Boxing's world titleholders
I keep track so you don't have to
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As we hit the end of 2022 there have been several changes since the last champions update. Among them: middleweight, where Demetrius Andrade vacated; junior lightweight, where Shakur Stevenson was stripped of two titles for missing weight and Joe Cordina of one due to injury; featherweight, where Luis Alberto Lopez defeated Josh Warrington for a title and Leo Santa Cruz vacated; bantamweight, where Naoya Inoue became undisputed champion; junior bantamweight, where Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez vacated; and junior flyweight, where Kenshiro Teraji unified two belts.
As of December 24, 2022
Heavyweight (Unlimited)
WBC: Tyson Fury
WBO: Oleksandr Usyk*
IBF: Oleksandr Usyk
WBA: Oleksandr Usyk**
*Joe Joyce is the WBO interim heavyweight champion
**Daniel Dubois is the WBA “regular” heavyweight champion
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