WBO Light Heavyweight Champion
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Light Heavyweight champion as recognized by the World Boxing Organization.
- The maximum weight for this division is 175 pounds (79.4 kg or 12½ stone).
- One of the traditional eight divisions.
RELATED LINK: WBO Light Heavyweight Title Fights
| Reign Began | Reign Ended | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Moorer | 1988 Dec 3 | 1991 May 9 V | 9 | 9 |
| 2 | Leeonzer Barber | 1991 May 9 | 1994 Sep 10 | 4 | 4 |
| 3 | Dariusz Michalczewski | 1994 Sep 10 | 2003 Oct 18 | 23 | 20 |
| 4 | Julio Cesar Gonzalez | 2003 Oct 18 | 2004 Jan 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Zsolt Erdei | 2004 Jan 17 | 2009 Nov V | 11 | 10 |
| 6 | Jürgen Brähmer | 2009 Nov | 2011 May 19 S | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Nathan Cleverly | 2011 May 19 | 2013 Aug 17 | 5 | 5 |
| 8 | Sergey Kovalev | 2013 Aug 17 | 2016 Nov 19 | 8 | 7 |
| 9 | Andre Ward | 2016 Nov 19 | 2017 Oct 11 R | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Sergey Kovalev (2) | 2017 Nov 25 | 2018 Aug 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Eleider Alvarez | 2018 Aug 4 | 2019 Feb 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Sergey Kovalev (3) | 2019 Feb 2 | 2019 Nov 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Canelo Alvarez | 2019 Nov 2 | 2019 Dec 17V | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Joe Smith Jr | 2021 Apr 10 | 2022 Jun 18 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Artur Beterbiev | 2022 Jun 18 | 2025 Feb 22 | 3 | 3 |
| 16 | Dmitry Bivol | 2025 Feb 22 | Present | 0 | 0 |
R - Retired
S - Stripped
V - Vacated