Current Champions

WBA, WBC and IBF Titleholders (through Oct. 12, 1998)

The champions of professional boxing's 17 principal weight divisions, as recognized by the Word Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC) and International Boxing Federation (IBF).

	Weight Limit	WBA Champion	WBC Champion	IBF Champion
Heavyweight	---	Evander Holyfield	Lennox Lewis	Evander Holyfield
		36-3-0, 25 KOs	34-1-0, 27 KOs	36-3-0, 25 KOs

Cruiserweight	190 lbs	Fabrice Tiozzo	Juan Carlos Gomez	Imamu Mayfield
		39-1-0, 25 KOs	24-0-0, 20 KOs	18-1-0, 14 KOs

Light Heavyweight	175 lbs	Roy Jones Jr.	Roy Jones Jr.*	Reggie Johnson
		37-1-0, 31 KOs	37-1-0, 31 KOs	38-5-1, 24 KOs

Super Middleweight	168 lbs	Frank Liles	Richie Woodhall	Charles Brewer
		32-1-0, 19 KOs	24-1-0, 15 KOs	32-5-0, 21 KOs

Middleweight	160 lbs	William Joppy	Hassine Cherifi	Bernard Hopkins*
		26-1-1, 20 KOs	25-2-1, 17 KOs	34-2-1, 26 KOs

Jr. Middleweight	154 lbs	Laurent Boudouani	Keith Mullings	Yory Boy Campas
		37-2-1, 31 KOs	16-4-1, 11 KOs	72-2-0, 62 KOs

Welterweight	147 lbs	Vacant	Oscar De La Hoya	Felix Trinidad
			29-0-0, 24 KOs	33-0-0, 29 KOs

Jr. Welterweight	140 lbs	Sharmba Mitchell	Vacant	Vince Phillips
		43-2-0, 29 KOs		39-3-1, 28 KOs

Lightweight	135 lbs	Jean-Baptiste Mendy	Cesar Bazan	Shane Mosley
		51-7-2, 31 KOs	33-2-1, 23 KOs	29-0-0, 27 KOs

Jr. Lightweight	130 lbs	Takanori Hatakeyama	Floyd Mayweather	Roberto Garcia
		22-0-1, 17 KOs	18-0-0, 14 KOs	30-0-0, 23 KOs

Featherweight	126 lbs	Antonio Cermeno	Luisito Espinoza	Manuel Medina
		30-2-0, 18 KOs	43-7-0, 22 KOs	55-10-1, 25 KOs

Jr. Featherweight	122 lbs	Enrique Sanchez*	Erik Morales	Vuyani Bungu
		24-0-1, 17 KOs	31-0-1, 25 KOs	35-2-0, 18 KOs

Bantamweight	118 lbs	Nana Yaw Konadu	Joichiro Tatsuyoshi	Tim Austin
		39-3-1, 31 KOs	17-4-1, 12 KOs	18-0-1, 17 KOs

Jr. Bantamweight	115 lbs	Satoshi Iida	Cho In-joo	Johnny Tapia
		25-1-1, 11 KOs	13-0-0, 7 KOs	44-0-2, 25 KOs

Flyweight	112 lbs	Hugo Soto*	Chatchai Sasakul	Mark Johnson
		50-5-2, 33 KOs	33-1-0, 24 KOs	36-1-0, 26 KOs

Jr. Flyweight	108 lbs	Phichitnoi C. Siriwat	Saman Sor Jaturong	Vacant
		19-1-0, 11 KOs	38-2-1, 31 KOs

Minimumweight	105 lbs	Rosendo Alvarez	Ricardo Lopez*	Zolani Petelo
		24-0-1, 16 KOs	46-0-1, 35 KOs	13-2-2, 7 KOs

Note: The following weight divisions are also known by these names—Cruiserweight as Jr. Heavyweight; Jr. Middleweight as Super Welterweight; Jr. Welterweight as Super Lightweight; Jr. Lightweight as Super Featherweight; Jr. Featherweight as Super Bantamweight; Jr. Bantamweight as Super Flyweight; Jr. Flyweight as Light Flyweight; and Minimum as Strawweight.

*Graciano Rocchigiani (40-4-1, 19 KOs) is currently the interim WBC light heavyweight champion. Robert Allen (23-2-0, 17 KOs) is currently the interim IBF Middleweight champion. Carlos Barreto (13-0-1, 9 KOs) is currently the interim WBA Flyweight champion. Wande Chareon (22-3-0, 6 KOs) is currently the interim WBC Minimumweight champion.

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