Commonwealth Lightweight Champion

Lightweight champion as recognized by the Commonwealth Boxing Council.

• The maximum weight for this division is 135 pounds (61.2 kg or 9 stone 9 lbs).
• One of the traditional eight divisions.

RELATED LINK: Commonwealth Lightweight Title Fights

No.	Champion	Reign Began	Reign Ended	Defenses
1	Freddie Welsh	1912 Dec 16	1914 Jan 26V	0
2	Al Foreman	1930 May 21	1933 Apr 24	2
3	Jimmy Kelso	1933 Apr 24	1933 May 22	0
4	Al Foreman (2)	1933 May 22	1934 Jun 29R	1
5	Laurie Stevens	1936 Jan 11	1937 Jan 17S	0
6	Arthur King	1948 Oct 1	1950 May 22S	0
7	Frank Johnson	1953 Jan 23	1953 Aug 28	0
8	Pat Ford	1953 Aug 28	1954 Apr 9	1
9	Ivor Kid Germain	1954 Apr 9	1954 Jul 2	0
10	Pat Ford (2)	1954 Jul 2	1954 Feb 2V	0
11	Johnny van Rensburg	1955 Feb 12	1956 Jun 16	3
12	Willie Toweel	1956 Jun 15	1959 May 12	4
13	Dave Charnley	1959 May 12	1962 Aug 4	1
14	Bunny Grant	1962 Aug 4	1967 Mar 15	1
15	Manny Santos	1967 Mar 15	1967 Apr 17R	0
16	Love Allotey	1967 Oct 7	1968 Jul 28	0
17	Percy Hayles	1968 Jul 27	1974 Dec 1V	4
18	Jonathan Dele	1975 May 3	1977 Oct 1	2
19	Lennox Blackmoore	1977 Oct 1	1978 Oct 24	0
20	Hogan Jimoh	1978 Oct 28	1980 Dec 7	1
21	Langton Tinago	1980 Dec 7	1981 May 6	1
22	Barry Michael	1981 May 6	1982 Jul 22	2
23	Claude Noel	1982 Jul 22	1984 Nov 2	2
24	Graeme Brooke	1984 Nov 2	1985 Feb 22	0
25	Barry Michael (2)	1985 Feb 22	1985 Jul 12V	0
26	Langton Tinago (2)	1986 Aug 23	1987 Mar 4	0
27	Mo Hussein	1987 Mar 4	1989 Jan 25	3
28	Pat Doherty	1989 Jan 25	1989 May 31	0
29	Najib Daho	1989 May 31	1990 Mar 21	1
30	Carl Crook	1990 Mar 21	1992 Oct 28	5
31	Billy Schwer	1992 Oct 28	1993 Feb 24	0
32	Paul Burke	1993 Feb 24	1993 Nov 10	0
33	Billy Schwer (2)	1993 Nov 10	1995 Nov 25	4
34	David Tetteh	1995 Nov 25	1996 Oct 11	0
35	Billy Irwin	1996 Oct 11	1997 Mar 4	0
36	David Tetteh (2)	1997 Mar 4	1999 Apr 1S	1
37	Bobby Vanzie	1999 May 28	2001 Feb 3	5
38	James Armah	2001 Feb 3	2002 Sept 1S	0
39	David Burke	2002 Sept 7	2002 Dec 7V	0
40	Michael Muya	2003 Mar 29	2003 Nov 8	0
41	Kevin Bennett	2003 Nov 8	2005 Jun 19	0
42	Graham Earl	2005 Jun 19	2006 Oct 28V	0
43	Willie Limond	2006 Nov 4	2007 Jul 14	0
44	Amir Khan	2007 Jul 14	2009 Jun 5V	4
45	Lee McAllister	2009 Jun 19	2012 Feb 25V	2
46	George Ashie	2012 Apr 14	2012 Nov 10S	0
47	Derry Mathews	2013 Jul 13	2014 May 4S	1
48	Richard Commey	2014 Jul 12	2015 Oct 10S	1
49	Luke Campbell	2016 Mar 26	2017 Mar 25V	1
50	Sean Dodd	2017 Apr 22	2018 Apr 21	1
51	Tommy Coyle	2018 Apr 21	2018 Jul 1V	0
52	Joe Cordina	2018 Aug 4	Present	2

^R - Retired ^S - Stripped ^V - Vacated