Welterweight boxing: belts & next fights
Welterweight (147 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) · 8 boxers
World titleholders by body
| WBA (Super) | Teofimo Lopez🇺🇸 |
| WBA (Regular) | Jack Catterall🇬🇧 |
| WBC | Ryan Garcia🇺🇸 |
| IBF | Liam Paro🇦🇺 |
| WBO | Devin Haney🇺🇸 |
| The Ring | Vacant |
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
No fights are officially booked for these boxers yet.
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.
| Jack Catterall🇬🇧 33–2 · WBA (Regular) welterweight · next: Teofimo Lopez 45% |
| Teofimo Lopez🇺🇸 23–2 · WBA (Super) welterweight · next: Jack Catterall 45% |
| Devin Haney🇺🇸 33–0 (1) · WBO welterweight · next: Liam Paro 25% |
| Liam Paro🇦🇺 28–1 · IBF welterweight · next: Devin Haney 25% |
| Ryan Garcia🇺🇸 26–2 (1) · WBC welterweight · next: Teofimo Lopez 25% |
| Brian Norman Jr.🇺🇸 29–1 (2) · No world title listed · next: Conah Walker 15% |
| Rolando Romero🇺🇸 17–3 · No world title listed · next: Teofimo Lopez 5% |
| Conor Benn🇬🇧 25–2 · No world title listed · next: Chris Eubank Jr 4% |
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 · Light Heavyweight · Super Middleweight · Middleweight · Super Welterweight · Super Lightweight · Lightweight · Super Featherweight · Featherweight · Super Bantamweight · Women's Boxing