List of NABF champions

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The following is a list of NABF champions, showing every champion certificated by the North American Boxing Federation (NABF), in operation since 1969.

• ^r – Champion relinquished title.
• ^s – Champion stripped of title.

^[1]

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Leotis Martin	December 6, 1969 – February 2, 1970r	0
2	Muhammad Ali	December 7, 1970 – February 1971r	0
3	George Foreman	May 10, 1971 – July 20, 1971 1971r	0
4	Muhammad Ali (2)	July 26, 1971 – March 31, 1973	5
5	Ken Norton	March 31, 1973 – September 10, 1973	0
6	Muhammad Ali (3)	September 10, 1973 – October 30, 1974r	1
7	Ken Norton (2)	March 24, 1975 – January 20, 1976r	0
8	George Foreman (2)	January 24, 1976 – March 17, 1977r	1
9	Leroy Jones	August 19, 1978 – October 20, 1979r	0
10	Michael Dokes	January 30, 1982 – December 10, 1982r	1
11	Tim Witherspoon	September 23, 1983 – March 9, 1984r	0
12	James Broad	August 23, 1984 – April 29, 1985	0
13	Tim Witherspoon (2)	April 29, 1985 – January 17, 1986r	1
14	Larry Alexander	April 10, 1987 – November 25, 1987	0
15	Orlin Norris	November 25, 1987 – February 17, 1990	5
16	Bert Cooper	February 17, 1990 – August 5, 1990	0
17	Ray Mercer	August 5, 1990 – January 11, 1991r	0
18	Orlin Norris (2)	April 30, 1991 – June 3, 1991	0
19	Tony Tucker	June 3, 1991 – December 1, 1992r	1
20	Alex García	December 8, 1992 – March 1, 1994	4
21	Joe Hipp	March 2, 1994 – March 9, 1995s	1
22	Alexander Zolkin	August 25, 1995 – May 1, 1996s	2
23	Tony Tucker (2)	June 29, 1996 – December 1996s	0
24	John Ruiz	January 14, 1997 – January 15, 1999r	3
25	Michael Grant	January 30, 1999 – April 29, 2000r	1
26	Clifford Etienne	September 9, 2000 – March 6, 2001s	0
27	Obed Sullivan	May 20, 2001 – September 2, 2001	0
28	Fres Oquendo	September 2, 2001 – April 13, 2002	0
29	David Tua	April 13, 2002 – March 29, 2003s	0
30	Joe Mesi	June 24, 2003 – September 19, 2003	0
31	Eliecer Castillo	September 19, 2003 – April 17, 2004	1
Castillo won the interim title on June 6, 2003, and was later promoted to full champion after Mesi failed to defend the title
32	DaVarryl Williamson	April 17, 2004 – October 2, 2004s	0
33	Samuel Peter	December 4, 2004 – September 24, 2005	1
34	Wladimir Klitschko	September 24, 2005 – April 22, 2006r	0
35	Samuel Peter (2)	April 28, 2006 – September 2007r	2
36	Hasim Rahman	September 2007 – June 2008r	1
37	Travis Walker	June 2008 – November 29, 2008	0
38	Chris Arreola	November 29, 2008 – August 2009r	1
39	Johnathon Banks	March 20, 2010 – May 2012r	3
40	Tony Grano	June 23, 2012 – April 27, 2013	0
41	Éric Molina	April 27, 2013 – October 2013	0
42	Andy Ruiz Jr.	November 24, 2013 – November 2016r	5
43	Óscar Rivas	September 28, 2017 – June 2019r	3
44	Arslanbek Makhmudov	September 28, 2019 – December 23, 2023	9
45	Agit Kabayel	December 23, 2023 — present	0

^[2]

