title: List of British light-heavyweight boxing champions
text: # List of British light-heavyweight boxing champions
  
  List of British light-heavyweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British light-heavyweight title. The title has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club since 1891, and later by its replacement British Boxing Board of Control since 1929.
  
  A champion may retire or voluntarily relinquish the title in order to fight for a higher-ranked championship. Where the date on which a champion relinquished the title is unclear, the date of the last BBBoC sanctioned fight is shown.
  
  $^r–Champion$ relinquished title.
  
  $^s–Champion$ stripped of title.
  
  | Name | Duration of reign | Defences |
  | - | - | - |
  | Dick Smith | 9 March 1914 – 10 October 1916 | 2 |
  | Harry Reeve | 10 October $1916^r$ | 0 |
  | Dick Smith | 25 February $1918^r$ | 0 |
  | Noel "Boy" McCormick | 28 April $1919^r$ | 0 |
  | Jack Bloomfield | 1 May $1922^r$ | 0 |
  | Tom Berry | 9 March 1925 – 25 April 1927 | 1 |
  | Gipsy Daniels | 25 April $1927^r$ | 0 |
  | Frank Moody | 27 November 1927 – 25 November 1929 | 1 |
  | Harry Crossley | 25 November 1929 – 23 November 1932 | 1 |
  | Jack Petersen | 23 May $1932^r$ | 0 |
  | Len Harvey | 13 June $1933^r$ | 0 |
  | Eddie Phillips | 4 February 1935 – 27 April 1937 | 1 |
  | Jock McAvoy | 27 April 1937 – 7 April 1938 | 1 |
  | Len Harvey | 7 April 1938 – 20 June 1942 | 2 |
  | Freddie Mills | 20 June 1942 – 15 February $1950^r$ | 0 |
  | Don Cockell | 17 October 1950 – 10 June 1952 | 2 |
  | Randolph Turpin | 10 June $1952^r$ | 0 |
  | Dennis Powell | 26 March 1953 – 26 October 1953 | 1 |
  | Alex Buxton | 26 October 1953 – 26 April 1955 | 2 |
  | Randolph Turpin | 26 April $1955^r$ | 0 |
  | Ron Barton | 13 March $1956^r$ | 0 |
  | Randolph Turpin | 26 November 1956 – 11 June $1957^r$ | 1 |
  | Chic Calderwood | 28 January 1960 – 7 August $1963^s$ | 2 |
  | Chic Calderwood | 11 November 1964 (killed in road accident) | 0 |
  | Young McCormack | 19 June 1967 – 13 January 1969 | 2 |
  | Eddie Avoth | 13 January 1969 – 24 January 1971 | 2 |
  | Chris Finnegan | 24 January 1971 – 22 May 1973 | 2 |
  | John Conteh | 22 May 1973 – 21 May $1974^r(Retired)$ | 1 |
  | Johnny Frankham | 3 June 1975 – 14 October 1975 | 1 |
  | Chris Finnegan | 14 October $1975^r$ | 0 |
  | Tim Wood | 28 April 1976 – 8 March 1977 | 1 |
  | Bunny Johnson | 8 March 1977 – 27 February $1980^r$ | 3 |
  | Tom Collins | 5 March 1982 – 26 January 1984 | 3 |
  | Dennis Andries | 26 January 1984 – 10 September $1986^r$ | 4 |
  | Tom Collins | 11 March $1987^r$ | 0 |
  | Tony Wilson | 15 December 1987 – 22 March 1989 | 3 |
  | Tom Collins | 22 March $1989^r$ | 0 |
  | Steve McCarthy | 25 October $1990^r$ | 0 |
  | Crawford Ashley | 25 August 1991 – 25 April $1992^r$ | 2 |
  | Maurice Core | 28 September 1992 – 1 December $1993^r$ | 1 |
  | Crawford Ashley | 14 March 1998 – 13 March 1999 | 2 |
  | Clinton Woods | 13 March $1999^r$ | 0 |
  | Neil Simpson | 22 April 2000 – 8 March 2003 | 2 |
  | Peter Oboh | 8 March 2003 – 12 May $2004^r$ | 1 |
  | Tony Oakey | 18 May 2007 – 13 June 2008 | 3 |
  | Dean Francis | 13 June $2008^r$ | 0 |
  | Nathan Cleverly | 18 July 2009 – 9 October $2009^r$ | 1 |
  | Tony Bellew | 16 July 2011 – 27 April $2013^r$ | 1 |
  | Bob Ajisafe | 15 March $2014^r$ | 0 |
  | Hosea Burton | 27 February 2016 – 10 December 2016 | 0 |
  | Frank Buglioni | 10 December 2016 – 24 March 2018 | 3 |
  | Callum Johnson | 24 March $2018^r$ | 0 |
  | Joshua Buatsi | 23 March 2019 – 12 September $2019^r$ | 0 |
  | Shakan Pitters | 22 August 2020 – 18 December 2020 | 1 |
  | Craig Richards | 18 December 2020 – 21 November 2021 | 0 |
  | Dan Azeez | 21 November 2021 – Present | 2 |
  