List of IBO world champions


This is a list of IBO world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the International Boxing Organization since 1993.
No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 Pinklon ThomasNov 14, 1992 – Jan 29, 1993s0
2 Lionel ButlerFeb 23, 1993 – Mar 1993r0
3 Danell NicholsonAug 4, 1994 – Oct 1994r0
4 Jimmy ThunderOct 29, 1994 – Jul 16, 1995r2
5 Brian NielsenJan 12, 1996 – Jun 18, 1999s5
6 Lennox LewisNov 13, 1999 – Apr 22, 20013
7 Hasim RahmanApr 22, 2001 – Nov 17, 20010
8 Lennox Lewis Nov 17, 2001 – Feb 6, 2004r2
9 Wladimir KlitschkoApr 22, 2006 – Nov 28, 201518
10 Tyson FuryNov 28, 2015 – Oct 12, 2016r0
11 Anthony JoshuaApr 29, 2017 – Jun 1, 20193
12 Andy Ruiz Jr.Jun 1, 2019 – Dec 7, 20190
13 Anthony Joshua Dec 7, 2019 – present0

Cruiserweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 David Izeqwire1993-12-28 – 1994-11-051
2 Adolpho Washington1994-11-05 – 1995-03-17s0
3 Ted Cofie1995-11-03 – 1997r0
4 Booker T. Word1997-04-18 – 1997r0
5 James Toney1997-06-14 – 1998r0
6 Robert Daniels1998-05-05 – 1999r0
7 Thomas Hearns1999-04-10 – 2000-04-080
8 Uriah Grant2000-04-08 – 2001-02-030
9 Carl Thompson2001-02-03 – 2001-11-260
10 Ezra Sellers2001-11-26 – 2002-04-06s0
11 Sebastiaan Rothmann2002-10-26 – 2004-02-061
12 Carl Thompson 2004-02-06 – February 2006s1
13 Tomasz Adamek2007-06-09 – 2008r0
14 Johnathon Banks2008-07-12 – 2009-02-27s0
15 Danny Green2009-08-15 – 2011-07-204
16 Antonio Tarver2011-07-20 – July 2012s1
17 Danny Green 2012-11-21 – 2013r0
18 Ola Afolabi2013-11-02 – 2015r0
19 Rakhim Chakhkiev2015-05-22 – 2015-11-040
20 Ola Afolabi 2015-11-04 – 2016-02-270
21 Marco Huck2016-02-27 – 2017-04-01s1
22 Kevin Lerena2017-09-09 – present5

Light heavyweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 Lenny LaPaglia1993-08-20 – 1993r0
2 Drake Thadzi1997-05-14 – 1998-12-12r1
3 Roy Jones Jr.2000-09-09 – 2004-05-155
4 Antonio Tarver2004-05-15 – 2004-12-180
5 Glen Johnson2004-12-18 – 2005-06-180
6 Antonio Tarver 2005-06-18 – 2006-06-101
7 Bernard Hopkins2006-06-10 – 2007r0
8 Antonio Tarver 2007-06-09 – 2008-10-112
9 Chad Dawson2008-10-11 – 2010-08-142
10 Jean Pascal2010-08-14 – 2011-05-211
11 Andrzej Fonfara2012-11-16 – 2013s0
12 Blake Caparello2013-10-17 – 2014s0
13 Thomas Oosthuizen2015-03-14 – 2015-06-05s0
14 Umar Salamov2016-05-21 – 2017-05-17r0
15 Igor Mikhalkin2017-05-19 – 2018-03-14r1
16 Karo Murat2018-03-24 – 2018-12-150
17 Sven Fornling2018-12-15 – 2019-11-160
18 Dominic Boesel2019-11-16 – present0