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Marvin Camel	June 6, 1979 – March 31, 1980r	0
2	S. T. Gordon	August 6, 1980 – June 27, 1982r	1
3	Leon Spinks	October 31, 1982 – March 6, 1983r	0
4	Anthony Davis	May 16, 1984 – June 19, 1985	0
5	Bash Ali	June 19, 1985 – April 22, 1986	0
6	Henry Tillman	April 22, 1986 – June 15, 1986	0
7	Bert Cooper	June 15, 1986 – February 15, 1989	5
8	Nate Miller	February 15, 1989 – December 17, 1990	3
9	James Warring	December 17, 1990 – August 7, 1991r	0
10	Orlin Norris	August 17, 1991 – November 6, 1993r	3
11	Thomas Hearns	January 29, 1994 – February 20, 1994r	1
12	Adolpho Washington	February 24, 1994 – July 14, 1994r	0
13	James Heath	January 27, 1995 – June 17, 1995r	0
14	Brian LaSpada	June 17, 1995 – May 5, 1997	2
15	Dale Brown	May 5, 1997– February 12, 2000	4
16	Wayne Braithwaite	February 12, 2000 – January 5, 2001r	0
17	O'Neil Bell	January 18, 2001 – June 2, 2004r	5
18	Dale Brown (2)	June 8, 2004– February 4, 2005r	0
19	Ali Supreme	March 10, 2005 – June 16, 2005	0
20	Arthur Williams	June 16, 2005 – October 27, 2005	0
21	Felix Cora Jr.	October 27, 2005 – May 18, 2006	1
22	Vadim Tokarev	May 18, 2006 – April 1, 2007r	1
23	Matt Godfrey	2007-04-06 – August 2009	3
24	Jason Robinson	April 17, 2010 – August 2010r	0
25	Lateef Kayode	October 15, 2010 – August 2011	2
26	Garrett Wilson	April 14, 2012 – January 2013	0
27	Denton Daley	March 4, 2013 – May 2013	0
28	Thabiso Mchunu	January 24, 2014 – April 2015	1
29	Andrew Tabiti	May 13, 2016 – May 2018	3
30	Alante Green	November 24, 2021 – September 2023	1
31	Ryan Rozicki	September 30, 2023 – Present	0

^[3]

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Jimmy Dupree	July 3, 1971 – October 29, 1971	1
2	Mike Quarry	October 29, 1971 – 1972	0
3	Richie Kates	May 29, 1974 – 1975	0
4	Lonnie Bennett	May 8, 1976 – November 1976	0
5	Matthew Saad Muhammad	July 26, 1977 – March 1979r	3
6	Jerry Martin	August 7, 1979 – January 1980	1
7	Willie Edwards	August 14, 1982 – December 3, 1982	0
8	Pete McIntyre	December 3, 1982 – June 23, 1983	1
9	Willie Edwards (2)	June 23, 1983 – June 26, 1987	5
10	Tony Willis	June 26, 1987 – January 1989r	3
11	Andrew Maynard	April 1, 1990 – January 10, 1992	4
12	Frank Tate	January 10, 1992 – February 1992r	0
13	Egerton Marcus	December 1, 1992 – June 1994r	3
14	Merqui Sosa	June 30, 1995 – October 1995	0
15	Montell Griffin	July 11, 1996 – November 1996	0
16	Michael Nunn	January 17, 1997 – April 1997r	0
17	Merqui Sosa (2)	May 10, 1997 – March 3, 1998	0
18	Kenny Bowman	March 3, 1998 – June 19, 1998	0
19	Derrick Harmon	June 19, 1998 – October 1998	0
20	Eric Harding	November 13, 1998 – April 1999	0
21	Greg Wright	May 23, 1999 – July 14, 2000	2
22	Reggie Johnson	July 14, 2000 – January 25, 2002	1
23	Antonio Tarver	January 25, 2002 – June 2002	0
24	Montell Griffin (2)	November 3, 2002 – March 2003r	0
25	Donnell Wiggins	October 11, 2003 – November 2003r	0
26	Lucian Bute	February 19, 2005 – March 2005r	0
27	Eric Harding (2)	October 21, 2005 – June 2, 2006	0
28	Chad Dawson	June 2, 2006 – January 2007r	0
29	Chris Henry	May 3, 2007 – February 6, 2009	2
30	Yusaf Mack	February 6, 2009 – April 2009r	0
31	Ismail Sillakh	April 3, 2010 – April 27, 2012	1
32	Denis Grachev	April 27, 2012 – November 3, 2012	0
33	Lucian Bute (2)	April 27, 2012 – January 18, 2014	0
34	Jean Pascal	January 18, 2014 – February 2015r	0
35	Isaac Chilemba	March 14, 2015 – October 2015r	0
36	Oleksandr Gvozdyk	April 9, 2016 – February 2018r	4
37	Alfonso López III	November 16, 2019 – December 18, 2020r	0
38	Gilberto Ramirez	December 18, 2020 – December 2021s	0
39	Ahmed Elbiali	Jun 9, 2023 – Present	0

^[4]

