List of WBC world champions
Name Reign period No . of successful defenses Days
Gabriel Elorde 16 February 1963 - 15 June 1967 5 1580
Yoshiaki Numata 15 June 1967 - 14 December 1967 0 182
Hiroshi Kobayashi 14 December 1967 - 18 January 1969 ( stripped ) 2 401
René Barrientos def . Rubén Navarro 15 February 1969 - 5 April 1970 0 414
Yoshiaki Numata 5 April 1970 - 10 October 1971 3 553
Ricardo Arredondo 10 October 1971 - 28 February 1974 5 872
Kuniaki Shibata 28 February 1974 - 5 July 1975 3 492
Alfredo Escalera 5 July 1975 - 28 January 1978 10 938
Alexis Argüello 28 January 1978 - 1980 ( vacated ) 8 1068
Rafael Limón def . Idelfonso Bethelmy 11 December 1980 - 8 March 1981 0 87
Cornelius Boza-Edwards 8 March 1981 - 29 August 1981 1 174
Rolando Navarrete 29 August 1981 - 29 May 1982 1 273
Rafael Limón 29 May 1982 - 11 December 1982 1 196
Bobby Chacon 11 December 1982 - 1983 ( stripped ) 1 385
Héctor Camacho def . Rafael Limón 7 August 1983 - 1984 ( vacated ) 1 512
Julio César Chávez def . Mario Martínez 13 September 1984 - 21 August 1987 ( vacated ) 9 1072
Azumah Nelson def . Mario Martínez 29 February 1988 - 7 May 1994 10 2259
Jesse James Leija 7 May 1994 - 17 September 1994 0 133
Gabriel Ruelas 17 September 1994 - 1 December 1995 2 440
Azumah Nelson 1 December 1995 - 22 March 1997 1 477
Super featherweight
This is a list of WBC world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the World Boxing Council (WBC). The WBC is one of the four major governing bodies in professional boxing, and certifies world champions in 10 different weight classes. In 1963, the year of its foundation, the WBC inaugurated titles in all divisions with the exception of light flyweight, super flyweight, super bantamweight, super middleweight and cruiserweight, which were inaugurated in the subsequent decades. The most recent title inaugurated by the WBC is in the minimumweight (also called strawweight) division in 1987.