By Dennis Carreon
Boxing's current title
holders by country as of July 10, 2011
1st - Mexico (19)
Saul Alvarez - WBC Super
Welterweight (154 lbs)
Jorge Arce - WBO Junior
Featherweight (122 lbs)
Hugo Fidel Cazares -
WBA Super Flyweight (115 lbs)
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr
- WBC Middleweight (160 lbs)
Raul Garcia - WBO Mini
Flyweight (105 lbs)
Jhonny Gonzalez - WBC
Featherweight (126 lbs)
Adrian Hernandez - WBC
Light Flyweight (108 lbs)
Ramon Garcia Hirales
- WBO Junior Flyweight (108 lbs)
Hernan Marquez - WBA
Flyweight (112 lbs)
Juan Manuel Marquez -
WBA, WBO & Ring Lightweight (135 lbs)
Cristian Mijares - IBF
Junior Bantamweight (115 lbs)
Julio Cesar Miranda -
WBO Flyweight (112 lbs)
Tomas Rojas - WBC Super
Flyweight (115 lbs)
Orlando Salido - WBO
Featherweight (126 lbs)
Giovanni Segura - Ring
Junior Flyweight (108 lbs)
Ulises Solis -
IBF Junior Flyweight (108 lbs)
Miguel Vazquez - IBF
Lightweight (135 lbs)
2nd - USA (11)
Timothy Bradley - WBC
Super Lightweight & WBO Junior Welterweight (140 lbs)
Cornelius Bundrage -
IBF Junior Middleweight (154 lbs)
Tavoris Cloud - IBF Light
Heavyweight (175 lbs)
Steve Cunningham - IBF
Cruiserweight (200 lbs)
Bernard Hopkins - WBC
& Ring Light Heavyweight (175 lbs)
Zab Judah - IBF Junior
Welterweight (140 lbs)
Victor Ortiz - WBC Welterweight
(147 lbs)
Rico Ramos - WBA Super
Bantamweight (122 lbs)
Andre Ward - WBA Super
Middleweight (168 lbs)
3rd - Ukraine (7)
Sergiy Dzinziruk - WBO
Junior Middleweight (154 lbs)
Vitali Klitschko - WBC
Heavyweight (200+ lbs)
Wladimir Klitschko -
WBA, IBF, WBO & Ring Heavyweight (200+ lbs)
Vyacheslav Senchenko
- WBA Welterweight (147 lbs)
4th (2 are tied) -
Japan (4)
Takahiro Ao - WBC Super
Featherweight (130 lbs)
Kazuto Ioka - WBC Strawweight
(105 lbs)
Toshiaki Nishioka - WBC
Super Bantamweight (122 lbs)
Takashi Uchiyama - WBA
Super Featherweight (130 lbs)
4th (2 are tied) -
UK (4)
Ricky Burns - WBO Junior
Lightweight (130 lbs)
Nathan Cleverly - WBO
Light Heavyweight (175 lbs)
Carl Froch - WBC Super
Middleweight (168 lbs)
Amir Khan - WBA Super
Lightweight (140 lbs)
6th (2 are tied) -
Philippines (3)
Nonito Donaire - WBC
& WBO Bantamweight (118 lbs)
Manny Pacquiao - WBO
Welterweight (147 lbs)
6th (2 are tied) -
South Africa (3)
Nkosinathi Joyi - IBF
Mini Flyweight (105 lbs)
Moruti Mthalane - IBF
Flyweight (112 lbs)
Takalani Ndlovu - IBF
Junior Featherweight (122 lbs)
8th (5 are tied) -
Argentina (2)
Sergio Gabriel Martinez
- Ring Middleweight (160 lbs)
Omar Andres Narvaez -
WBO Junior Bantamweight (115 lbs)
8th (5 are tied) -
Indonesia (2)
Chris John - WBA Featherweight
(126 lbs)
Muhammad Rachman - WBA
Minimumweight (105 lbs)
8th (5 are tied) -
Panama (2)
Guillermo Jones - WBA
Cruiserweight (200 lbs)
Anselmo Moreno - WBA
Bantamweight (118 lbs)
8th (5 are tied) -
Russia (2)
Dmitry Pirog - WBO Middleweight
(160 lbs)
Robert Stieglitz - WBO
Super Middleweight (168 lbs)
8th (5 are tied) -
Thailand (2)
Pongsaklek Wonjongkam
- WBC & Ring Flyweight (112 lbs)
13th (10 are tied)
- Australia (1)
Daniel Geale - IBF Middleweight
(160 lbs)
13th (10 are tied)
- Germany (1)
Felix Sturm - WBA Middleweight
(160 lbs)
13th (10 are tied)
- Ghana (1)
Joseph Agbeko - IBF Bantamweight
(118 lbs)
13th (10 are tied)
- Kazakhstan (1)
Beibut Shumenov - WBA
Light Heavyweight (175 lbs)
13th (10 are tied)
- Nicaragua (1)
Roman Gonzalez - WBA
Light Flyweight (108 lbs)
13th (10 are tied)
- Poland (1)
Krzysztof Wlodarczyk
- WBC Cruiserweight (200 lbs)
13th (10 are tied)
- Puerto Rico (1)
Miguel Angel Cotto -
WBA Super Welterweight (154 lbs)
13th (10 are tied)
- Romania (1)
Lucian Bute - IBF Super
Middleweight (168 lbs)
13th (10 are tied)
- Serbia (1)
Marco Huck - WBO Junior
Heavyweight (200 lbs)
13th (10 are tied)
- Slovenia (1)
Jan Zaveck - IBF Welterweight
(147 lbs)
Vacancies
WBC Lightweight (135
lbs)
IBF Featherweight (126
lbs) & Junior Lightweight (130 lbs)
Ring - 11 divisions
List Guidelines: (1)
Only Ring, WBA, WBC, IBF & WBO; (2) Excluded interim champs, WBA's
regular champs (when there are unified/super champs), champs-in-recess,
emeritus status champ, WBC's diamond & silver titles and whatever
extra sanctioning fee driven title; (3) Tally titles not title holders;
(4) Considered boxer's country of birth NOT ancestry, naturalized citizenship
nor adopted home country.
Dennis Carreon can
be reached at dcarreon@8countnews.com
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