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	James Kinchen	October 13, 1988 – November 4, 1988	0
2	Thomas Hearns	November 4, 1988 – March 1989r	0
3	Don Lee	April 14, 1989 – June 19, 1989	0
4	Paul Whittaker	June 19, 1989 – November 13, 1990	1
5	Randall Yonker	November 13, 1990 – November 29, 1991	2
6	Michael Nunn	November 29, 1991 – September 1992r	0
7	Frankie Liles	October 21, 1992 – 1993	0
8	Warren Williams	November 10, 1993 – May 28, 1994	1
9	Cecil McKenzie	May 28, 1994 – March 1995	1
10	Bryant Brannon	April 4, 1995 – September 1996r	2
11	Joseph Kiwanuka	November 8, 1996 – October 28, 1997	2
12	Thomas Tate	October 28, 1997 – April 1999r	3
13	Randie Carver	May 23, 1999 – September 12, 1999	0
14	Kabary Salem	September 12, 1999 – April 2000	0
15	Scott Pemberton	September 22, 2000 – September 2001	0
16	Charles Brewer	October 5, 2001 – March 2002r	0
17	Antwun Echols	April 9, 2002 – June 2003r	2
18	Scott Pemberton (2)	July 25, 2003 – August 2005	2
19	Lucian Bute	September 16, 2005 – May 2007	1
20	Jean Pascal	June 8, 2007 – November 2008r	2
21	Andre Ward	February 6, 2009 – September 2009	1
22	Sébastien Demers	November 7, 2009 – March 2010	0
23	Farah Ennis	November 19, 2010 – March 2011	0
24	Jesús González	July 8, 2011 – December 2011r	0
25	Dyah Davis	January 6, 2012 – June 2, 2012	0
26	Sakio Bika	June 2, 2012 – February 2013	0
27	Marco Antonio Peribán	March 16, 2013 – March 2014r	1
28	Gilberto Ramírez	April 11, 2014 – March 2016r	4
29	Ronald Gavril	October 8, 2016 – October 2017r	0
30	Jesse Hart	April 28, 2018 – November 2018r	1
31	Shakeel Phinn	June 8, 2019 – November 2019	0
32	Lexson Mathieu	October 10, 2020 – 2021	0
33	Erik Bazinyan	June 4, 2021 – September 20, 2024	8
34	Jaime Munguía	September 20, 2024 – Present	0

^[5]

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Denny Moyer	Feb 25, 1970 — Apr 29, 1970	0
2	Nate Williams	Apr 29, 1970 — Jul 17, 1970	0
3	Art Hernandez	Jul 17, 1970 — Feb 10, 1971	0
4	Denny Moyer (2)	Feb 10, 1971 — Sep 6, 1972	7
5	Art Hernandez (2)	Sep 6, 1972 — Mar 26, 1973	1
6	Bennie Briscoe	Mar 26, 1973 — Sep 1, 1973	1
7	Rodrigo Valdéz	Sep 1, 1973 — January 1974r	0
8	Tony Licata	Feb 5, 1974 — Mar 1974r	0
9	Sugar Ray Seales	Mar 9, 1976 — Jun 1977	2
10	Ralph Palladin	Jun 21, 1977 — Jun 1977	0
11	Sugar Ray Seales (2)	Jun 29, 1977 — Aug 1977	0
12	Ronnie Harris	Apr 10, 1979 — May 13, 1980	0
13	Sammy NeSmith	May 19, 1980 — Mar 31, 1981	0
14	Sugar Ray Seales (3)	Mar 31, 1981 — Oct 23, 1982	0
15	James Shuler	Oct 23, 1982 — Mar 10, 1986	2
16	Thomas Hearns	Mar 10, 1986 — Sep 1987r	1
17	Michael Nunn	Oct 29, 1987 — Jun 1988r	2
18	Ron Essett	Oct 18, 1988 — Nov 1988	0
19	Kevin Watts	Oct 12, 1989 — Sep 27, 1990	0
20	Fabian Williams	Sep 27, 1990 — Jul 16, 1991	1
21	Ismael Negron	Jul 16, 1991 — Nov 1991r	1
22	Lamar Parks	December 5, 1991 — Mar 1992	0
23	Otis Grant	Sep 28, 1992 — Mar 15, 1994	3
24	Quincy Taylor	Mar 15, 1994 — Jul 1995r	3
25	Otis Grant (2)	Oct 10, 1995 — Nov 1997r	3
26	Antwun Echols	Feb 10, 1998 — Nov 1999r	3
27	Antwun Echols (2)	May 5, 2000 — Nov 2000r	0
28	Tito Mendoza	December 10, 2000 — Apr 2001	1
29	Robert Allen	October 26, 2001 — Jun 2002	1
30	Carl Daniels	Jul 27, 2002 — 2003	0
31	Kingsley Ikeke	Aug 29, 2003 — Jun 2004	1
32	Kelly Pavlik	Oct 7, 2005 — May 2007r	2
33	Bronco McKart	Aug 10, 2007 — Dec 7, 2007	0
34	Enrique Ornelas	December 7, 2007 — Jul 2008	1
35	Roman Karmazin	December 20, 2008 — May 2009	1
36	Peter Manfredo	January 29, 2010 — Apr 2010	0
37	Daniel Jacobs	May 15, 2010 — Jun 2010r	0
38	Fernando Guerrero	July 16, 2010 — Apr 2011r	1
39	Andy Lee	May 18, 2011 — Oct 2011	0
40	Jose Míguel Torres	Nov 5, 2011 — Jun 2012	0
41	Patrick Majewski	Jul 7, 2012 — Aug 2012	0
42	Curtis Stevens	Jan 19, 2013 — Apr 2013	0
43	Curtis Stevens (2)	Aug 3, 2013 — Oct 2013r	0
44	David Lemieux	May 24, 2014 — May 2015r	1
45	Evhen Khytrov	Oct 31, 2015 — Jul 2016	1
46	Jason Quigley	Mar 23, 2017 — Jul 18, 2019	1
47	Tureano Johnson	Jul 18, 2019 — Nov 2019	0
48	Jose de Jesus Macias	Jan 29, 2021 – Jan 2022	0
49	Steven Butler	Jun 23, 2022 – May 2023	2

