List of WBU world champions

The following is a list of WBU world champions, a table showing the world champions certificated by the World Boxing Union (WBU), founded in the United States in 1995. This does not includes champions of the identically named German based organization that was active in the 2010s.

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

List of WBU Champions

WBU heavyweight champions have included: ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
George Foreman	March 29, 1995 – 1997	2	Foreman was recognized as champion after he was stripped of the IBF title
Corrie Sanders	November 15, 1997 – May 20, 2000	3	Defeated Ross Purity
Hasim Rahman	May 20, 2000 – April 21, 2001	0	Relinquished the title in order to fight Lennox Lewis for the IBF, IBO and WBC titles
Johnny Nelson	November 24, 2001 – December 4, 2001	0	Defeated Alexander Vasiliev. Relinquished the title in order to concentrate on defending his WBO Cruiserweight title
Georgi Kandelaki	December 21, 2002 – January 2004	0	Defeated Alexander Vasiliev. Kandelaki either relinquished or was stripped of the title
Matt Skelton	February 25, 2005 – January 26, 2009	0	Skelton relinquished the title

Cruiserweight

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
Thomas Hearns	March 31, 1995 –1996	0	Won vacant title
James Toney	February 22, 1997 –1997	0	Won vacant title
Don Diego Poeder	June 14, 1997 –1997	1	Won vacant title
Jacob Mofokeng	September 12, 1998 –1999	0	Won vacant title
Vincenzo Cantatore	March 20, 1999 –March 1999	0	Won vacant title
Rob Norton	April 1, 1999 –24 September 1999	0	Won vacant title
Sebastiaan Rothmann	24 September 1999 –2003	6
Enzo Maccarinelli	28 June 2003 –2006	7	Won vacant title
Mark Hobson	8 September 2006 –2009	0	Won vacant title

Light-Heavyweight

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
James Toney	June 18, 1995 –6 December 1996	3	Won vacant title
Montell Griffin	6 December 1996 –1997	0
Frank Tate	30 August 1997 –?	0	Won vacant title
Dario Walter Matteoni	2 March 2000 –?	0	Won vacant title
Tony Oakey	4 March 2002 –11 October 2003	3	Won vacant title
Matthew Barney	11 October 2003 –?	0

Super-Middleweight

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
Thomas Tate	21 November 1995 –1996	0	Won vacant title
Vinny Pazienza	23 August 1996 –1998	0	Won vacant title
Norbert Nieroba	18 April 1998 – 8 May 1999	0	Won vacant title
Nordin Ben Salah	8 May 1999 – 2000	0
Silvio Branco	15 April 2000 – ?	1	Won vacant title
Eric Teymour	24 November 2004 – ?	0	Won vacant title

Middleweight

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
Dana Rosenblatt	13 April 1996 –1996	0	Won vacant title
Silvio Branco	19 September 1996 –18 December 1998	6
Agostino Cardemone	18 December 1998 –26 June 1999	1
Raymond Joval	26 June 1999 –13 December 1999	0
Antonio Perugino	13 December 1999 –2000	0
Kevin Kelly	5 May 2000 –2000	0	Won vacant title
Antonio Perugino	3 June 2000 –?	0	Won vacant title
Ruben Groenewald	6 June 2002 –28 September 2002	0	Won vacant title
Anthony Farnell	28 September 2002 –5 April 2003	1
Wayne Ellcock	5 April 2003 –29 November 2003	0
Lawrence Murphy	29 November 2003 –6 March 2004	0
Anthony Farnell	6 March 2004 –12 June 2004	0
Eugenio Monteiro	12 June 2004 –?	0
Gary Lockett	11 March 2006 –?	2

Light-Middleweight

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
Emmett Linton	3 November –1996	1	Won vacant title
Verno Phillips	21 May 1997 –1998	2	Won vacant title
Rashid Matumla	19 December 1998 –?	1	Won vacant title
Takaloo	7 July 2001 –17 August 2002	2	Won vacant title
Daniel Santos	17 August 2002 –2002	0
Takaloo	2 January 2003 –10 September 2004	1	Won vacant title
Wayne Alexander	10 September 2004–?	1

Welterweight

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
Gary Murray	26 August 1995 –26 October 1996	4	Won vacant title
Alessandro Duran	26 October 1996 –30 July 1997	1
Peter Malinga	30 July 1997 –17 November 1997	0
Alessandro Duran	17 November 1997 –5 May 1998	0
Michele Piccirillo	5 May 1998 –2001	8
Jan Piet Bergman	2 June 2001 –2003	3	Won Vacant Title
Eamonn Magee	6 October 2003 –20 May 2006	1	Won Vacant Title
Takaloo	20 May 2008 –7 April 2010
Ben Reiter	7 April 2010 –May 2015	10
Cristian Charquero	15 June 2015 –May 2016	5	Won Vacant Title
Tomas Valko	10 May 2016 –2016		Won Unification world Title

Light-Welterweight

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
Shea Neary	26 October 1996 –11 March 2000	5	Vacant title
Micky Ward	11 March 2000 –2000	0
Jason Rowland	21 October 2000 –2001	0	Vacant title
Ricky Hatton	26 March 2001 –?	15	Vacant title
Lee McAllister	29 March 2008 –?	0	Vacant title

Lightweight

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
George Scott	7 October 1995 –1997	4	Vacant title
Colin Dunne	28 November 1997 –7 December 2002	7	Vacant title
David Burke	7 December 2002 –2003	0
Toncho Tonchev	31 March 2004 –?	0	Vacant title
Graham Earl	28 October 2006 –?	0	Vacant title
Lee McAllister	6 October 2008 –?	0	Vacant title
Willie Limond	29 March 2009 –?	0	Vacant title

Super-Featherweight

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
Angel Manfredy	18 October 1995 –1998	7	Vacant title
Jorge Rodrigo Barrios	10 July 1997 –2001	2	Vacant title
Phillip Ndou	25 July 2001 –2002	3	Vacant title
Kevin Lear	I May 2002 –2003	1	Vacant title
Michael Gomez	3 April 2004 –11 February 2005	2	Vacant title

Featherweight

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
Kevin Kelley	2 February 1996 –1998	4	Vacant title
Cassius Baloyi	22 April 1998 –2001	7	Vacant title
Lehlo Ledwaba	27 July 2002 –?	0	Vacant title
Stephen Foster	11 May 2005 –14 October 2006	1
Derry Matthews	14 October 2006–5 April 2008	2
Choi Tseveenpurev	5 April 2008–?	0;

Super-Bantamweight

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
Kennedy McKinney	26 August 1995 –1996	0	Vacant title
Max Gomez	16 March 1996 –9 June 1996	0	Vacant title
Frankie Toledo	9 June 1996 –15 November 1996	0
Cassius Baloyi	15 November 1996 –1998	3
Carlos Navarro	21 February 1998 –11 December 1999	2
Carlos Contreras	11 December 1999 –2001	1
Nedal Hussein	29 June 2001 –?	0	Vacant Title

See also

• List of IBF world champions
• List of WBA world champions
• List of WBC world champions
• List of WBO world champions

References

1. "Steve Dimitry's Heavyweight Boxing History". Archived from the original on 2007-12-08. Retrieved 3 November 2007.
2. "All World Boxing Union fights registeres by BoxRec.com".
3. "WBU Titles 2015-2019 | World Boxing Union".