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The World Series of Boxing had a precursor in the International Boxing League, a short-lived U.S. venture established in November 1969 after the first U.S.—Soviet boxing dual meet in 1969. The league functioned until 1971 and hosted several exhibition tours of the Soviet boxing team across the United States to cities where IBL teams were located.
Pages in category "International Boxing Federation champions" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 453 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1974 Havana Wilfredo Gómez (PUR) Luis Jorge Romero (CUB) Aldo Cosentino (FRA) David Torosyan (URS) 1978 Belgrade Adolfo Horta (CUB) Fazlija Šaćirović (YUG)
Former Michigan Boxing Commissioner, WBA vice-president, boxing safety advocate and IBF interim president Hiawatha Knight (October 22, 1929 – October 22, 2014) became president following Lee's conviction, and was the first woman president of any world governing boxing organization. In 2001, Marian Muhammad assumed the presidency, followed by ...
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 ...
Lamon Brewster, a former world heavyweight boxing champion, tells me his onetime trainer in Indianapolis, Bill “Honey Boy” Brown, used to “hobo” around the south, fighting bare knuckle for ...
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 ...
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 ...