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).
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. = =
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.
Junior welterweight (10 stone / 140 pounds)
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.
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.
Oscar De La Hoya - 6 WBO Junior Lightweight title; World WBO, IBF Lightweight titles;World WBC Junior Welterweight title;World WBC Welterweight title (failed to win IBF title);World WBC, WBA Junior Middleweight titles: WBO Middleweight title (failed to win World WBA, WBC, IBF titles).Thomas Hearns - 5World WBA Welterweight title;World WBC Junior Middleweight title;WBC, WBA Light Heavyweight titles:WBC Middleweight title (failed to win World WBA, WBC, IBF titles):WBO Super Middleweight title (failed to win the WBC title in controversial bout).'Sugar' Ray Leonard - 5World WBC, WBA Welterweight titles;WBA Jr. Middleweight title (failed to win WBC title);World WBC Middleweight title:WBC Super Middleweight title (failed to win WBO title):WBC Light Heavyweight title. (Won SMW and LHW titles in same bout).Floyd Mayweather, Jr. - 5WBC Junior Lightweight title;World WBC Lightweight;WBC Junior Welterweight title;World WBC, IBF Welterweight titles:World WBC Junior Middleweight title.
Australian Formula Junior Championship was created in 1962.
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Jiri Vasely won the boys junior championship of Australian Open 2011.