List of World Champions
- M Major Sanctioning Body
- m Minor Sanctioning Body
This compendium uses the same parameters used by the Puerto Rico Boxing Commission to classify champions. Boxers that won a world championship in either a major or minor organization are included.
- W Undisputed World Championship
- L Lineal World Championship
- S Super World Championship
- I Interim World Championship
- C World Colored Championship
- Y Youth World Championship
- E Emeritus Championship
- D Diamond Championship
- P4P Pound for Pound Leader
Number | Name | Date | Titles | Successful defenses | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sixto Escobar | June 6, 1934 | Bantamweight (W 2 & L 2) | 5 | |
2 | Herbert Lewis "Cocoa Kid" Hardwick | June 11, 1937 | Welterweight (C), Middleweight (C) "World Colored Championship" |
4 and 0 | |
3 | Carlos Ortiz | June 12, 1959 | Light welterweight (W) and lightweight (W 2 & L 2) | 2 and 9 | |
4 | José Torres | March 30, 1965 | Light heavyweight (M, M & L) | 3 | |
5 | Ángel Espada | June 28, 1975 | Welterweight (M) | 1 | |
6 | Alfredo Escalera | July 5, 1975 | Super featherweight (M) | 10 | |
7 | Samuel Serrano | October 16, 1976 | Super featherweight (M 2 & L 2) | 14 | |
8 | Wilfred Benítez * | March 6, 1976 | Light welterweight (M & L), welterweight (M & L) and light middleweight (M) | 2, 1 and 2 | |
9 | Esteban De Jesús | May 8, 1976 | Lightweight (M) | 3 | |
10 | Wilfredo Gómez | May 21, 1977 | Super bantamweight (M & L), featherweight (M) and super featherweight (M) | 17, 0 and 0 | |
11 | Julian Solís | August 29, 1980 | Bantamweight (M & L) | 0 | |
12 | Carlos De León | November 25, 1980 | Cruiserweight (M 4 & L 2) | 8 | |
13 | Ossie Ocasio | February 13, 1982 | Cruiserweight (M) | 3 | |
14 | Juan Laporte | September 15, 1982 | Featherweight (M) | 2 | |
15 | Edwin Rosario | May 1, 1983 | Lightweight (M & M 2) and light welterweight (M) | 3 and 0 | |
16 | Héctor Camacho | August 7, 1983 | Super featherweight (M), lightweight (M), light welterweight (M), welterweight (m), middleweight (m), light middleweight (m & m) and super middleweight (m) | 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 0 and 0 | |
17 | Mark Medal * | March 11, 1984 | Light middleweight (M) | 0 | |
18 | Harry Arroyo * | April 15, 1984 | Lightweight (M) | 2 | |
19 | Victor Callejas | May 26, 1984 | Super bantamweight (M) | 2 | |
20 | Carlos Santos | November 2, 1984 | Light middleweight (M) | 1 | |
21 | Antonio Rivera | August 30, 1986 | Featherweight (M) | 0 | |
22 | Wilfredo Vázquez | October 4, 1987 | Bantamweight (M), super bantamweight (M) and featherweight (M) | 1, 9 and 4 | |
23 | José Ruíz Matos | April 29, 1989 | Super flyweight (M) | 4 | |
24 | John John Molina | April 29, 1989 | Super featherweight (M & M 2) and lightweight (m) | 7 and 0 | |
25 | José De Jesús | May 19, 1989 | Light flyweight (M) | 3 | |
26 | Juan Nazario | April 4, 1990 | Lightweight (M) | 0 | |
27 | Orlando Fernández | May 12, 1990 | Super bantamweight (M & m) | 1 | |
28 | Santos Cardona | April 11, 1991 | Welterweight (m) and light middleweight (m) | 0 | |
29 | Danny García | February 1, 1992 | Middleweight (m) | 0 | |
30 | Rafael del Valle | May 13, 1992 | Bantamweight (M) | 2 | |
