Cruiserweight • World Boxing Council

Current champion: Badou Jack (0 title defenses)

No scheduled WBC Cruiserweight bout

Timeline

  1. 8 Dec 1979

  2. 31 Mar 1980

    Marvin Camel becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  3. 25 Nov 1980

    Carlos De Leon becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  4. 24 Feb 1982

  5. 27 Jun 1982

    ST Gordon becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  6. 16 Feb 1983

    ST Gordon beats Jesse Burnett via knockout 8/12

    Cruiserweight (195 lb)

  7. 17 Jul 1983

    Carlos De Leon becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  8. 21 Sep 1983

    Carlos De Leon beats Yaqui Lopez via knockout 4/12

    Cruiserweight (195 lb)

  9. 9 Mar 1984

    Carlos De Leon beats Anthony Davis via unanimous decision 12/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  10. 2 Jun 1984

    Carlos De Leon beats Bash Ali via unanimous decision 12/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  11. 6 Jun 1985

    Alfonzo Ratliff becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  12. 21 Sep 1985

    Bernard Benton becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  13. 22 Mar 1986

    Carlos De Leon becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  14. 10 Aug 1986

    Carlos De Leon beats Michael Greer via knockout 8/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  15. 21 Feb 1987

    Carlos De Leon beats Angelo Rottoli via corner retirement 4/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  16. 22 Jan 1988

    Carlos De Leon beats Jose Maria Flores Burlon via unanimous decision 12/12

    Cruiserweight (195 lb)

  17. 9 Apr 1988

    Evander Holyfield becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  18. 9 Apr 1989

    Evander Holyfield's WBC Cruiserweight world title reign ends

  19. 17 May 1989

    Carlos De Leon beats Sammy Reeson via knockout 9/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

    Carlos De Leon becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  20. 27 Jan 1990

  21. 27 Jul 1990

    Massimiliano Duran becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  22. 8 Dec 1990

  23. 20 Jul 1991

    Anaclet Wamba becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  24. 13 Dec 1991

  25. 13 Jun 1992

    Anaclet Wamba beats Andrey Rudenko via knockout 5/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  26. 16 Oct 1992

    Anaclet Wamba beats Andrew Maynard via unanimous decision 12/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  27. 6 Mar 1993

    Anaclet Wamba beats David Vedder via unanimous decision 12/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  28. 16 Oct 1993

    Anaclet Wamba beats Akim Tafer via corner retirement 7/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  29. 14 Jul 1994

  30. 3 Dec 1994

  31. 30 Dec 1994

    Anaclet Wamba's WBC Cruiserweight world title reign ends

  32. 25 Jul 1995

    Marcelo Dominguez becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  33. 5 Jul 1996

    Marcelo Dominguez beats Patrice Aouissi via knockout 10/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  34. 6 Dec 1996

    Marcelo Dominguez beats Jose Arimatea da Silva via knockout 8/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  35. 16 Aug 1997

    Marcelo Dominguez beats Akim Tafer via unanimous decision 12/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  36. 21 Feb 1998

    Juan Carlos Gomez becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  37. 5 Jun 1998

    Juan Carlos Gomez beats Guy Waters via knockout 6/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  38. 3 Oct 1998

    Juan Carlos Gomez beats Alexey Ilyin via knockout 2/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  39. 12 Dec 1998

    Juan Carlos Gomez beats Rodney Gordon via knockout 2/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  40. 13 Mar 1999

  41. 17 Jul 1999

    Juan Carlos Gomez beats Bruce Scott via knockout 6/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  42. 11 Dec 1999

    Juan Carlos Gomez beats Napoleon Tagoe via knockout 9/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  43. 11 Mar 2000

    Juan Carlos Gomez beats Mohamed Siluvangi via knockout 2/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  44. 6 May 2000

  45. 16 Dec 2000

  46. 3 Nov 2001

    Juan Carlos Gomez beats Pietro Aurino via knockout 6/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  47. 19 Feb 2002

