Following the name of the champion(s): Indicates the number of times the competitor has held that title at that point.
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Indicates a gap in the listing where title changes are not known.
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Title was held or changed hands no later than this. In these cases, it is known that a competitor held the title at a certain time but not when he/she won it.
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Order uncertain. Different titleholders may be known for the same year, for example, but it is not known who held the title before whom.
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Unofficial or disputable claims. These are usually matches that certainly took place, but where there is doubt that the competitor shown should be recognized as a true title holder. These listings are also italicized.
Defeats Pascal for IBO and WBC titles but is stripped of the IBO title due to failure to pay the sanction fee.
Andrzej Fonfara
2012-11-16
Chicago, IL, USA
Defeats Tommy Karpency; stripped of the title in 13.
Blake Caparello
2013-10-17
Flemington, VIC, AUS
Defeats Allan Green; stripped of the title in 14; loses his bid for WBO world title on 14-08-02.
Thomas Oosthuizen
2015-03-14
Kempton Park, Gauteng, RSA
Defeats Ryno Liebenberg; stripped of the title in 15-06-05 due to failure to make the weight limit for the scheduled title match against Robert Berridge on 15-06-06.
Umar Salamov
2016-05-21
Moscow, RUS
Defeats Bob Ajisafe; vacates on 17-05-17.
Igor Mikhalkin
2017-05-19
Hamburg, HH, GER
Defeats Thomas Oosthuizen; vacates in 18-03-14.
Karo Murat
2018-03-24
Wilhelmsburg, HH, GER
Defeats Travis Reeves.
Sven Fornling
2018-12-15
Hamburg, HH, GER
Dominic Boesel
2019-11-16
Halle an der Saale, ST, GER
Robin Krasniqi
2020-10-10
Magdeburg, ST, GER
Also wins the interim WBA title.
Dominic Boesel [2]
2021-10-09
Magdeburg, ST, GER
Loses in a non-title match on 22-05-14.
Padraig McCrory
2022-10-22
Frankfurt, HE, GER
Defeats Leon Bunn; vacates in 23 upon moving down to the super middleweight class.
