Heavyweight
Name: | Date: | Location: | Defenses: |
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Francesco Damiani def. Johnny DuPlooy |
May 6, 1989 | Syracuse, Italy | 1 |
Ray Mercer | January 11, 1991 | Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States | 1 |
Title vacated | 1991 | Mercer's only defense was against Tommy Morrison on October 18, 1991 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He gave up the title shortly after. | |
Michael Moorer def. Bert Cooper |
May 15, 1992 | Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States | 0 |
Title vacated | February 2, 1993 | ||
Tommy Morrison def. George Foreman |
June 7, 1993 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | 1 |
Michael Bentt | October 29, 1993 | Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States | 0 |
Herbie Hide | March 19, 1994 | London, England, United Kingdom | 0 |
Riddick Bowe | March 11, 1995 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | 1 |
Title vacated | 1995 | Bowe's only defense was against Jorge Luis Gonzalez on June 17, 1995 in Las Vegas, Nevada. | |
Henry Akinwande def. Jeremy Williams |
June 29, 1996 | Indio, California, United States | 2 |
Title vacated | February 17, 1997 | Akinwande vacated the title in order to challenge for the WBC title. His last defense was against Scott Welch on January 11, 1997 in Nashville, Tennessee. | |
Herbie Hide (2) def. Tony Tucker |
June 28, 1997 | Norwich, England, United Kingdom | 2 |
Vitali Klitschko | June 26, 1999 | London, England, United Kingdom | 2 |
Chris Byrd | April 1, 2000 | Berlin, Germany | 0 |
Wladimir Klitschko | October 14, 2000 | Cologne, Germany | 5 |
Corrie Sanders | March 8, 2003 | Hanover, Germany | 0 |
Title vacated | 2003 | ||
Lamon Brewster def. Wladimir Klitschko |
April 10, 2004 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | 3 |
Siarhei Liakhovich | April 1, 2006 | Cleveland, Ohio, United States | 0 |
Shannon Briggs | November 4, 2006 | Phoenix, Arizona, United States | 0 |
Sultan Ibragimov | June 2, 2007 | Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States | 1 |
Wladimir Klitschko (2) | February 23, 2008 | New York, United States | 9 |
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