Oscar “Golden Boy” De La Hoya, 39-6 with 30 stoppages, 1992 Olympic Gold Medalist, of East Los Angeles, California, won world championships in six weight divisions.
These include super featherweight, lightweight, lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and welterweight.
Manny “Pac Man” Pacquiao, 62-8-2 with 39 stoppages, of General Santos City, Philippines, has won world championships in six different weight classes. These include Flyweight, Super Bantamweight, Super Featherweight, Lightweight, Welterweight and Light Middleweight.
Floyd “Money” Mayweather, Jr., 50-0 with 27 stoppages, 1996 Olympic Bronze Medalist, of Las Vegas, Nevada, has won world championships in five different weight classes. These include super featherweight, lightweight, lightweight, welterweight and light middleweight.
“Sugar” Ray Leonard, 36-3-1 with 27 stoppages, 1976 Olympic Gold Medalist, of Palmer Park, Maryland, won world championships in five different weight classes. These include Welterweight, Lightweight, Middleweight, Super Middleweight and Lightweight.
Roy Jones, Jr., 66-10 with 47 stoppages, 1988 Olympic Silver Medalist, of Pensacola, Florida, has won world championships in four different weight classes.
Roberto “Hands of Stone” Duran, 103-16 with 70 stoppages, of Panama City, Panama, has won world championships in four different weight classes. These include lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight.
These titles include organizations including the WBA, WBC, WBO, IBF and IBO titles.
When there was only one world title, there were two standouts who held three world titles in three different weight classes.
First up is “Ruby” Bob Fitzsimmons, 61-8-4, with 57 stops in Timaru, New Zealand. He won the middleweight title in January 1891 by defeating Jack “Nonpareil” Dempsey, 50-1-2, in 13 rounds in New Orleans, Louisiana. He won the heavyweight title, defeating James J. Corbett, 10-0-3, in March 1897 in Carson City, Nevada, and won the light heavyweight title, defeating George Gardner, 38-4-3 , after 20 rounds, in San Francisco, California.
Second was Henry “Homicide Hank” Armstrong, 149-21-10, with 99 stops, of Los Angeles, California. He won the Featherweight title in October 1937 by defeating Petey Sarron, 107-22-13, in six rounds at Madison Square Garden, New York.
He won the Welterweight title in May 1938 by defeating Barney Ross, 74-3-3, at the Madison Square Garden Bowl, New York. In August 1938, he won the lightweight title by defeating Lou Ambers, 75-5-7, at Madison Square Garden, New York and is the only boxer to hold all three belts at the same time.
In August 1943 Armstrong, 132-17-8, lost to top pound-for-pound boxer “Sugar” Ray Robinson, 44-1, over ten rounds at Madison Square Garden, New York.
