List of WBO World Champions - Heavyweight

Heavyweight

Name: Date: Location: Defenses:
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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