25/05/2024
: Vasyl Lomachenko (21-3*) joins the
List of Boxing Champions who Won All 4 Major
Sanctioning Titles in the Same Weight Class. He
defeated George Kambosos, Jr. for the Vacant IBF
Title. His name would already be on the list had he
won a deserved decision vs Devin Haney.
[Loma held the WBA, WBC and WBO Lightweight
Titles prior to his Undisputed, Unification Bout with
IBF Titlist Teofimo Lopez. Lomachenko was stripped
of the WBC title prior to fighting Lopez. For this
reason Lopez does not make the list, having yet
to win a WBC Title at any weight.]
Other 4 Title Belt Holders and World Champs
During the Bareknuckle Era, John L. Sullivan
won the Heavyweight Championship of America,
Heavyweight Championship of the World, the
English Heavyweight Championship: and the
National Police Gazette Heavyweight Title: or
HCA/HCW/EHC/NPG Heavyweight Belts.
Joe Calzaghe won all 4 titles at Super
Middleweight (though he was stripped
of the IBF title prior to unifying the WBO,
WBA and WBC belts.
Bernard Hopkins won and held all 4 belts at
Middleweight, then claimed 3 of 4 at one
point in the Light Heavyweight division.
Jermain Taylor won all 4 Middleweight titles
(defeating Hopkins). [Had Taylor not been
stripped of his WBA and IBF titles- and Cory
Spinks had been awarded the proper verdict-
he would appear on the list. Spinks likewise
held 3 of 4 titles at Welterweight.]
Tyson Fury has won all 4 Heavyweight Titles,
in 2 different reigns as Undisputed Heavyweight
Champion. He claimed Wladimir Klitschko’s
WBA, IBF and WBO Belts; then vacated them.
He later beat Deontay Wilder for the WBC Title.
He failed to Unify all 4 vs Oleksandr Usyk.
Josh Taylor unified all 4 Junior Welterweight titles.
Many believe Jack Catterall defeated Taylor: but
lost the official decision for the WBA, WBC, IBF
and WBO Titles at 140 lbs.
Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez won 3 of 4 at Middleweight:
and now holds all 4 at Super Middleweight. He
will likely be stripped of multiple titles.
Bud Crawford was the first male fighter to win
All 4 Major Sanctioning Body Titles in 2 Different
Weight Classes (won all 4 at Junior Welterweight:
and Welterweight). Inoue and Usyk have since
joined him this tremendous accomplishment.
Naoya Inoue (26-0) became the 2nd professional
fighter to win ‘Universal, Undisputed, Unified’ World
Championships in 2 different weight classes. The
Monster won all 4 at Bantamweight: and now in the
Jr. Featherweight division. Inoue is also 20-0 All
All Time in World Title Bouts.
Oleksandr Usyk won all 4 at Cruiserweight: and now
holds all 4 at Heavyweight, having defeated Tyson
Fury (WBC) and Anthony Joshua (WBA, IBF, WBO).
Jermell Charlo (the 4-Belt Junior Middleweight
Champion) failed versus Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez
(the 4-Belt Super Middleweight Champion) in
boxing’s 1st ever Dual Universal Championship
Bout. Only Alvarez’s titles were on the line.
Devin Haney unified all 4 Lightweight titles
(in a controversial decision that should have
resulted in Vasyl Lomachenko joining the list).
Robert Guerrero won the IBF Featherweight
and Junior Lightweight titles; as well as the
WBA, WBO Interim Lightweight titles: and
the WBC Interim Welterweight title.
Riddick Bowe won 3 of the 4 Heavyweight
Belts against Evander Holyfield, then later
claimed the WBO belt (again beating Holy).
Ricardo Lopez won the WBC, WBO and
WBA Minimumweight titles, than later
won the IBF Junior Flyweight title.
Oscar de la Hoya won the WBO Junior
Lightweight, Lightweight and Middleweight
titles; the IBF Lightweight title (also should
have won Welterweight vs Trinidad); the
WBC Junior Welterweight, Welterweight
and Junior Middleweight titles: and the
WBA Junior Middleweight title.
