Welterweight • World Boxing Association

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Timeline

  1. 7 Feb 1921

    Jack Britton beats Ted Kid Lewis via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  2. 3 Jun 1921

  3. 2 Jul 1921

    Jack Britton becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  4. 17 Feb 1922

  5. 26 Jun 1922

  6. 1 Nov 1922

    Mickey Walker becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  7. 22 Mar 1923

  8. 8 Oct 1923

  9. 2 Jun 1924

    Mickey Walker beats Lew Tendler via unanimous decision 10/10

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  10. 1 Oct 1924

  11. 21 Sep 1925

  12. 25 Nov 1925

    Mickey Walker beats Sailor Friedman via newspaper decision 12/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  13. 20 May 1926

    Pete Latzo becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  14. 29 Jun 1926

  15. 9 Jul 1926

    Pete Latzo beats George Levine via disqualification 4/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  16. 3 Jun 1927

    Joe Dundee becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  17. 13 Jul 1927

    Joe Dundee beats Billy Drako via newspaper decision 10/10

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  18. 21 Mar 1929

    Joe Dundee's WBA Welterweight world title reign ends

  19. 25 Mar 1929

    Jackie Fields becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  20. 25 Jul 1929

  21. 9 May 1930

    Jack Thompson becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  22. 5 Sep 1930

    Tommy Freeman becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  23. 14 Apr 1931

    Jack Thompson becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  24. 23 Oct 1931

    Lou Brouillard becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  25. 28 Jan 1932

    Jackie Fields becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  26. 22 Feb 1933

    Young Corbett III becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  27. 29 May 1933

    Jimmy McLarnin becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  28. 28 May 1934

    Barney Ross becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  29. 17 Sep 1934

    Jimmy McLarnin becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  30. 28 May 1935

    Barney Ross becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  31. 27 Nov 1936

    Barney Ross beats Izzy Jannazzo via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  32. 23 Sep 1937

  33. 31 May 1938

    Henry Armstrong becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  34. 25 Nov 1938

  35. 5 Dec 1938

  36. 10 Jan 1939

  37. 4 Mar 1939

  38. 16 Mar 1939

  39. 31 Mar 1939

  40. 25 May 1939

    Henry Armstrong beats Ernie Roderick via points decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  41. 9 Oct 1939

  42. 13 Oct 1939

  43. 20 Oct 1939

  44. 24 Oct 1939

    Henry Armstrong beats Jimmy Garrison via points decision 10/10

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  45. 30 Oct 1939

  46. 11 Dec 1939

  47. 4 Jan 1940

  48. 24 Jan 1940

  49. 26 Apr 1940

  50. 24 May 1940

  51. 21 Jun 1940

  52. 23 Sep 1940

  53. 4 Oct 1940

    Fritzie Zivic becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  54. 17 Jan 1941

  55. 29 Jul 1941

    Freddie Cochrane becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  56. 1 Feb 1946

    Marty Servo becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  57. 25 Sep 1946

    Marty Servo's WBA Welterweight world title reign ends

  58. 20 Dec 1946

    Sugar Ray Robinson beats Tommy Bell via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

    Sugar Ray Robinson becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  59. 24 Jun 1947

  60. 19 Dec 1947

  61. 28 Jun 1948

    Sugar Ray Robinson beats Bernard Docusen via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  62. 11 Jul 1949

  63. 9 Aug 1950

    Sugar Ray Robinson beats Charley Fusari via points decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  64. 14 Feb 1951

    Sugar Ray Robinson's WBA Welterweight world title reign ends

  65. 14 Mar 1951

    Johnny Bratton beats Charley Fusari via split decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

    Johnny Bratton becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  66. 18 May 1951

    Kid Gavilan becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  67. 29 Aug 1951

    Kid Gavilan beats Billy Graham via split decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  68. 4 Feb 1952

    Kid Gavilan beats Bobby Dykes via split decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  69. 7 Jul 1952

  70. 5 Oct 1952

    Kid Gavilan beats Billy Graham via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  71. 11 Feb 1953

