Triple Champion Club

The Triple Champion Club or Triple Champion Group is the informal term given to the selected group of boxing champions who have won three different titles in exactly three totally different categories or weights divisions.
==The "club"==
In the late twenty century it was a remarkable achievement of just few fighters because of two or only four major boxing regulating entities, such the WBC, the WBA and the IBF. Later the WBO joined the group.

To be in Triple Champion Club is almost one secure indicative that some day those fighters will be included in the Boxing Hall of Fame with other legendaries luminaries of the sport.

In the beginning of the twenty one Century more and more fighters have achieved this feat requiring less effort because two reasons:
#Divisions - the numerous weight categories (Major entities: 17 divisions in total + Minor entities: 19 in some circumstances).They are: Heavyweight, Cruiserweight, Light heavyweight, Super middleweight, Middleweight, Super welterweight, Welterweight, Super lightweight, Lightweight, Super featherweight, Featherweight, Super bantamweight, Bantamweight, Super flyweight, Flyweight, Light flyweight and Strawweight .
#Entities- the growing amount of professional boxing entities that claim a "World" status for its championships around the planet. Those organizations are: International Boxing Federation, IBF, World Boxing Association WBA, World Boxing Council WBC and the World Boxing Organization WBO, International Boxing Organization IBO, International Boxing Association IBA, International Boxing Council IBC, International Boxing Board IBB, International Boxing League IBL, International Boxing Union IBU, Global Boxing Association GBA, Global Boxing Council GBC, Global Boxing Federation GBF, Global Boxing Organization GBO, Global Boxing Union GBU, National Boxing Association NBA, Transcontinental World Boxing Association TWBA, Universal Boxing Association UBA, Universal Boxing Council UBC, Universal Boxing Federation UBF, Universal Boxing Organization UBO, UNIBOX UNIBOX, United States Boxing Council (USBC), World Athletic Association WAA, World Boxing Board WBB, World Boxing Championship Committee WBCC, World Boxing Empire WBE, World Boxing Foundation WBF, World Boxing Institute WBI, World Boxing League WBL, World Boxing Network WBN, World Boxing Union WBU, World Cup of Boxing WCOB, World Junior Boxing Federation WJBF, World Tournament Boxing Federation WTBF and the World United Boxing Association WUBA.

==Fighters in the "club"==
The fighters that compose this club or group are classified in two different categories depending the level of championships won:

# Major Titles: - Bob Fitzsimmons (UK/NZ), Tony Canzoneri (USA), Barney Ross (USA), Henry Armstrong (USA), Emile Griffith (VI), Wilfred Benitez (PR), Alexis Argüello (NIC), Roberto Durán (PAN), Wilfredo Gómez (PR), Ray Charles Leonard (USA), Thomas Hearns (USA), Jeff Fenech (AUS), Héctor Camacho (PR), Julio César Chávez (MEX), Iran Barkley (USA), Duke McKenzie (UK), Pernell Whitaker (USA), Mike McCallum(JAM), Wilfredo Vázquez (PR), Oscar De La Hoya (USA), Roy Jones Jr. (USA), Leo Gomez (VEN), Félix Trinidad (PR); Johnny Tapia (USA); James Toney (USA); Shane Mosley (USA); Erik Morales (MEX), Marco Antonio Barrera (MEX), Floyd Mayweather, Jr.(USA) and Manny Pacquiao (PHI). Thirty (30) fighters in total.
#Minor Titles: - Vinny Pazienza (USA), Roger Mayweather (USA), Lester Ellis (Aus), Bobby Czyz (USA), Joey Gamache (USA), (USA), Orlando Canizales (USA), Greg Haugen (USA), Mauricio Pastrana (COL), Junior Jones (USA), Cassius Baloyi (SA), Lehlohonolo Ledwaba (SA), Sirimongkol Singwangcha (THAI), Mzukisi Sikali (SA), Danny Romero (USA), Silvio Branco (Italy), Damaen Kelly (England), Rob Calloway (USA). Zab Judah (USA) and Juan Manuel Marquez (Mex). Nineteen (19) champions in total needed a third championship belt from a 'minor world' boxing organization to get their status as Triple Champions in three different divisions.

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