win multiple world titles in boxing was a little harder several tenner ago as there were just eight different weight divisions in the mutant . Today there are 18 weight form mainly due to the initiation of junior and super divisions as well the cruiserweight class . Some four - sectionalisation champion have attain the feat by realise just 10 pound between weight classes while others have had to bulk up by at least 40 pound .
The list below consists of the top 16 boxers to advance at least four major existence or lineal championships in different exercising weight classes throughout their career . Major world championship are those sanctioned by the IBF , WBO , WBC , and WBA . There have been several other boxers to succeed four or more different weighting socio-economic class , but these admit fringe titles from organizations such as the IBO , WBF , WBU , and NBA .
Before getting underway , we ’ll heel the current air division and their exercising weight limitation : Jr. Minimumweight ( 102 lbs ) , Minimumweight ( 105 ) , Light Flyweight ( 108 ) , Flyweight ( 112 ) , Super Flyweight ( 115 ) , Bantamweight ( 118 ) , Super Bantamweight ( 122 ) , Featherweight ( 126 ) , Super Featherweight ( 130 ) , Lightweight ( 135 ) , Super Lightweight ( 140 ) , Welterweight ( 147 ) , Super Welterweight ( 154 ) , Middleweight ( 160 ) , Super Middleweight ( 168 ) , Light Heavyweight ( 175 ) , Cruiserweight ( 200 ) and Heavyweight ( limitless ) .
16. Leo Gamez
Leo Gamez is probably the least unknown pugilist listed here as the aborigine of Venezuela fought in the lower weight class . Gamez advance four WBA World Titles in total at minimumweight , light flyweight , flyweight and super flyweight . Gamez ’s four titles were separated by just 10 lb , but that was about 10 per penny of his body weight unit . He fought from 1985 to 2005 with a record of 35 - 12 - 1 along with 26 Kos . However , six of his passing came in his last nine tear . Gamez became the first flyweight packer in account to deliver the goods titles in four different weight unit classes . He attempted to make it five , but was beaten by WBA Champion Johnny Bredhal by unanimous conclusion when he tried to gain ground a bantamweight crest in 2002 .
15. Jorge Arce
Mexico ’s Jorge Arce was another four - prison term world champion in the light divisions as he advance WBO World Belts as a luminousness flyweight , super flyweight , bantamweight and first-rate bantamweight . He was also the Lineal Light Flyweight Champion and the interim WBC Flyweight Champion . Arce ’s titles were spread out over 14 lbs weight dispute . He was the 2nd Mexican to win patronage in four different divisions after Erik Morales . Arce fight from 1996 to 2014 and was a five - time cosmos superstar in sum , winning the light flyweight title when he was just 19 . Arce also try on to gain a fifth belt , but was stopped by Jhonny Gonzalez n the 11th round in a dig for the WBC Featherweight Championship in 2014 . Arce sack out after the turn with a book of 64 - 8 - 2 with 49 Kos and one no - contest .
14. Adrien Broner
Adrien ‘ The Problem ’ Broner of Cincinnati , Ohio is one of the late packer to advance world titles in four weight unit variance as he accomplish the feat in 2015 . Broner became the second - new boxer to do it at age 25 , behind Oscar De La Hoya who was 24 . Broner has win the WBO Super Featherweight , WBC Lightweight , WBA Super Lightweight , and Welterweight Titles . There has been a 17 pound weight spread between Broner ’s belts and he win them all in a span of just under four age . Broner , who turned pro in 2008 , has a current criminal record of 33 - 2 with 24 Kos and one no - contest . The 27 - year - sometime Broner is schedule tomeet undefeated current WBC Lightweight Champion Mikey Garcia(36 - 0 , 30 Kos ) in a third-year welterweight bout in Brooklyn , New York on July 29th .
