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World Boxing Association (WBA, WBA) founded in 1921. In accordance with the rules of the WBA (WBA), a boxer holding the title of champion according to the WBA (WBA) and one of the three other associations receives a special title:

"super champion" for fighters who have the right to defend their title in battles with challengers from other versions;

After this, the regular WBA title becomes vacant and is played among contenders.

The WBA also practices "spraying" its belts. In each weight category the WBA has:

"super champion"- who is obliged to defend his title every two years with challengers not necessarily from his own version, and who does not necessarily have to be a champion according to one of the other versions. "regular champion"- a regular champion who is required to defend the title against a WBA mandatory challenger "interim champion"- essentially the first number in the rating, but not having the rights of a mandatory contender, but also having the “title” of champion.

World Boxing Council (WBC) was created in Mexico City, Mexico on February 14, 1963 as an international boxing organization. VBS has introduced new safety requirements in boxing. For example, it set a limit of 12 rounds instead of the previous 15 and expanded the range of weight categories.

International Boxing Federation (IBF) founded in September 1976 as the United States Boxing Association (USBA). In April 1983, an international division was created in the organization (BASH-M, USBA-I). In May 1984, the New Jersey-based BASSH-M was renamed MBF.

World Boxing Organization (WBO) was founded in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1988. The organization's motto was “Dignity, Democracy, Integrity.” Some media outlets recognize UBO and include her in their lists of boxing champions, others do not.

This current world boxing champions among men according to the four major professional boxing associations and The Ring magazine. Each champion is presented with a record of the results of his fights in the format: wins-losses-draws-undecided (wins by knockout). If the number of drawn fights and fights with an uncertain outcome is zero, then it is allowed not to indicate them in the entry.

World Boxing Association (WBA, WBA) founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA, NBA) - the national association of the United States. On August 23, 1962, the NBA became the WBA and its headquarters moved to Venezuela. In accordance with the rules of the WBA (WBA), a boxer who holds the title of champion according to the WBA (WBA) and one of the three other associations receives a special title:

• “super champion” for boxers who have the right to defend their title in fights with challengers from other versions;

After this, the regular WBA title becomes vacant and is played among contenders.

• The WBA also practices "spraying" its belts. For each weight category, the WBA has:
  • “super champion” - who is obliged to defend his title once every two years with challengers not necessarily from his own version, and who does not have to be a champion according to one of the other versions.
  • “regular champion” - an ordinary champion who is obliged to defend the title against a mandatory challenger according to the WBA
  • “temporary champion” is essentially the first number in the rating, but does not have the rights of a mandatory challenger, but also has the “title” of champion.

World Boxing Council (WBC) was created in Mexico City, Mexico on February 14, 1963 as an international boxing organization. VBS introduced many modern safety requirements in boxing. For example, it set a limit of 12 rounds instead of the previous 15 and expanded the range of weight categories.

International Boxing Federation (IBF) founded in September 1976 as the United States Boxing Association (USBA). In April 1983, an international division was created in the organization (BASH-M, USBA-I). In May 1984, the New Jersey-based BASSH-M was renamed MBF.

World Boxing Organization (WBO) was founded in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1988. The organization's motto was “Dignity, Democracy, Integrity.” Some media outlets recognize UBO and include her in their lists of boxing champions, others do not.

Boxing magazine The Ring founded in 1922. In 2002, The Ring magazine created its own system for determining the world boxing champion, which “intended to reward fighters who, by satisfying rigid criteria, can justify a claim as the true and only world champion in a given weight class.” There are three ways to obtain a championship title according to Ring magazine: defeat the current champion, unify the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, or win a match between the first and second numbers in the Ring ranking (in some cases - between the first and third numbers). Also, in only three cases does a champion lose a title: by losing a title fight, by moving to another weight category, or by ending his career. (Ring abandoned the practice of depriving the champion title as sanctions for violating any conditions.)

