Heavyweight
- WBA title
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United Kingdom · Heavyweight
Anthony Joshua
“AJ”
- 37 years old
- 6′6″
- WBC No. 2
- WBA No. 3
- WBO No. 3
- IBF No. 3
- IBO No. 3
- Fights on 11 December 2026
- Wins
- 30
- Losses
- 4
- Draws
- 0
- KOs
- 27
90% of wins inside the distance
Form
Fights
Next fight
Before that
- WinJake Paul19 Dec 2025KO · 6 (8)
- LossDaniel Dubois21 Sept 2024 · IBF world title · HeavyweightKO · 5 (12)
- WinFrancis Ngannou8 Mar 2024KO · 2 (10)
- WinOtto Wallin23 Dec 2023RTD · 5 (12)
Show the next 5 fights
- WinRobert Helenius12 Aug 2023KO · 7 (12)
- WinJermaine Franklin1 Apr 2023UD · 12
- LossOleksandr Usyk20 Aug 2022 · WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO world titles · HeavyweightSD · 12
- LossOleksandr Usyk25 Sept 2021 · WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO world titles · HeavyweightUD · 12
- WinKubrat Pulev12 Dec 2020 · WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO world titles · HeavyweightKO · 9 (12)
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Rankings
Best: No. 2
- WBC
2
tracked since Sep 2026
- WBA
3
tracked since Sep 2026
- WBO
3
tracked since Sep 2026
- IBF
3
ranked 3rd–6th since Mar 2026
- IBO
3
tracked since Sep 2026
World titles
8 championship reigns · 4 sanctioning bodies · 1 weight class
Heavyweight
- WBA2019 – 2021
- WBO2019 – 2021
- IBF2019 – 2021
- IBO2019 – 2021
- WBO2018 – 2019
- WBA2017 – 2019
- IBO2017 – 2019
- IBF2016 – 2019
From 2016 to 2021.
Every date, reign by reign
Past reigns
- WBAHeavyweight7 Dec 2019 – 25 Sep 2021 · 1 year 9 months↗
- WBOHeavyweight7 Dec 2019 – 25 Sep 2021 · 1 year 9 months↗
- IBFHeavyweight7 Dec 2019 – 25 Sep 2021 · 1 year 9 months↗
- IBOHeavyweight7 Dec 2019 – 25 Sep 2021 · 1 year 9 months↗
- WBOHeavyweight31 Mar 2018 – 1 Jun 2019 · 1 year 3 months↗
- WBAHeavyweight · super champion29 Apr 2017 – 1 Jun 2019 · 2 years 2 months↗
- IBOHeavyweight29 Apr 2017 – 1 Jun 2019 · 2 years 2 months↗
- IBFHeavyweight9 Apr 2016 – 1 Jun 2019 · 3 years 2 months↗
Current titles: the sanctioning bodies' official rankings. History and dates: Wikipedia's lists of world champions (CC BY-SA 4.0), re-read every week.
Movement
Places gained or lost with each sanctioning body. Green is up, red is down, “New” marks an entry into the rankings, and a dot a period with no published archive.
| Body | The boxer's place in the sanctioning body's official ranking. “C”: world champion, above No. 1. An interim champion is marked as such (“Interim”, “Int.”): not the reigning champion. No. 1 is the leading contender for the title. | 1M | 3M | 6M | 1Y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WBC | 2 | · | · | · | · |
| WBA | 3 | · | · | · | · |
| WBO | 3 | · | · | · | · |
| IBF | 3 | 2 | 2 | New | New |
| IBO | 3 | · | · | · | · |
Trajectory, body by body
WBC
No. 2tracked since Sep 2026
WBA
No. 3tracked since Sep 2026
WBO
No. 3tracked since Sep 2026
IBF
No. 3 since Sep 2026 · best Champion (Mar 2016)tracked since Dec 2014
IBO
No. 3tracked since Sep 2026
See the changes in detail
| Sep 2026 | No. 2 |
| Sep 2026 | No. 3 |
| Sep 2026 | No. 3 |
| Dec 2014 | No. 15 |
| Jun 2015 | No. 14 |
| Jul 2015 | No. 13 |
| Aug 2015 | No. 12 |
| Sep 2015 | No. 9 |
| Nov 2015 | No. 8 |
| Dec 2015 | No. 5 |
| Jan 2016 | No. 4 |
| Mar 2016 | Champion |
| May 2019 | No. 6 |
| Jul 2019 | No. 5 |
| Jan 2020 | Champion |
| Nov 2021 | No. 5 |
| Jan 2022 | No. 4 |
| Jan 2023 | No. 5 |
| May 2023 | No. 4 |
| Aug 2023 | No. 3 |
| Apr 2024 | dropped out of the ranking |
| Apr 2024 | No. 3 |
| Sep 2024 | No. 8 |
| Nov 2024 | No. 6 |
| Dec 2024 | No. 8 |
| Jan 2025 | No. 7 |
| Feb 2025 | No. 5 |
| Aug 2025 | dropped out of the ranking |
| Mar 2026 | No. 6 |
| May 2026 | No. 5 |
| Sep 2026 | No. 3 |
| Sep 2026 | No. 3 |
