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), founded in the United States in 1995. This does not includes champions of the identically named German based organization that was active in the 2010s.

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

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

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 December 1996	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
Edwardo Oliveria	13 April 2007–2009	0	Won vacant title

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–?	1

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

• List of IBF world champions
• List of WBA world champions
• List of WBC world champions
• List of WBO world champions