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List of Danish world boxing champions

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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

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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:

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. Name Titles Date Opponent Result Defenses
1 Johnny Bredahl[1] WBO Super flyweight (112) Sep 4, 1992 Mexico José Quirino UD 12/12 3
WBA Bantamweight (118) Apr 19, 2002 Venezuela Eidy Moya KO 9/12 3
2 Gert Bo Jacobsen[2] WBO Welterweight (147) Feb 12, 1993 United States Manning Galloway UD 12/12 0
3 Mikkel Kessler[3] WBA Super middleweight (168) Nov 12, 2004 Puerto Rico Manny Siaca RTD 7/12 0
Unified
Oct 14, 2006
Germany Markus Beyer KO 3/12 Unified
1
WBC Super middleweight (168) Oct 14, 2006 1
WBA (Regular) Super middleweight (168) – (2) Regular
Jun 21, 2008
Germany Dimitri Sartison KO 12/12 Regular
0
Regular
Oct 3, 2008
Primary champion vacant Regular
2
Super
Oct 21, 2009
Promoted Super
0
WBC Super middleweight (168) – (2) Apr 24, 2010 United Kingdom Carl Froch UD 12/12 0

Note

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List of WBA secondary champions

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No. Name Titles Reign period Opponent Result Defenses Primary champion/s during reign
1 Mikkel Kessler[3] WBA (Regular) Super middleweight (168) Jun 21, 2008 – Oct 3, 2008
Becomes primary champion due to vacancy of the title.
Germany Dimitri Sartison KO 12/12 0
United Kingdom Joe Calzaghe
Nov 4, 2007 – Oct 3, 2008
2 Mikkel Kessler (2) WBA (Regular) Super middleweight (168) – (2) Dec 8, 2012 – May 25, 2013 United Kingdom Brian Magee TKO 3/12 0
United States Andre Ward
Nov 21, 2009 – Kessler lost the title to Carl Froch while Ward was still the primary champion.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Boxing record for Johnny Bredahl from BoxRec (registration required)
  2. ^ Boxing record for Gert Bo Jacobsen from BoxRec (registration required)
  3. ^ a b Boxing record for Mikkel Kessler from BoxRec (registration required)
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