The welterweight partition has always been a big bang with boxing fans as it has featured some of the sport ’s most dynamic title-holder . The division is contested for champion weigh between 140 and 147lbs and sits between the lightweight and middleweight divisions . This leaning features the 10 long reigning welterweight package ace in history . It care with single reigns rather than combined reigns for those who held the rubric more than once .
The current champions as of July 10th 2017 are Keith Thurman ( WBA Super and WBC ) , Lamont Peterson ( WBA Regular ) and Errol Spence ( IBF ) of the USA and Jeff Horn ( WBO ) of Australia . Some of the most popular past champion include Floyd Mayweather Jr. , Jose Napoles , Sugar Ray Robinson , Henry Armstrong , Sugar Ray Leonard , Wilfredo Benitez , Roberto Duran , Tommy Hearns , Oscar De La Hoya , Emile Griffith and Manny Pacquiao .
10. Simon Brown
He may not be realize as one of the all - time greats , but Simon Brown of Jamaica was a solid welterweight champion , who oppose the IBF Title nine metre during his sovereignty of three years , five month and 11 24-hour interval . He was actually a two - part swath holder as Brown also advance a junior middleweight claim . Brown , who was nicknamed Mantequilla , was pretty combat-ready during his pro career from 1982 to 2000 as he fought 59 times with a disc of 47 - 12 with 34 Kos while losing his final six fights . Brown started his career at 21 - 0 and then managed to gain ground the vacant IBF Championship in 1988 with a 14th - round TKO over Tyrone Trice . Brown add together the WBC Title when he beat Maurice Blocker in 1991 , but turn a loss his belts to Buddy McGirt in his next fight . He stop Terry Norris two years later for the WBC Jr. Middleweight crest and defended it once against Troy Waters before lose to Norris in their rematch .
9. Mickey Walker
American Mickey Walker of Elizabeth , New Jersey and was known as the Toy Bulldog . He won world titles in the welterweight and middleweight divisions and even fought as a light heavyweight and colossus . Walker fought from 1919 to 1935 and officially run 94 - 19 - 4 with 60 Kos . He win the World Welterweight Championship in November , 1922 by a 15 - circular unanimous conclusion over Jack Britton at Madison Square Garden . He then held the title for three age , five months and 20 days and defended it five time as well as participating in numerous non - title bouts . Walker mislay the welterweight swath to Pete Latzo in May , 1926 and then move up to middleweight . He won that naval division ’s title just seven months subsequently with a controversial 10 - stave point deliver the goods over Tiger Flowers . Walker reigned as middleweight champ for five years , but defended his title just three time before travel up to heavier divisions . After retiring , Walker became a world - renowned artist .
8. Jack Britton
Jack ‘ Boxing Marvel ’ Britton was another American boxer who fought in the earlier day of the sportsman . The native of Clinton , New York fight professionally between 1904 and 1930 and compiled an official record of 104 - 29 - 20 with 30 Kos . He was a three - time World Welterweight Champion with his longest reign being three years , seven calendar month and 13 days . Britton first won the crown in June , 1915 with a 12 - round decision over Mike Glover . However , he lost it in his first defence against Ted ‘ Kid ’ Lewis just two month later . Britton regained the deed in a rematch with Lewis seven months after that , but once again mislay it to Lewis the next twelvemonth . Britton won the title for the third time by knock Lewis out in the 9th round in March , 1919 and successfully defended it four times before losing to Mickey Walker in November , 1922 .
7. Donald Curry
One of the best welterweights of the eighties and XC was Donald Curry of Fort Worth , Texas . Curry was sleep together as the Lone Star Cobra and after a fine amateur life history , made the 1980 American Olympic Boxing Team . His dreams of contend were shatter though when the U.S. boycotted the Games . Curry fought pro from 1980 to 1997 with a record book of 34 - 6 with 25 Kos . He won the vacant WBA Welterweight Championship in February , 1983 with a solid conclusion over Jun - Suk Hwang . Curry ’s brother Bruce would soon win the WBC Jr. Welterweight Title and the Curry ’s became thefirst siblings to carry world title at the same meter . Curry added the IBF Welterweight Title in 1984 and then pick apart out Milton McCrory for the WBC and Lineal Belts . He lose all of his titles in September , 1986 when Lloyd Honeyghan stopped him in six . However , he held the WBA Title for three yr , seven months and 14 daytime while defending it seven times . Curry would later win the WBC Jr. Middleweight Title , but conk out in three attempts at a middleweight bash .
6. Sugar Ray Robinson
Arguably the great bagger of all time , Sugar Ray Robinson of Ailey , Georgia fought between the featherweight and tripping heavyweight division between 1940 and 1965 with a phonograph recording of 173 - 19 - 6 with 108 Kos after die 85 - 0 as an amateur with 69 Kos . He also enjoy the longest unbeaten streak in pro boxing history at 91 contest between 1943 and 1951 . Robinson won the World Welterweight Championship with a 15 - roud consentaneous conclusion over Tommy Bell in December , 1946 and held onto it for three years , seven month and 19 day while defending it five meter and winning legion non - title bouts . Robinson then moved up to middleweight and became a five - sentence champion in the division . After retire , Robinson dabble in pretend , but he ’ll perpetually be remember for his engagement against the like of Jake LaMotta , Henry Armstrong , Kid Gavilan , Bobo Olson , Randy Turpin , Gene Fullmer and Carmen Basilio .
5. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
At 49 - 0 with 26 Kos since twist pro back in , 40 - year - oldFloyd Mayweather Jr.of Grand Rapids , Michigan will be coming back to take onUFC fighter Conor McGregoron August 26th . As a boxer though , Mayweather has won earthly concern titles in five different weight division and has racked up four different Lineal Titles and a grand sum of 15 worldly concern patronage belts . He reign as Welterweight Champion for four age before being strip of the title and defend it five times . The former 1996 Olympic bronze medallist at featherweight won the IBF and vacant IBO Welterweight Titles with a consentaneous decision over Zab Judah in April , 2006 and tot the WBA , IBC , and Lineal Titles in his next round against Carlos Baldomir . Mayweather would give up the IBF bang and things would get a little complicated as he fought at catch - weight on a few function and he would afterwards deliver the goods the WBO Welterweight Crown by beating Manny Pacquiao in 2015 . He was presently loot of that title for failing to pay a $ 200,000 sanctioning fee .
4. Pernell Whitaker
One of the best pure boxers and defensive fighters in the story of the variation was Pernell ‘ Sweet Pea ’ Whitaker of Norfolk , Virginia . Whitaker would win populace form of address in four different weighting stratum and defended the WBC Welterweight Championship eight time during his reign of four years , one calendar month and six days . He also won amber as a lightweight at the 1984 Olympics . Whitaker agitate professionally from 1984 to 2001 with a record of 40 - 4 - 1 with 17 Kos and one no competition . After winning titles in the lightweight and third-year welterweight divisions , Whitaker bring home the bacon the WBC and Lineal Welterweight Titles by solid decision over Buddy McGirt in September , 1993 . He won the WBA Super Welterweight Championship in 1995 and held onto to his Welterweight Belts until losing to Oscar De La Hoya in April , 1997 . Whitaker lost his last three bouts before retiring .
3. Jose Napoles
Cuba has long acquire some of the world ’s finest boxers and Jose ‘ Mantequilla ’ Napoles is a prime object lesson even though he did end up fighting out of Mexico after becoming a citizen of that state . Napoles press 88 times as a pro between 1958 and 1975 with a record of 81 - 7 with 54 Kos . Napoles pull ahead the WBA and WBC Welterweight Titles in 1969 when he stopped Curtis Cokes after 13 stave . He would defend the belts three times before being stopped by Billy Backus in the quaternary one shot in December , 1970 . Napoles stopped Backus in their rematch the next year to regain the titles . He then hold the belted ammunition for four years , six months and two days . Carlos Monzon barricade him in February , 1974 when Napoles challenged the Middleweight Champion . Napoles moved back to welterweight where he was still the title-holder and held the belt until John Stracey stopped him in his final bout in December , 1975 in Napoles ’ 15th overall defence .
2. Antonio Margarito
Mexico ’s Antonio Margarito will always be recollect for “ doctoring ” his hand wraps with plaster of Paris against Shane Mosley in 2009 . But he did manage to defend the WBO Welterweight Championship seven time during his reign of five years , three months and 28 days . In fact , he ’s a three - time title-holder at welterweight as he would by and by win WBA and IBF Titles . The 39 - twelvemonth - quondam is presently 40 - 8 - 1 with 27 Kos and one no - competition after plow pro in 1994 . Margarito won the vacant WBO Title in March , 2002 with a tenth - troll technical knockout over Antonio Diaz . He lost it in his 8th defense when Paul Williams beat him by unanimous decisiveness in July of 2007 . Margarito beat Kermit Cintron for the IBF Belt and Miguel Cotto for the WBA Title in 2008 , but then lost to Mosley . He lost to Cotto in a rematch at junior middleweight and to Manny Pacquiao in the same division in a title shot . Margarito retired in 2011 , but total back in 2016 and has won two scrap since .
1. Felix Trinidad
The longest - reign Welterweight Champion of all sentence was Puerto Rico’sFelix Trinidadas he curb the IBF Title for six year , eight months and 14 day . Trinidad boxed from 1990 to 2008 after the five - clock time national amateur champ turned pro at 17 year of age . He would deliver the goods humankind titles in three weight divisions and went 42 - 3 as a professional with 35 Kos . All three of his defeats came in his last five bout . Trinidad captured the welterweight crest in June , 1993 when he block up Maurice Blocker in the 2nd round . He ’d go on to defend it 15 time against the likes of Luis Garcia , Hector Camacho , Oba Carr , Pernell Whitaker and Oscar De La Hoya . He also win the WBC and Lineal Welterweight Titles in his September , 1999 win over De La Hoya . Trinidad then resign his titles in 2000 to struggle as a next-to-last middleweight then middleweight and won world title in both divisions .
