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1998: YMCA International Boxing Championships; 1999: Adajania Cup International Boxing Championship; 2002: YMCA Junior International Boxing Championship; 2003: YMCA Sr. Jr. & Sub-Jr. Int. Boxing Championship; 2nd Asian Women's Boxing Championships, Scheduled; 1st International Boxing Championship for Seniors, Scheduled
However, despite Indian limited success in global championships events, athletes have regularly won medals at the Asian and Commonwealth Games. Since the first national boxing championship in 1950, India has not until 2015 established any platform for professional boxers. After a long wait of 65 Years, India is stepping into Professional Boxing.
Amar Ujala was founded in Agra in 1948. [5] [6] In 1994, Amar Ujala, along with another Hindi daily, shared nearly 70 per cent of the Hindi newspaper readership in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Amar Ujala sold 4.5 lakh copies through its five editions. [7]
The Super Boxing League is the first professional boxing league in India. [1] [2] British businessman Bill Dosanjh and former boxing champion Amir Khan founded Super Boxing League in 2017 [3] after Super Fight League's first season. The league is organised with the support of World Boxing Council and Professional Boxing Organisation India. [4]
The 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships were the 13th edition of the championships, held in New Delhi, India from 15 to 26 March 2023. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] India topped the medal tally for the first time after 2006.
India's Mary Kom is a six-time World Amateur Boxing champion, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships. [3] She also became the first Indian woman boxer to get a Gold Medal at the Asian Games during the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon, South Korea.
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has landed in the middle of a divide about gender in sports after her Italian competitor, Angela Carini, pulled out seconds into their bout at the Paris Olympics.
The 2023 IBA World Boxing Championships were held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from 30 April to 14 May 2023. Athletes from all five continents took part in the championship and competed for medals in 13 weight categories, which were approved by the Board of Directors of the International Boxing Association (IBA) in July 2021.