Super middleweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 Willie Ball1992-07-17 – 1992-10-090
2 Todd Nadon1992-10-09 – 1993r0
3 Vinny Pazienza1993-12-28 – 1994r0
4 Rick Thornberry1995-04-21 – 1996s0
5 Karl Willis1996-10-13 – 1996s0
6 Eddie White1996-11-27 – 1997s0
7 Mads Larsen1997-05-02 – 1999r4
8 Dana Rosenblatt1999-11-05 – 2000r0
9 Adrian Dodson2001-03-03 – 2001-04-070
10 Ramon Arturo Brítez2001-04-07 – 2001-12-100
11 Brian Magee2001-12-10 – 2004-06-267
12 Robin Reid2004-06-26 – 2005-08-060
13 Jeff Lacy2005-08-06 – 2006-03-04s1
14 Fulgencio Zúñiga2007-09-01 – 2008r0
15 Sakio Bika2008-11-13 – 2010s0
16 Isaac Chilemba2010-06-19 – 2011s1
17 Thomas Oosthuizen2011-03-26 – 2014s7
18 Donovan George2014-08-23 – 2014s0
19 Zac Dunn2015-06-27 – 2016s0
20 Renold Quinlan2016-10-14 – 2017-02-040
21 Chris Eubank Jr.2017-02-04 – 2018-02-17s2
22 Chris Eubank Jr.2019-02-23 - 2019-12-17r0

Middleweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 Glenwood Brown1995-08-25 – 1997r0
2 Freeman Barr1997-09-20 – 1998r1
3 Mpush Makambi1998-09-08 – 2000-09-303
4 Raymond Joval2000-09-30 – 2004s4
5 Raymond Joval 2005-06-03 – 2006r1
6 Daniel Geale2007-12-14 – 2009-05-271
7 Anthony Mundine2009-05-27 – 2009r0
8 Peter Manfredo Jr.2010-05-22 – 2011s0
9 Avtandil Khurtsidze2011-03-13 – 2011s1
10 Gennady Golovkin2011-12-09 – 2018-09-1517
11 Gennady Golovkin 2019-10-05 – present0

Super welterweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 Lonnie Beasley1993-04-10 – 1994r0
2 Lester Ellis1995-07-17 – 1995s0
3 Patrick Goossen1996-06-26 – 1996r0
4 Manny Sobral1996-12-12 – 1997r1
5 Adrian Stone2000-04-15 – 2001r3
6 Richard Williams2001-12-01 – 2003-06-213
7 Sergio Martínez2003-06-21 – 2004r2
8 Mihály Kótai2005-06-04 – 2006-03-031
9 Steve Conway2006-03-03 – 2006-06-030
10 Attila Kovács2006-06-03 – 2008s1
11 Zaurbek Baysangurov2010-12-04 – 2012s1
12 Zaurbek Baysangurov 2014-04-12 – 2015s0
13 Erislandy Lara2015-06-12 – 2018-04-074
14 Jarrett Hurd2018-04-07 - 2019-05-111
15 Julian Williams2019-05-11 – 2020-01-180
16 Jeison Rosario2020-01-18 – 2020-04-01r0

Welterweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 Kenny Gould1993-01-08 – 1993r0
2 Johnny Bizzarro1993-08-18 – 1994-08-041
3 Roger Mayweather1994-08-04 – 1995r1
4 Kip Diggs1995-06-30 – 1995r0
5 Kevin Lueshing1996-07-17 – 1997-01-11s0
6 José Antonio Rivera1997-04-25 – 1998r0
7 Dingaan Thobela1999-03-06 – 1999r0
8 Peter Malinga1999-10-22 – 2000r0
9 Willy Wise2000-12-02 – 2001-06-110
10 Jawaid Khaliq2001-06-11 – February 2006s7
11 Floyd Mayweather Jr.2006-04-08 – 2007r1
12 Isaac Hlatshwayo2007-05-12 – 2008r2
13 Lovemore Ndou2009-07-11 – 2010s2
14 Chris van Heerden2011-09-24 – 2014s2
15 Ali Funeka2014-11-15 – 2015-07-240
16 Tsiko Mulovhedzi2015-07-24 – 2017s1
17 Thulani Mbenge2018-06-25 – 2019-07-061
18 Sebastian Formella2019-07-06 – present1

Super lightweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 Mike Evgen1992-04-09 – 1992r0
2 Mike Johnson1993-02-19 – 1994r1
3 Roger Mayweather1994-05-28 – 1994r0
4 Lester Ellis1994-12-03 – 1995r0
5 Mario Martínez1995-07-29 – 1995r0
6 Darrell Hiles1995-09-23 – 1995r0
7 Verdell Smith1996-01-18 – 1996r0
8 Johar Abu Lashin1997-02-28 – 1997r0
9 Israel Cardona1997-04-25 – 1997r0
10 Ener Julio1998-09-12 – 1998r1
11 Newton Villarreal2000-02-05 – 2001-04-072
12 Billy Schwer2001-04-07 – 2001-07-140
13 Pablo Daniel Sarmiento2001-07-14 – 2004-05-083
14 Colin Lynes2004-05-08 – 2005r1
15 Stevie Johnston2006-01-27 – 2006r0
16 Ricky Hatton2007-01-20 – 2009-05-023
17 Manny Pacquiao2009-05-02 – 2010s0
18 Kaizer Mabuza2012-03-03 – 2012-06-200
19 Khabib Allakhverdiev2012-06-20 – 2014-04-122
20 Eduard Troyanovsky2015-04-10 – 2016-12-033
21 Julius Indongo2016-12-03 – 2017-08-07s1
22 Mohamed Mimoune2018-01-20 – 2019-04-27s1
23 Jeremias Nicolas Ponce2019-09-14 – present0

Lightweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 Anthony Boyle1993-12-28 – 1994r0
2 Amado Cabato1994-12-11 – 1995-03-100
3 Lester Ellis1995-03-10 – 1995r0
4 Billy Irwin1995-06-08 – 1995r0
5 Leavander Johnson1995-07-29 – 1996r0
6 Tony Pep1996-03-07 – 1997r1
7 Michael Ayers1999-03-12 – 2001-12-26r6
8 Jason Cook2003-11-08 – 2004-11-051
9 Aldo Nazareno Ríos2004-11-05 – 2005r0
10 Isaac Hlatshwayo2005-08-31 – 2006r2
11 Juan Díaz2008-09-06 – 2009-02-28s0
12 Mlungisi Dlamini2009-10-31 – 2010-01-29 0
13 Leonardo Zappavigna2010-03-06 – 2010s0
14 Emiliano Marsili2012-01-20 – 2012s0
15 Daud Yordan2013-07-06 – 2014s1
16 Xolisani Ndongeni2015-11-28 – 2016s0
17 Emmanuel Tagoe2016-12-02 – 2018-06-13s1

Super featherweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 John Roby1993-04-03 – 1994-04-210
2 Jeff Mayweather1994-04-21 – 1995-08-252
3 Israel Cardona1995-08-25 – 1995r0
4 Jimmi Bredahl1996-03-29 – 1996r0
5 Israel Cardona 1996-04-12 – 1996r0
6 Troy Dorsey1996-10-18 – 1997r0
7 Charles Shepherd1999-07-31 – 2000-02-260
8 Affif Djelti2000-02-26 – 2002r3
9 Cassius Baloyi2002-04-17 – 2006-07-295
10 Gairy St Clair2006-07-29 – 2006-11-04s0
11 Cassius Baloyi 2007-02-03 – 2007r0
12 Billy Dib2008-07-30 – 2008s0
13 Zolani Marali2009-04-02 – 2009-09-120
14 Kim Ji-hoon2009-09-12 – 2010r0
15 Will Tomlinson2011-11-30 – 2014s3
16 José Pedraza2014-03-22 – 2014s0
17 Jack Asis2015-04-11 – 2016-08-050
18 Malcolm Klassen2016-08-05 – 2017-08-05s0
19 Shavkat Rakhimov2017-09-09 – 2019-10-01r3

Featherweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 Derrick Gainer1993-11-30 – 1994r0
2 Radford Beasley1997-09-26 – 1998r0
3 Junior Jones1999-04-10 – 1999r0
4 Marco Antonio Barrera2001-04-07 – 2002r0
5 Naseem Hamed2002-05-18 – 2002r0
6 Michael Brodie2003-06-21 – 2003r0
7 Vuyani Bungu2004-02-07 – 2005-06-250
8 Thomas Mashaba2005-06-25 – 2008-03-074
9 Cristóbal Cruz2008-03-07 – 2008r0
10 Fernando Beltrán, Jr.2008-08-22 – 2009r0
11 Jackson Asiku2009-11-06 – 2010-09-150
12 Jhonny González2010-09-15 – 2011s0
13 Daud Yordan2012-05-05 – 2013-04-141
14 Simpiwe Vetyeka2013-04-14 – 2014s1
15 Lusanda Komanisi2014-07-18 – 2016s2
16 Claudio Marrero2017-04-29 – 2017-09-15s0
17 Tugstsogt Nyambayar2019-01-26 – 2020-02-08s0

