Every male world champion in boxing as of January 2019
The sport of boxing is infamous for being saturated with belts. Each of the 17 weight divisions from heavyweight (200lbs+) all the way down to minimumweight (105lbs) has four major world titles and BBN have listed all of them here.
The WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO are boxing’s four recognised governing bodies, with IBO seen as a 'fringe' belt, but the associations can sometimes create superfluous extra belts. The WBA are notorious for this, much to fight fans' frustrations, with 'Regular' and 'Super' titles. It creates crazy conditions where a 'Super' champion will want to fight the lesser 'Regular' champion, such as Keith Thurman looking down on a fight with Manny Pacquiao right now.
In the list below, there are no ‘interim’, ‘diamond’, ‘silver’ or ‘gold’ titles, and certainly no ‘regular’ titles to keep things simple.
Heavyweight
- WBA: Anthony Joshua
- WBC: Deontay Wilder
- IBF: Anthony Joshua
- WBO: Anthony Joshua
AJ also has the unrecognised IBO belt
Cruiserweight
- WBA: Oleksandr Usyk
- WBC: Oleksandr Usyk
- IBF: Oleksandr Usyk
- WBO: Oleksandr Usyk
Oleksandr Usyk has unified the entire cruiserweight division
Light-Heavyweight
- WBA: Dmitry Bivol
- WBC: Oleksandr Gvozdyk
- IBF: Artur Beterbiev
- WBO: Eleider Alvarez
Super-Middleweight
- WBA: Callum Smith
- WBC: Vacant
- IBF: Caleb Plant
- WBO: Gilberto Ramirez
Middleweight
- WBA: Canelo Alvarez
- WBC: Canelo Alvarez
- IBF: Daniel Jacobs
- WBO: Demetrius Andrade
Super-Welterweight
- WBA: Jarrett Hurd
- WBC: Tony Harrison
- IBF: Jarrett Hurd
- WBO: Jaime Munguia
Welterweight
- WBA: Keith Thurman
- WBC: Shawn Porter
- IBF: Errol Spence
- WBO: Terence Crawford
Super-Lightweight
- WBA: Kiryl Relikh
- WBC: Jose Ramirez
- IBF: Ivan Baranchyk
- WBO: Maurice Hooker
Lightweight
- WBA: Vasyl Lomachenko
- WBC: Mikey Garcia
- IBF: Vacant
- WBO: Vasyl Lomachenko
Super-Featherweight
- WBA: Gervonta Davis
- WBC: Miguel Berchelt
- IBF: Tevin Farmer
- WBO: Masayuki Ito
Alberto Machado should in be the WBA champion, however they inexplicably classified him as ‘regular’ champion instead
Featherweight
- WBA: Leo Santa Cruz
- WBC: Gary Russell Jr
- IBF: Josh Warrington
- WBO: Oscar Valdez
Super-Bantamweight
- WBA: Daniel Roman
- WBC: Rey Vargas
- IBF: TJ Doheny
- WBO: Emanuel Navarrete
Bantamweight
- WBA: Nonito Donaire
- WBC: Nordine Oubaali
- IBF: Emmanuel Rodriguez
- WBO: Zolani Tete
Super-Flyweight
- WBA: Kal Yafai
- WBC: Srisaket Sor Rungvisai
- IBF: Jerwin Ancajas
- WBO: Donnie Nietes
Flyweight
- WBA: Artem Dalakian
- WBC: Charlie Edwards
- IBF: Moruti Mthalane
- WBO: Kosei Tanaka
Light-Flyweight
- WBA: Hiroto Kyoguchi
- WBC: Ken Shiro
- IBF: Felix Alvarado
- WBO: Angel Acosta
Minimumweight
- WBA: Thammanoon Niyomtrong
- WBC: Wanheng Menayothin
- IBF: Carlos Licona
- WBO: Vic Saludar