Light Heavyweight • World Boxing Organization

Current champion: Artur Beterbiev (1 title defense)

Scheduled bout: Artur Beterbiev v Callum Smith

Timeline

  1. 3 Dec 1988

    Michael Moorer beats Ramzi Hassan via knockout 5/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

    Michael Moorer becomes the WBO Light Heavyweight world champion

  2. 14 Jan 1989

    Michael Moorer beats Victor Claudio via knockout 2/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  3. 19 Feb 1989

    Michael Moorer beats Frankie Swindell via knockout 6/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  4. 22 Apr 1989

    Michael Moorer beats Freddie Delgado via knockout 1/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  5. 25 Jun 1989

    Michael Moorer beats Leslie Stewart via knockout 8/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  6. 16 Nov 1989

    Michael Moorer beats Jeff Thompson via knockout 1/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  7. 22 Dec 1989

    Michael Moorer beats Mike Sedillo via knockout 6/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  8. 3 Feb 1990

    Michael Moorer beats Marcellus Allen via corner retirement 9/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  9. 28 Apr 1990

    Michael Moorer beats Mario Melo via knockout 1/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  10. 15 Dec 1990

    Michael Moorer beats Danny Stonewalker via knockout 8/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  11. 9 May 1991

    Leeonzer Barber beats Tom Collins via corner retirement 5/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

    Leeonzer Barber becomes the WBO Light Heavyweight world champion

  12. 7 Jan 1992

    Leeonzer Barber beats Anthony Hembrick via split decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  13. 27 Feb 1993

    Leeonzer Barber beats Mike Sedillo via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  14. 29 Sep 1993

    Leeonzer Barber beats Andrea Magi via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  15. 29 Jan 1994

    Leeonzer Barber beats Nicky Piper via knockout 9/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  16. 10 Sep 1994

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Leeonzer Barber via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

    Dariusz Michalczewski becomes the WBO Light Heavyweight world champion

  17. 11 Mar 1995

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Roberto Dominguez via knockout 2/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  18. 20 May 1995

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Paul Carlo via knockout 4/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  19. 19 Aug 1995

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Everardo Armenta Jr via knockout 5/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  20. 7 Oct 1995

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Philippe Michel via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  21. 6 Apr 1996

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Asluddin Umarov via knockout 5/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  22. 8 Jun 1996

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Christophe Girard via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  23. 10 Aug 1996

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Graciano Rocchigiani via disqualification 7/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  24. 13 Dec 1996

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Christophe Girard via knockout 8/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  25. 13 Jun 1997

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Virgil Hill via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  26. 4 Oct 1997

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Nicky Piper via corner retirement 7/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  27. 13 Dec 1997

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Daren Zenner via corner retirement 6/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  28. 20 Mar 1998

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Andrea Magi via knockout 4/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  29. 19 Sep 1998

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Mark Prince via knockout 8/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  30. 12 Dec 1998

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Drake Thadzi via knockout 9/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  31. 3 Apr 1999

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Muslim Biyarslanov via knockout 7/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  32. 28 Aug 1999

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Montell Griffin via knockout 4/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  33. 15 Apr 2000

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Graciano Rocchigiani via corner retirement 9/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  34. 16 Dec 2000

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Ka Dy King via knockout 7/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  35. 5 May 2001

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Alejandro Lakatos via knockout 9/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  36. 15 Dec 2001

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Richard Hall via knockout 11/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  37. 20 Apr 2002

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Joey DeGrandis via knockout 2/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  38. 14 Sep 2002

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Richard Hall via knockout 10/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  39. 29 Mar 2003

    Dariusz Michalczewski beats Derrick Harmon via knockout 9/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  40. 18 Oct 2003

    Julio Cesar Gonzalez beats Dariusz Michalczewski via split decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

    Julio Cesar Gonzalez becomes the WBO Light Heavyweight world champion

  41. 17 Jan 2004

    Zsolt Erdei beats Julio Cesar Gonzalez via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

    Zsolt Erdei becomes the WBO Light Heavyweight world champion

  42. 8 May 2004

    Zsolt Erdei beats Hugo Garay via majority decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  43. 11 Sep 2004

    Zsolt Erdei beats Alejandro Lakatos via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  44. 26 Feb 2005

    Zsolt Erdei beats Hugo Garay via split decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  45. 22 Oct 2005

    Zsolt Erdei beats Mehdi Sahnoune via knockout 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  46. 6 May 2006

    Zsolt Erdei beats Paul Murdoch via knockout 10/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  47. 29 Jul 2006