  72. 18 Sep 1953

  73. 13 Nov 1953

  74. 20 Oct 1954

    Johnny Saxton becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  75. 1 Apr 1955

    Tony DeMarco becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  76. 10 Jun 1955

    Carmen Basilio becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  77. 30 Nov 1955

  78. 14 Mar 1956

    Johnny Saxton becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  79. 12 Sep 1956

    Carmen Basilio becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  80. 22 Feb 1957

  81. 23 Sep 1957

    Carmen Basilio's WBA Welterweight world title reign ends

  82. 6 Jun 1958

    Virgil Akins becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  83. 5 Dec 1958

    Don Jordan becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  84. 24 Apr 1959

  85. 10 Jul 1959

  86. 27 May 1960

    Benny Paret becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  87. 10 Dec 1960

    Benny Paret beats Luis Federico Thompson via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  88. 1 Apr 1961

    Emile Griffith becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  89. 3 Jun 1961

  90. 30 Sep 1961

    Benny Paret becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  91. 24 Mar 1962

    Emile Griffith becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  92. 13 Jul 1962

  93. 8 Dec 1962

  94. 21 Mar 1963

    Luis Rodriguez becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  95. 8 Jun 1963

    Emile Griffith becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  96. 12 Jun 1964

  97. 22 Sep 1964

    Emile Griffith beats Brian Curvis via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  98. 30 Mar 1965

    Emile Griffith beats Jose Stable via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  99. 10 Dec 1965

    Emile Griffith beats Manuel Gonzalez via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  100. 11 Jun 1966

    Emile Griffith's WBA Welterweight world title reign ends

  101. 24 Aug 1966

    Curtis Cokes beats Manuel Gonzalez via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

    Curtis Cokes becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  102. 28 Nov 1966

    Curtis Cokes beats Jean Josselin via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  103. 19 May 1967

  104. 2 Oct 1967

  105. 16 Apr 1968

  106. 21 Oct 1968

    Curtis Cokes beats Ramon La Cruz via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  107. 18 Apr 1969

    Jose Napoles becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  108. 29 Jun 1969

  109. 17 Oct 1969

  110. 14 Feb 1970

  111. 3 Dec 1970

    Billy Backus becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  112. 4 Jun 1971

    Jose Napoles becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  113. 14 Dec 1971

  114. 28 Mar 1972

  115. 10 Jun 1972

  116. 28 Feb 1973

  117. 23 Jun 1973

    Jose Napoles beats Roger Menetrey via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  118. 22 Sep 1973

    Jose Napoles beats Clyde Gray via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  119. 3 Aug 1974

  120. 14 Dec 1974

    Jose Napoles beats Horacio Agustin Saldano via knockout 3/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  121. 29 Mar 1975

    Jose Napoles beats Armando Muniz via technical decision 12/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  122. 16 May 1975

    Jose Napoles's WBA Welterweight world title reign ends

  123. 28 Jun 1975

    Angel Espada beats Clyde Gray via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

    Angel Espada becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  124. 11 Oct 1975

    Angel Espada beats Johnny Gant via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  125. 17 Jul 1976

    Pipino Cuevas becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  126. 27 Oct 1976

    Pipino Cuevas beats Shoji Tsujimoto via knockout 6/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  127. 12 Mar 1977

    Pipino Cuevas beats Miguel Angel Campanino via knockout 2/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  128. 6 Aug 1977

    Pipino Cuevas beats Clyde Gray via knockout 2/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  129. 19 Nov 1977

  130. 4 Mar 1978

    Pipino Cuevas beats Harold Weston via corner retirement 9/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  131. 20 May 1978

  132. 9 Sep 1978

    Pipino Cuevas beats Pete Ranzany via knockout 2/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  133. 29 Jan 1979

    Pipino Cuevas beats Scott Clark via knockout 2/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  134. 30 Jul 1979

    Pipino Cuevas beats Randy Shields via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  135. 8 Dec 1979

  136. 6 Apr 1980

    Pipino Cuevas beats Harold Volbrecht via knockout 5/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  137. 2 Aug 1980

    Thomas Hearns becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  138. 6 Dec 1980

    Thomas Hearns beats Luis Primera via knockout 6/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  139. 25 Apr 1981