Super bantamweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 John Lowey1995-04-20 – 1995r0
2 Serhiy Divakov1996-05-21 – 1997r0
3 Patrick Mullings1998-03-28 – 1998-08-080
4 Simon Ramoni1998-08-08 – 2001r3
5 Paulie Ayala2001-08-04 – 2002r1
6 Zolani Marali2003-07-11 – 2004-05-220
7 Thomas Mashaba2004-05-22 – 2005r0
8 Takalani Ndlovu2005-11-04 – 2007-07-14s3
9 Mike Oliver2007-11-08 – 2008r0
10 Tshifhiwa Munyai2011-03-26 – 2012r0
11 Alexander Bakhtin2012-09-18 – 2013-04-20r0
12 Thabo Sonjica2013-07-06 – 2014-08-08s1
13 Paulus Ambunda2015-08-01 – 2016-06-111
14 Moises Flores2016-06-11 – 2017-06-17s0
15 Paulus Ambunda2018-09-21 – 2019-05-110
16 Stephen Fulton2019-05-11 – 2020-01-25r0

Bantamweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 Johnny Bredahl1996-02-16 – 1998-06-05r7
2 Noel Wilders2000-03-20 – 2001r1
3 José Sanjuanelo2001-07-14 – 2002-03-021
4 Silence Mabuza2002-03-02 – 2005-11-056
5 Rafael Márquez2005-11-05 – 2006r1
6 Silence Mabuza 2007-05-12 – 2009r2
7 Simpiwe Vetyeka2009-07-11 – 2010r0
8 Vic Darchinyan2010-05-20 – 2010-12-11s0
9 Vic Darchinyan 2011-04-23 – 2011-12-03s1
10 Joseph Agbeko2013-03-22 – 2013s0
11 Juan Carlos Payano2015-08-02 – 2016-06-180
12 Rau'shee Warren2016-06-18 – 2017-02-10s0
13 Michael Dasmarinas2018-04-20 – 2019s0
14 Michell Banquez2019-07-12 – present0

Super flyweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 Ángel Almena1995-07-29 – 1995r0
2 Ilido Julio1998-09-19 – 1999-01-080
3 Edison Torres1999-01-08 – 1999-04-030
4 Mauricio Pastrana1999-04-03 – 1999r0
5 Lunga Ntontela2002-12-13 – 2003r0
6 Jason Booth2003-09-20 – 2004-12-171
7 Damaen Kelly2004-12-17 – February 2006s0
8 Mbwana Matumla2006-11-04 – 2007r0
9 Vic Darchinyan2007-10-20 – 2008r0
10 Zolile Mbityi2008-05-31 – 2009r0
11 Gideon Buthelezi2012-11-10 – 2013-06-150
12 Edrin Dapudong2013-06-15 – 2014-07-180
13 Lwandile Sityatha2014-07-18 – 2015r2
14 Gideon Buthelezi 2015-12-18 – present3

Flyweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 Scotty Olson1994-12-09 – 1998r5
2 Zolile Mbityi1999-10-22 – 2000-09-301
3 Damaen Kelly2000-09-30 – 2001-11-21s1
4 Masibulele Makepula2002-01-26 – 2002-09-140
5 Mzukisi Sikali2002-09-14 – 2005-03-272
6 Vic Darchinyan2005-03-27 – 2007-07-075
7 Nonito Donaire2007-07-07 – 2009r3
8 César Seda2009-09-18 – 2010s0
9 Moruti Mthalane2014-03-15 – 2017s3
10 Maximino Flores2019-08-25 – present0

Light flyweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 José Sanjuanelo1998-11-07 – 2000-08-260
2 José García Bernal2000-08-26 – 2002-04-171
3 Monelisi Mhikiza Myekeni2002-04-17 – 2004s1
4 Hekkie Budler2010-02-27 – 2011-01-271
5 Gideon Buthelezi2011-01-27 – 2011-09-24s0
6 Rey Loreto2014-02-01 – 2016s1
7 Hekkie Budler 2017-02-04 – 2017-09-16s0
8 Tibo Monabesa2019-07-07 – 2019-03-01r0

Minimumweight

No.NameDuration of reignDefences
1 Noel Tuñacao2003-03-08 – 2003-12-16r0
2 Nkosinathi Joyi2006-11-04 – June 2009s3
3 Gideon Buthelezi2010-06-19 – 2011-01-27r0
4 Hekkie Budler2011-09-24 – 2016-03-19s8
5 Simphiwe Khonco2016-06-11 – 2019-10-01r4
6 Nkosinathi Joyi 2019-12-16 – present0