^[6]

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Ralph Palladin	September 8, 1971 – November 1971	0
2	Elisha Obed	January 21, 1975 – August 1975	0
3	Mike Baker	September 16, 1975 – October 1975	0
4	Steve Delgado	January 18, 1980 – October 7, 1980	0
5	Rocky Mosley Jr	October 7, 1980 – April 25, 1981	0
6	Rocky Fratto	April 25, 1981 – June 1982	1
7	David Braxton	June 12, 1983 – August 1986	3
8	Milton McCrory	March 7, 1987 – April 1988	1
9	Lupe Aquino	June 24, 1988 – November 1988	0
10	Terry Norris	December 9, 1988 – March 1990	2
11	Brett Lally	June 25, 1990 – August 1991	2
12	Gilbert Baptist	September 30, 1991 – November 1991	0
13	Wayne Powell	May 29, 1992 – October 23, 1993	3
14	Julio César Green	October 23, 1993 – June 1994	1
15	Winky Wright	February 4, 1995 – May 1996r	2
16	Steve Martinez	March 4, 1997 – September 30, 1997	1
17	Tony Marshall	September 30, 1997 – October 1997	2
18	Anthony Jones	March 26, 1999 – April 19, 2000	1
19	Jason Papillion	April 19, 2000 – June 10, 2000	0
20	Bronco McKart	June 10, 2000 – September 9, 2000	0
21	Winky Wright (2)	July 16, 1991 – September 2001r	1
22	Ángel Hernández	January 12, 2002 – December 13, 2002	1
23	Juan Carlos Candelo	December 13, 2002 – January 2004	1
24	Rodney Jones	April 14, 2004 – October 2005	2
25	Andrey Tsurkan	June 10, 2006 – December 6, 2007	1
26	Yuri Foreman	December 6, 2007 – June 2009	2
27	Willie Lee	August 23, 2009 – December 19, 2009	0
28	Vanes Martirosyan	December 19, 2009 – March 2011	2
29	Grady Brewer	June 17, 2011 – December 22, 2011	0
30	Michael Medina	December 22, 2011 – August 2012	0
31	Willie Nelson	September 15, 2012 – May 2014	2
32	Andy Lee	June 7, 2014 – November 2014	0
33	Ramón Álvarez	January 30, 2016 – August 2016	0
34	Radzhab Butaev	November 19, 2016 – May 2017	0
35	Carlos Adames	October 13, 2018 – October 2019r	2
36	Travell Mazion	January 11, 2020 – July 15, 2020	0
37	Sadriddin Akhmedov	January 29, 2021 – January 2022	0
38	Artem Organesyan	Mar 26, 2022 – June 23, 2022	1
39	Dante Jardón	June 23, 2022 – December 2022	0
40	Xander Zayas	December 10, 2022 – Present	2

