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Boxing Australia is the national sporting body that runs amateur boxing in Australia and Australian ... have won the Australian professional championship. [4] [5 ...
This list of Australian heavyweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the Australian professional heavyweight championship. The title has been administered by the Australian National Boxing Federation (previously the Australian Boxing Federation) since 1965, and prior to that by Stadiums Limited .
In 1886 a boxing match between Jack Donohue and Alf Pickering at Foley's Gymnasium in Sydney was promoted as being for the middleweight champion of Australia, [2] however the winner was not referred to as the middleweight champion after the fight and neither boxer was ever promoted as defending the title.
The body was founded in 1965 as the Australian Boxing Federation.In 1980s, the body took its current name of Australian National Boxing Federation. In 1977, the Australian Boxing Federation joined the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation and Pan Asian Boxing Association.
Opetaia was born in Sydney, New South Wales and is of Samoan heritage. [6] He comes from a boxing family of four generations on his father's side and three generations on his mother's side, [7] as well as sharing notable relations to Australia's greatest ever football goal scorer Tim Cahill and former New Zealand international rugby league player Ben Roberts. [8]
Boxing Australia Limited (BAL) is a governing body for the sport of amateur boxing in Australia.The Australian Sports Commission (ASC), Australian Olympic Committee (AOC), the Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA), and World Boxing have recognized Boxing Australia as the National Sporting Organisation for amateur level boxing.
List of Australian heavyweight boxing champions; List of Australian middleweight boxing champions; A. Albert 'Kid' Lloyd (Boxer)
The Men's 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Sydney, Australia, from November 15 to 23. The sixth edition of this competition, held nearly a year before the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain , was organised by the world's governing body for amateur boxing, AIBA .