13. Roman Gonzalez
Roman ‘ Chocolatito ’ Gonzalez is still consider to be one of the beneficial pound - for - pound boxers in the world in good order now even though he lost his super flyweight title to Srisaket Sor Rungvisai by controversial majority decision in March . Like Leo Gamez , the 30 - year - sure-enough native of Nicaragua has advance world title as a WBA Minimumweight , WBC Light Flyweight , Flyweight and Super Flyweight . Gonzalez turned pro in 2005 and was 46 - 0 with 38 Kos when he was overturn by Rungvisai . However , he ’ll get the hazard to retrieve the WBC Super Flyweight Title when thetwo fill in a rematchin California on September 9th . Gonzalez is the first boxer from Nicaragua to win claim in four weight divisions as his paragon , the late Alexis Arguello , won three different weight classes . Gonzalez is also the in style boxer to achieve the feat as he pulled it off last September .
12. Nonito Donaire
Known as the Filipino Flash , Nonito Donaire is destine to always live in the shadow of fellow ruralist Manny Pacquiao . He ’s also been found in the USA for most of his career as well . The 34 - twelvemonth - old has gain the IBF Flyweight , WBC Bantamweight , WBO and Lineal Super Bantamweight and WBA Featherweight Titles between 2007 and 2014 . There has been a 14 lb weight difference of opinion between Donaire ’s form of address and he also beat fellow four - free weight champion Jorge Arce by third - troll knockout in 2012 . However , he lost his WBO Super Bantamweight Title by whole decision to Jessie Magdaleno in his last outing in November , 2016 . Donaire still has a fine platter of 37 - 4 with 24 Kos . on the whole , Donaire has won seven world titles from the four main sanctioning bodies and has also held the lesser - regard IBO Flyweight Title and WBA Interim Super Flyweight Crown .
11. Miguel Cotto
The one and only Puerto Rican boxer to succeed world belts in four different weight classes is 36 - twelvemonth - oldMiguel Cotto . He turned pro back in 2001 after competing at the 2000 Olympics and has won the following championships : WBO Super Lightweight , WBA Welterweight , WBA Super welterweight and the WBC and Lineal Middleweight . Cotto achieved the effort from 2004 to 2014 with a exercising weight deviation of 20 pound between titles . His current book stand at 40 - 5 with 33 Kos and Cotto is scheduled tomeet Yoshiro Kamegaifor the vacant WBO Jr. Middleweight Title in California on August 26th . Cotto maintain his titles a combine 12 times and has taken on the best of his geological era . His five losses have been against world champion Antonio Margarito , Canelo Alvarez , Austin Trout , Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao .
10. Juan Manuel Marquez
He ’s still contemplating another combat , but if Mexico ’s Juan Manuel Marquez put out now at the age of 43 he ’ll do so with a disk of 56 - 7 - 1 with 40 Kos since plough pro in 1993 . He also move 82 - 4 as an amateur with 72 Kos . Marquez has been a WBA , IBF Featherweight , WBC Super Featherweight , Lineal , WBA and WBO Lightweight , and WBO Super Lightweight Champion . Marquez won his deed of conveyance between 2003 and 2012 with a weight differential of 14 lbs between them . He ’s the third Mexican to accomplish the feat after Erik Morales and Jorge Arce and has make headway a total of seven world belts . Marquez is well recognize for his four fight against Manny Pacquiao as well as battles with Floyd Mayweather Jr. , Marco Antonio Barrera , Joel Casamayor , Timothy Bradley and Orlando Salido .
9. Erik Morales
The first Mexican pugilist to acquire humans title in four weightiness partition was the great Erik Morales . He achieved the feat between 1997 and 2011 when he won the WBC Super Bantamweight , Featherweight , Super Featherweight and Super Lightweight Titles . There was 16 lbs difference between Morales ’ championships and he also won the IBF Super Featherweight Crown . He managed to beat 15 domain champions during his career from 1993 and 2012 and retired with a record of 52 - 9 with 36 Kos with eight of his nine defeats come in his last 13 fight . Morales fight down trilogies with Manny Pacquiao and Marco Antonio Barrera and also met the likes of Danny Garcia , Jesus Chavez and Marcos Maidana . Morales is justly regarded as one of the fine and most exciting Mexicans in box history .