^[7]

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Armando Muñíz	November 19, 1971 – August 1972	1
2	Fernand Marcotte	August 21, 1972 – September 1972	0
3	Armando Muñíz (2)	September 11, 1972 – January 30, 1973	0
4	Eddie Perkins	January 30, 1973 – April 1973	1
5	Pete Ranzany	February 24, 1976 – August 12, 1979	5
6	Sugar Ray Leonard	August 12, 1979 – November 30, 1979r	1
7	Randy Shields	May 2, 1980 – June 1980	0
8	Greg Stephens	June 3, 1980 – November 11, 1980	1
9	Jose Dominguez	November 11, 1980 – April 7, 1981	0
10	Bruce Finch	April 7, 1981 – May 4, 1982	1
11	Donald Curry	May 4, 1982 – January 1983	1
12	Marlon Starling	April 23, 1983 – June 15, 1984	2
13	Pedro Vilella	June 15, 1984 – July 23, 1985	0
14	Maurice Blocker	July 23, 1985 – November 1985	0
15	Luis Santana	November 7, 1986 – March 5, 1987	0
16	Tommy Ayers	March 5, 1987 – June 1987	0
17	Luis Santana (2)	January 8, 1988 – January 30, 1989	2
18	Derrick Kelly	January 30, 1989 – July 18, 1989	2
19	Russell Mitchell	July 18, 1989 – November 30, 1989	0
20	Aaron Davis	November 30, 1989 – May 1990	0
21	Lonnie Smith	August 20, 1990 – June 1991	0
22	David Gonzalez	July 26, 1991 – February 1992	0
23	Roger Turner	February 8, 1992 – June 19, 1992	0
24	Yori Boy Campas	June 19, 1992 – August 1992	0
25	Larry Barnes	May 13, 1993 – January 1994	1
26	Anthony Jones	April 5, 1994 – June 1994	0
27	Derrell Coley	July 5, 1994 – August 12, 1995	2
28	Oba Carr	August 12, 1995 – November 1995	0
29	Ross Thompson	December 31, 1995 – February 1996	0
30	Kip Diggs	September 17, 1996 – January 7, 1997	0
31	Tony Martin	January 7, 1997 – February 1997	0
32	Derrell Coley (2)	March 25, 1997 – July 1998	2
33	Vernon Forrest	August 18, 1998 – July 2000	4
34	Danny Perez Ramírez	October 12, 2000 – January 2001	0
35	Golden Johnson	March 22, 2001 – June 2002	1
36	Teddy Teid	June 28, 2002 – July 17, 2004	2
37	Kermit Cintrón	July 17, 2004 – March 2005	0
38	Steve Martinez	April 28, 2005 – October 2005	0
39	Oscar Díaz	June 14, 2006 – November 10, 2006	0
40	Golden Johnson (2)	November 10, 2006 – August 2007	0
41	Andre Berto	September 29, 2007 – May 2008	1
42	Jesús Soto Karass	July 25, 2008 – October 2008	0
43	Canelo Álvarez	January 17, 2009 – April 2010r	5
44	Shawn Porter	October 15, 2010 – January 2012	1
45	Thomas Dulorme	February 17, 2012 – August 2012	0
46	Antonin Décarie	September 29, 2012 – March 2013r	0
47	Jesús Soto Karass (2)	July 27, 2013 – November 2013r	0
48	Paulie Malignaggi	December 7, 2013 – March 2014r	0
49	Mikaël Zewski	June 28, 2014 – May 1, 2015	1
50	Konstantin Ponomarev	May 1, 2015 – November 2016	1
51	Egidijus Kavaliauskas	September 22, 2017 – October 2019	4
52	Blair Cobbs	November 2, 2019 – February 2021	1
53	Raúl Curiel	June 19, 2021 – October 2023	3
54	Jesus Arechiga Valdez	October 20, 2023 – present	0

^[8]

