| Champion | |||||
| John L. Sullivan | 1882-1892 | ||||
| James J. Corbett | 1892-1897 | ||||
| Bob Fitzsimmons | 1897-1899 | ||||
| James J. Jeffries | 1899-1905 | ||||
| Tommy Burns | 1906-1908 | ||||
| Jack Johnson | 1908-1915 | ||||
| Jess Willard | 1915-1919 | ||||
| Jack Dempsey | 1919-1926 | ||||
| Gene Tunney | 1926-1928 | ||||
| Max Schmeling | 1930-1932 | ||||
| Jack Sharkey | 1932-1933 | ||||
| Primo Carnera | 1933-1934 | ||||
| Max Baer | 1934-1935 | ||||
| James J. Braddock | 1935-1937 | ||||
| Joe Louis | 1937-1949 | ||||
| Ezzard Charles | 1949-1951 | ||||
| Jersey Joe Walcott | 1951-1952 | ||||
| Rocky Marciano | 1952-1955 | ||||
| Floyd Patterson | 1956-1959;1960-1962 | ||||
| Ingemar Johansson | 1959-1960 | ||||
| Sonny Liston | 1962-1964 | ||||
| Muhammad Ali | 1964, 66 WBC, 67 WBA & WBC,76 WBA & WBC,78 WBA- | ||||
| Ernie Terrell | 1965-1967 WBA-Version | ||||
| Jimmy Ellis | 1968-1970 WBA-Version | ||||
| Joe Frazier | 1970-1973 WBA & WBC-Version (1968-70 WBC-Version) | ||||
| George Foreman | 1973-1974 WBA & WBC Version, 1994 IBF & WBA-Version | ||||
| Leon Spinks | 1978 WBA-Version | ||||
| John Tate | 1979-80 WBA-Version | ||||
| Larry Holmes | 1978 WBC-Version, 1984 IBF-Version | ||||
| Mike Weaver | 1980-82 WBA-Version | ||||
| Mike Tyson | 1986 WBC-, 1987-1990 IBF-, WBA und WBC-Version | ||||
| Buster Douglas | 1990 IBF-, WBA- und WBC-Version | ||||
| Evander Holyfield | 1990-1992 IBF, WBA & WBC, 1993 IBF & WBA, 2000 WBA | ||||
| Michael Moorer | 1992 WBO-, 1994 IBF und WBA- Version | ||||
| Riddick Bowe | 1992 IBF, WBA & WBC, 1993 IBF und WBA- Version | ||||
| Lennox Lewis | 1992 WBC, 1997 WBC, 1999 WBA & IBF-Version | ||||
| Vitali Klitschko | 1999 WBO- Version |