List of Welterweight Boxing Champions - WBA

8 December 1962 21 March 1963 Emile Griffith WBA 21 March 1963 8 June 1963 Luis Manuel Rodriguez WBA 8 June 1963 25 April 1966-Vacated Emile Griffith WBA 24 August 1966 18 April 1969 Curtis Cokes WBA 18 April 1969 3 December 1970 Jose Napoles WBA 3 December 1970 4 June 1971 Billy Backus WBA 4 June 1971 1975-Stripped Jose Napoles WBA 28 June 1975 17 July 1976 Ángel Espada WBA 17 July 1976 2 August 1980 Pipino Cuevas WBA 2 August 1980 16 September 1981 Thomas Hearns WBA 16 September 1981 9 November 1982-Retired Sugar Ray Leonard WBA 13 February 1983 27 September 1986 Donald Curry WBA 27 September 1986 1987-Vacated Lloyd Honeyghan WBA 6 February 1987 22 August 1987 Mark Breland WBA 22 August 1987 29 July 1988 Marlon Starling WBA 29 July 1988 12 December 1988-Vacated Tomas Molinares WBA 4 February 1989 8 July 1990 Mark Breland WBA 8 July 1990 19 January 1991 Aaron Davis WBA 19 January 1991 31 October 1992 Meldrick Taylor WBA 31 October 1992 4 June 1994 Crisanto España WBA 4 June 1994 17 October 1997-Vacated Ike Quartey WBA 10 October 1998 2000-Stripped James Page WBA 17 February 2001 30 March 2002 Andrew Lewis WBA 30 March 2002 13 December 2003 Ricardo Mayorga WBA Super Champion 12 September 2003 2 April 2005 Jose Antonio Rivera WBA Regular Champion 13 December 2003 5 February 2005 Cory Spinks WBA Super Champion 5 February 2005 7 January 2006-Stripped Zab Judah WBA Super Champion 2 April 2005 13 May 2006 Luis Collazo WBA Regular Champion 13 May 2006 31 August 2006-Vacated Ricky Hatton WBA 2 December 2006 26 July 2008 Miguel Cotto WBA 26 July 2008 24 January 2009 Antonio Margarito WBA Super Champion 3 October 2008 10 April 2009 Yuriy Nuzhnenko WBA Regular Champion 24 January 2009 22 May 2010-Stripped Shane Mosley WBA Super Champion 10 April 2009 29 April 2012 Vyacheslav Senchenko WBA Regular Champion 29 April 2012 Current Paul Malignaggi WBA