Featherweight • World Boxing Council

Current champion: Rey Vargas (0 title defenses)

No scheduled WBC Featherweight bout

Timeline

  1. 14 Feb 1963

    David Moore becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  2. 21 Mar 1963

    Sugar Ramos becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  3. 13 Jul 1963

    Sugar Ramos beats Rafiu King via unanimous decision 15/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  4. 1 Mar 1964

  5. 9 May 1964

    Sugar Ramos beats Floyd Robertson via split decision 15/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  6. 26 Sep 1964

    Vicente Saldivar becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  7. 7 May 1965

  8. 7 Sep 1965

  9. 12 Feb 1966

  10. 7 Aug 1966

    Vicente Saldivar beats Mitsunori Seki via unanimous decision 15/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  11. 29 Jan 1967

  12. 15 Jun 1967

  13. 1 Oct 1967

    Vicente Saldivar's WBC Featherweight world title reign ends

  14. 14 Oct 1967

  15. 23 Jan 1968

    Howard Winstone beats Mitsunori Seki via knockout 9/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

    Howard Winstone becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  16. 24 Jul 1968

    Jose Legra becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  17. 21 Jan 1969

    Johnny Famechon becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  18. 28 Jul 1969

  19. 6 Jan 1970

  20. 9 May 1970

    Vicente Saldivar becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  21. 11 Dec 1970

    Kuniaki Shibata becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  22. 3 Jun 1971

  23. 11 Nov 1971

  24. 19 May 1972

    Clemente Sanchez becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  25. 16 Dec 1972

    Jose Legra becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  26. 5 May 1973

    Eder Jofre becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  27. 21 Oct 1973

  28. 17 Jun 1974

    Eder Jofre's WBC Featherweight world title reign ends

  29. 7 Sep 1974

    Bobby Chacon becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  30. 1 Mar 1975

    Bobby Chacon beats Jesus Estrada via knockout 2/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  31. 20 Jun 1975

    Ruben Olivares becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  32. 20 Sep 1975

    David Kotey becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  33. 6 Mar 1976

    David Kotey beats Flipper Uehara via corner retirement 11/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  34. 16 Jul 1976

    David Kotey beats Shig Fukuyama via knockout 3/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  35. 6 Nov 1976

    Danny Lopez becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  36. 13 Sep 1977

    Danny Lopez beats Jose Torres via corner retirement 7/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  37. 15 Feb 1978

  38. 23 Apr 1978

    Danny Lopez beats Jose de Paula via knockout 6/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  39. 15 Sep 1978

    Danny Lopez beats Juan Domingo Malvarez via knockout 2/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  40. 21 Oct 1978

    Danny Lopez beats Fel Clemente via disqualification 4/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  41. 10 Mar 1979

    Danny Lopez beats Roberto Castanon via knockout 2/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  42. 17 Jun 1979

    Danny Lopez beats Mike Ayala via knockout 15/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  43. 25 Sep 1979

  44. 2 Feb 1980

    Salvador Sanchez becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  45. 12 Apr 1980

    Salvador Sanchez beats Ruben Castillo via unanimous decision 15/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  46. 21 Jun 1980

  47. 13 Sep 1980

    Salvador Sanchez beats Pat Ford via majority decision 15/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  48. 13 Dec 1980

  49. 22 Mar 1981

    Salvador Sanchez beats Roberto Castanon via knockout 10/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  50. 21 Aug 1981

  51. 12 Dec 1981

    Salvador Sanchez beats Pat Cowdell via split decision 15/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  52. 8 May 1982

    Salvador Sanchez beats Rocky Garcia via unanimous decision 15/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  53. 21 Jul 1982

  54. 12 Aug 1982

    Salvador Sanchez's WBC Featherweight world title reign ends

  55. 15 Sep 1982

    Juan Laporte beats Mario Miranda via corner retirement 10/15

    Featherweight (126 lb)

    Juan Laporte becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  56. 20 Feb 1983

    Juan Laporte beats Ruben Castillo via unanimous decision 12/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  57. 25 Jun 1983

    Juan Laporte beats Johnny De La Rosa via split decision 12/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  58. 31 Mar 1984

    Wilfredo Gomez becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  59. 8 Dec 1984

    Azumah Nelson becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  60. 6 Sep 1985

    Azumah Nelson beats Juvenal Ordenes via knockout 5/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  61. 12 Oct 1985

    Azumah Nelson beats Pat Cowdell via knockout 1/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  62. 25 Feb 1986

  63. 22 Jun 1986

    Azumah Nelson beats Danilo Cabrera via knockout 10/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  64. 7 Mar 1987

    Azumah Nelson beats Mauro Gutierrez via knockout 6/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  65. 29 Aug 1987

  66. 1 Jan 1988

    Azumah Nelson's WBC Featherweight world title reign ends

  67. 7 Mar 1988

    Jeff Fenech becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  68. 12 Aug 1988

    Jeff Fenech beats Tyrone Downes via knockout 5/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  69. 30 Nov 1988

    Jeff Fenech beats Georgie Navarro via knockout 5/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  70. 1 Jan 1989

    Jeff Fenech's WBC Featherweight world title reign ends

  71. 8 Apr 1989

  72. 2 Jun 1990

    Marcos Villasana becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  73. 30 Sep 1990

