Light Heavyweight boxing: belts & next fights
Light Heavyweight (175 lb): who holds each world title, the fights already booked, and who each boxer is likely to fight next. Each percentage is the chance of being the next opponent, not of winning.
Updated (UAE time) · 4 boxers
World titleholders by body
| WBA (Super) | Dmitry Bivol🇷🇺 |
| WBA (Interim) | Albert Ramírez (no page yet) |
| WBC | David Benavidez🇺🇸 |
| IBF | Dmitry Bivol🇷🇺 |
| WBO | Dmitry Bivol🇷🇺 |
| WBO (Interim) | Callum Smith🇬🇧 |
| The Ring | Dmitry Bivol🇷🇺 |
From the Wikipedia list of current world boxing champions (checked 2 Oct 2026), with later changes from the linked news. Interim belts are labelled. A boxer named without a link has no NextSmash page yet.
Booked fights
| Sat 7 Nov 2026 | Joshua Buatsi🇬🇧 vs Willy Hutchinson AO Arena, Manchester · Announced by Queensberry, with the WBC interim light heavyweight title on the line. |
Boxers and likely next opponents
NextSmash list Titleholders first, then by the strength of their top next-opponent pick. This is not an official ranking. For rankings, see each body's own list.
| Callum Smith🇬🇧 31–2 · WBO interim light heavyweight · next: Dmitry Bivol 70% |
| Dmitry Bivol🇷🇺 25–1 · WBA (Super) light heavyweight · IBF light heavyweight · WBO light heavyweight · The Ring light heavyweight · next: Callum Smith 70% |
| Joshua Buatsi🇬🇧 20–1 · No world title listed · next: Willy Hutchinson Booked |
| Artur Beterbiev🇷🇺 21–1 · No world title listed · next: Dmitry Bivol 10% |
Rankings note: belts are labelled by the body that awards them (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO or The Ring). The order of boxers on these pages is a NextSmash list, not an official ranking.
Sources
Other divisions: Heavyweight · Cruiserweight · Super Middleweight · Middleweight · Super Welterweight · Welterweight · Super Lightweight · Lightweight · Super Featherweight · Featherweight · Super Bantamweight · Women's Boxing