14 fighters in boxing history have won all four, major sanctioning body titles. Benny Lynch held the British, National Police Gazette, NYSAC and NBA Flyweight titles. Jack Sharkey won the American, National Police Gazette, then NYSAC and NBA Heavyweight titles. George Foreman won the NYSAC, WBA, WBC and IBF Heavyweight titles. Riddick Bowe won the WBA, WBC, IBF and then WBO Heavyweight titles. Ricardo Lopez won the WBA, WBC and WBO Minimumweight titles, then the IBF Junior Flyweight belt. Zab Judah won the IBF and WBO Junior Welterweight titles, then the WBA and WBC Welterweight bouts. Ronald Winky Wright won the WBO, IBF, and then WBA, WBC Junior Middleweight titles. Oscar de la Hoya won the WBO Junior Lightweight, IBF Lightweight, WBC Junior Welterweight and WBA Junior Middleweight titles. Bernard Hopkins won the IBF, WBC, WBA and WBO Middleweight titles. Jermain Taylor likewise won the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO Middleweight titles. Joe Calzaghe won the WBO, IBF then WBA and WBC Super Middleweight titles. Juan Manual Marquez won the IBF, WBA, WBO Featherweight titles and then the WBC Junior Lightweight title. Robert Guerrero won the IBF Featherweight title; Interim WBA/WBO Lightweight belts: and then the Interim WBC Welterweight strap. Nonito Donaire lastly won the IBF Flyweight, WBA Junior Bantamweight, and WBC/WBO Bantamweight titles. Note: additional titles the boxers won in same or different weight classes have not been listed. The following fighters would appear on this list, if it were not due to sanctioning bodies stripping them or other fighters they faced: Naseem Hamed won the WBO, WBC and IBF Featherweight titles. Wilfredo Vasquez, Sr. was stripped of his WBA title for fighting another champion. Hamed won the fight. John L Sullivan: he won the American, English and National Police Gazette Heavyweight titles. Had the NYSAC or NBA actually sanctioned fights in his era, he would have held those titles as well. Cory Spinks won the IBF, WBA and WBC Welterweight titles. He appeared to have eked out a decision win versus Jermain Taylor for the WBC/WBO Middleweight titles. Alas, only official fights count. The following fighters still could crack the list: former WBA, WBO, IBF Lightweight Champion Juan Diaz; reigning WBA, IBF, WBO Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko; reigning WBO Welterweight and former WBC Flyweight and IBF Junior Featherweight Champion Manny Pacquiao; current WBA/WBC Junior Middleweight and WBA/WBC, former IBF Welterweight Champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr.; current WBC Middleweight and former WBO Junior Welterweight and WBA Welterweight Champion Miguel Cotto; former WBA, WBC, WBO Cruiserweight Champion David Haye; former IBF Flyweight and WBA, WBC Junior Bantamweight Champion Vic Darchinyan. This group includes fighters who didnt win a WBA title, but did WBA, IBF and WBO: Michael Carbajal. Notable other boxing champions who never fought for WBC titles, but whom won WBA, IBF and WBO titles were Juan Diaz, Darius Michalczewski and Michael Moorer. Former boxing champions who won the WBA, WBC and IBF titles- but not the WBO title- Julio Cesar Chavez, Sr., Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns, Evander Holyfield, Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike McCallum, Shane Mosley and Cory Spinks. The following fighter didnt win the IBF title- but did the WBA, WBC and WBO: Joel Casamayor. Lastly, Fidel LaBarba won the American, NYSAC and NBA Flyweight titles; but not the National Police Gazette or British/English versions. All work posted in this article is exclusive intellectual property and work product of the author: and is not to be copied, disseminated or otherwise reproduced without the expressed, written consent of the author. Copyright @ 1998-2014. All rights reserved.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:30:44 +0000
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