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Tony Petronelli	March 17, 1976 – April 1976	0
2	Monroe Brooks	December 1, 1977 – April 7, 1978	0
3	Bruce Curry	April 7, 1978 – September 1978	0
4	Willie Rodriguez	February 2, 1979 – April 14, 1979	0
5	Bruce Curry	April 14, 1979 – June 1979	0
6	Nick Furlano	March 6, 1981 – March 1981	0
7	Leroy Haley	April 11, 1981 – June 1982r	0
8	Ronnie Shields	November 16, 1983 – August 1985	1
9	Harold Brazier	October 31, 1986 – August 8, 1989	4
10	Livingstone Bramble	August 8, 1989 – February 18, 1990	1
11	Santos Cardona	February 18, 1990 – June 15, 1990	0
12	John Meekins	June 15, 1990 – January 20, 1991	2
13	Terrence Alli	January 20, 1991 – July 1991	1
14	Tim Burgess	August 24, 1991 – March 1992	0
15	Greg Haugen	April 3, 1992 – August 1992	0
16	Héctor López	September 3, 1992 – January 1993	0
17	David Santos	February 24, 1993 – July 27, 1993	0
18	Héctor López (2)	July 27, 1993 – September 1993	0
19	David Santos (2)	October 26, 1993 – December 1993	0
20	Joey Gamache	January 28, 1994 – June 1994	0
21	Darryl Tyson	September 20, 1994 – October 1994	0
22	Jaime Balboa	December 13, 1994 – January 1995	0
23	Charles Murray	October 10, 1995 – April 15, 1997	2
24	Ray Oliveira	April 15, 1997 – August 5, 1997	0
25	Reggie Green	August 5, 1997 – March 1999	1
26	Ahmed Santos	April 16, 1999 – January 2000	1
27	Golden Johnson	July 21, 2000 – August 2000	0
28	Alex Trujillo	August 5, 2000 – October 2000	0
29	Ray Oliveira (2)	December 22, 2000 – August 10, 2001	0
30	Ben Tackie	August 10, 2001 – April 2002	1
31	Terrance Cauthen	March 28, 2003 – June 2004	2
32	Herman Ngoudjo	February 26, 2005 – January 20, 2007	4
33	José Luis Castillo	January 20, 2007 – May 2007	0
34	Francisco Figueroa	July 28, 2007 – November 2008	2
35	Ali Chebah	April 18, 2009 – April 2010	2
36	Pablo César Cano	June 25, 2010 – December 2010	0
37	Josesito López	January 28, 2011 – August 2011	0
38	Gabriel Bracero	October 21, 2011 – January 21, 2012	0
39	DeMarcus Corley	January 21, 2012 – April 2012	0
40	Dierry Jean	May 19, 2012 – March 2013	2
41	Paul Spadafora	April 6, 2013 – October 2013	0
42	Thomas Dulorme	March 29, 2014 – March 2015	1
43	Mauricio Herrera	July 11, 2015 – April 2016	0
44	Rashad Ganaway	May 12, 2016 – June 2016	0
45	Regis Prograis	June 25, 2016 – February 2018r	2
46	Maxim Dadashev	June 9, 2018 – February 2019	1
47	Luis Feliciano	August 22, 2019 – 2020	1
48	Yves Ulysse Jr.	November 21, 2020 – 2022	1
49	Lee Reeves	May 5, 2022 – August 2022	0
50	Teofimo Lopez	August 13, 2022 – December 2022	0
51	Steve Claggett	Jun 1, 2023 – Present	2

^[9]

