List of WBU world champions

The following is a list of WBU world champions, a table showing the world champions certificated by the World Boxing Union (WBU).

^r – Champion relinquished title.
^s – Champion stripped of title.

List of WBU Champions

WBU heavyweight champions have included:^[1]^[2]^[3]

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
George Foreman	March 29, 1995 – 1997	2	Foreman was recognized as champion after he was stripped of the IBF title
Corrie Sanders	November 15, 1997 – May 20, 2000	3	Defeated Ross Purity
Hasim Rahman	May 20, 2000 – April 21, 2001	0	Relinquished the title in order to fight Lennox Lewis for the IBF, IBO and WBC titles
Johnny Nelson	November 24, 2001 – December 4, 2001	0	Defeated Alexander Vasiliev. Relinquished the title in order to concentrate on defending his WBO Cruiserweight title
Georgi Kandelaki	December 21, 2002 – January 2004	0	Defeated Alexander Vasiliev. Kandelaki either relinquished or was stripped of the title
Matt Skelton	February 25, 2005 – January 26, 2009	0	Skelton relinquished the title
Marselles Brown	September 24, 2016 – 2017	0	Brown was stripped of the title, stripped date is unknown
Adam Braidwood	February 24, 2017 – present	0

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
Thomas Hearns	March 31 1995 –1996	0	Won vacant title
James Toney	February 22 1997 –1997	0	Won vacant title
Don Diego Poeder	June 14 1997 –1997	1	Won vacant title
Jacob Mofokeng	September 12 1998 –1999	0	Won vacant title
Vincenzo Cantatore	March 20 1999 –March 1999	0	Won vacant title
Rob Norton	April 1 1999 –24 September 1999	0	Won vacant title
Sebastiaan Rothmann	24 September 1999 –2003	6
Enzo Maccarinelli	28 June 2003 –2006	7	Won vacant title
Mark Hobson	8 September 2006 –2009	0	Won vacant title

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
James Toney	June 18 1995 –6 December1996	3	Won vacant title
Montell Griffin	6 December 1996 –1997	0
Frank Tate	30 August 1997 –?	0	Won vacant title
Dario Walter Matteoni	2 March 2000 –?	0	Won vacant title
Tony Oakey	4 March 2002 –11 October 2003	3	Won vacant title
Matthew Barney	11 October 2003 –?	0

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
Thomas Tate	21 November 1995 –1996	0	Won vacant title
Vinny Pazienza	23 August 1996 –1998	0	Won vacant title
Norbert Nieroba	18 April 1998 – 8 May 1999	0	Won vacant title
Nordin Ben Salah	8 May 1999 – 2000	0
Silvio Branco	15 April 2000 – ?	1	Won vacant title
Eric Teymour	24 November 2004 – ?	0	Won vacant title

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
Dana Rosenblatt	13 April 1996 –1996	0	Won vacant title
Silvio Branco	19 September 1996 –18 December 1998	6
Agostino Cardemone	18 December 1998 –26 June 1999	1
Raymond Joval	26 June 1999 –13 December 1999	0
Antonio Perugino	13 December 1999 –2000	0
Kevin Kelly	5 May 2000 –2000	0	Won vacant title
Antonio Perugino	3 June 2000 –?	0	Won vacant title
Ruben Groenewald	6 June 2002 –28 September 2002	0	Won vacant title
Anthony Farnell	28 September 2002 –5 April 2003	1
Wayne Ellcock	5 April 2003 –29 November 2003	0
Lawrence Murphy	29 November 2003 –6 March 2004	0
Anthony Farnell	6 March 2004 –12 June 2004	0
Eugenio Monteiro	12 June 2004 –?	0
Gary Lockett	11 March 2006 –?	2

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
Emmett Linton	3 November –1996	1	Won vacant title
Verno Phillips	21 May 1997 –1998	2	Won vacant title
Rashid Matumla	19 December 1998 –?	1	Won vacant title
Takaloo	7 July 2001 –17 August 2002	2	Won vacant title
Daniel Santos	17 August 2002 –2002	0
Takaloo	2 January 2003 –10 September 2004	1	Won vacant title
Wayne Alexander	10 September 2004–?	0

Name	Duration of reign	Defenses	Notes
Gary Murray	26 August 1995 –26 October 1996	4	Won vacant title
Alessandro Duran	26 October 1996 –30 July 1997	1
Peter Malinga	30 July 1997 –17 November 1997	0
Alessandro Duran	17 November 1997 –5 May 1998	0
Michele Piccirillo	5 May 1998 –2001	8
Jan Piet Bergman	2 June 2001 –2003	3	Won Vacant Title
Eamonn Magee	6 October 2003 –20 May 2006	1	Won Vacant Title
Takaloo	20 May 2006 –7 April 2007	0
Micheal Jennings	7 April 2007 –	1

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