This is a list of Danish boxing world champions who have won major world titles from the "Big four" governing bodies in professional boxing namely the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Organization (WBO).
List of men's professional boxing world champions
The following is a list of Danish boxing champions who have held titles from one or more of the "Big Four" organizations (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) and The Ring.
WBA has four recognized world champions, Super, Undisputed, Unified and Regular. The highest tier title is considered the primary champion of the division. Only boxers who are in the primary champion lineage are listed.
The ranking of WBA's primary champions are as follows: Super Undisputed Unified Regular
Other former international/national-world boxing commissions and organizations from the beginning of boxing are also included here: New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC) National Boxing Association (NBA) - changed its name to World Boxing Association (WBA) in 1962
Current world champion Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame World titles from world and The Ring WBA Regular champion ‡ denotes that both the WBA Super and Unified is vacant/vacated during his title reign.
No.NameTitlesDateOpponentResultDefenses1Johnny Bredahl WBO Super flyweight (112)Sep 4, 1992 José QuirinoUD 12/123WBA Bantamweight (118)Apr 19, 2002 Eidy MoyaKO 9/1232Gert Bo Jacobsen WBO Welterweight (147)Feb 12, 1993 Manning GallowayUD 12/1203Mikkel Kessler WBA Super middleweight (168)Nov 12, 2004 Manny SiacaRTD 7/120Oct 14, 2006 Markus BeyerKO 3/121WBC Super middleweight (168)Oct 14, 20061WBA (Regular) Super middleweight (168) – (2)Jun 21, 2008 Dimitri SartisonKO 12/120Oct 3, 2008Primary champion vacant2Oct 21, 2009Promoted0WBC Super middleweight (168) – (2)Apr 24, 2010 Carl FrochUD 12/120
Note Interim titles are not included unless they get promoted to the official champion. For WBA champions, only champions in the WBA primary lineage are listed.
List of WBA secondary champions
No.NameTitlesReign periodOpponentResultDefensesPrimary champion/s during reign1Mikkel Kessler WBA (Regular) Super middleweight (168) Jun 21, 2008 – Oct 3, 2008 Dimitri SartisonKO 12/120 Joe Calzaghe2Mikkel Kessler (2) WBA (Regular) Super middleweight (168) – (2) Dec 8, 2012 – May 25, 2013 Brian Magee TKO 3/120 Andre Ward
See also
List of WBA world champions List of WBC world champions List of IBF world champions List of WBO world champions List of The Ring world champions List of undisputed boxing champions
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