HAIL JAPAN! 10 Champions

Edit 30.01.2018 USA 12 Wilder, Benavidez, Truax, Charlo, Hurd, Ali, Thurman (2x), Spence Jr., Garcia, Easter Jr., Russel Jr., Magdaleno. Japan 9 Ogawa (PEDs?), Iwasa, Inoue, Higa, Kimura, Taguchi (2x), Shiro, Kyoguchi, Yamanaka Russland 6 Lebedev, Gassiev, Bivol, Beterbiev, Kovalev, Lipinets Mexiko 6 Ramirez, Berchelt, Santa Cruz, Valdez, Vargas, Nery United Kingdom 6 Joshua (2x), Groves, Saunders, Selby, Burnett (2x), Yafai Thailand 3 Rungvisai, Freshmart, Menyanothin Philippinen 2 Ancajas, Nietes Ukraine 2 Usyk (2x), Lomachenko Puerto Rico 2 Machado, Acosta Kazachstan 1 Golovkin (3x) Venezuela 1 Linares Neuseeland 1 Parker Australien 1 Horn Cuba 1 Lara Südafrika 1 Tete Canada 1 Stevenson Unified Titles 7 Vacant Titles 6 Not counted are the WBA regular champions: Charr, Dorticos, Zeuge, Murata, Castano, Matthysse, Mares, Dogboe (WBO) and the WBA interim champs: Dirrell, Rojas, Flores. EDIT: missed the supermiddleweight division. Adding Truax and Benavidez, USA actually has the most champions (12). japan has currently 10 champions and shares with the USA the #1 spot for the country with the most champions. ogawa, iwasa, inoue, higa, kimura, taguchi (unified), shiro, tanaka, kyoguchi, yamanaka. USA also has 10, actually 11 if we still count crawford as a champ. wilder, charlo, hurd, ali, thurman (unified), spence, garcia, easter jr., russel jr., magdaleno, (crawford). Russia has 6, UK is down to 5, Mexiko 5, Thailand 3, philippines 2, ukraine 2. Also kazachstan, venezuela, Latvia, new zealand, australia, cuba, puerto rico and south africa each have one champion. In tota 17 different countries. 6 titles are vacant right now.

Comments (16)

jmrf4435

japanese need to apologise to China first, I don't care how many champions they have, the fact is CHINA would WHOOP japan in a war. So yeah, I don't even care you can have this little 'victory', China is hard to get into pro-boxing while japan have it easy. The way I see it is China 1 japan 0 OOOOOOOooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo You speaking heat!! I studied international relations and I knew china wasn't increasing all that military spending for no reason, as well as investing military bases in all of those strategically placed island in the South China Sea.. Is anti Japanese sentiment common in china, even after all these years? What part of China do you live?

8y ago

jmrf4435

EDIT: missed the supermiddleweight division. Adding Truax and Benavidez, USA actually has the most champions (12). japan has currently 10 champions and shares with the USA the #1 spot for the country with the most champions. ogawa, iwasa, inoue, higa, kimura, taguchi (unified), shiro, tanaka, kyoguchi, yamanaka. USA also has 10, actually 11 if we still count crawford as a champ. wilder, charlo, hurd, ali, thurman (unified), spence, garcia, easter jr., russel jr., magdaleno, (crawford). Russia has 6, UK is down to 5, Mexiko 5, Thailand 3, philippines 2, ukraine 2. Also kazachstan, venezuela, Latvia, new zealand, australia, cuba, puerto rico and south africa each have one champion. In tota 17 different countries. 6 titles are vacant right now. These are the kinds of threads that make boxingscene cool. Backend research, relatively new information, condensed and easy to read for fans. Green k keep it up!

8y ago

asgarth

I thought Mexico had more. 9 if you count interim titles and The Ring, if not, then I think we have 7. I remember reading not too long ago we had 8 but can't figure who lost recently. Super middleweight, Gilberto Ramírez - WBO Super featherweight, Miguel Berchelt - WBC Featherweight , Leo Santa Cruz - WBA (Super) Featherweight, Aber Mares - WBA (Regular) Featherweight, Oscar Valdez - WBO Super bantamweight, Moises Flores - WBA (Interim) Super bantamweight, Rey Vargas - WBC Bantamweight , Luis Nery - WBC Middleweight , Canelo Alvarez- The Ring yeah, i somehow missed the smw at first and didnt count gilberto ramirez. I only counted the big four belts without interim and regular. Everyone is complaining about the wba mess, so no need to count them. 20 years from now, I really hope no boxing historian is going to recognize regular belts as proper beltholders. That is the difference between robert guerrero the 2-weight division champ or robert guerrero the 4 weight division champ (interim titles at 135 and 147).

8y ago

El_Gitano

8y ago

SilverMiles

Another yamanaka. Ryuya yamanaka the current wbo minimumweight champ Ohhh, okay I see. So Japan would be in-line to have 11 world champions if the other Yamanaka wins his rematch with Nery.

8y ago

asgarth

I don’t believe Yamanaka is still champion, he lost to Nery last year. Another yamanaka. Ryuya yamanaka the current wbo minimumweight champ

8y ago

BoxingIsGreat

I literally have no idea who any of them are Japanese guys arent that small, no reason why they shouldnt compete 130lbs and over. Really? You don't know Naoya Inoue?

8y ago

SilverMiles

EDIT: missed the supermiddleweight division. Adding Truax and Benavidez, USA actually has the most champions (12). japan has currently 10 champions and shares with the USA the #1 spot for the country with the most champions. ogawa, iwasa, inoue, higa, kimura, taguchi (unified), shiro, tanaka, kyoguchi, yamanaka. USA also has 10, actually 11 if we still count crawford as a champ. wilder, charlo, hurd, ali, thurman (unified), spence, garcia, easter jr., russel jr., magdaleno, (crawford). Russia has 6, UK is down to 5, Mexiko 5, Thailand 3, philippines 2, ukraine 2. Also kazachstan, venezuela, Latvia, new zealand, australia, cuba, puerto rico and south africa each have one champion. In tota 17 different countries. 6 titles are vacant right now. I don’t believe Yamanaka is still champion, he lost to Nery last year.

8y ago

SugarRayCurtain

I literally have no idea who any of them are Japanese guys arent that small, no reason why they shouldnt compete 130lbs and over.

8y ago

Chrismart

:boxing::boxing:

8y ago

techliam

Japan has always had more than their share of boxing champions. They love fighting and they are good at it. They have always been a big presence in the lower weights Marketable fighters in Japan

8y ago

boliodogs

Japan has always had more than their share of boxing champions. They love fighting and they are good at it.

8y ago

Boxing42

Where my U.K. Boxing fans at ;)

8y ago

asgarth

Mexico has taken a drop. I wonder if it has anything to do with how globalized the sport is now Not exactly sure, but i think one factor is that Japans boxing comission allowed their fighter to challenge for the WBO and IBF title. At one point, they were only allowed to fight for the WBC and WBA. Now japanese fighters have more opportunity to fight for word titles and they are often in direct competition to mexican fighters, because both countries have many good fighters in those lower divisions. I just checked my excelsheet, I forgot about the supermiddleweight division.

8y ago

jmrf4435

Mexico has taken a drop. I wonder if it has anything to do with how globalized the sport is now

8y ago

Bunch of violent lil men

8y ago