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A Pictorial History of Boxing. Hamlyn. ISBN 0-600-50288-0. Baker, Mark Allen (2010). TITLE TOWN, USA: Boxing in Upstate New York. ISBN 978-1-59629-769-2. History of London Boxing. BBC News. Weight classification, "2009". Encyclopædia Britannica. Fleischer, Nat, Sam Andre, Nigel Collins, Dan Rafael (2002). An Illustrated History of Boxing ...
Global Boxing Union(GBU) 2008 N/A WBF World Boxing Forum [26] 2010 N/A IAB International Association of Boxing International Amateur Boxing [27] 2011 Brazil: ANIB Associação Nacional E Internacional De Boxe N/A N/A IAB International Amateur Boxing [28] 1995 USA: WBU World Boxing Union [29] 2012 USA: WBL World Boxing League [30] N/A N/A UBF
History of Expansion Date Countries 13 April 2023: The US, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, England (separately), and the Netherlands were World Boxing's first cohort of members. (Total: 6) 24 August 2023: Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Honduras and Sweden joined. (Total: 12) 12 September 2023: Denmark, Mongolia, Panama and French Polynesia ...
Boxing Day is celebrated in Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries, especially Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, according to Encylopedia Britannica. Boxing Day falls on Dec. 26. Origins ...
2011 AIBA World Boxing Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. In 2010, AIBA launched the World Series of Boxing (WSB), a new semi-professional, international club competition involving teams of amateur boxers competing under a hybrid of amateur- and professional-style rules (including five rounds instead of three, and not wearing headgear).
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 ...
Like many origin stories, the rise of Boxing Day is a bit murky. The Oxford English Dictionary traces its earliest appearance in print to 1833 England when Queen Victoria was on the throne.
Boxing, though, has been a mess since roughly 1960, even though there have been periods where the talent level was high and the quality of the bouts was terrific.