*Still deliberating whether or not to include the division pre 1960* Flash Ellorde: (march)1960-(july)1967 [loses to numata] Yoshiaki Numata: (july)1967-(december)1967 [loses to kobayashi] Hiroshi Kobayashi: (december)1967-(august)1968 [loses to navarro] Ruben Navarro: (august)1968-(feb)1969 [loses to barrientos] Rene Barrientos: (feb)1969-(november)1969 [loses claim when kobayashi beats canete] Hiroshi Kobayashi: (november)1969-(july)1971 [loses to marcano] Alfredo Marcano: (july)1971-(april)1972 [loses to villaflor] Ben Villaflor: (april)1972-(march)1973 [loses to shibata] Kuniaki Shibata: (march)1973-(october)1973 [loses to villaflor] Ben Villaflor: (october)1973-(july)1975 [loses claim when escalera beats shibata] Alfredo Escalera: (july)1975-(november)1976 [loses to tyrone everett] Tyrone Everett: (november)1976-(january)1978 [retires claim whilst arguello beats escalera] Alexis Arguello: (jan)1978-(december)1980 [vacates claim whilst limon beats bethelmy] Rafael Limon: (december)1980-(march)1981 [loses to edwards] Cornelius Edwards: (march)1981-(august)1981 [loses to navarrate] Rolando Navarrete: (august)1981-(march)1982 [loses to limon] Rafael Limon: (march)1982-(december)1982 [loses to chacon] Bobby Chacon: (december)1982-(august)1983 [vacates claim whilst camacho beats limon] Hector Camacho: (august)1983-(feb)1984 [vacates claim whilst lockridge beats mayweather] Rocky Lockridge: (feb)1984-(august)1986 [loses to chavez] Julio Chavez: (august)1986-(october1987 [vacates claim whilst lockridge beats de la rosa] Rocky Lockridge: (october)1987-(july)1988 [loses to lopez] Tony Lopez: (july)1988-(october)1989 [loses to molina] John Molina: (october)1989-(may)1990 [loses to lopez] Tony Lopez: (may)1990-(september)1991 [loses to mitchell] Brian Mitchell: (september)1991-(march)1992 [retires claim whilst nelson beats fenech] Azumah Nelson: (march)1992-(may)1994 [loses to leija] Jesse Leija: (may)1994-(september)1994 [loses to ruelas] Gabriel Ruelas: (september)1994-(december)1995 [loses to nelson] Azumah Nelson: (december)1995-(march)1997 [loses to hernandez] Genaro Hernandez: (march)1997-(october)1998 [loses to mayweather] Floyd Mayweather: (october)1998-(jan)2002 [vacates claim whilst freita beats casamayor] Ancelino Freitas: (jan)2002-(october)2003 [vacates claim whilst casamayor beats corrales] Joel Casamayor: (october)2003-(march)2004 [loses to corrales] Diego Corrales: (march)2004-(july)2004 [vacates claim whilst morales beats hernandez] Erik Morales: (july)2004-(november)2004 [loses to barrera] Marco Antonio Barerra: (november)2004-(march)2007 [loses to marquez] Juan Manuel Marquez: (march)2007-(march)2008 [loses to pacquiao] Manny Pacquiao: (march)2008-(december)2008 [vacates claim whilst soto beats lorenzo] Humberto Soto: (december)2008-(october)2009 [vacates claim whilst salgado beat linares] Juan Salgado: (october)2009-(jan)2010 [loses to uchiyama] Takshi Uchiyama: (jan)2010-present [premiere sfw]
Ahh but did Casamayor really lose the Corrales rematch? Did Freitas really beat Casa? Both controversial, have you seen them? Pacquaio also never beat JMM in the rematch. Also there was a pre-60s version of the title, I think Kid Chocolate and Saddler had it (off the top of my head)
If not for the current alphabet era, namely the wbc belt, I think arguello, limon, chacon and edwards would have been the murderers row of the super featherweights. None got a shot at the lineal champ, all duked it out with each other for the wbc belt.
I haven't, I shall watch them two. and yeah there was some titles being floated about in the early days but I'm not sure how relevant they are, I'll consider them at a later date.