    Juan Carlos Gomez's WBC Cruiserweight world title reign ends

  48. 11 Oct 2002

    Wayne Braithwaite beats Vincenzo Cantatore via knockout 10/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

    Wayne Braithwaite becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  49. 21 Feb 2003

    Wayne Braithwaite beats Ravea Springs via knockout 4/12

    Cruiserweight (190 lb)

  50. 13 Dec 2003

    Wayne Braithwaite beats Luis Andres Pineda via knockout 1/12

    Cruiserweight (200 lb)

  51. 17 Apr 2004

    Wayne Braithwaite beats Louis Azille via unanimous decision 12/12

    Cruiserweight (200 lb)

  52. 2 Apr 2005

    Jean Marc Mormeck becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  53. 7 Jan 2006

    O'Neil Bell becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  54. 17 Mar 2007

    Jean Marc Mormeck becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  55. 10 Nov 2007

    David Haye becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  56. 8 Mar 2008

  57. 12 May 2008

    David Haye's WBC Cruiserweight world title reign ends

  58. 24 Oct 2008

    Giacobbe Fragomeni beats Rudolf Kraj via technical decision 8/12

    Cruiserweight (200 lb)

    Giacobbe Fragomeni becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  59. 16 May 2009

  60. 21 Nov 2009

    Zsolt Erdei becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  61. 13 Jan 2010

    Zsolt Erdei's WBC Cruiserweight world title reign ends

  62. 15 May 2010

    Krzysztof Wlodarczyk becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  63. 25 Sep 2010

    Krzysztof Wlodarczyk beats Jason Robinson via unanimous decision 12/12

    Cruiserweight (200 lb)

  64. 2 Apr 2011

    Krzysztof Wlodarczyk beats Francisco Palacios via split decision 12/12

    Cruiserweight (200 lb)

  65. 30 Nov 2011

  66. 22 Sep 2012

    Krzysztof Wlodarczyk beats Francisco Palacios via unanimous decision 12/12

    Cruiserweight (200 lb)

  67. 21 Jun 2013

    Krzysztof Wlodarczyk beats Rakhim Chakhkiev via knockout 8/12

    Cruiserweight (200 lb)

  68. 6 Dec 2013

  69. 27 Sep 2014

    Grigory Drozd becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  70. 22 May 2015

    Grigory Drozd beats Lukasz Janik via knockout 9/12

    Cruiserweight (200 lb)

  71. 16 Mar 2016

    Grigory Drozd's WBC Cruiserweight world title reign ends

  72. 29 May 2016

    Tony Bellew becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  73. 15 Oct 2016

    Tony Bellew beats BJ Flores via knockout 3/12

    Cruiserweight (200 lb)

  74. 29 Mar 2017

    Tony Bellew's WBC Cruiserweight world title reign ends

  75. 1 Apr 2017

    Mairis Briedis becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  76. 30 Sep 2017

    Mairis Briedis beats Mike Perez via unanimous decision 12/12

    Cruiserweight (200 lb)

  77. 27 Jan 2018

    Oleksandr Usyk becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  78. 21 Jul 2018

  79. 10 Nov 2018

  80. 4 Jun 2019

    Oleksandr Usyk's WBC Cruiserweight world title reign ends

  81. 31 Jan 2020

    Ilunga Makabu beats Michal Cieslak via unanimous decision 12/12

    Cruiserweight (200 lb)

    Ilunga Makabu becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion

  82. 19 Dec 2020

    Ilunga Makabu beats Olanrewaju Durodola via knockout 7/12

    Cruiserweight (200 lb)

  83. 29 Jan 2022

    Ilunga Makabu beats Thabiso Mchunu via split decision 12/12

    Cruiserweight (200 lb)

  84. 26 Feb 2023

    Badou Jack becomes the WBC Cruiserweight world champion