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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 ...
International Boxing Association 1996 USA: IBU International Boxing Union: 1997 N/A NABA North American Boxing Association [20] 1998 UK: PBA Professional Boxing Association [21] N/A USA: IFBA International Female Boxers Association: 1999 GER: GBC Global Boxing Council 2000 USA: WIBA Women's International Boxing Association: 2002 N/A WIBC
Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is regulated, sanctioned boxing. Professional boxing bouts are fought for a purse that is divided between the boxers as determined by contract. Most professional fights are supervised by a regulatory authority to guarantee the fighters' safety.
Manny Pacquiao, who won titles in a record eight weight classes from flyweight to super welterweight while becoming one of boxing's biggest draws, was elected Thursday to the International Boxing ...
There are now four major sanctioning bodies in professional boxing. The official rules and regulations of the WBA, [1] World Boxing Council (WBC), [2] International Boxing Federation (IBF), [3] and World Boxing Organization (WBO) [4] all recognize each other in their rankings and title unification rules. Each of these organizations sanction and ...
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 ...
Most professional fighters have an amateur career before turning pro, and Olympic fights count as amateur bouts. For example, Anthony Joshua’s Olympic gold-medal win in 2012 was part of his ...
The following tables show the professional boxers listed in the latest top-10 pound for pound world rankings published by each of: The Ring magazine; Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA — men only) Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB — men only) ESPN; BoxRec