Best Featherweight
The August 21, 1981 boxing match between Salvador Sánchez and Wilfredo Gómez was a WBC featherweight championship fight held in San Antonio, Texas. The undefeated Gómez, who had made 17 defenses of his WBC super bantamweight title, moved up in weight to challenge Sánchez. Sánchez dominated the fight...
The July 21, 1982, boxing match between Salvador Sánchez and Azumah Nelson was a contest for the WBC featherweight championship. Sánchez defended his title by stopping Nelson via technical knockout in the fifteenth round of a grueling fight. Nelson, who took the bout on short notice, established him...
Leigh Wood fought Michael Conlan on March 12, 2022, at the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham, England. The bout was contested for the WBA featherweight world title, which Wood successfully defended. Conlan built an early lead on the scorecards, even knocking Wood down in the first round. However, Wood...
Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez met in a May 2004 featherweight boxing match at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. The bout was contested for Marquez's WBA and IBF featherweight world titles. Pacquiao remarkably knocked Marquez down three times in the very first round. However, Marquez recov...
Marco Antonio Barrera vs. Erik Morales II was a professional boxing match held in 2002 and the second contest in the Mexican rivals' three-fight series. Barrera won by unanimous decision after twelve rounds, reversing the result of their first meeting. Contested at featherweight with major champions...
The June 2002 rematch between Erik Morales and Marco Antonio Barrera took place at the MGM Grand as a featherweight contest. Barrera evened their rivalry by defeating Morales via unanimous decision after twelve rounds of boxing. This victory set the stage for a decisive third fight between the two M...
The featherweight boxing rivalry between Leigh Wood and Mauricio Lara consisted of two WBA title fights held in 2023. In the first bout on February 18, 2023, in Nottingham, Lara knocked out Wood in the seventh round to capture the WBA featherweight championship. Wood exercised his rematch clause, an...
Leo Santa Cruz vs Abner Mares II was a professional boxing match held on January 28, 2017, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The bout was a highly anticipated rematch between two prominent Mexican-American fighters, competing for the WBA featherweight championship. Santa Cruz won t...
Marco Antonio Barrera and Manny Pacquiao met for a second time at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on October 6, 2007. Their first contest had ended with Pacquiao stopping Barrera in 2003, but the rematch proceeded the full twelve rounds at super featherweight. Pacquiao used his speed and straight punches...
Emanuel Navarrete fought Ruben Villa for the vacant WBO featherweight championship on October 9, 2020, in Las Vegas. Navarrete scored knockdowns in the first and fourth rounds and won by unanimous decision after twelve rounds, becoming a world champion in a second weight division. The bout was conte...
Warrington retained his IBF featherweight title over Galahad by split decision in June 2019 in Leeds, a widely disputed verdict between two Yorkshire fighters that prompted an immediate rematch.
Russell Jr. won the WBC featherweight title from Escandon by unanimous decision in March 2015, launching one of the longer and more dominant title reigns in recent featherweight history.