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Ruben Navarro	September 10, 1970 – February 1971	0
2	Jimmy Robertson	March 18, 1971 – July 6, 1972	0
3	Chango Carmona	July 6, 1972 – September 1972	0
4	Esteban de Jesús	February 16, 1973 – March 1974	1
5	Ray Lampkin	October 18, 1974 – March 1975	2
6	Vicente Mijares	April 22, 1976 – March 28, 1978	2
7	Andy Ganigan	March 28, 1978 – July 1980	4
8	Jorge Morales	August 19, 1980 – May 16, 1981	0
9	Ray Mancini	May 16, 1981 – May 1982r	2
10	José Luis Ramírez	November 26, 1982 – March 1983r	0
11	Nick Furlano	April 13, 1983 – June 9, 1983	0
12	Davey Armstrong	June 9, 1983 – July 1983	0
13	Héctor Camacho	April 29, 1985 – May 1985r	0
14	Tyrone Crawley	June 5, 1985 – February 1986r	0
15	Greg Haugen	May 23, 1986 – December 1986r	0
16	Pernell Whitaker	March 28, 1987 – September 1987	1
17	Primo Ramos	October 28, 1987 – June 1989	2
18	Darryl Tyson	July 24, 1990 – 1991	0
19	Frankie Mitchell	July 9, 1991 – August 1992r	3
20	Rafael Ruelas	November 6, 1992 – July 1993	1
21	Sharmba Mitchell	November 6, 1993 – March 18, 1994	0
22	Leavander Johnson	March 18, 1994 – August 1994	0
23	Stevie Johnston	May 2, 1995 – February 1997	3
24	Jesse James Leija	March 22, 1997 – July 1998s	1
25	Golden Johnson	July 26, 1998 – October 16, 1998	0
26	Israel Cardona	October 16, 1998 – February 1999	0
27	Golden Johnson (2)	May 14, 1999 – August 1999	0
28	Ivan Robinson	September 3, 1999 – March 2000r	0
29	Juan Lazcano	June 16, 2000 – February 2003	4
30	Steve Quinonez	March 23, 2003 – May 4, 2003	0
31	Michael Clark	May 4, 2003 – October 2004	1
32	Eleazer Contreras Jr.	November 6, 2004 – May 2005	0
33	José Santa Cruz	June 10, 2005 – August 26, 2005	0
34	Fernando Trejo	August 26, 2005 – December 2005	0
35	José Santa Cruz (2)	January 6, 2006 – May 2006r	1
36	Edner Cherry	August 12, 2006 – March 2007	0
37	Kid Diamond	March 10, 2007 – July 2007	1
38	Miguel Ángel Huerta	August 30, 2007 – March 14, 2008	1
39	Javier Jáuregui	March 14, 2008 – July 2008	0
40	Jason Litzau	August 15, 2009 – October 2009r	0
41	Martín Honorio	November 28, 2009 – January 2010	0
42	Brandon Ríos	February 6, 2010 – January 2011r	0
43	Henry Lundy	April 1, 2011 – July 27, 2012	2
44	Ray Beltrán	July 27, 2012 – July 2013r	1
45	Gishlain Maduma	September 6, 2013 – April 2014	1
46	Dierry Jean	June 13, 2014 – August 2015r	2
47	Marvin Quintero	September 18, 2015 – May 5, 2016s	0
48	Petr Petrov	May 6, 2016 – September 2016	0
49	Ray Beltrán (2)	December 10, 2016 – January 2018r	2
50	Teófimo López	December 8, 2018 – November 2019r	2
51	Oscar Duarte	March 7, 2020 – present	0

^[10]

No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Frankie Otero	June 1, 1971 – May 19, 1972	1
2	Jose Luis Lopez	May 19, 1972 – July 21, 1972	0
3	Jose Fernandez	July 21, 1972 – August 28, 1972	0
4	Walter Seeley	August 28, 1972 – March 9, 1973	0
5	Sammy Goss	March 9, 1973 – April 1973	0
6	Ray Lunny III	March 17, 1975 – September 1976	1
7	Rafael Limón	March 4, 1978 – November 1980r	2
8	Hector Cortez	December 5, 1980 – 1981	0
9	Rolando Navarrete	May 19, 1981 – August 1981r	0
10	Blaine Dickson	September 15, 1981 – December 11, 1981	0
11	Héctor Camacho	December 11, 1981 – July 1983	1
12	Guy Villegas	March 9, 1984 – December 7, 1984	0
13	Dennis Cruz	December 7, 1984 – May 15, 1985	0
14	Dwight Pratchett	May 15, 1985 – January 17, 1987	1
15	Mario Miranda	January 17, 1987 – November 1987	1
16	Nicky Perez	December 4, 1987 – August 13, 1988	0
17	Juan Laporte	August 13, 1988 – October 1990r	3
18	Gabriel Ruelas	July 31, 1991 – August 1992	2
19	Narciso Valenzuela Romo	September 28, 1992 – January 30, 1993	3
20	Frank Avelar	January 30, 1993 – April 1993	0
21	Eddie Hopson	January 4, 1994 – April 1995r	2
22	Robert Garcia	April 21, 1995 – February 1996	1
23	Jesús Chávez	March 3, 1997 – December 1998	5
24	Joel Casamayor	January 30, 1999 – April 1999	0
25	Jesús Chávez (2)	May 22, 1999 – March 2000	3
26	Robbie Peden	March 5, 2000 – June 25, 2000	0
27	John Brown	June 25, 2000 – November 2000r	0
28	Justin Juuko	January 21, 2001 – April 22, 2001	0
29	Ernesto Zepeda	April 22, 2001 – June 2001	0
30	Daniel Alicea	April 12, 2002 – September 14, 2002	0
31	Nate Campbell	September 14, 2002 – November 2003	0
32	Alejandro Medina	May 30, 2005 – 2005	0
33	Fernando Trejo	March 3, 2006 – September 1, 2006	1
34	Agnaldo Nunes	September 1, 2006 – August 2007	1
35	Yuriorkis Gamboa	February 22, 2008 – May 2008	0
36	Urbano Antillón	September 5, 2008 – June 2009	0
37	Alejandro Sanabria	August 21, 2009 – October 2009	1
38	Jason Litzau	November 4, 2009 – November 2010	1
39	Diego Magdaleno	January 22, 2011 – March 2013r	5
40	Francisco Vargas	August 9, 2013 – October 2015r	3
41	Tevin Farmer	March 30, 2016 – November 2017r	1
42	Ryan García	May 4, 2018 – August 2018	0
43	Abraham Montoya	April 13, 2019 – October 2019r	0

