Four Welterweight Champions Hold the 147-Pound Titles
The 147-pound division has four world champions and no undisputed king. Ryan Garcia holds the WBC belt, Teofimo Lopez the WBA, Devin Haney the WBO, and Liam Paro the IBF. The Ring title sits vacant.
Garcia is the only one who fought this month. He stopped Conor Benn in the second round Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and kept the WBC strap he won from Mario Barrios on Feb. 21. He is 26-2 with 21 knockouts after his first defense.
The stoppage put him back on television and back in the unification conversation he started in the ring. Garcia called out Lopez and Haney before the sweat had dried.
Lopez became WBA champion on Aug. 22 and is 23-2 with 13 knockouts. He has not defended the belt. A Garcia fight would be the loudest welterweight pairing available and the one both men have already pointed toward.
Haney is the unbeaten piece. He took the WBO title from Brian Norman Jr. on Nov. 22, 2025, by unanimous decision and sits at 33-0 with 15 knockouts. He has not defended in nine months. On paper he is the most complete boxer of the four. On the calendar he is the quietest.
Paro is the outsider with a belt. The Australian won the IBF title from Lewis Crocker on June 24 and is 28-1 with 16 knockouts. He has not defended. Of the four names on the graphic, he is the one least mentioned when Garcia talks unification.
That is the split at 147. Three Americans and one Australian. Three belts won in the last 10 months and one held since November. Only Garcia has cashed a defense.
Undisputed would require all four to meet or three of them to get out of the way. Boxing does not work that cleanly. Promoters, networks, and mandatory orders usually decide the order before the boxers do.
Garcia has the momentum and the knockout. Lopez has the WBA belt and the personality that sells a grudge. Haney has the record that makes every unification a measuring fight. Paro has a title that still has to be treated as real if the word undisputed is going to mean anything.
None of them is booked against another champion. Garcia’s next step is the one he named. Lopez and Haney are the names he threw into a live microphone two nights ago.
Until one of those fights is signed, the graphic is the story. Four champions. Four belts. One vacant Ring title. And a division that finally has the pieces to make a mess worth watching.