Middleweight

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Middleweight is a weight class in combat sports.

Boxing

Professional

In professional boxing, the middleweight division is contested above Template:Convert and up to Template:Convert.

Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1867. Chandler won, becoming known as the American middleweight champion. The first middleweight fight with gloves may have been between George Fulljames and Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey (no relation to the more famous heavyweight Jack Dempsey).

Current world champions

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Sanctioning Body Reign Began Champion Record Defenses
WBA March 9, 2023 Erislandy Lara 31–3–3 (19 KO) 2
WBC May 7, 2024 Carlos Adames 24–1–1 (18 KO) 2
IBF October 14, 2023 Janibek Alimkhanuly 17–0 (12 KO) 1
WBO August 26, 2022 Janibek Alimkhanuly[1] 17–0 (12 KO) 3

Current world rankings

The Ring

As of April 29, 2025.[2]

Keys:

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Rank Name Record Title(s)
C vacant
1 Janibek Alimkhanuly 17–0 (12 KO) WBO, IBF
2 Carlos Adames 24–1–1 (18 KO) WBC
3 Hamzah Sheeraz 21–0–1 (17 KO)
4 Erislandy Lara 31–3–3 (19 KO) WBA
5 Chris Eubank Jr 35–3 (25 KO)
6 Etinosa Oliha 21–0 (9 KO)
7 Kyrone Davis 19–3–1 (6 KO)
8 Troy Isley 14–0 (5 KO)
9 Shane Mosley Jr. 22–4 (12 KO)
10 Aaron McKenna 20-0 (10 KO)
BoxRec

As of December 16, 2025.[3]

Rank Name Record Points Title(s)
1 Gennady Golovkin 42–2–1 (37 KO) 687.5
2 Jermall Charlo 34–0 (23 KO) 109.1
3 Erislandy Lara 31–3–3 (19 KO) 95.18 WBA
4 Chris Eubank Jr. 32–2 (23 KO) 95.07
5 Jaime Munguía 38–0 (30 KO) 91.67
6 Michael Zerafa 30–4 (19 KO) 54.77
7 Carlos Adames 24–1 (18 KO) 44.18
8 Sergiy Derevyanchenko 13–4 (10 KO) 43.24
9 Janibek Alimkhanuly 17–0 (12 KO) 30.81 WBO IBF
10 Ryōta Murata 16–3 (13 KO) 28.35

Longest reigning world middleweight champions

Below is a list of longest reigning middleweight champions in boxing measured by the individual's longest reign. Career total time as champion (for multiple time champions) is not counted.

Rank Name Title Reign Title Recognition Successful Defenses Beaten opponents Fights
1. Bernard Hopkins 10 years, 2 months, 18 days IBF, WBA, WBC, WBO 20 17 [4]
2. Tommy Ryan 8 years, 7 months, 4 days World 6 6 [5][6]
3. Gennady Golovkin 8 years, 1 months, 1 day WBA (Super), IBF, WBC 18 14 [7]
4. Tony Zale 6 years, 11 months, 24 days NBA (current WBA) 4 4 [8]
5. Carlos Monzón 6 years, 9 months, 9 days WBA, WBC 14 11 [9][10]
6. Marvelous Marvin Hagler 6 years, 7 months, 10 days WBC, WBA, IBF 12 10 [11]
7. Nonpareil Jack Dempsey 6 years, 6 months, 15 days World 2 2 [12]
8. Felix Sturm 5 years, 4 months, 4 days WBA 12 10
9. Jermall Charlo Template:Age in years, months, weeks and days WBC 4 4 [13]
10. Demetrius Andrade 3 years, 10 month, 12 days WBO 5 5 [14]
11. Bob Fitzsimmons 3 years, 8 months, 12 days World 1 1 [15][16]
12. Arthur Abraham 3 years, 7 months, 2 days IBF 10 10 [17]
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Amateur

Olympic champions

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Kickboxing

Bare-knuckle boxing

The limit for middleweight generally differs among promotions in bare-knuckle boxing:

Lethwei

The World Lethwei Championship recognizes the middleweight division with an upper limit of Template:Convert. In World Lethwei Championship, Naimjon Tuhtaboyev is the Middleweight Champion.

Mixed Martial Arts

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Anderson Silva is considered to be the greatest Middleweight MMA fighter of all time.[19]

Taekwondo

Category Men's Women's Competitions Note
Middleweight 78–84 kg 67–72 kg World Championships, Continental Championships, Asian Games since 1999
Middleweight 76–83 kg 65–70 kg World Championships, Continental Championships, Asian Games until 1998
Middleweight 68–80 kg 57–67 kg Olympic Games, Pan Am Games, All-Africa Games

References

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