31 | Felix Camacho | May 27, 1992 | Super bantamweight (m) | 0 | |
32 | Josué Camacho | July 31, 1992 | Light flyweight (M) | 1 | |
33 | Daniel Jiménez | June 9, 1993 | Bantamweight (M) and super bantamweight (M) | 4 and 0 | |
34 | Félix Trinidad | June 19, 1993 | Welterweight (M & M), light middleweight (M & M) and middleweight (M) | 17, 2 and 0 | |
35 | Kevin Kelley * | December 4, 1993 | Featherweight (M) | 7 | |
36 | Alex Sánchez | December 22, 1993 | Minimumweight (M) | 6 | |
37 | Jake Rodríguez | February 13, 1994 | Light welterweight (M) | 2 | |
38 | Sammy Fuentes | November 7, 1994 | Light welterweight (M) | 2 | |
39 | Ángel Almena | July 29, 1995 | Super flyweight (m) and flyweight (m) | 0 and 0 | |
40 | Israel Cardona * | August 25, 1995 | Super featherweight (m) and light welterweight (m) | 1 and 0 | |
41 | Angel Manfredy * | November 18, 1995 | Super featherweight (m) | 6 | |
42 | Frank Toledo * | June 9, 1996 | Super bantamweight (m) and featherweight (M) | 0 and 0 | |
43 | David Santos * | April 5, 1997 | Featherweight (m) | 0 | |
44 | José Antonio Rivera * | April 25, 1997 | Welterweight (M) and light middleweight (M) | 0 | |
45 | Lou Del Valle * | September 20, 1997 | Light heavyweight (M) | 0 | |
46 | Eric Morel | October 17, 1998 | Super flyweight (M) and bantamweight (IM) | 7 and 0 | |
47 | Daniel Santos | May 6, 2000 | Welterweight (M) and light middleweight (M, m & M) | 2 and 4 | |
48 | Nelson Dieppa | July 22, 2000 | Light flyweight (M) | 5 | |
49 | John Ruiz * | March 3, 2001 | Heavyweight (M 2) | 4 | |
50 | Aléx Trujillo | May 5, 2001 | Light welterweight (m 2) | 0 | |
51 | Ángel Chacón | October 27, 2002 | Featherweight (m) | 0 | |
52 | Iván Calderón | May 3, 2003 | Minimumweight (M) and light flyweight (M & L) | 11 and 4 | |
53 | Manny Siaca | May 5, 2004 | Super middleweight (M) | 0 | |
54 | Miguel Cotto * | September 11, 2004 | Light welterweight (M), welterweight (M & M) and light middleweight (M, SM & m) | 5, 5 and 2 | |
55 | Luis Collazo * | April 2, 2005 | Welterweight (M) | 1 | |
56 | Kermit Cintrón | October 28, 2006 | Welterweight (IM & M) | 2 | |
57 | Carlos Quintana | February 9, 2008 | Welterweight (M) | 0 | |
58 | Orlando Cruz | March 22, 2008 | Featherweight (m) | 0 | |
59 | Victor Fonseca | March 22, 2008 | Bantamweight (m) | 1 | |
60 | Juan Manuel López | June 7, 2008 | Super bantamweight (M) and featherweight (M) | 5 and 2 | |
61 | Román Martínez | March 14, 2009 | Super featherweight (M) | 2 | |
62 | José López | March 28, 2009 | Super flyweight (M) | 0 | |
63 | César Seda, Jr. | September 18, 2009 | Flyweight (m) | 0 | |
64 | Wilfredo Vázquez, Jr. | February 27, 2010 | Super bantamweight (M) | 2 | |
65 | Danny García * | July 30, 2010 | Welterweight (IYM) and light welterweight (M, SM & L) | 0 and 1 | |
66 | Rico Ramos * | July 9, 2011 | Super bantamweight (M) | 0 | |
67 | José Pedraza | December 30, 2011 | Super featherweight (YM) | 0 | |
68 | Jonathan González | March 10, 2012 | Flyweight (IYM) | 0 |
- * indicates boxer of Puerto Rican heritage that is recognized by the commission due to parent's nationality, residence or other circumstances.
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