• 1 Explanation of the table
• 2 Current champions
  • 2.1 Heavy weight (over 90.7 kg; +200 lbs)
  • 2.2 First heavyweight (up to 90.7 kg; 200 lb)
  • 2.3 Light Heavyweight (up to 79.4 kg; 175 lb)
  • 2.4 Second middleweight (up to 76.2 kg; 168 lb)
  • 2.5 Average weight (up to 72.6 kg; 160 lb)
  • 2.6 First medium (up to 69.9 kg; 154 lb)
  • 2.7 Welterweight (under 66.7 kg; 147 lb)
  • 2.8 Junior welterweight (up to 63.5 kg; 140 lb)
  • 2.9 Light weight (up to 61.2 kg; 135 lbs)
  • 2.10 Second featherweight (up to 59 kg; 130 lb)
  • 2.11 Featherweight (up to 57.2 kg; 126 lb)
  • 2.12 Second Bantamweight (under 55.3 kg; 122 lb)
  • 2.13 Bantamweight (up to 53.5 kg; 118 lb)
  • 2.14 Second flyweight (under 52.2 kg; 115 lb)
  • 2.15 Flyweight (up to 50.8 kg; 112 lb)
  • 2.16 Junior flyweight (under 49 kg; 108 lb)
  • 2.17 Minimum weight (up to 47.6 kg; 105 lb)
• 3 See also
• 4 Sources

Explanation of the table

Current champions

Heavy weight (over 90.7 kg; +200 lbs)

First heavyweight (up to 90.7 kg; 200 lb)

Light Heavyweight (up to 79.4 kg; 175 lb)

Second middleweight (up to 76.2 kg; 168 lb)

Medium weight (up to 72.6 kg; 160 lb)

First medium (up to 69.9 kg; 154 lb)

Welterweight (under 66.7 kg; 147 lb)

Junior welterweight (up to 63.5 kg; 140 lb)

Lightweight (up to 61.2 kg; 135 lbs)

Second featherweight (up to 59 kg; 130 lb)

Featherweight (up to 57.2 kg; 126 lb)

Second Bantamweight (under 55.3 kg; 122 lb)

Bantamweight (up to 53.5 kg; 118 lb)

Second flyweight (under 52.2 kg; 115 lb)

Flyweight (up to 50.8 kg; 112 lb)

Super flyweight (under 49 kg; 108 lb)

Minimum weight (up to 47.6 kg; 105 lb)

See also

• Professional boxing
• Weight categories in boxing

Sources

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For the first time in 12 years, boxing has an absolute world champion. Who is he

Undefeated American Terence Crawford beats Julius Indongo in less than 10 minutes and collects four belts from leading boxing organizations in the junior welterweight (up to 63.5 kg) weight.

What is an absolute champion?

In November 2001, Kostya Tszyu defeated Zab Judah and became the undisputed welterweight world champion, winning three of the most prestigious belts (WBA, WBC and IBF). In 2017, at a press conference before the fight with Julius Indongo, Terence Crawford recalled this, emphasizing that it was really important for him to surpass the Russian’s achievements and become the first man in this weight and only the third in history to collect four belts at once.

In Tszyu’s time, it was not necessary to win four titles to be considered an absolute world champion; three were enough. The WBA, IBF and WBC recognized the WBO as an equal organization after 2004. Since then, only Bernard Hopkins has managed to collect all the belts, in September 2004. In July 2005, Hopkins would lose to Jermain Taylor, the titles would go to him, but Taylor would come out for the next fight with only three belts, having lost the IBF strap for unsportsmanlike reasons.

Crawford became the third person in the 21st century to become the undisputed four-belt world champion. More recently, Vladimir Klitschko and Sergey Kovalev were close to this, each had three belts, but they never got the opportunity to collect four major titles in boxing. Now three belts are held by Andre Ward and Gennady Golovkin.

Who is Terence Crawford

Six days before the most important fight of his life, Terence Crawford filmed a video in which he parodied Conor McGregor's open training before his fight with Floyd Mayweather. A popular pastime for modern boxers.

