NABF Light Heavyweight Champion

Light Heavyweight champion as recognized by the North American Boxing Federation.

• The maximum weight for this division is 175 pounds (79.4 kg or 12½ stone).
• One of the traditional eight divisions.

RELATED LINK: NABF Light Heavyweight Title Fights

No.	Champion	Reign Began	Reign Ended	Defenses
1	Jimmy Dupree	1971 Jul 3	1971 Oct 29	1
2	Mike Quarry	1971 Oct 29	1972 Jun 27V	0
3	Richie Kates	1974 May 29	1975 May 3S	0
4	Lonnie Bennett	1976 May 8	1977 Apr 1S	0
5	Matthew Saad Muhammad	1977 Jul 27	1979 Apr 22V	3
6	Jerry Martin	1979 Aug 7	1980 Jul 20S	1
7	Willie Edwards	1982 Aug 14	1982 Dec 3	0
8	Pete McIntyre	1982 Dec 3	1983 Jun 23	1
9	Willie Edwards (2)	1983 Jun 23	1987 Jun 26	5
10	Tony Willis (American)	1987 Jun 26	1989 Feb 21V	3
11	Andrew Maynard	1990 Apr 1	1992 Jan 10	4
12	Frank Tate	1992 Jan 10	1992 Sept 29S	0
13	Egerton Marcus	1992 Dec 1	1995 Jan 5S	3
14	Merqui Sosa	1995 Jun 30	1996 Jun 1S	0
15	Montell Griffin	1996 Jul 11	1996 Dec 6S	0
16	Michael Nunn	1997 Jan 17	1997 May 1V	0
17	Merqui Sosa (2)	1997 May 10	1998 Mar 3	0
18	Kenny Bowman	1998 Mar 3	1998 Jun 19	0
19	Derrick Harmon	1998 Jun 19	1998 Nov 5S	0
20	Eric Harding	1998 Nov 13	1999 May 1S	0
21	Greg Wright	1999 May 23	2000 Jul 14	2
22	Chris Johnson	2000 Jul 14	2001 Jan 5	0
23	Eric Harding (2)	2001 Jan 5	2002 Jan 25	1
24	Antonio Tarver	2002 Jan 25	2002 Oct 1S	0
25	Montell Griffin (2)	2002 Nov 3	2003 Apr 26V	0
26	Donnell Wiggins	2003 Oct 11	2004 Mar 18S	0
27	Lucian Bute	2005 Feb 19	2005 Mar 18V	0
28	Eric Harding (3)	2005 Oct 21	2006 Jun 2	0
29	Chad Dawson	2006 Jun 2	2007 Feb 3V	0
30	Chris Henry	2007 May 3	2009 Feb 6	2
31	Yusaf Mack	2009 Feb 6	2009 Oct 12S	0
32	Ismayl Sillakh	2010 Apr 3	2012 Apr 27	1
33	Denis Grachev	2012 Apr 27	2012 Nov 3	0
34	Lucian Bute (2)	2012 Nov 3	2014 Jan 18	0
35	Jean Pascal	2014 Jan 18	2014 Dec 7S	0
36	Isaac Chilemba	2015 Mar 14	2015 Dec 2S	0
37	Oleksandr Gvozdyk	2016 Apr 9	2018 Mar 17V	4
38	Alfonso Lopez	2019 Nov 16	Present	0

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