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Boxing [b] is a combat sport and martial art. [1] Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time.
In 1992 Dallas Malloy won a case and USA Boxing admitted women to its program, being the first governing body in the world to do so. [37] An international organization for amateur boxing was begun in 1946, known as the International Amateur Boxing Association. The development amateur scene of boxing has seen the United States as a world beater.
The World Boxing Association (WBA) was founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA), a national regulating body of the United States. On August 23, 1962, the NBA became the WBA, which today has its head office in Panama. [6]
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 ...
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 ...
Global Boxing Union(GBU) 2008 N/A WBF World Boxing Forum [25] 2010 N/A IAB International Association of Boxing International Amateur Boxing [26] 2011 Brazil: ANIB Associação Nacional E Internacional De Boxe N/A N/A IAB International Amateur Boxing [27] 1995 USA: WBU World Boxing Union [28] 2012 USA: WBL World Boxing League [29] N/A N/A UBF
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).
USA Boxing is the national governing body for Olympic-style boxing. It is overseen by the United States Olympic Committee and World Boxing, which sets its rules. [1 ...