List of British world boxing champions

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This is a list of British boxers who have won a world championship by one of the four major sanctioning organisations – the

National Boxing Association
(NBA).

List of champions

Heavyweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Bob Fitzsimmons World 1897 – 1899 0 [1]
2 Lennox Lewis WBC 1992 – 1994 3
3 Michael Bentt
WBO
 1993 – 1994 0
4 Herbie Hide WBO 1994 – 1995 0
5 Frank Bruno WBC 1995 – 1996 0
6 Henry Akinwande WBO 1996 – 1997 2
7 Lennox Lewis (2)
IBF
 1997 – 2001 9
8 Herbie Hide (2) WBO 1997 –1999 2
9 Lennox Lewis (3) WBC, IBF, The Ring 2001 – 2003 2
10 David Haye WBA 2009 – 2011 2
11 Tyson Fury WBA, IBF, WBO, The Ring 2015 – 2016 0
12 Anthony Joshua WBA, IBF, WBO 2016 – 2019 6
13 Anthony Joshua (2) WBA, IBF, WBO 2019 – 2021 1 [2]
14 Tyson Fury (2) WBC, The Ring 2020 – 2022 2 [3]

Cruiserweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Glenn McCrory IBF 1989 – 1990 1 [4]
2 Carl Thompson WBO 1997 – 1999 2
3 Johnny Nelson WBO 1999 – 2006 13
4 Enzo Maccarinelli WBO 2006 – 2008 4
5 David Haye WBA, WBC, WBO, The Ring 2007 – 2008 1
6 Tony Bellew WBC 2016 1
7 Lawrence Okolie WBO 2021 – 2023 3
8 Chris Billam-Smith WBO 2023 – present 0

Light-heavyweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Bob Fitzsimmons World 1903 – 1905 0 [5]
2 Freddie Mills
NBA
, The Ring 		1948 – 1950 0 [6]
3 John Conteh WBC 1974 – 1977 3
4 Dennis Andries WBC 1986 – 1987 1
5 Dennis Andries (2) WBC 1989 0
6 Dennis Andries (3) WBC 1990 – 1991 2
7 Clinton Woods IBF 2005 – 2007 7
8 Joe Calzaghe The Ring 2008 – 2009 1
9 Nathan Cleverly WBO 2011 – 2013 5
10 Nathan Cleverly (2) WBA 2016 – 2017 0

Super-middleweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Murray Sutherland IBF 1984 0 [7]
2 Nigel Benn WBO 1990 1
3 Chris Eubank WBO 1991 – 1995 14
4 Nigel Benn (2) WBC 1992 – 1996 9
5 Robin Reid WBC 1996 – 1997 3
6 Joe Calzaghe WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, The Ring 1997 – 2008 21
7 Richie Woodhall WBC 1998 – 1999 2
8 Glenn Catley WBC 2000 0
9 Carl Froch WBC 2008 – 2010 2
10 Carl Froch (2) WBC 2010 – 2011 1
11 Brian Magee WBA 2012 0 [8]
12 Carl Froch (3) WBA, IBF 2012 – 2014 4 [7]
13 James DeGale IBF 2015 – 2017 3
14 George Groves WBA 2017 – 2018 2
15 Rocky Fielding WBA 2018 0 [9]
16 James DeGale (2) IBF 2018 0 [7]
17 Callum Smith WBA, The Ring 2018 – 2020 3
18 Billy Joe Saunders WBO 2019 – 2021 2

Middleweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Bob Fitzsimmons World 1891 – 1894 2 [5]
2
Randy Turpin
 NYSAC, NBA, The Ring 1951 0 [10]
3 Terry Downes NYSAC, The Ring 1961 0 [11]
4 Alan Minter WBA, WBC, The Ring 1980 1 [12]
5 Nigel Benn WBO 1990 1 [13]
6 Chris Eubank WBO 1990 – 1991 3
7 Chris Pyatt WBO 1993 – 1994 2 [14]
8 Jason Matthews WBO 1999 0 [15]
9 Darren Barker IBF 2013 0 [16]
10 Billy Joe Saunders WBO 2015 – 2018 3 [17]

Light-middleweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Maurice Hope WBC 1979 – 1981 3 [18]
2 Paul Jones WBO 1995 – 1996 0 [19]
3 Liam Smith WBO 2015 – 2016 2 [20]

Welterweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Matt Wells World 1914 – 1915 0 [21]
2 John H. Stracey WBC, The Ring 1975 – 1976 1 [22]
3 Lloyd Honeyghan WBC, IBF, The Ring 1986 – 1987 3 [23]
4 Lloyd Honeyghan (2) WBC, The Ring 1988 – 1989 1
5 Ricky Hatton WBA 2006 0
6 Kell Brook IBF 2014 – 2017 3 [24]

