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is one of the sanctioning organizations currently recognizing world boxing champions.

The WBO started after a group of Puerto Rican and Dominican businessmen broke out of the WBA's 1988 annual convention in Isla Margarita , Venezuela, disgusted by the WBA's rules and ratings systems.

The WBO's first president was Ramon Pina Acevedo of the Dominican Republic. Soon after its beginning, the WBO was staging world championship bouts all over the world. Their first title fight was for the vacant Jr welterweight title, between former world lightweight champions Hector 'Macho' Camacho and Ray Mancini in Las Vegas. Camacho won by unanimous decision.

In order to gain respectability, the WBO next elected former world Light-Heavyweight champion Jose Torres of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Torres achieved his goal and left in 1996, giving way to Puerto Rican lawyer Francisco Varcarcel to succeed him as President. Varcarcel has been there since.

Nowadays, WBO world champions can unify their crowns vs WBA and International Boxing Federation champions. For an unknown reason, the WBC still refuses to have their world champs take part in unification bouts with WBO champs.

Also, WBO champions generally struggle to be respected by the international media, even though they have beaten WBC, IBF, and WBA world champions constantly and proved to be better champions that those of the other organizations.

WBO World champions include:

• Hector Camacho
• Ray Mercer
• Michael CarbajalMichael Carbajal (born September 17, 1967) is a Phoenix native who was a four-time world boxing champion. He is nicknamed Little Hands Of Stone after his favorite boxer, the legendary Hands Of Stone Panamanian Roberto Duran. Owner of a stellar amateur rec
• Josue Camacho
• Michael MoorerMichael Lee Moorer (born November 12, 1967) is a boxer who has been a world champion in the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions. Moorer is a native of Monesson, PA, but for most of his career, he trained under the tutelage of hall of fame trainer
• Marco Antonio BarreraMarco Antonio Barrera (born January 17, 1974) is a Mexican boxer and world champion. Barrera, whose brother Jorge Barrera is also a boxer, had a successful amateur boxing career where he won 55 out of 58 bouts, and then he turned professional. He is a mem
• Oscar De La HoyaOscar De La Hoya (born February 4, 1973) —nicknamed the Golden Boy is a Mexican-American boxer who won the gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. He was, much like Ernie Gonzalez also, the United States top Olympic boxing hope when his mother was
• Riddick BoweRiddick Bowe (born August 10, 1967) is a former boxer who, just like Mike Tyson, was involved in many controversial fights of the 1990s. Riddick Bowe timeline August 10, 1967: Born in Brooklyn, New York 1988: Loses to Lennox Lewis for the Olympic gold med
• Alex El Nene Sanchez
• Naseem HamedKnown for his flashy style, energetic and colorful ring entrances, speed, power punch, unorthodox boxing style, prodigious ego, taunting of opponents and praises of Allah once his fights are over, Naseem Hamed is a British boxer of Yemeni ancestry born on
• Corrie SandersCornelius Johannes Sanders (born 1967) is a South African boxer. He is the third boxer from the African continent to become world Heavyweight champion, behind countrymen Gerrie Coetzee and Francois Botha. Sanders began his boxing career with a first round

And many, many other world champions.

The WBO offices are located in San Juan, Puerto Rico.