    Zsolt Erdei beats Thomas Ulrich via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  48. 27 Jan 2007

    Zsolt Erdei beats Danny Santiago via knockout 8/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  49. 16 Jun 2007

    Zsolt Erdei beats George Blades via knockout 11/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  50. 24 Nov 2007

    Zsolt Erdei beats Tito Mendoza via split decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  51. 26 Apr 2008

    Zsolt Erdei beats DeAndrey Abron via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  52. 10 Jan 2009

    Zsolt Erdei beats Yuriy Barashian via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  53. 13 Nov 2009

    Juergen Braehmer becomes the WBO Light Heavyweight world champion

  54. 19 Dec 2009

    Juergen Braehmer beats Dmitry Sukhotskiy via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  55. 24 Apr 2010

    Juergen Braehmer beats Mariano Nicolas Plotinsky via knockout 5/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  56. 19 May 2011

    Nathan Cleverly becomes the WBO Light Heavyweight world champion

  57. 21 May 2011

    Nathan Cleverly beats Aleksy Kuziemski via knockout 4/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  58. 15 Oct 2011

    Nathan Cleverly beats Tony Bellew via majority decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  59. 25 Feb 2012

    Nathan Cleverly beats Tommy Karpency via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  60. 10 Nov 2012

    Nathan Cleverly beats Shawn Hawk via knockout 8/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  61. 20 Apr 2013

    Nathan Cleverly beats Robin Krasniqi via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  62. 17 Aug 2013

    Sergey Kovalev beats Nathan Cleverly via knockout 4/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

    Sergey Kovalev becomes the WBO Light Heavyweight world champion

  63. 30 Nov 2013

    Sergey Kovalev beats Ismayl Sillah via knockout 2/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  64. 29 Mar 2014

    Sergey Kovalev beats Cedric Agnew via knockout 7/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  65. 2 Aug 2014

    Sergey Kovalev beats Blake Caparello via knockout 2/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  66. 8 Nov 2014

    Sergey Kovalev beats Bernard Hopkins via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  67. 14 Mar 2015

    Sergey Kovalev beats Jean Pascal via knockout 8/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  68. 25 Jul 2015

    Sergey Kovalev beats Nadjib Mohammedi via knockout 3/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  69. 30 Jan 2016

    Sergey Kovalev beats Jean Pascal via corner retirement 7/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  70. 11 Jul 2016

    Sergey Kovalev beats Isaac Chilemba via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  71. 19 Nov 2016

    Andre Ward beats Sergey Kovalev via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

    Andre Ward becomes the WBO Light Heavyweight world champion

  72. 17 Jun 2017

    Andre Ward beats Sergey Kovalev via knockout 8/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  73. 11 Oct 2017

    Andre Ward's WBO Light Heavyweight world title reign ends

  74. 25 Nov 2017

    Sergey Kovalev beats Vyacheslav Shabranskyy via knockout 2/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

    Sergey Kovalev becomes the WBO Light Heavyweight world champion

  75. 3 Mar 2018

    Sergey Kovalev beats Igor Mikhalkin via knockout 7/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  76. 4 Aug 2018

    Eleider Alvarez beats Sergey Kovalev via knockout 7/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

    Eleider Alvarez becomes the WBO Light Heavyweight world champion

  77. 2 Feb 2019

    Sergey Kovalev beats Eleider Alvarez via unanimous decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

    Sergey Kovalev becomes the WBO Light Heavyweight world champion

  78. 24 Aug 2019

    Sergey Kovalev beats Anthony Yarde via knockout 11/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  79. 2 Nov 2019

    Canelo Alvarez beats Sergey Kovalev via knockout 11/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

    Canelo Alvarez becomes the WBO Light Heavyweight world champion

  80. 17 Dec 2019

    Canelo Alvarez's WBO Light Heavyweight world title reign ends

  81. 10 Apr 2021

    Joe Smith Jr beats Maxim Vlasov via majority decision 12/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

    Joe Smith Jr becomes the WBO Light Heavyweight world champion

  82. 15 Jan 2022

    Joe Smith Jr beats Steve Geffrard via knockout 9/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  83. 18 Jun 2022

    Artur Beterbiev beats Joe Smith Jr via technical knockout 2/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

    Artur Beterbiev becomes the WBO Light Heavyweight world champion

  84. 28 Jan 2023

    Artur Beterbiev beats Anthony Yarde via technical knockout 8/12

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

  85. 19 Aug 2023

    Artur Beterbiev v Callum Smith

    Light Heavyweight (175 lb)

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