Winky Wright won the WBO Junior Middleweight
title, then lost it. He would later claim the IBF
title, and unify the WBA and WBC belts as well.
Zab Judah won the IBF Junior Welterweight title.
Though he failed in a WBA/WBC/IBF Unification
bout against Kostya Tszyu, he later claimed the
WBO title, and then won the WBA, WBC and IBF
Welterweight titles from Cory Spinks.
Manny Pacquiao won the WBC Flyweight, Junior Lightweight, Lightweight and Junior Middleweight
titles. He also won the WBA Welterweight and Jr. Middleweight titles; IBF Jr. Featherweight title:
and the WBO Welterweight title.
Juan Manual Marquez won the IBF Featherweight
title, WBA Featherweight and Lightweight titles;
the WBO Interim Featherweight, Lightweight and
Interim Junior Welterweight titles, plus the WBC
Junior Lightweight title.
Miguel Cotto won the WBO Junior Welterweight and Welterweight titles; WBA Welterweight and Junior
Middleweight titles; the WBC Middleweight title:
and then later the WBO Junior Middleweight title.
Nonito Donaire won the IBF Flyweight and Junior Featherweight titles; then the Interim WBA Junior Bantamweight title; the WBC, WBA and WBO
Bantamweight titles; the IBF and WBO Junior Featherweight title: and WBA Featherweight title.
Andre Ward won the WBA and WBC Super
Middleweight titles: and the WBA, IBF and WBO
Light Heavyweight titles vs. Sergey Kovalev (in
a bogus decision and not called DQ bout).
Katsunari Takayama won the WBC Minimumweight,
WBA Interim, IBF: and WBO Minimumweight titles.
Naseem Hamed held the WBO, WBC, and IBF
Featherweight titles. He would have won the WBA
belt, but Wilfredo Vazquez, Sr. was stripped before
their unification bout.
Evander Holyfield won all 3 belts at Cruiserweight
(prior to the WBO): and 3 of the 4 at Heavyweight.
He failed to claim the WBO Heavyweight title vs.
Riddick Bowe in their 3rd trilogy bout.
Marvin Hagler (Middleweight), Pernell Whitaker
(Lightweight), Roy Jones, Jr. (Light Heavyweight),
O’Neill Bell (Cruiserweight): and Gennady Golovkin
(Middleweight(l) all held WBA, WBC and IBF Belts
simultaneously. Only Golovkin fought for a WBO
Title at Super Middleweight, when he dropped
a decision vs Canelo Alvarez (for all 4 belts).
Dariusz Michalczewski and Wladimir Klitschko both
held 3 Belts (WBA, IBF, WBO) at Light Heavyweight
and Heavyweight. David Haye held the WBA, WBC
and WBO Cruiserweight titles.
[Floyd Mayweather, Jr. technically never won or held
all 3 belts in the same weight class. Mayweather requested the WBO belt that had not been on the
line vs Pacquiao: but then was ‘stripped’ 3 days later
for failing to pay a full sanctioning fee. Therefore
he is excluded from the list.]
Note: both women to pull off the feat are not
included on the list due to sanctioning bodies
creating titles and instantly merging them in
non-unification bouts.
[Claressa Shields won all 4 Titles in the Jr.
Middleweight and Middleweight divisions.
Katie Taylor unified all 4 Lightweight titles:
and won all 4 Junior Welterweight titles.
Chantelle Cameron and Jessica McCaskill won
all 4 titles in the Junior Welterweight and the
Welterweight divisions respectively.
Both only won all 4 titles in 1 weight class,
as did Cecilia Brækhus at Welterweight.
Franchón Crews-Dezurn unified all 4
Super Middleweight titles. Amanda Serrano
unified all 4 Featherweight titles.
Alycia Baumgardner unified all 4 Junior
Lightweight titles. Savannah Marshall won
all 4 Super Middleweight titles (defeating
the aforementioned Crews-Dezurn).]
Greg Goodrich Updated May 25, 2024.
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Greg Goodrich Updated May 25, 2024.
Copyright 1989-2024. All Rights Reserved