    Marcos Villasana beats Javier Marquez via knockout 8/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  74. 11 Apr 1991

    Marcos Villasana beats Rafael Zuniga via knockout 6/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  75. 15 Aug 1991

    Marcos Villasana beats Ricardo Cepeda via unanimous decision 12/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  76. 13 Nov 1991

    Paul Hodkinson becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  77. 25 Apr 1992

  78. 12 Sep 1992

  79. 3 Feb 1993

    Paul Hodkinson beats Ricardo Cepeda via knockout 4/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  80. 28 Apr 1993

    Gregorio Vargas becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  81. 4 Dec 1993

    Kevin Kelley becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  82. 6 May 1994

  83. 24 Sep 1994

    Kevin Kelley beats Jose Vida Ramos via knockout 2/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  84. 7 Jan 1995

    Alejandro Gonzalez becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  85. 31 Mar 1995

  86. 2 Jun 1995

    Alejandro Gonzalez beats Tony Green via knockout 9/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  87. 23 Sep 1995

    Manuel Medina becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  88. 11 Dec 1995

    Luisito Espinosa becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  89. 1 Mar 1996

  90. 6 Jul 1996

  91. 2 Nov 1996

    Luisito Espinosa beats Nobutoshi Hiranaka via knockout 8/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  92. 17 May 1997

  93. 6 Dec 1997

    Luisito Espinosa beats Carlos Rios via knockout 6/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  94. 15 Aug 1998

    Luisito Espinosa beats Juan Carlos Ramirez via technical decision 11/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  95. 28 Nov 1998

  96. 15 May 1999

    Cesar Soto becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  97. 22 Oct 1999

    Naseem Hamed becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  98. 1 Jan 2000

    Naseem Hamed's WBC Featherweight world title reign ends

  99. 14 Apr 2000

    Guty Espadas Jr becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  100. 23 Jun 2000

    Guty Espadas Jr beats Foijan Prawet via unanimous decision 12/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  101. 17 Feb 2001

    Erik Morales becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  102. 28 Jul 2001

  103. 22 Jun 2002

    Marco Antonio Barrera becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  104. 16 Nov 2002

    Erik Morales becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  105. 22 Feb 2003

    Erik Morales beats Eddie Croft via knockout 3/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  106. 3 May 2003

    Erik Morales beats Fernando Velardez via knockout 5/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  107. 1 Oct 2003

    Erik Morales's WBC Featherweight world title reign ends

  108. 18 Oct 2003

    Chi In-jin and Michael Brodie share a draw 12/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  109. 10 Apr 2004

    Chi In-jin beats Michael Brodie via knockout 7/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

    Chi In-jin becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  110. 24 Jul 2004

    Chi In-jin beats Eiichi Sugama via knockout 10/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  111. 30 Jan 2005

    Chi In-jin beats Tommy Browne via unanimous decision 12/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  112. 29 Jan 2006

    Takashi Koshimoto becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  113. 30 Jul 2006

    Rodolfo Lopez becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  114. 17 Dec 2006

    Chi In-jin becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  115. 1 Jul 2007

    Chi In-jin's WBC Featherweight world title reign ends

  116. 21 Jul 2007

    Jorge Linares becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  117. 15 Dec 2007

  118. 13 Aug 2008

    Oscar Larios becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  119. 16 Oct 2008

  120. 12 Mar 2009

    Takahiro Ao becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  121. 14 Jul 2009

    Elio Rojas becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  122. 20 Feb 2010

  123. 25 Aug 2010

    Elio Rojas's WBC Featherweight world title reign ends

  124. 26 Nov 2010

    Hozumi Hasegawa beats Juan Carlos Burgos via unanimous decision 12/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

    Hozumi Hasegawa becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  125. 8 Apr 2011

    Jhonny Gonzalez becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  126. 9 Jul 2011

    Jhonny Gonzalez beats Tomas Villa via knockout 4/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  127. 15 Sep 2011

    Jhonny Gonzalez beats Rogers Mtagwa via knockout 2/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  128. 3 Dec 2011

    Jhonny Gonzalez beats Roinet Caballero via knockout 2/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  129. 28 Apr 2012

  130. 15 Sep 2012

    Daniel Ponce de Leon becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  131. 4 May 2013

    Abner Mares becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  132. 24 Aug 2013

  133. 25 Aug 2013

    Jhonny Gonzalez becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  134. 24 May 2014

    Jhonny Gonzalez beats Clive Atwell via technical decision 10/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  135. 4 Oct 2014

  136. 28 Mar 2015

    Gary Russell Jr becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  137. 16 Apr 2016

    Gary Russell Jr beats Patrick Hyland via knockout 2/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  138. 20 May 2017

    Gary Russell Jr beats Oscar Escandon via knockout 7/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  139. 19 May 2018

  140. 18 May 2019

  141. 8 Feb 2020

    Gary Russell Jr beats Tugstsogt Nyambayar via unanimous decision 12/12

    Featherweight (126 lb)

  142. 22 Jan 2022

    Mark Magsayo becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion

  143. 9 Jul 2022

    Rey Vargas becomes the WBC Featherweight world champion