At the end of last year, Terence Crawford was sentenced to 52 days in prison for the destruction of a car service center. Crawford decided he could take his car without paying the owner. And these were not the biggest problems in the boxer’s life. On September 4, 2008, Terence went to play craps in his neighborhood, finished the game, sat in the car, someone didn’t like it, and Crawford was shot in the head with a pistol. The bullet went tangentially, Terence himself came to the hospital. Two months later he won his fifth professional fight. In general, in 2008, Crawford planned to be at the Beijing Olympics, but was unable to qualify for the Games. Nine years later he will meet with the winner of that Olympics, Felix Diaz, and beat him in ten rounds.

His story is the story of a modest guy from the provinces. Crawford was born in Omaha and quickly became interested in boxing. Almost all the men in his family boxed. Unfortunately, no one taught Crawford to speak brightly, and even when his statistics were around 19-0, Crawford’s main income came from working as a sparring partner for Timothy Bradley (former WBO champion). 2013 will be a turning point. Crawford will begin to win fights, the significance of which can be explained in one line: he beat three previously undefeated opponents (Viktor Postol, Andrey Klimov and Yuriorkis Gamboa), won an away victory and a championship title (Ricky Burns was knocked out in Scotland), beat the Olympic champion Diaz and John Molina, who just defeated Ruslan Provodnikov.

On May 21, Terence Crawford beat Felix Diaz and turned out to be a boxer with statistics of 31 victories, 0 defeats, and he lacked two titles to become an absolute champion: WBC and IBF, which were held by Julius Indongo.

How did the fight for four championship belts turn out?

Crawford remained not very interesting to the public. On May 20, 2017, Floyd Mayweather was only interested in Conor McGregor, and a little earlier, 50 thousand paid broadcasts were sold for the fight between Crawford and Viktor Postol (for comparison, 500 thousand broadcasts sold is considered the average figure for a UFC tournament). The boxer’s Instagram has 150 thousand followers. Terence was desperate for a truly meaningful achievement.

On August 19, 2017, Russian Eduard Troyanovsky could have entered the ring at Pinnacle Bank Arena, but on December 3, 2016, Troyanovsky decided to defend his belts in a fight with Julius Indongo from Namibia. Before his first amateur fight, Indongo trained without gloves, but as soon as they appeared, people began to get upset. The Megasport Arena, for example, was completely upset when, already in the first minute, Indongo knocked out Troyanovsky, took the Russian’s belts and left in a certain direction.

Indongo did nothing like this in the fight with Crawford. If Julius resembled Leicester in the box, that August morning was the second season with the sacking of Cdaudio Ranieri. Crawford saw all the blows and knew what Julius would do even before the Namibian himself understood it.

When there was a minute and a half left before the end of the third round, Julius Indongo suddenly felt a pain in his stomach, his lungs stopped working, and instead of his opponent, the audience and the blue flooring of the ring began to spin before his eyes. He will watch the replay and understand that his liver was ambushed by Crawford’s fist, tightly packed in a dark blue glove.

So Terence Crawford ended up with four of the most important championship belts, and now it remains to understand who needs them most.

Text: Vadim Tikhomirov, Bogdan Domansky

One of the most valuable attributes of the inheritance did not remain ownerless for long. The controversial British boxer voluntarily renounced his WBA, WBO and IBO championship belts in October due to the inability to defend them in a rematch with Ukrainian Vladimir due to severe depression and drug problems. Even earlier, in September, Fury was caught using cocaine and would probably still have lost his regalia, but by “violent means.”

As a result, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) title declared vacant was decided to be put on the line for a fight between the official contenders - the first number in the linear rating, 24-year-old New Zealander Joseph and 27-year-old Mexican.

This fighter was only third on the list, but Klitschko, who is in second position, is now officially injured and recently abandoned the championship fight for the IBF belt with the Briton.

Interest in the confrontation between not yet the most popular boxers was fueled by their clean records. Before the head-to-head meeting, both Parker and Ruiz had never experienced defeat in the pros. The sides' chances seemed approximately equal. Yes, the New Zealander performed at home, but the Mexican brought with him powerful support in the person of the authoritative promoter Bob, who recently celebrated his 85th birthday, and coach Abel Sanchez. Last week, the specialist led to victories in Moscow and clearly intended to build on the success.

