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The World Boxing Association (WBA), formerly known as the National Boxing Association (NBA), is the oldest and one of four major organizations which sanction professional boxing bouts, alongside the World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Organization (WBO). The WBA awards its world championship title ...
The National Boxing Association was founded in 1921 and began to sanction title fights. Joe Louis was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, and is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time.
The United States National Boxing Championships bestow the title of United States Champion on Olympic boxers for winning the annual national Olympic boxing tournament organized by USA Boxing, which is the national governing body for Olympic boxing and is the United States' member organization of the World Boxing (since 2023; had been a member of the Association Internationale de Boxe (AIBA ...
Six more national boxing federations have joined a new organization seeking to replace the embattled International Boxing Association as the sport's governing body at the Olympic level. The ...
North American Boxing Federation [13] 1972 BAN: BABF Bangladesh Amateur Boxing Federation 1977 PHI: ABAP Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines: 1977 USA: USBA United States Boxing Association: 1980 IRL: BUI Boxing Union of Ireland [14] 1983 USA: IBF International Boxing Federation [15] 1984 N/A NBA National Boxing Association [16 ...
USA Boxing, formerly known as the United States Amateur Boxing Federation, has governed amateur and Olympic boxing in the United States since 1978. [6] USA Boxing officially recognized women's boxing in 1993, becoming the first organization to do so in the world with a fight between Dallas Malloy & Heather Poyner in Lynwood, Washington.
Boxing’s highest national governing body added a transgender athletes policy to its rulebook that requires genital reassignment surgery and stringent hormone testing before competition.
Mike Mazzulli, the president of the Association of Boxing Commissions, said the organization has created an Athlete's Voice committee to share fighters' input into how combat sports are regulated.