The World Boxing Association (WBA), formerly known as the National Boxing Association (NBA), is the oldest and one of four major organizations which sanction professional boxing bouts, alongside the World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Organization (WBO). The WBA awards its world championship title at the professional level. Founded in the United States in 1921 by 13 state representatives as the NBA, in 1962 it changed its name in recognition of boxing's growing popularity worldwide and began to gain other nations as members.
The International Boxing Organization (IBO) is a US based corporation that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards world and regional championships.
Lester Ellis is a British-born Australian former professional boxer. He is a five-time world champion, having also held the Australian and Commonwealth (twice) titles.
Jhonny González Vera is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a three-time former world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBO bantamweight title from 2005 to 2007, and the WBC featherweight title twice between 2011 and 2015. Additionally, he held the IBO featherweight title from 2010 to 2011.
Junior Jones is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2002. He held world championships in two weight classes, including the World Boxing Association (WBA) bantamweight title from 1993 to 1994 and the World Boxing Organization (WBO) super bantamweight title from 1996 to 1997. He also held the International Boxing Organization (IBO) featherweight title from 1999 to 2000.
Nonito Gonzales Donaire Jr. is a Filipino American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes from flyweight to featherweight, and is the oldest boxer in history to win a bantamweight world title, as well as being the first three-time champion in that weight class. Donaire has also held world championships in three consecutive decades: the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s, being the sixth boxer to do so after Evander Holyfield, Manny Pacquiao, Bernard Hopkins, Erik Morales, and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Eva Ulrika Birgitta Räsänen is a Finnish former professional boxer who competed from 2010 to 2020. She held the WBC female super-featherweight title from 2015 to 2020 and at regional level the European female super-featherweight title from 2012 to 2015. As an amateur she won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2004 and 2005 Women's European Championships, and represented Finland at the 2006 Women's World Championships. She is the most successful professional boxer from Finland to date, being the first and only Finn to have won a world title from one of the four major boxing sanctioning bodies.
In different sports when a sportsman wins seven crowns, titles, medals, belts or another distinctions is called a Septuple Champion.
Shannon O'Connell, nicknamed Shotgun Shannon is an Australian professional boxer who held the WBF female featherweight world title in 2013 and was known as The Queen of Australian Boxing before suffering a crushing TKO loss by Ebanie Bridges. As of September, 2022 she is the mandatory challenger for the IBF bantamweight world championship, number 1 ranked contender for the WBA and IBO bantamweight world championships, and is currently the number 3 ranked women's bantamweight in the world by Boxrec.
Abdul-Bari "Barry" Awad, best known by his nickname of "Kid Galahad", is a British professional boxer who held the IBF featherweight title in 2021. He held multiple regional championships at super-bantamweight, including the British, Commonwealth, and European titles between 2013 and 2014, and challenged for the IBO lightweight title in 2022. His ring name was chosen by trainer Brendan Ingle after a character played by Elvis Presley in the 1962 film of the same name.
Shavkatdzhon Shokirovich Rakhimov is a Tajikistani professional boxer. He held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) super-featherweight title from 2022 to 2023 and the International Boxing Organisation (IBO) super-featherweight title from 2017 to 2019. As of June 2023, he is ranked as the world's fifth best active super-featherweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, fourth by BoxRec and fifth by The Ring.
Terri Harper is an English professional boxer and current WBA and IBO Super-Welterweight champion. She is also the former super-featherweight world champion, having held the IBO female title from 2019 to November 2021 and the WBC version from 2020 to November 2021. Following a brief amateur career, Harper made her professional debut in 2017. She won her first championship two years later, capturing the regional WBC International female lightweight title in 2019. Later that year she moved down a weight class to the super-featherweight division to win her first world championship, the vacant IBO title, and added the WBC title to her collection the following year after defeating long-reigning champion Eva Wahlström. With her victory over Wahlström, Harper became the second British woman after Nicola Adams to hold a major world championship.
Viviane Obenauf is a Brazilian former professional boxer who competed from 2014 to 2019. She has challenged three times for world titles; the IBO female lightweight title in 2017; the IBF female super featherweight title in 2018; and the IBO female super featherweight title in 2019.
Stephen Fulton Jr. is an American professional boxer. He is a former unified super bantamweight world champion, having held the WBO and the WBC titles from 2021 to July 2023. He previously held the IBO super bantamweight title from 2019 to 2020.
Alycia Baumgardner is an American professional boxer. She has held the WBC and IBO female super featherweight titles since 2021, and the WBO, IBF, and The Ring female super featherweight titles since 2022. She became the undisputed female super featherweight champion of the world on February 4, 2023.
Firuza Sharipova is a Kazakhstani professional boxer who held the WIBA lightweight title in 2019. As of December 2021, she is ranked number two in the world by the WBA.
Marea Motu is a New Zealand Maori Professional Boxer.
Boxing in the 2020s is a list of notable fights and events in boxing during the decade from the year 2020 to 2029.
