Hector Thompson
Ramon Cox won the 1985 junior welterweight (139-pounds) novice championship at the 55th Annual CYO Boxing Tournament by defeating Peter Pastori in a three-round decision at St. Andrews Gym in Chicago. Cox is from the Mount Prospect Boxing Club. Pastori is from Fuller Park Boxing Club.
Wilfred Benitez was the Youngest Junior Welterweight (140 lb), and Pipino Cuevas was the youngest Welterweight (147 lb).
From lightest to heaviest: Strawweight Light Flyweight Flyweight Super Flyweight Bantamweight Super Bantamweight Featherweight Super Featherweight Lightweight Super Lightweight Welterweight Super Welterweight Middleweight Super Middleweight Light Heavyweight Cruiserweight Heavyweight The names varies in each organization. ie: Super Welterweight could also be call Junior Middleweight.
Wilfred Benitez is the youngest (male) world champion in boxing history, capturing the WBA junior welterweight title at the age of 17 years and 5 months with a split decision over Antonio Cervantes. He went on to win the WBC welterweight title as well as the WBC light middleweight title. = =
Ward is the former American junior welterweight professional boxer and former Word Boxing Union (WBU) champion who hails from the hardscrabble Irish American working class town of Lowell in Massachusetts.
Junior welterweight (10 stone / 140 pounds)
Juan Manual Marquez is known for being a Mexican boxer. He is also a former WBO light-welterweight champion. Ring Magazine currently ranks Juan Manual Marquez as the 3rd best boxer in the world in terms of pound-for-pound boxing. He is also number one in the junior welterweight division, too.
Australian Formula Junior Championship was created in 1962.
after commonwealth games
Shortly after winning the gold medal in the 1976 Olympics in the junior welterweight division. Ray had told people after the Olympics that he was quitting boxing for good but his father became seriously ill and he resumed his career to make money to take care of his father.
Tom is amazing he is a junior boxing champ
mosley won the ibf lightweight title in 1997, made 8 defenses, then moved up to welterweight in '99. he beat Oscar de la hoya for the wbc welterweight title in 2000, made three defenses before losing to vernon Forrest. beat de la hoya again in 2003, this time for the junior middleweight crown, then lost the 154 pound titles to winky wright. he moved back down to welterweight and in 2007 won back a title at that weight, and still holds it.