Light-welterweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Jack Kid Berg NBA, The Ring 1930 – 1931 14 [25]
2 Terry Marsh IBF 1987 1 [26]
3 Ricky Hatton WBA, IBF, The Ring 2005 – 2009 5 [27]
4 Junior Witter WBC 2006 – 2008 2 [28]
5 Gavin Rees WBA 2007 – 2008 0 [29]
6 Amir Khan WBA, IBF 2009 – 2011 5 [30]
7 Ricky Burns WBA 2016 – 2017 1 [31]
8 Josh Taylor WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, The Ring 2019 – present 3 [32]

Lightweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Freddie Welsh World 1914 – 1917 – [33]
2 Ken Buchanan WBA, WBC, The Ring, NYSAC 1970 – 1972 2 [34]
3 Jim Watt WBC, The Ring 1979 – 1981 4 [35]
4 Ricky Burns WBO 2012 – 2014 4 [36]
5 Anthony Crolla WBA 2016 – 2017 1 [37]
6 Terry Flanagan WBO 2015 – 2017 5 [38]

Super-featherweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Barry Jones WBO 1997 0 [39]
2 Alex Arthur WBO 2008 0 [40]
3 Nicky Cook WBO 2008 – 2009 0 [41]
4 Ricky Burns WBO 2011 – 2012 2 [36]

Featherweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Ben Jordan World 1899 – [42]
2 Howard Winstone WBC 1968 0 [43]
3
Paul Hodgkinson
 WBC 1991 – 1993 3 [44]
4 Colin McMillan WBO 1992 0 [45]
5 Steve Robinson IBF 1993 – 1995 7 [46]
6 Naseem Hamed WBC, IBF, WBO 1995 – 2000 15 [47]
7 Paul Ingle IBF 1999 – 2000 1 [48]
8 Scott Harrison WBO 2002 – 2003 1 [49]
9 Scott Harrison (2) WBO 2003 – 2005 6
10 Lee Selby IBF 2015 – 2018 4 [50]
11 Carl Frampton WBA 2016 – 2017 0 [51]
12 Josh Warrington IBF 2018 – 2021 3 [52]
13 Leigh Wood WBA 2021 - 2023 2 [84]

Super-bantamweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Duke McKenzie WBO 1992 – 1993 0 [53]
2 Scott Quigg WBA 2013 – 2016 6 [54]
3 Carl Frampton WBA, IBF 2014 – 2016 3 [55]
4 Isaac Dogboe WBO 2018 1 [56]

Bantamweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Joe Bowker World 1904 – 1905 1 [57]
2 Duke McKenzie WBO 1991 – 1992 2 [53]
3 Robbie Regan WBO 1996 0 [58]
4 Jamie McDonnell IBF 2013 0 [59]
5 Stuart Hall IBF 2013 – 2014 1 [60]
6 Paul Butler IBF 2014 0 [61]
7 Jamie McDonnell (2) WBA 2014 – 2018 6 [59]
8 Lee Haskins IBF 2015 – 2017 2 [62]
9 Ryan Burnett WBA, IBF 2017 – 2018 2 [63]

Super-flyweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Kal Yafai WBA 2016 – 2020 4 [64]

Flyweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Sid Smith World 1911 – 1913 1 [65]
2 Bill Ladbury World 1913 – 1914 1 [66]
3 Percy Jones World 1914 1 [67]
4 Tancy Lee World 1915 – [68]
5 Joe Symonds World 1915 – 1916 – [69]
6 Jimmy Wilde World 1916 – 1923 – [70]
7 Jackie Brown World, NBA 1932 – 1935 3 [71]
8 Benny Lynch World, NBA, NYSAC, The Ring 1935 – 1938 3 [72]
9 Peter Kane World, NBA, The Ring 1938 – 1943 2 [73]
10 Jackie Paterson World, NBA, The Ring 1943 – 1948 1 [74]
11 Rinty Monaghan NBA 1948 – 1950 3 [75]
12 Terry Allen NBA, The Ring 1950 0 [76]
13 Walter McGowan The Ring 1966 0 [77]
14 Charlie Magri WBC 1983 0 [78]
15 Duke McKenzie IBF 1988 – 1989 1 [53]
16 Dave McAuley IBF 1989 – 1992 5 [79]
17 Pat Clinton WBO 1992 – 1993 1 [80]
18 Charlie Edwards WBC 2018 – 2019 2 [81]
19 Sunny Edwards IBF 2021 – present 3 [82]

Light-flyweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Paul Weir WBO 1994 – 1995 1 [83]

Mini-flyweight

No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref.
1 Paul Weir WBO 1993 1 [83]

See also

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