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No.	Name	Duration of reign	Defences
1	Antonio Gómez	September 5, 1970 – July 1971	0
2	Sammy Goss	August 10, 1971 – January 1972	0
3	Phil Hudson	February 17, 1972 – October 1972	0
4	Rubén Olivares	June 23, 1973 – September 1973	0
5	Ronnie McGarvey	June 21, 1977 – March 18, 1978	1
6	Mike Ayala	March 18, 1978 – June 1979	1
7	Nicky Perez	November 11, 1980 – June 22, 1982	1
8	Jackie Beard	June 22, 1982 – 1985	3
9	Joe Ruelaz	September 25, 1985 – September 12, 1986	0
10	Bernard Taylor	September 12, 1986 – February 1989	3
11	Harold Rhodes	March 17, 1989 – August 10, 1989	0
12	Troy Dorsey	August 10, 1989 – February 1991	1
13	Rafael Ruelas	March 31, 1991 – June 1991	0
14	Joe Martinez	August 12, 1991 – March 3, 1992	0
15	Jesse James Leija	March 3, 1992 – September 1993r	1
16	Mario Gongoria	May 11, 1994 – August 1994	0
17	Manuel Medina	September 26, 1994 – January 1995r	0
18	Harold Warren	February 18, 1995 – June 24, 1995	0
19	Derrick Gainer	June 24, 1995 – January 1996	1
20	Robert Garcia	March 23, 1996 – June 1996	0
21	Jesús Chávez	August 9, 1996 – October 1996r	0
22	Robert Garcia	April 21, 1995 – February 1996	1
23	Jesús Chávez	March 3, 1997 – December 1998	5
24	Jose Luis Noyola	November 24, 1996 – August 9, 1997	1
25	Lewis Wood	August 9, 1997 – 1999	2
26	Redford Beasley	December 3, 1998 – 1999	0
27	David Vazquez	February 25, 2000 – August 2000r	0
28	Robbie Peden	October 21, 2000 – March 9, 2002	2
29	Juan Manuel Márquez	March 9, 2002 – February 2003r	0
30	Héctor Javier Márquez	March 28, 2003 – June 13, 2003	0
31	Juan Carlos Ramírez	June 13, 2003 – June 3, 2004	1
32	Jorge Martinez	June 3, 2004 – September 16, 2004	0
33	César Figueroa	September 16, 2004 – December 9, 2004	0
34	Robert Guerrero	December 9, 2004 – December 2, 2005	2
35	Gamaliel Díaz	December 2, 2005 – June 23, 2006	1
36	Robert Guerrero (2)	June 23, 2006 – September 2006r	0
37	Juan Ruiz	June 20, 2008 – December 2008	0
38	Ricardo Castillo	January 31, 2009 – March 2009	0
39	Daniel Ponce de León	April 25, 2009 – August 2009	0
40	Matt Remillard	September 19, 2009 – March 26, 2011	2
41	Mikey Garcia	March 26, 2011 – December 2012	3
42	Ronny Rios	January 12, 2013 – June 2013	0
43	Marvin Sonsona	June 7, 2014 – June 2015	0
44	Joseph Diaz	December 18, 2015 – April 2018r	6
45	Manny Robles III	June 14, 2018 – October 2019r	2
46	Adam Lopez	June 11, 2020 – present	0

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