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Welterweight
Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term ''welterweight'' was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify the opponents. If used, welterweight is typically between lightweight and middleweight. Etymology The first known instance of the term is from 1831, meaning 'heavyweight horseman', later 'boxer or wrestler of a certain weight' by 1896. This sense comes from earlier ''welter'', 'heavyweight horseman or boxer' from 1804, possibly from 15th century , meaning 'to beat severely'. Boxing Professional boxing A professional welterweight boxer's weight is greater than 140 pounds, and no more than 147 pounds (about 63.5–66.7 kg). Current world champions Current champions Current world rankings =''The Ring''= As of April 21, 2025. Keys: : Current ''The Ring (magazine), The Ring'' world champion =''BoxRec''= . Longest-reigning worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Crawford
Terence Allan Crawford (born September 28, 1987) is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple quadruple champion#Boxing, world championships in four weight classes, from lightweight to light middleweight, including the undisputed championship (boxing), undisputed championship at light welterweight and welterweight–and is the first male boxer in history to become the undisputed champion in two weight classes in the "four-belt era". He has held the World Boxing Association (WBA) light middleweight and World Boxing Organization (WBO) interim championship, interim light middleweight titles since 2024. In 2014, Crawford traveled overseas to fight Ricky Burns and won his first world championship, the WBO lightweight title. After two successful defenses, he moved up to light welterweight in 2015 and defeated Thomas Dulorme for the vacant WBO light welterweight title. In 2017, Crawford had a short reign as the undisputed light welterweight champion, being the first since Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kell Brook
Ezekiel "Kell" Brook (born 3 May 1986) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2022. He held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) welterweight title from 2014 to 2017, and challenged once for a unified middleweight world title in 2016. At regional level, he held multiple welterweight titles, including the British welterweight title from 2008 to 2010. In May 2017, Brook was ranked as the world's best active welterweight by '' The Ring'' magazine. Amateur career Brook had his first amateur fight at age 12 under the guidance of Brendan Ingle. At the end of his amateur career, he had won 31 of his 36 fights, winning two Amateur Boxing Association of England titles and two National Association of Boys Clubs British Boxing Championships and a gold medal in the 4 Nations. An early inspiration for Brook was Naseem Hamed, who was also trained by Ingle at the same Wincobank gym. Professional career Welterweight Early career Brook's first fight as a prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Thurman
Keith Fitzgerald Thurman (born November 23, 1988) is an American professional boxer. He is a former unified welterweight world champion, having held the World Boxing Association, WBA title from 2016 to 2019 (promoted to WBA (Super), Super champion in 2017), and the World Boxing Council, WBC title from 2017 to 2018. As of July 2022, he is ranked as the world's fifth best active welterweight by BoxRec. Early life Thurman was born in Clearwater, Florida, to an African-American father and a European ethnic groups, European-American mother of Polish and Hungarian descent. Amateur career Thurman's first amateur fight was in 1997. He was trained by the late Benjamin Getty who worked with Sugar Ray Leonard. Getty took Thurman under his belt as a child and helped shape him into the fighter he is today. Thurman is now trained by Dan Birmingham. Thurman finished his amateur career with 101 victories (76 KO's), he won 6 National Championships including the 2006 PAL National Championships. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaron Ennis
Jaron Ennis ( ; born June 26, 1997) is an American professional boxer and unified welterweight champion, having held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) welterweight title since 2023 and the World Boxing Association (WBA) ( Super version) and ''Ring magazine'' titles since April 2025. As an amateur, he won a silver and gold medal at the U.S. National Golden Gloves Championships in 2014 and 2015 respectively. Professional career Early career Ennis made his professional debut on April 30, 2016, defeating Cory Muldrew via first-round knockout (KO) at the Dixie Center in St. George, Utah. He fought a further seven times in 2016, scoring four consecutive stoppage wins over Luis Ramos in May; Deshawn Debose in June; Tavorus Teague in July; and Matt Murphy in August. Ennis went the distance for the first time in September, defeating Eddie Diaz by unanimous decision (UD) in a scheduled four-round bout. He saw out the year with two more stoppage wins over Chris Alexander in No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Avanesyan
David Gavrushevich Avanesyan (; born 15 August 1988) is a Russian professional boxer. He has held the European welterweight title since 2019 and previously the WBA (Regular) welterweight title in 2017 (previously the interim title from 2015 until being promoted). Early life Avanesyan was born into an Armenian family in the Caucasus region of Pyatigorsk.Staff (27 May 2016)"The man who could end the career of Shane Mosley" ''Boxing News''. Newsquest. Retrieved 12 September 2016. Professional career Early career Avanesyan made his professional debut on 12 June 2009, scoring a four-round unanimous decision (UD) against Vazgen Agadzhanyan, who also debuted. In his second fight a month later, on 11 July, Avanesyan lost a six-round UD to Andrey Klimov. He would then win twelve consecutive fights over the next four years, picking up the Russian welterweight title and two WBC regional titles along the way. Avanesyan's winning streak ended on 16 March 2013, following a split draw a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Barrios