8. Pernell Whitaker
Pernell ‘ Sweet Pea ’ Whitaker was a gold - medal winner at the 1984 Olympics and then fought pro from 1984 to 2001 . He had a fine record of 40 - 4 - 1 with one no - competition and 17 Kos and went 201 - 13 as an amateur with 91 Kos . Whitaker won his world titles at WBA , IBF , WBC and Lineal Lightweight , IBF Super Lightweight , WBC and Lineal Welterweight , and WBA Super Welterweight . His belts came between 1989 and 1995 with 19 lb between them . Whitaker ’s power did n’t travel with him from amateur to pro , but he was wide regarded as an excellent defensive boxer with smooth - as - silk science . He took on the like of Oscar De La Hoya , Felix Trinidad , Buddy McGirt , Julio Cesar Chavez , Greg Haugen and Azumah Nelson .
7. Oscar De La Hoya
The immature boxer to bring home the bacon four different universe titles wasOscar De La Hoyaof Los Angeles . His fourth belt come in at 24 when he beat Pernell Whitaker for the WBC and Lineal Welterweight Titles in 1997 . He won the WBO Super Featherweight Crown in 1994 , summate the WBO Lightweight Title in 1995 and the WBC and Lineal Super Lightweight Titles in 1996 . However , he was n’t terminate there as De La Hoya would go on to win the WBC and Lineal Super Welterweight Titles as well as the WBO and Lineal Middleweight Crowns for title in six dissimilar division by 2004 . In amount , De La Hoya won 10 knock in six weight course of study and met fellow four - meter champ Whitaker , Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. along the means . De La Hoya , who ’s known as The Golden Boy , turn pro in 1992 after winning a atomic number 79 medal as a lightweight at that year ’s Olympics . He fought until 2009 with a record book of 39 - 6 with 30 Kos and four of his losses coming in his last seven fights .
6. Roberto Duran
Known as ‘ Manos de Piedra ’ in Spanish and ‘ Hands of Stone ’ in English , the legendary Roberto Duran of Panama would fall behind to four - sectionalization champs Tommy Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard . But he also beat Leonard on his way to four unlike domain title . Duran managed to fascinate the WBA , WBC and Lineal Lightweight , WBC and Lineal Welterweight , WBA Super welterweight and WBC Middleweight Titles . He might have won two more weight unit divisions , but lost in effort to win a super middleweight claim and basically skipped over the topnotch lightweight division . However , he did win a minor NBA Title at tops middleweight . Duran fought pro from1968 to 2001 to become just the second bagger behind Jack Johnson to compete in five unlike decennary . He take on on the world ’s best with a record of 103 - 16 with 70 Kos .
5. Roy Jones Jr.
Those with less purpose than Roy Jones Jr. may not have succeeded as a professional boxer after being clearly robbed of the gold medal at the Olympics . Jones carry on though and is still fighting today at the old age of 48 after turning pro mightily after win the super welterweight silver ribbon at the 1988 Games in Seoul . The aboriginal of Pensacola , Florida , who is also a Russian citizen , has a criminal record of 65 - 9 with 47 Kos . Jones is a six - clip populace champion in four dissimilar weight divisions . He make headway the IBF Middleweight , IBF Super Middleweight , WBA , IBF and WBC Light heavyweight and WBA Heavyweight Titles between 1993 and 2003 with 40 pound difference between the weight class . In fact , Jones is the only boxer ever to start his calling at junior middleweight and eventually gain ground a heavyweight backing . He was also the first middleweight champion to go on to win a heavyweight belted ammunition in 106 years . Jones did also win a title at light heavyweight but it was the pocket-size WBU variation .
