How boxing has evolved

[Stoppage]

WORLD CHAMPIONS ON NOVEMBER 19, 1959

Total champions: 10

Heavyweight: Ingemar Johansson (World)

Light heavyweight: Archie Moore (World)

Middleweight: Sugar Ray Robinson (World)

Welterweight: Don Jordan (World)

Light welterweight: Carlos Ortiz (World)

Lightweight: Joe Brown (World)

Super featherweight: Harold Gomes (World)

Featherweight: Davey Moore (World)

Bantamweight: Jose Becerra (World)

Flyweight: Pascual P�rez (World)

WORLD CHAMPIONS ON NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Total champions: 85

Heavyweight: David Haye (WBA), Vitali Klitschko (WBC), Wladimir Klitschko (WBO, IBF, The Ring)

Cruiserweight: Guillermo Jones (WBA), Giacobbe Fragomeni (WBC), Marco Huck (WBO), Ola Afolabi (interim WBO), Tomasz Adamek (The Ring)

Light heavyweight: Gabriel Campillo (WBA), Jean Pascal (WBC), Chad Dawson (interim WBC), Tavoris Cloud (IBF), Juergen Braehmer (WBO)

Super middleweight: Mikkel Kessler (WBA), Carl Froch (WBC), Lucian Bute (IBF), Robert Stieglitz (WBO)

Middleweight: Felix Sturm (WBA), Kelly Pavlik (WBC, WBO, The Ring), Sebastian Zbik (interim WBC), Sebastian Sylvester (IBF)

Light middleweight: Yuri Foreman (WBA), Nobuhiro Ishida (interim WBA), Sergio Gabriel Mart�nez (WBC), Cory Spinks (IBF), Sergiy Dzinziruk (WBO), Alfredo Angulo (interim WBO)

Welterweight: Shane Mosley (Super WBA), Vyacheslav Senchenko (WBA), Andre Berto (WBC), Isaac Hlatshwayo (IBF), Manny Pacquiao (WBO)

Light welterweight: Amir Khan (WBA), Marcos Maidana (interim WBA), Devon Alexander (WBC), Juan Urango (IBF), Timothy Bradley (WBO), Lamont Peterson (interim WBO), Manny Pacquiao (The Ring)

Lightweight: Juan Manuel Marquez (Super WBA, WBO, The Ring), Paulus Moses (WBA), Miguel Acosta (interim WBA), Edwin Valero (WBC), Antonio DeMarco (interim WBC), Michael Katsidis (interim WBO)

Super featherweight: Juan Carlos Salgado (WBA), Humberto Soto (WBC), Humberto Mauro Guti�rrez (interim WBC), Robert Guerrero (IBF), Rom�n Mart�nez (WBO)

Featherweight: Chris John (Super WBA), Yuriorkis Gamboa (WBA), Elio Rojas (WBC), Crist�bal Cruz (IBF), Steven Luevano (WBO)

Super bantamweight: Celestino Caballero (Super WBA, IBF), Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym (WBA), Toshiaki Nishioka (WBC), Juan Manuel L�pez (WBO)

Bantamweight: Anselmo Moreno (WBA), Nehomar Cerme�o (interim WBA), Hozumi Hasegawa (WBC), Yonnhy P�rez (IBF), Fernando Montiel (WBO)

Super flyweight: Vic Darchinyan (Super WBA, WBC), Nobuo Nashiro (WBA), Nonito Donaire (interim WBA), Tom�s Rojas (interim WBC), Simphiwe Nongqayi (IBF), Marvin Sonsona (WBO)

Flyweight: Denkaosan Kaovichit (WBA), Luis Concepci�n (interim WBA), Daisuke Naito (WBC), Pongsaklek Wonjongkam (interim WBC), Omar Andr�s Narv�ez (WBO)

Light flyweight: Giovanni Segura (WBA), Juan Carlos Reveco (interim WBA), �dgar Sosa (WBC), Brian Viloria (IBF), Iv�n Calder�n (WBO, The Ring)

Minimumweight: Rom�n Gonz�lez (WBA), Oleydong Sithsamerchai (WBC), Juan Palacios (interim WBC), Ra�l Garc�a (IBF), Donnie Nietes (WBO)

[BKM-]

Good job there. There's nothing much to say really, that says it all.

[DeepSleep]

Sigh... That really highlights what is wrong with boxing today.

[TheGreatA]

We have a record-breaking amount of world champions if nothing else.

[mickey malone]

And it all began during the mid 1700's on the cobbles, & then in the fields of rural England.. Another sport we invented, dominated, and then lost the edge as it gradually became more of international interest..
Cricket?...Well, that's a different story lol

[mayquiao]

10-85!!!
there should only be 1 champion in every weight division.

[Sugarj]

The **** hit the fan in the mid sixties, when the WBC and WBA became separate allowing two world champs for each division, then in the early 80s the IBF got some recognition.

Then Hell, WBO, WBF, IBO, WBU...............crazy, ruins the sport!

[GJC]

Someone made this point on a related thread which is worth repeating.
The only thing that can be said on a positive note re the multiple sanctioning bodies is that there shouldn't be any fighters that do not get a shot at a title because they are high risk low reward opponents. Everyone should at least get a shot at one title and if they win then be in a stronger position to challenge other champions.
But apart from that possible small gain we have lost so much and totally devalued the titles. If they haven't screwed it up enough we now have super and interim champions

[Kiid Dynamite]

This is a great thread

[Southpaw Stinger]

Someone made this point on a related thread which is worth repeating.
The only thing that can be said on a positive note re the multiple sanctioning bodies is that there shouldn't be any fighters that do not get a shot at a title because they are high risk low reward opponents. Everyone should at least get a shot at one title and if they win then be in a stronger position to challenge other champions.

Which also means that there are plenty of fighters getting shots at 'titles' that have no business getting shots.