Mario Thomas Barrios (born May 18, 1995) is a Mexican-American professional boxer. He has held the World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight championship since 2024. Previously, he held the World Boxing Association (WBA) (Regular version) super lightweight title from 2019 to 2021. Professional career Barrios turned professional in 2013. On May 11, 2019, Barrios faced Juan Jose Velasco. Barrios got the KO win via a spectacular body shot in the second round. WBA (Regular) super-lightweight champion Barrios vs. Akhmedov On September 28, 2019, Barrios was victorious against undefeated Batyr Akhmedov by unanimous decision, with scores of 114–112, 115–111, 116–111, to win the vacant WBA (Regular) super lightweight title in a tough contest on the undercard of Errol Spence Jr. vs. Shawn Porter, in which Barrios dropped Akhmedov twice in the fourth and twelfth rounds but took considerable punishment resulting in most of his face being swollen. The decision was considered controve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikey Garcia
Miguel Angel Garcia Cortez (born December 15, 1987), best known as Mikey Garcia, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2021. He held multiple world championships in four weight classes from featherweight to light welterweight, and challenged once for the IBF welterweight title. Early life and education Born to Mexican parents, Miguel Angel's father, Eduardo, was an amateur boxer and trainer of world champion boxer Fernando Vargas at La Colonia Youth Boxing Club. His older brother, Roberto was a professional boxer and a former IBF Super Featherweight Champion who lost his belt to the late Diego Corrales. His oldest brother, Daniel, was a boxer and trainer. He has been featured on ABC's show American Latino TV and he talked about balancing studies with the demands of boxing. Garcia has said he grew up in a "gang-related neighborhood" in Oxnard, California. Garcia said that his parents were both strawberry pickers. Amateur career Garcia star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cody Crowley
Cody Crowley (born 25 March 1993) is a Canadian professional boxer. Professional boxing career Crowley made his professional debut against Ronnie Peterson on 28 June 2014. He won the fight by a second-round technical knockout. He amassed an 11–0 record during the next three years, before being booked to face Edgar Ortega for the vacant Canadian Professional Boxing Council's International super-welterweight title on 13 May 2017. He won his first professional title by a dominant unanimous decision, with all three judges awarding him all ten rounds of the bout. Crowley made his first title defense against Richard Holmes on 30 September 2017. He won the fight by a sixth-round technical knockout. Crowley was booked to face Kevin Higson for the vacant Canadian Professional Boxing Council National super welterweight title on 5 May 2018. He won the fight by a dominant unanimous decision, with all three judges scoring the fight 100–90 in his favor. Crowely next faced Michi Munoz in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eimantas Stanionis
Eimantas Stanionis (born 17 August 1994) is a Lithuanian professional boxer. He held the World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight title from 2022 to 2025. As an amateur, he won a gold medal at the 2015 European Championships in the welterweight bracket. Professional career After defeating Liu Wei in his first match in the welterweight division of the 2016 Summer Olympics he lost a 3-0 decision to eventual silver medalist (and 2017 World Amateur Champion) Shakhram Giyasov of Uzbekistan. Stanionis made his professional debut on April 9, 2017, against Rasheed Olawale Lawal. He won the fight by a first-round knockout. Stanionis notched three more victories in 2017, stopping Isaac Freeman on July 30, Oscar Valenzuela on September 23, and winning a unanimous decision against Todd Manuel on October 14. Stanionis began 2018 with a fourth-round technical knockout of Hector Munoz on March 10, 2018. He followed this up with a third-round technical knockout of Erick Daniel Martinez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Boxing Association
The World Boxing Association (WBA), formerly known as the National Boxing Association (NBA), is an international professional boxing organization based in Panama. 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, it is the oldest major organization regulating fights. In 1962, it changed its name in recognition of boxing's growing popularity around the world and began to admit other nations as members. By 1975, a majority of its members were Latin American nations and the organization headquarters was moved to Panama City, Panama. It moved again in the 1990s to Venezuela before returning to Panama in 2007. Alongside the World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Organization (WBO), it was one of four major organizations which sanctions professional boxing bouts. As of August 2024, boxing website BoxRec no longer recognizes WBA world tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovani Santillan
Giovani Santillan (born 3 December 1991) is an American professional boxer who has been competing in the sport since 2012. Early life Santillan was born in San Diego, California to parents from Mexico. Amateur career As an amateur, Santillan won the 2004 California State Silver Gloves on Junior division(12–13 years olds) and fought in the finals of the 2005 Junior Division National Silver Gloves. Professional career Santillan beat Imarjoe Miller via Unanimous decision in his debut match. Santillan won the NABO welterweight title against Sammy Valentin and throughout 2017 and 2018, Santillan successfully defended the title two times. Santillan regained the NABO title back in October 2023 after defeating rising star, Alexis Rocha via 6th-round knockout at Kia Forum and makes Rocha taste his first knockout loss. Santillan faced Brian Norman Jr. for the vacant WBO interim welterweight Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term ''welterweight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Boxing Council
The World Boxing Council (WBC) is an international professional boxing organization. It is among the four major organizations which sanction professional boxing bouts, alongside the World Boxing Association (WBA), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Organization (WBO). Many historically high-profile bouts have been sanctioned by the organization with various notable fighters having been recognised as WBC world champions. All four organizations recognise the legitimacy of each other and each have interwoven histories dating back several decades. History The WBC was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Tunisia, the Philippines, Panama, USSR, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil. Representatives met in Mexico City on 14 February 1963, upon invitation of Adolfo López Mateos, then President of Mexico, to form an international organization to unify all commissions of the world to control the expansion of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
