This is a list of British boxers who have won a world championship by one of the four major sanctioning organisations – the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and the World Boxing Organization (WBO) – as well as those awarded by The Ring . Additionally, prior to 1962, world champions were recognised by public consensus (world), and later by the New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC) and the National Boxing Association (NBA).
List of champions [ edit ] Heavyweight [ edit ] 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) WBA , WBC, 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 [ edit ] Light-heavyweight [ edit ] Super-middleweight [ edit ] Middleweight [ edit ] Light-middleweight [ edit ] Welterweight [ edit ] Light-welterweight [ edit ] Lightweight [ edit ] Super-featherweight [ edit ] Featherweight [ edit ] Super-bantamweight [ edit ] Bantamweight [ edit ] Super-flyweight [ edit ] No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref. 1 Kal Yafai WBA 2016 – 2020 4 [64]
Flyweight [ edit ] Light-flyweight [ edit ] No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref. 1 Paul Weir WBO 1994 – 1995 1 [83]
Mini-flyweight [ edit ] No. Name Recognition Date Title defence(s) Ref. 1 Paul Weir WBO 1993 1 [83]
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