Parker, despite being born in Auckland, New Zealand, is of Samoan descent with a small admixture of English and German blood. Actually, he entered the ring under the Samoan flag, and surrounded by an elderly man in an aboriginal outfit (or rather, without an outfit above the waist). In the recent past, a native of this island state has already thundered in the heavyweight division - knockout artist David Tua, who represented Australia at competitions.

When announcing the championship fight, Arum stated that the winner will dominate the category for a long time. The powerful old man, of course, was lying. So far, both look damp and are unlikely to be able to beat Joshua, Fury or, for example, .

At the weigh-in, Parker showed the highest result of his career - 111.9 kg (with a height of 193 kg). For comparison, before the previous fight against the German-Ukrainian Alexander Dmitrenko in October, he pulled 109 kg, and in the summer - 106.4.

Under the 188-centimeter Ruiz, the scales showed 116 kg, which, in principle, is normal for him: sometimes the Mexican’s weight exceeded 120. This boxer is frankly overweight, but such is the constitution of his body.

In the debut, Ruiz acted clearly as the first number, moving forward. As subsequent events showed, this challenger relied on the beginning of the meeting, trying to stun the enemy with an unexpected blow. Parker, on the contrary, did not force it and worked extremely carefully. He had nowhere to rush. And he didn’t seem to really count on a knockout.

In the second round, the ring owner hit the body well for the first time. The Mexican looked at the head for a long time and predatorily, then took a decent hit to the chin from below. He is slow, a walker - but with reactive hands, very confident and knows what to do. Ruiz then took out Parker one more time. It didn’t exactly shake him, but he felt the blows.

In the third round, Ruiz finally figured out the New Zealander’s weak point and began to aim only there, sometimes distracting attention with routine work on the body. After each attack to the head, Parker staggered strangely.

Ruiz tested Parker's jaw one more time in the fourth round. He walked forward like a tank. You can’t move someone like a Mexican from his place, and you shouldn’t even think about dropping him.

In general, the middle of the battle was quite spectacular. In the fifth round, Parker finally felt that boxing at close range was out of his hands - both literally and figuratively. He went to the far side and immediately started landing with a jab. Ruiz, on the contrary, stopped harassing his opponent.

In the sixth round, Parker finally realized his superiority in anthropometric data. And when Ruiz broke through to him, he used “minor foul tactics,” that is, he clinch, to which American referee Tony Weeks completely turned a blind eye. By the way, he and Parker are neighbors in Las Vegas.

In the next three minutes, Ruiz knocked Parker on the ears.

In the eighth round, the Mexican increasingly occupied the center of the ring, while the New Zealander preferred to move around the perimeter. One day the boxers exchanged shots, struck six times each and stopped there.

Then the intensity dropped noticeably. The opponents were tired or took a wait-and-see attitude.

In the tenth the action completely calmed down, although it is in the championship rounds that it is customary to work as actively as possible. The side judges often formulate their picture of the fight based on the ending. Alas, the endgame as a whole was disappointing. Ruiz's hands had already become heavy, and his movements were very slow. During this period, the opponents waited more for the final gong than they thought about attacks. But the beginning of the “game” was so promising...

In this more or less equal battle, the victory was awarded to a local athlete. Filipino Salven Lagumbay recorded a draw, while Argentinean Ramon Cerdan and German Ingo Barrabas saw Parker's minimal advantage. He won for the 22nd time in a row, and Ruiz lost after a streak of 29 successful fights.

At the same time, the boxing community once again did not agree with the judge’s decision. According to the majority, a draw or even a victory for the Mexican would have reflected more objectively what was happening in the ring.

Hot pursuit experts have not yet found any arguments in favor of Parker. Well, if so, Ruiz can be called another victim of “home refereeing,” of which there were more than ever this fall.

The WBO heavyweight championship belt, up for grabs since 1989 and held at various times by such world boxing superstars as Michael Moorer, Riddick Bowie, Klitschko Jr. and Fury, went to a boxer whose most dangerous opponent in his career to date was Cameroonian Carlos Takam ...

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