List of light heavyweight boxing champions

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This is a chronological List of World Light Heavyweight Boxing Champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations:

The World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA),
The World Boxing Council (WBC), founded in 1963,
The International Boxing Federation (IBF), founded in 1983,
The World Boxing Organization (WBO), founded in 1988,

Reign Began	Reign Ended	Champion	Recognition
World
1903-04-22	1903-07-04	Jack Root	World
1903-07-04	1903-11-25	George Gardiner	World
1903-11-25	1905-12-20	Bob Fitzsimmons	World
1905-12-20	1905-12-20-Vacated	Philadelphia Jack O'Brien	World
1913-02-17	1913-02-17	Bob Moha	NYSAC
1914-04-14	1916-10-24	Jack Dillon	World
1916-10-24	1920-10-12	Battling Levinsky	World
1920-10-12	1922-09-24	Georges Carpentier	World
1922-09-24	1923-03-17	Battling Siki	World
1923-03-17	1923-06-25	Mike McTigue	World
1923-06-25	1923-08-02	Tommy Loughran	World
1923-08-02	1925-05-30	Mike McTigue	World
1925-05-30	1926-07-16	Paul Berlenbach	World
1926-07-16	1927-07-27-Vacated	Jack Delaney	World
1927-08-30	1927-12-12	Jimmy Slattery	NBA
1927-10-07	1929-07-18-Vacated	Tommy Loughran	NYSAC
1930-02-10	1930-06-25	Jimmy Slattery	World
1930-06-25	1930-10-22-Vacated	Maxie Rosenbloom	World
1930-06-25	1934-11-16	Maxie Rosenbloom	NYSAC
1932-03-18	1932-12-17-Stripped	George Nichols	World
Awarded the title	1933-03-01	Joe Knight	World
1933-03-01	1933-03-24	Bob Godwin	World
1933-03-24	1934-11-16	Maxie Rosenbloom	World
1934-11-16	1935-10-31	Bob Olin	World
1935-10-31	1938-10-28-Vacated	John Henry Lewis	World
1939-02-03	1939-07-13	Melio Bettina	NYSAC
1939-07-13	1940-06-05-Retired	Billy Conn	World - NBA/NYSAC
1941-01-13	1941-05-22	Anton Christoforidis	NBA
1941-05-22	1941-11-14	Gus Lesnevich	NBA
1946-05-14	1948-07-26	Gus Lesnevich	World
1948-07-26	1950-01-24	Freddie Mills	World
1950-01-24	1952-12-17	Joey Maxim	World
1952-12-17	1961-06-10-Vacated	Archie Moore	World - NBA/NYSAC
1961-02-07	1962-05-12	Harold Johnson	NBA
1962-05-12	1963-06-01	Harold Johnson	World
1963-06-01	1965-03-30	Willie Pastrano	WBA/WBC
1965-03-30	1966-12-16	Jose Torres	WBA/WBC
1966-12-16	1968-05-24	Dick Tiger	WBA/WBC
Title Split into WBA and WBC Belts
WBC
Title inaugurated
1968-05-24	1974-06-17-Vacated	Bob Foster	WBC
1974-10-01	1977-03-05-Vacated	John Conteh	WBC
1977-05-21	1978-01-07	Miguel Angel Cuello	WBC
1978-01-07	1978-12-02	Mate Parlov	WBC
1978-12-02	1979-04-22	Marvin Johnson	WBC
1979-04-22	1981-12-19	Matthew Saad Muhammad	WBC
1981-12-19	1983-03-18	Dwight Braxton	WBC
1983-03-18	1985-06-06-Vacated	Michael Spinks	WBC
1985-12-10	1986-04-30	JB Williamson	WBC
1986-04-30	1987-03-07	Dennis Andries	WBC
1987-03-07	1987-03-07-Vacated	Thomas Hearns	WBC
1987-11-27	1988-11-07	Donny Lalonde	WBC
1988-11-07	1988-11-07-Vacated	Sugar Ray Leonard	WBC
