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The following is a list of African Boxing Union champions. The African Boxing Union (ABU) is a professional boxing governing body that sanctions championship bouts in Africa . Heavyweight
This category lists professional boxers who have held a full title by the African Boxing Union (ABU). Pages in category "African Boxing Union champions" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total.
The African Boxing Union (ABU; French: Union Africaine de Boxe) is a not-for-profit regional sanctioning body that awards regional boxing titles in the African region. It is a boxing federation within the World Boxing Council (WBC), having been affiliated with them since 1974. The president of the African Boxing Union is Houcine Houichi. [1] [2]
As professional boxing has four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) each with their own champions, the sport doesn't have a centralized ranking system.The rankings published by these organizations share the trait of not ranking the other organizations' champions, as each one of the sanctioning bodies expects their champion to frequently defend their title against their top-ranked ...
Since at least John L. Sullivan, in the late 19th century, there have been world champions in professional boxing. The first of the current organizations to award a world title was the World Boxing Association (WBA), then known as the National Boxing Association (NBA), when it sanctioned its first title fight in 1921 between Jack Dempsey and ...
Born and raised in Bukom, Takyi started boxing as a nine-year-old, and now aged 23, he trains at the Wisdom Boxing Gym. “This is the home of champions,” he says of Bukom, naming past greats ...
This is a list of Nigerian male boxers. Boxing is a combat sport in which two people wearing protective gloves throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring. Friday Ahunanya [ 1 ]
Pages in category "Boxing competitions in Africa" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.