Light Middleweight Division Weight: 147-154
History
The Light Middleweight Division (also known as Junior Middleweight in the IBF or Super Welterweight in the WBA and WBC), is a weight division in professional boxing, for fighters who weigh between 147–154 pounds.
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This division was established in 1962, when the Austrian Board of Control recognized a fight between Emile Griffith and Teddy Wright for the "world" championship. The fight, which took place on October 17, was won by Griffith via a 15-round decision.
Three days later, the World Boxing Association championship was created when Denny Moyer outpointed Joey Giambra. The World Boxing Council recognized the WBA champion as the true division champion until 1975, when it stripped their current champion and sanctioned a fight between Miguel de Oliveira and Jose Duran for the vacant title. De Oliveira won the title over 15 rounds in 1975.
The International Boxing Federation crowned its first champion when Mark Medal defeated Earl Hargrove in 1984, while the World Boxing Organization crowned its first champion when John David Jackson defeated Lupe Aquino in 1988.
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This hybrid division mirrored the popular middleweight class by featuring fighters who had the power of heavyweights and the speed of lightweights. While many boxers have appeared in fights as light middleweights, relatively few have fought their entire career exclusive in the division, even when it proved to be the fighter's best weight class. The glamor and money still resided in the original middleweight class.
One look at the best fighters who've ever fought as a light heavyweight proves that the division is often viewed as a transitory weight class that offered a title and a chance to adjust until moving up to the full middleweight class:
Super Middleweight Alums who held the title includes: Nino Benvenuti, Manny Pacquiao, Wilfred Benítez, Sugar Ray Leonard, Miguel Cotto, Thomas Hearns, Mike McCallum, Terry Norris, and Winky Wright.
Carded Light-Middleweights
CARDED
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Oscar Albarado
Joachim Alcine
Devon Alexander
Saul Alvarez
Lupe Aquino
Tony Ayala Jr
Wilfred Benitez
Nino Benvenuti
Carmelo Bossi
Laurent Boudouani
Simon Brown
Cornelius Bundrage
Alex Bunema
Luis Ramon Campos
Juan Carlos Candelo
Santos Cardona
Miguel Angel Castellini
Javier Castillejo
Miguel Cotto
Donald Curry
Eckhard Dagge
Carl Daniels
Gilbert Dele
Buster Drayton
Ralph Dupas
Roberto Duran
Jose Duran
Serhiy Dzinziruk
Vernon Forrest
Eddie Gazo
Manuel Gomez
Emile Griffith
Thomas Hearns
Carlos Herrera
Matthew Hilton
Robert Hines
Maurice Hope
Darren Van Horn
Oscar De La Hoya
Julian Jackson
John David Jackson
Rene Jacquot
Kofi Jantuah
Rodney Jones
Ayub Kalule
Roman Karmazin
Ki Soo Kim
Masahi Kudo
Brett Lally
Ray Leonard
Emmett Linton
Freddie Little
Raul Marquez
Tony Marshall
Rocky Mattioli
Floyd Mayweather Jr
Sandro Mazzinghi
Mike McCallum
Bronco McKart
Luigi Minchillo
Davey Moore
Shane Mosley
Denny Moyer
John Mugabi
Keith Mullings
Terry Norris
Elisha Obed
Kassim Ouma
Vincent Pettway
Verno Phillips
Sechew Powell
David Reid
Gianfranco Rosi
Santiago Samaniego
Daniel Santos
Harry Simon
Cory Spinks
Mamadou Thiam
Duane Thomas
Felix Trinidad
Paul Vaden
Fernando Vargas
Julio Cesar Vasquez
Koichi Wajima
Troy Waters
Ronald Wright
Je Doo Yuh
POSSIBLE ADDS
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Ki Soo Ki
Carlos Duran
Harry Simon
Louis Acaries
Jessie Vargas
Bob Hogberg
Alfonso Gomez
Gert Steyn
Ishe Smith
JDanny Perez
Jesus Soto Karass
Yuri Foreman
Willie Nelson
Said Skourma
Percy Manning
Nobuhiro Ishida
Luis Santana
Adrian Stone
Marijan Benes
Ryan Rhodes
Darren Morris
Freddie Hernandez
Pawel Wolak
Loucif Hamani
Kazuhiko Hidaka
Delvin Rodriguez
Jose Hernandez
David Ciarlante
Jacques Kechichian
Tyrone Trice
Michael Trabant
Hurricane Kid
David Estrada
Ray Santillan
Gilbert Baptist
Manuel Ricardo Gonzales
Sebastian Andres Lujan
Angel Hernandez
Sean Mannion
Elio Diaz
Steve Roberts
Ossie Duran
Paul Jones
Quirino Garcia
Teddy Reid
Wayne Powell
Sergey Rabchenko
Hitoshi Kamiyama
Robert McCraken
Ernesto Rafael Sena
Rocky Mosley Jr
Gary Guiden
Darrell Woods
Hector Velazquez
Attila Kovacs
Robert Frazier
Juan Carlos Rubio
Alain Bonnamie
Michael Rask
Glenn Wolfe
Skipper Kelp
John Munduga
Sergio Garcia
Jimmy Cable
Jimmy Batten
Jorge Paez Jr
Daniel Dawson
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