1989-02-21	1989-06-24	Dennis Andries	WBC
1989-06-24	1990-07-28	Jeff Harding	WBC
1990-07-28	1991-09-11	Dennis Andries	WBC
1991-09-11	1994-07-23	Jeff Harding	WBC
1994-07-23	1995-06-16	Mike McCallum	WBC
1995-06-16	Relinquished	Fabrice Tiozzo	WBC
1996-11-22	1997-03-21	Roy Jones Jr	WBC
1997-03-21	1997-08-07	Montell Griffin	WBC
1997-08-07	2004-05-15	Roy Jones Jr	WBC
2005-05-21	2007-02-03	Tomasz Adamek	WBC
2007-02-03	current	Chad Dawson	WBC
WBA
Title inaugurated
1968-05-24	1970-06-27-Stripped	Bob Foster	WBC
1971-02-27	1972-04-07	Vicente Rondon	WBC
1972-04-07	1974-06-17-Vacated	Bob Foster	WBC
1974-12-07	1978-09-15	Victor Galindez	WBA
1978-09-15	1979-04-14	Mike Rossman	WBA
1979-04-14	1979-11-30	Victor Galindez	WBA
1979-11-30	1980-03-31	Marvin Johnson	WBA
1980-03-31	1981-07-18	Eddie Mustafa Muhammad	WBA
1981-07-18	1985-06-06-Vacated	Michael Spinks	WBA
1986-02-09	1987-05-23	Marvin Johnson	WBA
1987-05-23	1987-09-05	Leslie Stewart	WBA
1987-09-05	1991-06-03	Virgil Hill	WBA
1991-06-03	1992-03-20	Thomas Hearns	WBA
1992-03-20	Relinquished	Iran Barkley	WBA
1992-09-29	1997-06-13	Virgil Hill	WBA
1997-06-13	Relinquished	Dariusz Michalczewski	WBA
1997-09-20	1998-07-18	Lou Del Valle	WBA
1998-07-18	2004-05-15	Roy Jones Jr	WBA
2001-12-22	2003-03-08	Bruno Girard	WBA
2003-03-08	2003-10-10	Mehdi Sahnoune	WBA
2003-10-10	2004-03-20	Silvio Branco	WBA
2004-03-20	2006-10-19-Retired	Fabrice Tiozzo	WBA
2006-10-19	2007-04-28	Silvio Branco	WBA
2007-04-28	2007-12-16	Stipe Drvis	WBA
2007-12-16	current	Danny Green	WBA
IBF
Title inaugurated
1984-02-25	1985-06-06-Vacated	Michael Spinks	IBF
1985-12-21	1986-09-06	Slobodan Kacar	IBF
1986-09-06	1987-10-29	Bobby Czyz	IBF
1987-10-29	1993-03-20	Charles Williams	IBF
1993-03-20	1996-11-23	Henry Maske	IBF
1996-11-23	1997-06-13	Virgil Hill	IBF
1997-06-13	Relinquished	Dariusz Michalczewski	IBF
1997-07-19	1998-02-06	William Guthrie	IBF
1998-02-06	1999-06-05	Reggie Johnson	IBF
1999-06-05	2002-09-07 - Relinquished	Roy Jones Jr	IBF
2003-04-26	Relinquished	Antonio Tarver	IBF
2004-02-06	2004-09-25 - Relinquished	Glen Johnson	IBF
2005-03-04	2008-04-12	Clinton Woods	IBF
2008-04-12	Current	Antonio Tarver	IBF
WBO
Title inaugurated
1988-12-03	1990-12-15-Vacated	Michael Moorer	WBO
1991-05-09	1994-09-10	Leeonzer Barber	WBO
1994-09-10	2003-10-18	Dariusz Michalczewski	WBO
2003-10-18	2004-01-17	Julio César González	WBO
2004-01-17	current	Zsolt Erdei	WBO

v • d • e World boxing champions

Champions by weight class	Heavyweight \| Cruiserweight \| Light heavyweight Super middleweight \| Middleweight \| Super welterweight \| Welterweight Super lightweight \| Lightweight \| Super featherweight \| Featherweight Super bantamweight \| Bantamweight \| Super flyweight \| Flyweight Light flyweight \| Strawweight

Champions by organization	WBA \| WBC \| IBF \| WBO \| IBO \| The Ring \| Undisputed

Terms	Interim championship \| Undisputed championship