	12 September 1956 – 23 September 1957	1
Basilio vacated after winning the middleweight title.[30]
26	Virgil Akins (def. Vince Martinez)	6 June 1958	0
27	Don Jordan	5 December 1958	2
28	Benny Paret	27 May 1960	1
29	Emile Griffith	1 April 1961	1
30	Benny Paret (2)	30 September 1961	0
31	Emile Griffith (2)	24 March 1962	2
32	Luis Manuel Rodríguez	21 March 1963	0
33	Emile Griffith (3)	8 June 1963 – 1966	5
Griffith vacates the title to stay at middleweight.
34	Curtis Cokes (def. Jean Josselin)	28 November 1966	4
35	José Nápoles	18 April 1969	3
36	Billy Backus	3 December 1970	0
37	José Nápoles (2)	4 June 1971	10
38	John Stracey	6 December 1975	1
39	Carlos Palomino	22 June 1976	7
40	Wilfred Benítez	14 January 1979	1
41	Sugar Ray Leonard	30 November 1979	1
42	Roberto Durán	20 June 1980	0
43	Sugar Ray Leonard (2)	25 November 1980 – 9 November 1982	2
Leonard retires for the first time due to an eye injury.[31]
44	Donald Curry (def. Milton McCrory)	6 December 1985	1
45	Lloyd Honeyghan	27 September 1986	3
46	Jorge Vaca	27 October 1987	0
47	Lloyd Honeyghan (2)	29 March 1988	1
48	Marlon Starling	4 February 1989 – 1989	1
New ownership discontinued under the championship policy during Starling's reign.
49	Vernon Forrest (def. Shane Mosley)	26 January 2002	1
50	Ricardo Mayorga	25 January 2003	1
51	Cory Spinks	13 December 2003	2
52	Zab Judah	5 February 2005	1
53	Carlos Baldomir	7 January 2006	1
54	Floyd Mayweather Jr.	4 November 2006 – 6 June 2008	1
Mayweather Jr. retires for the first time.[32]
55	Floyd Mayweather Jr. (2) (def. Robert Guerrero)	4 May 2013 – 12 September 2015	4
Mayweather Jr. retires.[33]

Junior welterweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Mushy Callahan (awarded inaugural title)	1928	1
2	Jack Berg	18 February 1930 - 1931	6
The Ring ended the list in 1931 and then resumed in 1962.
3	Duilio Loi (def. Eddie Perkins)	15 December 1962 – January 1963	0
Loi retires.
4	Eddie Perkins (def. Roberto Cruz)	15 June 1963	2
5	Carlos Hernández	18 January 1965	2
6	Sandro Lopopolo	29 April 1966	1
7	Takeshi Fuji	30 April 1967	1
8	Nicolino Locche	12 December 1968	5
9	Alfonso Frazer	10 March 1972	0
10	Antonio Cervantes	28 October 1972	10
11	Wilfred Benítez	6 March 1976 – 1979	3
Benítez vacates the title to move up to welterweight.
12	Antonio Cervantes (2) (def. Miguel Montilla)	18 January 1979	2
13	Aaron Pryor	2 August 1980 – 26 October 1983	8
Pryor retires.
14	Kostya Tszyu (def. Zab Judah)	3 November 2001	3
15	Ricky Hatton	4 June 2005	5
16	Manny Pacquiao	2 May 2009 – 26 July 2010	0
Pacquiao vacates the title to stay at welterweight.[34]
17	Danny García (def. Amir Khan)	14 July 2012 – 10 August 2015	4
Garcia vacates the title to stay at welterweight.[35]
18	Terence Crawford (def. Viktor Postol)	23 July 2016 – 18 February 2018	3
Crawford wants to move up to welterweight. The title is vacated on the 18 February 2018 updated rankings.[36]
19	Josh Taylor (def. Regis Prograis)	26 October 2019 – present	2

Lightweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Benny Leonard (awarded inaugural title)	1924 – 15 January 1925	0
Leonard retires.
2	Jimmy Goodrich (def. Stanislaus Loayza)	13 July 1925	0
3	Rocky Kansas	7 December 1925	0
4	Sammy Mandell	3 July 1926	2
5	Al Singer	17 July 1930	0
6	Tony Canzoneri	14 November 1930	4
7	Barney Ross	23 June 1933 – 1933	1
Ross vacates the title to move up to junior welterweight.
8	Tony Canzoneri (2) (def. Lou Ambers)	10 May 1935	1
9	Lou Ambers	3 September 1936	2
10	Henry Armstrong	17 August 1938	1
11	Lou Ambers (2)	22 August 1939	0
12	Lew Jenkins	10 May 1940	1
13	Sammy Angott	19 December 1941 – 13 November 1942	1
Angott retires.
14	Ike Williams (def. Bob Montgomery)	4 August 1947	5
15	Jimmy Carter	25 May 1951	2
16	Lauro Salas	14 May 1952	0
17	Jimmy Carter (2)	15 October 1952	3
18	Paddy DeMarco	5 March 1954	0
19	Jimmy Carter (3)	17 November 1954	0
20	Wallace Smith	29 June 1955	1
21	Joe Brown	24 August 1956	11
22	Carlos Ortiz	21 April 1962	4
23	Ismael Laguna	10 April 1965	0
24	Carlos Ortiz (2)	13 November 1965	5
25	Carlos Cruz	29 June 1968	1
26	Mando Ramos	18 February 1969	1
27	Ismael Laguna (2)	3 March 1970	1
28	Ken Buchanan	26 September 1970	2
29	Roberto Durán	26 June 1972 – 1979	12
Durán vacates the title to move up to welterweight.
30	Jim Watt (awarded title)	12 April 1981	0
31	Alexis Argüello	20 June 1981 – February 1983	4
Argüello vacates the title to move up to junior welterweight.
32	Julio César Chávez (def. José Luis Ramírez)	29 October 1988 – 2 March 1989	0
Chávez vacates the title to move up to junior welterweight.
33	Pernell Whitaker (def. José Luis Ramírez)	20 August 1989 – 1989	0
New ownership discontinued under the championship policy during Whitaker's reign.
34	Floyd Mayweather Jr. (def. José Luis Castillo)	20 April 2002 – 22 May 2004	3
Mayweather Jr. vacates the title to move up to junior welterweight.
35	José Luis Castillo (def. Juan Lazcano)	5 June 2004	2
36	Diego Corrales	7 May 2005	0
37	Joel Casamayor	7 October 2006	2
38	Juan Manuel Márquez	13 September 2008 – 23 April 2012	3
Márquez vacates the title to stay at junior welterweight.[37]
39	Terence Crawford (def. Ray Beltrán)	29 November 2014 – 22 April 2015	0
Crawford vacates the title to stay at junior welterweight.[38]
40	Jorge Linares (def. Anthony Crolla)	24 September 2016	3
41	Vasyl Lomachenko	13 May 2018	3
42	Teófimo López	17 October 2020	0
43	George Kambosos Jr.	27 November 2021 – present	0

Junior lightweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Steve Sullivan (def. Johnny Dundee)	20 June 1924	2
2	Mike Ballerino	1 April 1925	1
3	Tod Morgan	2 December 1925	10
4	Benny Bass	20 December 1929	0
5	Kid Chocolate	15 July 1931 - 1931	1
The Ring ended the list in 1931 and then resumed in 1962.
6	Flash Elorde (awarded title)	1962	6
7	Yoshiaki Numata	15 June 1967	0
8	Hiroshi Kobayashi	14 December 1967	6
9	Alfredo Marcano	29 July 1971	1
10	Ben Villaflor	25 April 1972	1
11	Kuniaki Shibata	13 March 1973	1
12	Ben Villaflor (2)	17 October 1973	5
13	Samuel Serrano	16 October 1976	10
14	Yasutsune Uehara	2 August 1980	1
15	Samuel Serrano (2)	9 April 1981	3
16	Roger Mayweather	19 January 1983	2
17	Rocky Lockridge	26 February 1984	2
18	Wilfredo Gómez	19 May 1985	0
19	Alfredo Layne	24 May 1986	0
20	Brian Mitchell	27 September 1986 – 30 March 1987	1
The Ring ended the list in 1986 and then resumed in 1989.
21	Manny Pacquiao (def. Juan Manuel Márquez)	15 March 2008 – 28 July 2008	0
Pacquiao vacates the title to stay at lightweight.

Featherweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Louis Kid Kaplan (def. Danny Kramer)	2 January 1925 – 6 July 1926	3
Kaplan vacates the title.
2	Tony Canzoneri (def. Johnny Dundee)	24 October 1927	1
3	André Routis	28 September 1928	1
4	Christopher Battalino	23 September 1929 – 1 March 1932	5
Battalino vacates the title.
5	Kid Chocolate (def. Lew Feldman)	13 October 1932 – 19 February 1934	2
Chocolate vacates the title.
6	Freddie Miller (awarded title)	1934	8
7	Petey Sarron	11 May 1936	2
8	Henry Armstrong	29 October 1937 – 12 September 1938	0
Armstrong vacated the title to stay at the higher weight divisions.[39]
9	Joey Archibald (def. Leo Rodak)	18 April 1939	1
10	Harry Jeffra	20 May 1940	1
11	Joey Archibald (2)	12 May 1941	0
12	Chalky Wright	11 September 1941	2
13	Willie Pep	20 November 1942	6
14	Sandy Saddler	29 October 1948	0
15	Willie Pep (2)	11 February 1949	3
16	Sandy Saddler (2)	8 September 1950 – 21 January 1957	3
Saddler retires.
17	Hogan Bassey (def. Cherif Hamia)	24 June 1957	1
18	Davey Moore	18 March 1959	5
19	Sugar Ramos	21 March 1963	3
20	Vicente Saldivar	26 September 1964 – 14 October 1967	8
Saldívar announced his retirement after his 7th defense.[40]
21	Johnny Famechon (def. José Legrá)	21 January 1969	2
22	Vicente Saldivar (2)	9 May 1970	0
23	Kuniaki Shibata	11 December 1970	2
24	Clemente Sánchez	19 May 1972 – 16 December 1972	0
Sánchez is stripped of the title for failing to make weight.[41]
25	Alexis Argüello (def. Rigoberto Riasco)	31 May 1975 – 20 June 1977	2
Argüello vacates the title to move up to junior lightweight.
26	Danny Lopez (def. Roberto Castañón)	10 March 1979	2
27	Salvador Sánchez	2 February 1980 – 12 August 1982	9
Sánchez died thus making the title vacant.[42]
28	Eusebio Pedroza (awarded title)	22 September 1982	5
29	Barry McGuigan	8 June 1985	2
30	Steve Cruz	23 June 1986	0
31	Antonio Esparragoza	6 March 1987 – 1990	6
New ownership discontinued under the championship policy during Esparragoza's reign.
32	Marco Antonio Barrera (def. Érik Morales)	22 June 2002	2
33	Manny Pacquiao	15 November 2003 – 22 June 2005	2
Pacquiao vacates the title to stay at junior lightweight.
34	Mikey Garcia (def. Orlando Salido)	19 January 2013 – 24 November 2013	0
Garcia vacates the title to move up to junior lightweight.[43]

Junior featherweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Wilfredo Gómez (def. Nestor Jimenez)	9 March 1979 – May 1983	10
Gómez vacates the title to move up to featherweight.
2	Paulie Ayala (def. Bones Adams)	23 February 2002 – May 2004	0
Ayala vacates the title to move up to featherweight.
3	Israel Vázquez (def. Óscar Larios)	3 December 2005	2
4	Rafael Márquez	3 March 2007	0
5	Israel Vázquez (2)	4 August 2007 – 31 May 2009	1
Vázquez moves up to featherweight. The title is vacated on 31 May ratings.[44]
6	Nonito Donaire (def. Toshiaki Nishioka)	13 October 2012	1
7	Guillermo Rigondeaux	13 April 2013 – 9 February 2016	4
Rigondeaux is stripped of the title for failing to fight a top 5 contender in any division within 18 months per The Ring policy.[45]

Bantamweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Eddie Martin (def. Abe Goldstein)	19 December 1924	0
2	Charlie Phil Rosenberg	20 March 1925 – 4 February 1927	1
Rosenberg was stripped of the title for being overweight against Bushy Graham.
3	Panama Al Brown (def. Pete Sanstol)	25 August 1931	7
4	Baltasar Sangchili	1 June 1935	0
5	Tony Marino	29 June 1936	0
6	Sixto Escobar	31 August 1936	2
7	Harry Jeffra	23 September 1937	0
8	Sixto Escobar (2)	20 February 1938 – 4 October 1939	0
Escobar vacates the title for failing to make weight.
9	Lou Salica (def. Tommy Forte)	13 January 1941	5
10	Manuel Ortiz	7 August 1942	15
11	Harold Dade	6 January 1947	0
12	Manuel Ortiz (2)	11 March 1947	4
13	Vic Toweel	31 May 1950	3
14	Jimmy Carruthers	15 November 1952 – 16 May 1954	3
Carruthers retires.
15	Robert Cohen (def. Chamrern Songkitrat)	19 September 1954	1
16	Mario D'Agata	29 June 1956	0
17	Alphonse Halimi	1 April 1957	1
18	José Becerra	8 July 1959 – 30 August 1960	2
Becerra retires.
19	Éder Jofre (def. Piero Rollo)	25 March 1961	7
20	Fighting Harada	17 May 1965	4
21	Lionel Rose	26 February 1968	3
22	Rubén Olivares	22 August 1969	2
23	Chucho Castillo	16 October 1970	0
24	Rubén Olivares (2)	2 April 1971	2
25	Rafael Herrera	19 March 1972	0
26	Enrique Pinder	30 July 1972	0
27	Romeo Anaya	20 January 1973	2
28	Arnold Taylor	3 November 1973	0
29	Hong Soo-Hwan	3 July 1974	1
30	Alfonso Zamora	14 March 1975	5
31	Jorge Luján	19 November 1977	5
32	Julian Solís	29 August 1980	0
33	Jeff Chandler	14 November 1980	9
34	Richie Sandoval	7 April 1984	2
35	Gaby Canizales	10 March 1986	0
36	Bernardo Piñango	4 June 1986 – 29 March 1987	3
Piñango vacates the title to move up to junior featherweight.
37	Shinsuke Yamanaka (def. Anselmo Moreno)	16 September 2016	1
38	Luis Nery	15 August 2017 – 26 September 2017	0
Nery tested positive for the banned substance of zilpaterol and is stripped of The Ring title however, he was not stripped of his WBC title, the fight was also not overturned into an NC. Yamanaka is reinstated.[46]
39	Shinsuke Yamanaka (2) (reinstated)	26 September 2017 – 1 March 2018	0
Nery won against Yamanaka on their rematch, however he came in overweight for the fight, disqualifying him from winning the title. The title is declared vacant.[47]
40	Naoya Inoue (def. Emmanuel Rodríguez)	18 May 2019 – present	4

Junior bantamweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (def. Juan Francisco Estrada)	24 February 2018	1
2	Juan Francisco Estrada	26 April 2019 – present	3

Flyweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Pancho Villa (def. Jimmy Wilde)	18 June 1923 – 14 July 1925	3
Title vacated because Villa died from Ludwig's angina resulting from an infection that spread to his throat.
2	Fidel LaBarba (def. Elky Clark)	21 January 1927 – 23 August 1927	2
LaBarba retired to attend Stanford College.
3	Benny Lynch (def. Small Montana)	19 January 1937 – 29 June 1938	1
Lynch was stripped when he failed to make weight for a title defense against Jackie Jurich.
4	Peter Kane (def. Jackie Jurich)	22 September 1938 – 1939	0
Kane was stripped of the title.
5	Jackie Paterson (def. Peter Kane)	19 June 1943	1
6	Rinty Monaghan	23 March 1948 – 25 April 1950	3
Monaghan retires.
7	Terry Allen (def. Honore Pratesi)	25 April 1950	0
8	Dado Marino	1 August 1950	1
9	Yoshio Shirai	19 May 1952	4
10	Pascual Perez	26 November 1954	9
11	Pone Kingpetch	16 April 1960	3
12	Fighting Harada	10 October 1962	0
13	Pone Kingpetch (2)	12 January 1963	0
14	Hiroyuki Ebihara	18 September 1963	0
15	Pone Kingpetch (3)	23 January 1964	0
16	Salvatore Burruni	23 April 1965	1
17	Walter McGowan	14 June 1966	0
18	Chartchai Chionoi	30 December 1966	4
19	Efren Torres	23 February 1969	1
20	Chartchai Chionoi (2)	20 March 1970	0
21	Erbito Salavarria	7 December 1970	3
22	Venice Borkhorsor	9 February 1973 – 10 July 1973	0
Borkhorsor vacated the title to move up to bantamweight.
23	Miguel Canto (def. Shoji Oguma)	8 January 1975	14
24	Park Chan-Hee	18 March 1979	5
25	Shoji Oguma	18 May 1980	3
26	Antonio Avelar	12 May 1981	1
27	Prudencio Cardona	20 March 1982	0
28	Freddy Castillo	24 July 1982	0
29	Eleoncio Mercedes	6 November 1982	0
30	Charlie Magri	15 March 1983	0
31	Frank Cedeno	27 September 1983	0
32	Kōji Kobayashi	18 January 1984	0
33	Gabriel Bernal	9 April 1984	1
34	Sot Chitalada	8 October 1984	6
35	Kim Yong-Kang	24 July 1988 – 1989	1
New ownership discontinued under the championship policy during Kim's reign.
36	Pongsaklek Wonjongkam (def. Kōki Kameda)	27 March 2010	4
37	Sonny Boy Jaro	2 March 2012	0
38	Toshiyuki Igarashi	16 July 2012	1
39	Akira Yaegashi	8 April 2013	3
40	Román González	5 September 2014 – 1 October 2016	4
González vacated his title after moving up in weight and winning the WBC junior bantamweight world championship against Carlos Cuadras.[48]

Junior flyweight[]

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Rosendo Álvarez (def. Beibis Mendoza)	31 March 2003 – 2 October 2004	1
Álvarez was stripped of his title after coming in overweight before his rematch against Beibis Mendoza.
2	Hugo Cázares (def. Nelson Dieppa)	30 September 2006	1
3	Iván Calderón	25 August 2007	6
4	Giovani Segura	28 August 2010 – 12 September 2011	1
Segura vacates the title to move up to flyweight.[49]
5	Donnie Nietes (def. Moisés Fuentes)	10 May 2014 – 3 August 2016	5
Nietes vacates the title to move up to flyweight.[50]
6	Ryoichi Taguchi (def. Milan Melindo)	31 December 2017	1
7	Hekkie Budler	20 May 2018	0
8	Hiroto Kyoguchi	31 December 2018 – present	3

Strawweight[]

The Ring has not yet awarded a championship in the strawweight division.

See also[]

• The Ring
• Lineal championship
• List of current world boxing champions
• List of current female world boxing champions
• List of undisputed world boxing champions
• List of WBA world champions
• List of WBC world champions
• List of IBF world champions
• List of WBO world champions
• List of IBO world champions
• The Ring Pound for Pound list

References[]

External links[]

• Official list of current Ring champions
• https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine%27s_Annual_Ratings