    Thomas Hearns beats Randy Shields via knockout 12/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  140. 25 Jun 1981

    Thomas Hearns beats Pablo Baez via knockout 4/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  141. 16 Sep 1981

    Sugar Ray Leonard becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  142. 15 Feb 1982

  143. 9 Nov 1982

    Sugar Ray Leonard's WBA Welterweight world title reign ends

  144. 13 Feb 1983

    Donald Curry beats Jun Suk Hwang via unanimous decision 15/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

    Donald Curry becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  145. 3 Sep 1983

    Donald Curry beats Roger Stafford via knockout 1/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  146. 4 Feb 1984

  147. 21 Apr 1984

    Donald Curry beats Elio Diaz via corner retirement 7/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  148. 22 Sep 1984

    Donald Curry beats Nino La Rocca via knockout 6/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  149. 19 Jan 1985

    Donald Curry beats Colin Jones via knockout 4/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  150. 6 Dec 1985

  151. 9 Mar 1986

    Donald Curry beats Eduardo Rodriguez via knockout 2/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  152. 27 Sep 1986

    Lloyd Honeyghan becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  153. 1 Dec 1986

    Lloyd Honeyghan's WBA Welterweight world title reign ends

  154. 6 Feb 1987

    Mark Breland beats Harold Volbrecht via knockout 7/15

    Welterweight (147 lb)

    Mark Breland becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  155. 22 Aug 1987

    Marlon Starling becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  156. 5 Feb 1988

    Marlon Starling beats Fujio Ozaki via unanimous decision 12/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  157. 16 Apr 1988

  158. 29 Jul 1988

    Tomas Molinares becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  159. 12 Dec 1988

    Tomas Molinares's WBA Welterweight world title reign ends

  160. 4 Feb 1989

    Mark Breland beats Seung Soon Lee via knockout 1/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

    Mark Breland becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  161. 22 Apr 1989

  162. 13 Oct 1989

    Mark Breland beats Mauro Martelli via knockout 2/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  163. 10 Dec 1989

    Mark Breland beats Fujio Ozaki via knockout 4/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  164. 3 Mar 1990

  165. 8 Jul 1990

    Aaron Davis becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  166. 19 Jan 1991

    Meldrick Taylor becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  167. 1 Jun 1991

    Meldrick Taylor beats Luis Garcia via split decision 12/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  168. 18 Jan 1992

    Meldrick Taylor beats Glenwood Brown via unanimous decision 12/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  169. 31 Oct 1992

    Crisanto Espana becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  170. 5 May 1993

    Crisanto Espana beats Rodolfo Aguilar via unanimous decision 12/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  171. 9 Oct 1993

    Crisanto Espana beats Donovan Boucher via knockout 10/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  172. 4 Jun 1994

    Ike Quartey becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  173. 1 Oct 1994

    Ike Quartey beats Alberto Cortes via knockout 5/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  174. 4 Mar 1995

    Ike Quartey beats Jung Oh Park via knockout 4/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  175. 23 Aug 1995

    Ike Quartey beats Andrew Murray via knockout 4/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  176. 12 Apr 1996

  177. 4 Oct 1996

    Ike Quartey beats Oba Carr via majority decision 12/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  178. 18 Apr 1997

    Ike Quartey beats Ralph Jones via knockout 5/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  179. 17 Oct 1997

  180. 10 Oct 1998

    James Page beats Andrey Pestryaev via knockout 2/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

    James Page becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  181. 5 Dec 1998

  182. 13 Mar 1999

    James Page beats Sam Garr via unanimous decision 12/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  183. 24 Jul 1999

  184. 1 Aug 2000

    James Page's WBA Welterweight world title reign ends

  185. 17 Feb 2001

    Andrew Lewis becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  186. 28 Apr 2001

    Andrew Lewis beats Larry Marks via unanimous decision 12/12

    Welterweight (147 lb)

  187. 28 Jul 2001

  188. 30 Mar 2002

    Ricardo Mayorga becomes the WBA Welterweight world champion

  189. 25 Jan 2003

    Ricardo Mayorga's WBA Welterweight world title reign ends