WBA Cruiserweight Champion
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Cruiserweight champion as recognized by the World Boxing Association.
- Also known as Junior Heavyweight and Lighter-heavyweight
- The maximum weight for this division is 200 pounds (90.9 kg or 14 stone 4 lbs).
RELATED LINK: WBA Cruiserweight Title Fights
Primary Championship Lineage
- Every Super champion is the primary champion.
- A Regular champion is a primary champion only if Super, Undisputed and Unified is vacant.
- A Unified champion is a primary champion only if Super is vacant.
- Not every Regular or Unified champion gets promoted to Super if it is vacant.
- Not every Regular champion gets to fight for the vacant Super title.
- A Regular or Unified champion that is considered the primary champion is relegated to secondary champion if Super gets occupied.
| Reign Began | Reign Ended | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ossie Ocasio | 1982 Feb 13 | 1984 Dec 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Piet Crous | 1984 Dec 1 | 1985 Jul 27 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | Dwight Muhammad Qawi | 1985 Jul 27 | 1986 Jul 12 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | Evander Holyfield | 1986 Jul 12 | 1988 Apr 9 V | 5 | 5 |
| 5 | Taoufik Belbouli | 1989 Mar 25 | 1989 Nov 27 V | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Robert Daniels | 1989 Nov 27 | 1991 Mar 8 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Bobby Czyz | 1991 Mar 8 | 1992 May 8 V | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | Orlin Norris | 1993 Nov 6 | 1995 Jul 22 | 4 | 3 |
| 9 | Nate Miller | 1995 Jul 22 | 1997 Nov 8 | 4 | 4 |
| 10 | Fabrice Tiozzo | 1997 Nov 8 | 2000 Dec 9 | 4 | 4 |
| 11 | Virgil Hill | 2000 Dec 9 | 2002 Feb 23 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Jean-Marc Mormeck | 2002 Feb 23 | 2006 Jan 7 | 4 | 4 |
| 13 | O'Neil Bell | 2006 Jan 7 | 2007 Mar 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Jean-Marc Mormeck (2) | 2007 Mar 17 | 2007 Nov 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | David Haye | 2007 Nov 10 | 2008 May 12 V | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | Firat Arslan | 2008 Jun 19 | 2008 Sep 27 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Guillermo Jones | 2008 Sep 27 | 2012 Oct 30 | 2 | 2 |
| 18 | Denis Lebedev | 2012 Oct 30 | 2018 Feb 1 S | 6 | 6 |
| 19 | Yuniel Dorticos | 2018 Feb 1 | 2018 Feb 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Murat Gassiev | 2018 Feb 3 | 2018 Jul 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Oleksandr Usyk | 2018 Jul 21 | 2019 Mar 27 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Arsen Goulamirian | 2019 May 31 | Present | 2 | 2 |
R - Retired
S - Stripped
V - Vacated
RG - Relegated to secondary champion