4. Sugar Ray Leonard
1976 super lightweight Olympian Au - medal winnerSugar Ray Leonardof Wilmington North Carolina went on to win domain patronage in five different weight classes . Leonard fought as a professional from 1977 to 1997 with a record of 36 - 3 - 1 with 25 Kos . Two of his losses and the draw number in his last four fights . Leonard fought two other members of this list as he gain and lose against Roberto Duran and won and drew against Tommy Hearns . He also beat great such as Marvin Hagler and Wilfredo Benitez . Leonard won the WBA , WBC Welterweight , WBA Super Middleweight and the WBC Middleweight , Super Middleweight and Light Heavyweight Titles between 1979 and 1988 with 28 lbs between weight unit classes . He was also the Lineal Welterweight , Super Welterweight , and Middleweight Champion at one time .
3. Tommy Hearns
Thomas Hearns , nicknamed both the ‘ Hitman ’ and ‘ Motor City Cobra ’ , was born in Memphis , Tennessee , but press out of the notable Kronk Gym in Detroit . Hearns fight back professionally from 1977 to 2006 and compiled a record of 61 - 5 - 1 with 48 Kos . He win mankind titles in five different weight unit class between 1980 and 1988 as he capture the WBA Welterweight , WBA Super Welterweight , WBC Middleweight , WBO Super Middleweight and WBC Light Heavyweight belt with 28 lbs between divisions . He was the first boxer to succeed titles in four and then five different division and then also won small-scale WBU and IBO Titles at cruiserweight . Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard won their title of respect in the same divisions , but Hearns went straight from junior middleweight to illume heavyweight champion before coming back down in weight to pull ahead middleweight and A-one middleweight crowns . Hearns lost and drew to Leonard and destroyed Roberto Duran when he met fellow four - sentence champs .
2. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
When it fall to major earthly concern titles in boxing , undefeated 40 - year - oldFloyd ‘ Money ’ Mayweather Jr.of Grand Rapids Michigan has racked up five of them . Mayweather turned pro in 1996 after winning a bronze medal as a featherweight at the Olympics that yr . Since turning pro , Mayweather has taken on the cream of the crop in his geological era and is currently 49 - 0 with 26 Kos . He ’s aiming to go 50 - 0 when hemeets Conor McGregorof the UFC in a boxing match on August 26th . Mayweather has won the Lineal and WBC Super Featherweight , Lineal and WBC Lightweight , WBC Super Lightweight , IBF , WBC and Lineal Welterweight and WBC and Lineal Super Welterweight Championships . He achieved the effort between 1998 and 2007 with 24 lbs between titles . Mayweather has amaze both Manny Pacquiao and Oscar De La Hoya from this list .
1. Manny Pacquiao
So far , there ’s been just one man in history to win universe titles in eight different divisions and that ’s 38 - class - oldManny ‘ Pac Man ’ Pacquiaoof the Philippines . Pacquiao has won titles between 112 and 154 lbs for a weight departure 42 lb . However , he could have won smash in 10 divisions if he did n’t skip over the crack flyweight and the bantamweight class . Pacquiao has been a WBC and Lineal Flyweight , IBF Super Bantamweight , Lineal Featherweight , WBC and Lineal Super Featherweight , WBC Lightweight , Lineal Super Lightweight , WBO and Lineal Welterweight and WBC Super Welterweight Champion . Pacquiao accomplish his amazing feat between 1998 and 2010 and his current pro disc is 59 - 7 - 2 with 38 Kos since turn pro in 1995 . He ’s faced Erik Morales , Oscar De La Hoya , Juan Manuel Marquez and Floyd Mayweather from this lean with two wins and a personnel casualty against Morales , a win over De La Hoya , two win , a draw and a loss against Marquez , and a loss to Mayweather . Pacquiao has won 11 major reality titles in amount and is the only packer to make headway the Lineal Championship in five divisions . He ’s also just the third man to advance major world championships three in of boxing ’s original eight exercising weight class at flyweight , featherweight and welterweight .
