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The 16 Greatest Multi-Division World Champions in Boxing History

by YPB Team

Eight divisions on one resume, five on another, and a century of fighters who kept moving up.

  1. Manny Pacquiao — ranked #11
    Manny Pacquiao
    The only boxer to win world titles in eight different weight divisions.
    1000pts
  2. Oscar De La Hoya — ranked #22
    Oscar De La Hoya
    Won world titles in six weight classes and headlined the sport's biggest gates before Mayweather.
    1000pts
  3. Sugar Ray Leonard — ranked #33
    Sugar Ray Leonard
    Took titles in five divisions and beat Hagler, Duran and Hearns along the way.
    685pts
  4. Nonito Donaire — ranked #44
    Nonito Donaire
    Filipino champion in four divisions with a career spanning more than twenty years.
    621pts
  5. Naoya Inoue — ranked #55
    Naoya Inoue
    Undisputed at bantamweight and super bantamweight, with titles in four divisions.
    548pts
  6. Pernell Whitaker — ranked #66
    Pernell Whitaker
    Four-division champion whose defensive movement is still studied in gyms.
    548pts
  7. Canelo Alvarez — ranked #77
    Canelo Alvarez
    Titles from light middleweight to light heavyweight, and undisputed at super middleweight.
    464pts
  8. Miguel Cotto — ranked #88
    Miguel Cotto
    The first Puerto Rican fighter to win world titles in four divisions.
    464pts
  9. Roy Jones Jr. — ranked #99
    Roy Jones Jr.
    Won belts at middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight.
    464pts
  10. Floyd Mayweather — ranked #1010
    Floyd Mayweather
    World champion in five divisions, from super featherweight up to light middleweight.
    464pts
  11. Roberto Duran — ranked #1111
    Roberto Duran
    Champion in four divisions across five decades of competition.
    365pts
  12. Erik Morales — ranked #1212
    Erik Morales
    The first Mexican fighter to win world titles in four weight classes.
    365pts
  13. Thomas Hearns — ranked #1313
    Thomas Hearns
    The first fighter to win world titles in five weight classes.
    365pts
  14. Juan Manuel Marquez — ranked #1414
    Juan Manuel Marquez
    Mexican counterpuncher with titles at featherweight through light welterweight.
    365pts
  15. Terence Crawford — ranked #1515
    Terence Crawford
    Undisputed at two weights and a titleholder from lightweight to super middleweight.
    365pts
  16. Henry Armstrong — ranked #1616
    Henry Armstrong
    Held the featherweight, lightweight and welterweight titles at the same time in 1938.
    249pts

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Eight weight divisions for Pacquiao against five for Mayweather, with Thomas Hearns the first man to reach five at all: https://youpick.best/articles/mayweather-vs-pacquiao-ranked

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